From the Home Office in San Diego, CA, in which the author bares his soul ... Let’s just say 2023 wasn’t my favorite year. I had a few health problems in the second half, thankfully nothing major (so far), and an also not-my-favorite trip to my beloved United Kingdom (Harrogate and London), plus the usual... Continue Reading →
We’re back on the world-famous Official Tales From My Spinner Rack! YouTube Channel with our first, all-new video, one that isn’t based on a convention presentation that I did. If you’ve been reading the three-part “December 1965” saga here over the past month, you’ll be (hopefully) happy to see a video devoted to the series.... Continue Reading →
All art in this post TM & © MARVEL; all art is scanned from the original comics in my collection. Click on the images to see them larger on your screen. Here are the final five December 1965 cover-dated comics from Marvel. They were released in a different month and one of the easiest ways... Continue Reading →
All art in this post TM & © MARVEL; all art is scanned from the original comics in my collection. Click on the images to see them larger on your screen. At the end of Part 01 of December 1965 (click here to read it), I eluded to the fact that the December cover-dated Marvel... Continue Reading →
All art in this post TM & © MARVEL; all art is scanned from the original comics in my collection. Click on the images to see them larger on your screen! I don’t know when the idea first came to mind, but at some point I decided I wanted to get every Marvel comic published... Continue Reading →
I was away for about a third of November, so I didn’t get as much reading done as I would have liked … but I still got six more books closer to my GoodReads goal of 75 this year. Only four more to go at this point! Here’s is what I read in November …... Continue Reading →
Click here to read Part 1, click here to read Part 2, and click here to read Part 3. Here’s the final installment of my look back at a book I created—and shelved—25 years ago, way back in 1998. If you’ve been following along for the past three parts here, you already know it was... Continue Reading →
More Tales From My Spinner Rack! is almost here! We took the month of November off for a little bit of travel, but we’ll be back in December with three new posts plus our first-ever all-new video on the official Tales From My Spinner Rack! YouTube Channel! Here’s the teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=470IUy5vKnE Starting Wednesday, December 6th,... Continue Reading →
Continuing the story of the book that almost was from 25 years ago, Tails of Two Kitties … Click here to read Part One and click here to read Part Two. I honestly don’t remember the story of the agent (whom we’re calling Elizabeth) and how I met her and how her interest in me... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to my November-long examination of my long-lost (25 years ago!) attempt at getting a “real” book published, albeit one that was a cartoon book. It was the tale of my two cats, Stan and Ollie, and as I explained in Part One (click here to read it), it was first called Fuzzheads and... Continue Reading →
(Thought we were done with “My Life in Comics,” did you? Well, think again!) We all have forgotten chapters in our lives and this is one of mine. Sometimes they’re merely lost to the mists of time and memory, other times they’re right there, just in front of you, every single day. This chapter falls... Continue Reading →
Ah, Fall … how do we love you? Let me count the ways! Pumpkin spice? NO. Sweater weather? YES with an * … *I live in San Diego, so winter is more sweater weather time, if winter ever actually arrives. Lots of new books? YES, YES, and YES, gloriously YES! Here’s what I read in... Continue Reading →
We’re back with our third big Tales From My Spinner Rack! video on our official YouTube channel (not counting our teaser video)! This time, we’re presenting a re-creation of my Comic-Con 2023 panel presentation, featuring a look at two of DC Comics’ most popular titles from the 1950s and 1960s, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen and... Continue Reading →
We’re back—or we will be—next week with a brand new Tales From My Spinner Rack! video on YouTube featuring the re-creation of my sold-out (no fee was charged), standing-room-only (there were plenty of seats) Comic-Con 2023 panel presentation, featuring the wild and wonky comic book adventures of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen and Superman’s Girl Friend... Continue Reading →
Happy October—SWEATERWEATHER!—to you all! This week I’m happy to present the world premiere of the re-creation of my WonderCon 2023 panel presentation—the first-ever “Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE!” show—on YouTube. As I mentioned, this is a re-creation, not an actual recording of the WonderCon panel, because I, in my infinite wisdom, forgot to hit... Continue Reading →
