I’ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I’ve gone and made a whole video about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel “The Wolf”, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids …

If you have a coffee table, you should have a “coffee table book”, a large, heavily illustrated color volume that your guests can easily and casually flip through, (Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects is a good choice, of course.) But you …

Hello from out here in fire country! There’s a fire in town and we’re still under red-flag warnings for more, but rain is likely this weekend and that should ease things quite a bit. Anyway, amidst all the various forms of confligration at the moment, I have agreed to be …