I’ve visited Leeds three times now and loved it each time. This photo is from my last trip in September of last year. I had never seen this golden owl before, but somehow it seemed like a lost statue honoring Watchmen, which is appropriate, since the Leeds area is home to a particularly great small comics convention called Thought Bubble, which is what drew me to the city in the first place.
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Sometimes the best views are close to home. I am so incredibly lucky to live on such a picturesque island as Coronado. This is a short walk from my place and the Coronado Bridge is always a breathtaking sight, although we’ve had high winds lately, and driving across it is no fun when it’s windy. It’s so, so pretty, though!
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Last fall, I took a wonderful trip to England, which included the lovely city of York. Believe it or not, this was the view from my hotel window of Clifford’s Tower, part of York Castle and it was taken on the first day I was there. York is an incredible maze of winding cobblestone streets filled with great shops and restaurants and I thoroughly enjoyed my short stay there. The hotel was the Hilton York on (appropriately) Tower Street, and I would stay there again in a heartbeat. Great restaurant downstairs, too!
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I don’t go out at night a lot these days, but here’s a shot from a recent walk home after a nighttime ferry ride. This is my neighborhood, facing the incredible San Diego skyline, and some nights—like this one—the atmospheric conditions and the lights of the city combine to make something really magical, like some kind of storybook kingdom.
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For my fiftieth Friday Flashback I picked this bucolic photo from the small village of Hay-on-Wye. One of the highlights from my fall 2018 3-week trip to the UK was my visit to Hay. Located on the England/Wales border (but decidedly in Wales as I was reminded on more than one occasion), this is the original “booktown,” a concept created in the 1960s by a local bookseller looking to provide a hook to return Hay to greatness. While the number of bookstores in town has fallen to around 20 from it’s original 35-40, the town is still strongly bookish and some of the stores are really impressive (more photos coming soon).
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2018 saw the passing of both Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the co-creators of Spider-Man. The hero is one of the most recognizable and popular in the world, and a lot of that comes from Lee and Ditko’s original 40 or so Spidey stories (38 issues of Amazing Spider-Man, plus Amazing Fantasy #15 and 2 Annuals), which built the world of Peter Parker and his friends and family. Everything else is derivative, done by other talents, sometimes well, and sometimes well … not so well. This shot is from the Marvel Universe of Super Heroes exhibit at MoPOP in Seattle. I like to think that’s Stan silhouetted in the window on the left, and John Romita and Steve Ditko on the right (not that Romita and Ditko every worked together). The exhibit itself is amazing and runs until March 3, so hurry if you want to see it!
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This is my favorite part of London, on the South Bank, with the Millennium Bridge connecting the area around St. Paul’s Cathedral to the Bankside area of the city, across the Thames. This is normally where I stay (right around the corner from the bridge) and it’s such a vibrant part of an amazingly vibrant city. I truly believe London is the capitol of the world, in many different ways: art, culture, music, and the most metropolitan and diverse of all cities.
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