Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist James Lileks reviews the comics. If you want to alienate people, talk about religion or politics. If you want to have a nice conversation, talk about breakfast cereal and newspaper comics. Could we discuss politics the way we discuss newspaper comics? Possibly, because everyone complains about both. There are people who […]
August 8, 1961, give or take a few days, Fantastic Four #1 (dated Nov. 1961) hit the newsstands. While the issue hit the stands on various days on and surrounding that Tuesday most of the surviving copies with any date identification have August 8, 1961 stamped on them. So that is the date that many […]
Reality Check (AMS) serves a heapin’ helpin’ of “Tom Swifties,” based on cartoon characters, Tom Swifties being a fad of the early 60s. This Wikipedia article explains the phenomenon, which drew from a foible of the syndicated authors of the Tom Swift adventure series, who avoided the simple “said,” and gives examples both of the […]