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From the joke board.............
An airplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers on board,
but only 4 parachutes.
The first passenger, Holly Madison said, "I have my own reality
show and I am the smartest and prettiest woman at Playboy, so
Americans don't want me to die." She took the first pack and
jumped out of the plane.
The second passenger, John McCain, said, "I'm a Senator, and a
decorated war hero from an elite Navy unit from the United States
of America." So he grabbed the second pack and jumped.
The third passenger, Barack Hussein Obama said, "I am the
President of the United States and I am the smartest ever in the
history of our country, some even call me the 'Anointed One.'" So
he grabbed the pack next to him and jumped out.
The fourth passenger, Billy Graham said to the fifth passenger, a
10-year-old schoolgirl, "I have lived a full life and served my
God the best I could. I will sacrifice my life and let you have
the last parachute."
The little girl said, "That's okay, Mr. Graham. There's a
parachute left for you. America 's smartest President took my
schoolbag."
God Bless
Anyone ever date a graphics designer?
http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/servlet/com.featureserv.util.Download?file=20070103cssho-a-p....
None in particular as I just discovered them recently. I just took a few out of the library at random in French and English just to know what they are about.
Have a great weekend!
yup. graphic novels can be really good. got any favorites? thanks for keepin' the board alive! one of these days i'll get my paid-for membership back. talk with ya later.
Yo Bart, if you are still around, I wanted to know if you were familiar with graphic novels?
Here's something interesting I think.
WittyComics.com
The site has a way of easily generating 3 frame cartoons. You can see the ones done by the users of the site. Some are quite good and some are not ;)
Interesting concept though. Allows people with no drawing skill to be cartoonists.
Happy New Year 2007!!!!!
Starting the year off with FCCN!!
Everything is under control
GO AERO!!/GO FCCN!!
Looking Good!!!!
Happy Holidays to all here!!
All the best to you for the Holidays, bartermania!!
Nice work! Happy Holidays and so on to all!
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Tee, hee .... Good one, OU .... !
It's kind of a shame that McGruder decided to take a dump on some of his fans though. I'm almost squarely in the "50 year old white man" category and I thought the strip was brilliant.
excellent post! bad news. seems like there's much that wrong with the "world" now.
McGruder Stopped Doing 'Boondocks' Because He 'Was Sick of It'
By E&P Staff
Published: November 21, 2006 1:00 PM ET
NEW YORK Many people have guessed that "The Boondocks" comic didn't
return from sabbatical this fall because Aaron McGruder was busy with
"The Boondocks" TV show.
The cartoonist, speaking last night at the University of South Florida,
cited at least one other reason. "I got sick of the strip and sick of
politics. It was Bush, Bush, Bush. Okay, he's dumb, we get it," said
McGruder, as quoted in a St. Petersburg Times story linked to today on
DailyCartoonist.com.
If his Universal Press Syndicate comic ever resumes, added McGruder, it
would be online.
He also discussed the Cartoon Network's "Boondocks" series with the
Florida crowd of nearly 500. "It's a show for people who look at the
world and say, 'There's something seriously wrong here,'" said
McGruder,
as quoted by the Times' Amber Mobley. "There are people who get satire,
[people] with critical thinking skills. And then there are those who
don't get it. This show was created for people who get it. Everyone
else
we're really not too concerned about."
The cartoonist also said his TV audience "gets it more than your
average
newspaper reader [who's] a 50-year-old white man."
Universal launched "The Boondocks" comic in 1999, and was syndicating
it
to more than 300 clients when McGruder went on hiatus this spring.
Source: Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410757
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FoxTrot waltzes its way into early retirement
Comic set to end daily run; strip will still appear in the Sunday
newspaper
By ERIC HARRISON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
FoxTrot, the popular comic strip that runs in more than 1,000
newspapers--including the Chronicle--will end daily production Dec. 30,
as its creator joins the growing list of cartoonists to grow weary of
the daily grind.
Bill Amend, who created FoxTrot in 1998, will continue to write and
draw
the Sunday strip.
"After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot
cartoons, I think it's time I got out of the house and tried some new
things," he said in a statement. "I love cartooning, and I absolutely
want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming
pace."
Aaron McGruder, Bill Watterson, Berke Breathed, Garry Trudeau and Gary
Larson also have all either taken sabbaticals or ended their strips
altogether, citing the grueling pace and challenge of maintaining
originality and quality as factors in their burnout.
McGruder, who created Boondocks, ended his strip in March for what was
supposed to be a six-month hiatus. He had already handed drawing duties
to a substitute artist while devoting time to developing an animated TV
series for the Cartoon Network. The strip has now officially been
cancelled.
In earlier generations, the lives of comic strips seemed endless. After
the original artists died or retired, successors continued the strips.
That was because the characters and titles were owned by syndicates,
the
companies that distribute comic strips and other features to
newspapers.
The syndicates had the right to fire creators and replace them at will.
That began to change--at least for the most popular and powerful
cartoonists--in the late 1980s.
Breathed started the trend.
"I had to quietly, secretly, threaten the comic pages' first walk out
in
1989" to gain ownership of Bloom County's copyright from Universal
Press
Syndicate, Breathed said in a 2001 interview with The Onion's A.V.
Club.
"It had never been done before."
A Houston native whose Bloom County became only the second comic
strip--after Doonsbury--to win a Pulitzer Prize, Breathed ended the
strip in 1988, at the height of its popularity. Opus, his current
strip,
appears only on Sundays.
FoxTrot, The Boondocks, The Far Side, Doonsbury and Calvin and Hobbes
also were all distributed by Universal, which since taking on Doonsbury
in the 1970s has attracted the most envelope-pushing cartoon features.
Cartoonists are retiring their strips now because they can, because
they
own them. And because maintaining the quality of strips such as
FoxTrot,
Doonsbury and Calvin and Hobbes isn't easy. These aren't gag-a-day
strips. In addition to the daily dose of humor, there's character
development, narrative arcs and, in the case of Doonsbury and
Boondocks,
the struggle of staying topical.
Watterson ended his wildly popular Calvin and Hobbes in 1995, he has
said, in part to avoid the inevitable drift into "halfhearted
repetition"--the fate of many long-running comic strips.
Larson retired The Far Side the same year. Earlier, he had taken a
14-month leave to travel and study jazz guitar. He had drawn more than
4,000 cartoons since the cartoon went into syndication in 1979. Since
"retiring," Larson has made animated films and published books.
Lee Salem, president of Universal Press Syndicate, dangled the
possibility of FoxTrot popping up later in another form, such as
animation. "In addition to Sunday newspapers, we may see FoxTrot
entertaining us in other kinds of media platforms," he said in a
statement posted on the company's Web site.
A spokesman for the syndicate wouldn't confirm that plans are in the
works for a FoxTrot movie or TV series, saying only that it's "too
early" to discuss it. Amend, she said, is "not doing interviews" and
Salem didn't care to elaborate on the statement.
eric.harrison@chron.com
Source: Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/4381689.html
doing fine ... rock on my friend
Thanks! hope all's well with you.
These stamps are the peel off and stick on variety. I have no idea how well this sort of stamp will stand up to the test of time compared to paper and glue stamps. I assume this subject has been discussed in stamp collecting circles, which I don't follow.
Same sort of consideration regarding the stability of paper over decades. Some paper from a hundred years ago holds up better than paper from a few decades ago when paper produced by an acid process became more common in all but archival quality material.
Computer data storage may prove the most ephemeral of all, as changing formats and technology make things unusable.
On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for enjoying the present and not worrying about the past.
Other places where you can find cartoon characters are on Disney stock certificates and the Pixar stock certificates. The latter are no longer easily available as Disney bought Pixar. Pixar used to send out large posters showing characters from future movies such as Toy Story 2, but stopped that, presumably when they had more shareholders and had to worry about mailing costs.
Disney switched to paying dividends twice a year rather than quarterly because they had so many people who only held one share for the certificate that the mailing costs added up.
This is a stock message board, so this isn't totally off topic.
www.oneshare.com shows the DIS certificate, as well as a Dreamworks certificate with Shrek on it. It's an expensive way to buy one share of a stock, so I am not recommending it, but it shows pictures of various certificates.
No, I didn't know they were out/existed. Thank you. Sounds like a great set. Now I need to see what they look like as stamps. Here's a good shot (I couldn't see them at your link...maybe it's my firewall settings blocking the image)...
I assume you've seen the post office stamps...
http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10152&storeId=10001&...
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Release Date: July 20th, 2006.
With these 20 colorful stamps, the U.S. Postal Service honors stars from the world of DC Comics. Ten stamps on this pane show portraits of super heroes; the others show covers of individual comic books devoted to their exploits. Art director Carl T. Herrman worked with the creative staff at DC Comics on the design of this issuance. Beginning with the classic covers, information about the artwork shown on each stamp follows.
DC Covers
Plastic Man #4
Summer 1946
Art by Jack Cole
Batman #1
Spring 1940
Art by Bob Kane
The Brave And The Bold #36
June/July 1961
Art by Joe Kubert
Green Lantern #4
Jan./Feb. 1961
Art by Gil Kane & Joe Giella
The Flash #111
Feb./Mar. 1960
Art by Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella
Wonder Woman #22 (2nd series)
Nov. 1988
Art by George Pérez
Aquaman #5 (of 5)
Oct. 1989
Art by Curt Swan & Al Vey
The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1
Nov. 1982
Art by Rich Buckler & Dick Giordano
Superman #11
July/Aug. 1941
Art by Fred Ray
Green Arrow #15
Sept. 2002
Art by Matt Wagner
Character Shots
Batman
Art by Jim Lee & Scott Williams
Wonder Woman
Art by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito
Plastic Man
Art by Dick Giordano
Superman
Art by Curt Swan & Sheldon Moldoff
Green Lantern
Art by Neal Adams
The Flash
Art by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Anderson
Aquaman
Art by Jim Aparo
Hawkman
Art by Murphy Anderson
Supergirl
Art by Curt Swan & Stan Kaye
Green Arrow
Art by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer
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Yeah, must be a back door of some sort.
I love this one!
Al Capp....
http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members3.asp
Here's a great place to start:
Alex just passed away this year. A great loss
http://tothfans.dynu.com/
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