belly-up minx

It’s sad, but not totally surprising.
Over at Comic Book Resources they’re reporting that the DC imprint of graphic novels for girls, Minx, is no more.  From the announced launch the element that struck me oddest was DC.  I think DC comics and I don’t immediately think “girls” or “graphic novels” really, I think Batman.  I [...]

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poetry friday: from the belly button of the world

Long ago – long, long ago – I had this idea to make a comic out of the statues on Easter Island.  Obviously this would be a very cerebral comic as the main characters were made of stone and planted in the ground.  They were sort of the Original Talking Heads.
One storyline concerned feet.  Few [...]

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h2g2 says: panic!

I’m sorry, but this is wrong, all wrong.
NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR EOIN COLFER TO WRITE THE SIXTH HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Penguin will publish the sixth novel in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson has sanctioned the project to be written [...]

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my writing life, in commercials

How can you tell when a brown towel is clean?
Anyone remember that?  It was the selling point for an ad for laundry detergent on television back in the 70s.  It might have been for Tide or Cheer or one of those heinous collections of chemicals that pass for laundry detergent.  The idea was that if [...]

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don’t mess with the bush gator!

Among the footnotes of history this is going to have to remain a flyspeck on the period at the end of the sentence. It’s the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. I have Gwenda to thank for this (I think), though it’s spreading like wildfire.
So if Sarah Palin were to have named me (quite [...]

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mad monster party

A simple request to the universe: would someone please make some new, interesting monsters so we can have some new monster movies.
I guess technically what I mean when I say monsters includes a wide variety of human and humanoid creatures who populate the psyche as vividly as any man-made creature in a rubber suit.  While [...]

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poetry friday: limeraiku

How strange.  One minute you’re minding your own business, then along comes a general question about the limerick. Ah, yes, I seem to remember this fine book called The Penguin Book of Limericks, edited by a Mr. Parrott (if that is his real name).  Here’s a fine collection of… what’s this?
Limericks, in haiku form?
Yes.  Take [...]

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fall is the new year

Fall is the new year.
When the shifting sun changes the angle of light falling across the desks, dust motes dancing in the afternoon, and the cool evenings whisk summer away, that’s when the new year begins.
When the bulletin boards are covered with fresh sheets of unfaded colored paper cut from large rolls, cool and smooth [...]

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creativity

I don’t often link here, but I am today.  Ken Robinson has a lot of wicked smart things to say about education and creativity and children and the future.  As a former middle school teacher, a teacher of Art and English, and as someone who growing up always felt on the outside of his educational [...]

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