Silver Comics 2008 Annual

Fans of fun, retro superhero comics will want to check out the Silver Comics 2008 Annual, a sampler of the Silver Comics series now in mind-blasting color.

Featuring Cloud Buster, Doctor Monster, and Tin-Toy-Boy, the Silver Comics 2008 Annual contains no ads - just wall-to-wall candy-colored action, headed by master of retro-ceremonies, Juan Ortiz!

Order it and all the entire Silver Comics line here:
http://www.juanortiz.org/secondpage.html

And check out the Silver Comics blog here:
http://thesilvercomicsblog.blogspot.com/

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Suit Up!

A spacesuit for criminals, designed for the story "Big Blue" (a tribute to Fletcher Hanks), published in All-Fist Comics #1.

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Buckeye Hall of Fame

Sighted at the recent Jeff Harper comic show at the Buckeye Hall of Fame: cartoonists Molly Durst and J.D. "The Bee" Larabee.

Molly had copies on hand of her entire suspenseful Symphony of the Universe series. You can check out it out and a bunch of other cool stuff here:

www.symphonyoftheuniverse.com

Thanks for the three-eyed cat, Molly!

Larabee has a super-fun, cartoony style you can peruse here:

http://www.beetoons.8k.com/main.htm

Rock on in a free world, gals and guys.

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My First Comic Book

...or, at least, the earliest comic book still in existance that I worked on, this one co-written by my cousin, Little Timmy. We sold this to our grandmother for 26 cents.

Little Timmy records his own radical music nowadays, in a studio he built by hand, inch by inch.
You can check out Little Timmy's official Pig City Sound tour here:
http://web.mac.com/littletimmy1/PiG_CiTY_SoUND/HOME.html

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Mailer and God

Interesting thoughts from Norman Mailer's last,
posthumous book:

"Reason, ultimately, looks to strip us of the notion that there is a Creator. The moment you have a society built on reason alone, then individual power begins to substitute for the concept of a Creator. What has characterised just about every social revolution is that sooner or later revolutionary leaders go to war with each other and turn cannibalistic. Only one leader is left, an absolute dictator. Once you accept the notion that there is no God, then the ultimate direction for the Left, the Right, or the corporate Centre is totalitarianism."

From: On God: An Uncommon Conversation by Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon.

Another thought (this one mine): doesn't individual power begin to substitute for the concept of a Creator in the minds of men regardless of the theocratic nature of a society?

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New Mesh Panels

My online serialized graphic novel, The Mesh, has been updated with four new panels. Here's one of them.

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Hot Music for a Hot Day

Sweet Sixteen put some real jazz into the Columbus Jazz and Rib Fest last Sunday afternoon
(a common complaint of the Rib Fest is: where's the real jazz? Kenny G. wanna-bes and New Age tinklers don't count).

As befit the sunny weather, Sweet Sixteen was blistering, and the crowd (one of the largest they've played for) was appreciative.

From left to right: Dave Rainey on bass, Helen Hagerty on flute, Wes Hart hidden behind the drums, and the amazing Rocco Siriano on guitar.

Check out Sweet Sixteen's MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/sweetsixteenjazz

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