The Wicked Sith Of The West

One of these days we'll finally get to The Pertwillaby Papers, Don Rosa's old comic from the Rocket's Blast ComicCollector. But, for the moment, let's jump back to 1977 when the first Star Wars movie was released. Here's a lovely observational piece from Don, aided & abetted by William Fugate:

Slowly getting back on track...

page art by Don Rosa and William Fugate for RBCC #139 (1977)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 - The Missing Weeks

This week's calendar is appearing on The Other Voice Of ODD! due to the ... unabashed nature of the image.

But we've missed quite a few weeks, and we certainly wouldn't want to miss out on the lovely paintings of Gil Elvgren that should have appeared, so here they are. 

Week 36

A Polished Performance (1964)

Week 37

Aiming To Please (Shoving Off) 1960)

Week 38

Pleasant To Si (1969)

Week 39

In The Red (1950)

Week40

Charmaine (1957)

Week41

Net Results (1941)

Week42

Spotty Performance (Occupational Hazard; Stenographer) (1962)

Week43

Cold Feet (Cold Front) (1958)

Week44

The Finishing Touch (1960)

Week45

Waisted Effort (1950)

Week46

It's A Snap (Pretty Snappy, Snap Judgment) (1958)

Week47

Eye Catcher (1969)

Week48

Doctor, Are All Those Fellows Interns?
(September check-ups are the way to keep yourself in shape.
But too many cooks can spoil the broth, and too many doctors - gape.) (1946)

all art by the great Gil Elvgren, of course (see captions for years)

The Adventures Of Ant-Man When He Was A Boy?

Oh, no - that would be too easy. Too... sane.
And an entirely different sort of Odd, given that over a half century back we saw that Hank took his first trip down the anthill as an adult.

And yet...  Ant Boy!

From Matt Feazell, the mad genius who brought us Cynical Man and Anti-Social Man (true Hermit heroes!), and scholarly author of Understanding MiniComics, comes the tale of "an abandoned child raised by ants!?". Ant Boy got his full sized comic debut in Captain Confederacy #1 (Shetterly & Stone's great alternate history comic that's been on the topic list for ages)

Here are three short strips, his 2nd-4th adventures:

Have a day.

it's all by Matt Feazell from Captain Confederacy #s 1 & 3-5 (1986-7)

Hugh Mann - Still Impossible

Let's try this again, shall we?
Maybe this time the universe will allow us to continue...

We peeked once before at Hugh Mann - The Impossible Man from Earth living on another world. For a simple post today, let's revisit Hugh. This tale comes from Captain Wizard #1 featuring a much earlier edition of a later famus villain - Electro.

Now let's see if i'm allowed to keep posting. Tune in tomorrow...

page art by Charles Voight for Captain Wizard #1 (1946)

My Apologies

I'm not ignoring the comments - they are much appreciated encouragements as the Universe works so hard to prevent me from continuing here.
I've typed a dozen replies and more, but the system treats the 'Publish' button as a flush lever and dumps my replies into some hidden digital sewer. I've tried using the google account, using the name/url option, and using the anonymous option - all with the same (lack of) results.

Hopefully the cause of this will be revealed and i'll someday be allowed to respond to comments.

Meanwhile - thanks much TCJames & Mindbender. The connection issues seems to be a thing of the past. The string of suicidal computers appears to have petered out. The hideous nightmares of trying to use a Windows 10 system have been exorcized (we're on a Linux box now - finally). Now it's  a matter of dealing with the weird little issues like Blogger refusing to allow me to comment on my own frelling blog.

And there's the larger issue - now that most hurdles have been cleared, there's still the internal motivations and shattered work habits to rebuild. It may be slow starting, but i'm feeling optimistic.

Today.

The Legend Of The Stars

A modern (relatively) fairy tale from Walt Kelly starring Ward Kimball (one of the Nine Old Men) as Glum.

page art by Walt Kelly for Fairy Tale Parade #6 (1943)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 35

Smoke Screen is this week's lovely Gil Elvgren painting from 1958 -

Yes - i'm still alive, even if the computer is barely on life support. Hopefully what we need will arrive this week, but who knows if that'll make things better instead of worse this time? Meanwhile - it's 60 degrees outside and i'm sitting here with the Air Conditioning blowing full blast and freezing to keep this unit running long enough to post and check emails.
I'll return when i can.

painting by Gil Elvgren (1958)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 34

Gil Elvgren's beautiful painting this week is a NAPA Advertisement oddly dated 1968-1981 -

art by Gil Elvgren (1968-1981)

Down Break

Computer rebellion underway.

The rebuild on the new desktop system lasted over 36 hours before mysteriously devolving into a paperweight. This system upon which i'm typing realized i was working on a replacement for it and now will only function for more than 10 minutes if positioned for the AC to blow full into it. Thunder and lightning took the reliable beast.
So instead of being fully up and running and back to being able to work and paint, they've taken away my work, my play, my music, my vids...

I'm just going to be depressed in the back of my cave for a while. I'll get tomorrow's BMC calendar page into the queue, but not sure how soon the next post will be after that.

But, hey! We got the net connection working well now.

Don't Leave Your Mind Alone In The Dark! by -3-