A long and productive 90 years and the definitive western artist in comics. Thank you for all the great work, John Severin.

I wasn’t having that great a night, but I just looked through iPhoto for something else and came across this pic of Rocketgirl sneaking soup while my wife’s back was turned, and now I feel a little better. We must all observe eternal vigilance as long as there are cats in the world.

It’s hard to believe Mike Wieringo has been gone so long. Still rarely a week goes by that I don’t hear of something funny or remember a goofy quote and feel the impulse to call Mike or fill up his inbox with my babble. Think I’ll look through some of his old books today and [...]

Few people will ever cast as long a shadow as Walter Cronkite, and probably no one in TV news ever will again. Here’s a fairly thorough walk through his life at the New York Times. I was just thinking about him the other day, naturally, since we were observing the 40th anniversary of the moon [...]

40 years ago today, three men sitting on top of a controlled bomb flipped off the rest of us on Earth and said “So long suckers. We’re going to THE MOON!” While we’re feeling all smug about our internet and connectivity, we should also remember that it’s been 40 years since the greatest 20th Century [...]

When the Colonial Revolutionaries organized their ramshackle armies to fight for independence from England, every Minuteman and patriot held to the hope that one day this country would be filled with backyards full of fat louts grilling meat, drinking non-stop and setting off illegal fireworks late into the night. My fellow Americans, we are living [...]

Colleen Coover was just showing me the thing most artists dread to see- someone eBaying a quick sketch she did at the New York Comicon for free (he’s got a bunch! Under “Wolverine Original Art Sketch”) Yeah sure, it’s yours to do with what you want, but when you clearly got a lot of them [...]

Besides the obvious Stop Killing Trees to Print Comics, of course (we’re only a few years away from that). No, I think other creators and I could make an effort to simply set more stories in natural environments, which most artists prefer to draw. While readers are idealizing larger than life characters, they can be [...]

Not in the Spider-Man storyline sense, but as in one more day until the Ring of Sauron is tossed into the lava so the U.S. can start being a democracy again. Happy MLK day indeed! I wish for today I had recorded my five year old’s fuzzy interpretation of who King was as she tried [...]

I’ll be your host for this year, so rest up and prepare to enjoy 365 days of good times. I’ve got a lot of projects lined up and actually happening after many stall-outs in the past two years, so I’m very positive about 09. Also I have many progressive ideas to implement should President Obama [...]

What a night. I’m so ridiculously, unabashedly proud of America right now I can’t tell you. Maybe our motto should be, as would also apply to our stalled entry into World War 2, “We’ll screw up and drop the ball most of the time, but right at the very last minute of the eleventh hour [...]

I can’t think of any better symbol of independence this week than the well-run operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt, the eleven Columbians and three U.S. contractors, without even firing a shot. My hat is off to those Columbian Commando spies and the American intelligence advisors. And of course, those hostages who have somehow endured it [...]

Racing across to the East Coast and back over the weekend left me a little loopy, but I’m ready to start blogging again. Free Comic Book Day at SuperVillains Inc. in Nottingham, Maryland was packed and busy all day, just like FCBD should be- thanks to my good hosts Michael and Charley. I tooled around [...]

I can’t get a post in over at Newsarama, I assume their server is being slammed at the news of Steve Gerber’s death. I just wanted to say simply that he had an incredible mind and capacity to entertain, and I enjoyed the hell out of his work. At the same time I heard the [...]