What is it that drives us to search for ourselves in the photos and stories of our ancestors? I’ve always loved detective stories from the time I was a little girl in Mobile, Alabama. I would take the younger siblings and ride the bus downtown on Saturday mornings and we’d go to the movies for [...]
Entries from August 28th, 2009
Nancy Drew and the Case of the Moldy Papers
August 28th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: "the Major" · Alabama · AlterEgo · David Armstrong · Haunted Bookshop · Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · Mike Catron · Mobile · Nancy Drew · Superman
Comics with your Coffee
August 25th, 2009 No Comments
We had a great time on Saturday at Storefront Artist Project in spite of the crazy weather. It was a small but select crowd and Howard Cruse was his usual engaging and generous self to the young fans who were there. I was fascinated by one young man who follows the artists’ work more than [...]
Tags: Alex Simmons · Blackjack · graphic novels · Howard Cruse · Kids Comic Con · Lawrence Klein · Scott Hanna · Storefront Artist Project · Stuck Rubber Baby
Comic and Cartoon Art Come Alive
August 21st, 2009 No Comments
We’re doing a benefit tomorrow, Saturday, August 22nd for Storefront Artist Project from 3-5 pm at the gallery space at 124 Fenn St. in Pittsfield, MA.
Since this month’s comics magazine, AlterEgo features Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson on the cover Lawrence Klein curator of the current show at Storefront Artist Project featuring the art of Scott Hanna [...]
Tags: AlterEgo · Berkshires · DC Comics · Eisner Awards · Howard Cruse · Lawrence Klein · Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · Marvel Comics · Scott Hanna · Storefront Artist Project · The Road Without Turning
The Chateau at Vic-sur-Aisnes
August 14th, 2009 2 Comments
Editor’s note: This post is continued from the previous one.
Once uncle Finn and I arrived in Vic-sur-Aisnes we headed straight to the gates of the chateau. Everything appeared to be closed and Finn told me that he was concerned that we might not be able to get in. However, after years of chasing the elusive [...]
Tags: "the Major" · Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · pulp fiction · The Road Without Turning · Vic-sur-Aisnes
Castles in the Air
August 10th, 2009 No Comments
When I was growing up in the early 50’s in the Gulf Coastal town of Mobile, Alabama it was a little shabby and run-down at the heels. There wasn’t a lot of money floating about due to the poverty that had been entrenched in the south for a long time so my childhood still retained [...]
Tags: "the Major" · Alabama · Church Street Cemetery · Mobile · Vic-sur-Aisnes
Return to Planet Earth
August 2nd, 2009 1 Comment
After the grandiose heights of the Eisner Awards at Comic Con 2008 it was necessary to come back to planet earth. That Comic Con was scarily huge is oh, I don’t know—an understatement? The shear numbers alone are daunting and for us, as the old/new kids on the block it was clear we had a lot [...]
Tags: Bradley Ricca · Comic Con · David Hajdu · Eisner Awards · Howard Cruse · Institute for Comic Studies · International Journal of Comic Art · Last Son · Marjane Satrapi · Persepolis · Peter Coogan · Tom DeHaven
