Here's where I live:
"X" marks the spot. The picture is 12 years old, of course, but you can see the trees that still drop lots of spiders onto our roof, which then crawl into our house and scare me every time I think I'm finally over my arachnophobia. I also found a picture of my Mom and Dad's house (much more visible) and my old High School. Hmmm... maybe I should go look for my dorm from college... it's torn down now, but there might still be an image of it on terraserver. No such luck, I found the university, but the dorm was already a parking lot in the image they have.
Over on the GCD chatlist, Jerry Bails mentioned the idea of some intelligent comic fan putting together a Sunday comic book insert for some major metropolitan area. The idea is that an insert with comic book stories would be more likely to be pulled out by readers, thus any ads in such a book would have a longer "shelf life" than most Sunday inserts. And it would promote the form of comics among the regular unwashed masses. I added to the discussion by suggesting an anthology, with a mix of comics for younger readers and older readers. Then another GCDer pointed out that what I was talking about is basically the same as the Spirit inserts that ran from 1940-1952 in some newspapers. I just wonder if such a thing would fly in today's market. Man, I wish I had some money to try out all these neat ideas Jerry keeps coming up with!
No comics today. No surprise, really. Diamond is pretty awful about getting things out on time during any sort of holiday. And the West Coast is constantly getting screwed by Diamond during holidays/bad weather/lazy workers or whatever the next excuse is. At least a few other people on-line have reported a similar shortage, so it's not just Seattle for once.
Here's a short article about people investing in comic books. Can't say it's a smart idea, but the article sure makes it sound appealing.
Have a look at Seattle's best Christmas Cards.
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