Words and Pictures

The Truly Secret Origin of The Watcher! Old school Marvel fans are well acquainted with THE WATCHER, that well-intentioned alien observe...

Swiping Revitalized--uh, I mean, Revisited. On the heels of my last post I offer this advice. It is obviously not meant to be taken seriousl...

Swiping: What Does It all Mean? (and who cares?) The Internet is the spot for pots calling kettles black, so who am I not to join in? At rig...

A Brush with the Ditko Brush Here's a nice early Ditko strip from Charlton's Crime and Justice 18 (April-May 1954). I stumbled acro...

Where the hell have I been? For the last ten weeks I've been taking a digital Environment Design class at Gnomon School of Visual Effect...

A Generalist Saves the Specialists A while back I praised Joe Horne's The Specialists, a forgotten gem from the early days of MTV'...

A Fine Day in Space When I was a kid I was a Boy Scout. I had a subscription to Boy's Life, a large-format monthly filled with short s...