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July 23rd, 2007 | Posted in General
NOTE- This review contains NO spoilers. No specific plot points are revealed, so read with confidence that the fun will not be ruined. Well, It’s over. Ten years, seven books, 3,694 pages. Five feature fives (two more to come), billions in sales of books, merchandise, etc. Millions stood for hours in line to buy their copy of the final tome at 12:01 on Saturday the 21st of July. Easily the most popular, best selling fiction book series in history. Over. The tale is told. That’s a lot of hype to live up to for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book… READ MORE
July 21st, 2007 | Posted in General
Please excuse the following exercise in capitalism. It’s been well over a year now since my big website redesign, and one of the things I thought I’d try out with it was the “Studio Store“. This is where I would be unabashedly pimping my original MAD artwork both to try and pay for the site hosting and possibly a nice dinner or two for myself and The Lovely Anna, or if nothing else to keep the studio flat files from exploding with overflow. I’ve sold a few pieces but I don’t think I’ll be retiring anytime soon. Many thanks to those who e-mailed me with… READ MORE
July 19th, 2007 | Posted in General
If you are looking for the blog archives, I have removed them from the sidebar on the right and onto a single page entitled “MAD Blog Archives” under the “Pages” section at the top of the same sidebar. The sidebar was getting too long with the archives, organized by month, under it’s own section. On the new archives page they are still organized by month and year, and there is a handy search box at the top of the page. READ MORE
July 19th, 2007 | Posted in General
2002’s “Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels” Click for a closer look Unless you have been living under a rock, as the saying goes, you are probably aware that at midnight tomorrow night, the seventh and final book of J.K. Rowling‘s “Harry Potter” series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will go on sale across the world. An unprecedented 10 million plus copies of this book have been printed, and I have no doubt it will quickly sell out. Our family has two copies reserved already, and The Lovely Anna is considering getting one or two more when she goes to the bookstore with… READ MORE
July 17th, 2007 | Posted in General
I drew caricatures all day Sunday at Valleyfair, and was hoping to get a few new samples done for the display there. Each year I try to get a few new ones done, as there are a lot of repeat customers each year and having the same samples up all the time is boring. New samples make the booth fresher and we can get some timely ones up as well. Timely is good, but I personally like to draw celebrities that aren’t a “flash in the pan” nor ones tied to a current role that might end up being obsolete in a year or so.… READ MORE
July 14th, 2007 | Posted in General
Another panel from the MAD parody… I hate hearing people bash J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter books. Yes, it’s always fashionable for those people who think they have better taste than everybody else to dismiss popular fiction (or anything else that’s popular) as drivel for the Great Unwashed, but these books don’t deserve it. I’d agree that the magical fantasy adventures that Rowling has written about the boy wizard might not win any literary awards, and she probably won’t be confused with Hemmingway, Fitzgerald or Capote, but they are playful, imaginative and just plain page turning fun. It’s a rare thing that a book… READ MORE
July 10th, 2007 | Posted in General
Funny News!- One of my frequent daily stops on the internet is CNN.com, where I get my daily news ( I still read the newspapers, that is a ritual). Anyone who frequents CNN.com will see they recently revamped their site. It’s now drab and boring… nice work, CNN. They did add an interesting new feature, though. Under their “More News” links at the bottom of the main page they have a new category among the “Health”, “Tech”, Politics” and such. It’s called “Funny News“. In it are links to strange and bizarre stories that are too weird for the main news. Today the “Funny News”… READ MORE
July 9th, 2007 | Posted in General
It’s no secret I am a big Stephen King fan. I could never quite figure out why he was so often panned by critics. Sure, his stories were sensational and based on horror and paranormal subjects… but he brought his characters to life in such a way that the books often left me saddened that these were not real people that were going to continue to lead their lives (those that lived, anyway) once the back of the dust jacket showed me it’s inevitable ugly face. His dialog never seemed contrived and I could count on several places in each book that would surprise me… READ MORE
