Month: September 2009

More evidence for the Tom the Dancing Bug theory on the death of Hitler?

American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists.

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Hollingsworth Hound in "To Catch a Banker".

A couple of other notes about things of note at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art :

Tomorrow!!  The Art of (my hero) Harvey Kurtzman:  The MAD Genius of Comics.

And now showing at the gallery (joining the David Mazzucchelli show), art from Peter Kuper's new book, Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico.

Jacob Haller comments on the Facebook page:  "It's nice of you to take the time to promote less popular comic book authors like Watterson."

Kinda guy I am.

Hitler's Final Option!

I just received a copy of "Star Wars:  The Essential Atlas," the winning product in the Tom the Dancing Bug Product Placement Auction, courtesy of one of its authors, Dan Wallace.  And, wow, what a product it is.  If you were lost in the The Hapes Cluster, you could actually find your way back to Tatooine, with a stop on Ithor for some botanicals.  And there is actually a planet called Seoul, in the outskirts of the Rakata Empire (c. 30,000 to 25,200 BBY).  Could that be  where Kim Jong-il is originally from?

My son, in particular, loves it.

In a related note, here's a quick reminder about the TtDB Wish List/Tip Jar — if you participate and follow the instructions, you'll probably get a signed sketch, and everyone seems to have been very happy with the deal.

There's a very interesting and surprisingly thoughtful discussion of the latest God-Man comic going on in the Salon.com comments section.  Click here to view.

By the way, the parallel between the Silver Wombat and the Golden Calf was intentional.  Sort of.  When I decided to have one of the God-Man's colleagues from the Super-Justice Team be his "competitor" for the friendship of Billy, I looked up the old comic in which these other superheroes were introduced, and found the Silver Wombat — which I recognized as perfect for that reason.  I'm telling you, sometimes these God-Man comics seem to write themselves… Spooky.