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 →
Here's the second half of my November 2023 trip to London, covering Thursday, November 16 through Sunday, November 19, the day I climbed onto that big metal bird adorned with the red and blue of the British flag on the outside and took an 11-hour journey back to San Diego. Click on the images below... 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 →
Sunday, November 12th had me up early in Harrogate to make my last visit to the Majestic's spectacular free breakfast. I was hopping the direct LNER train from Harrogate to London at 11:15 AM. It was Remembrance Day in the UK, their equivalent to our Veterans' Day, but they treat it much more solemnly than... 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 →
From November 8-19, I took a very relaxed trip to the United Kingdom. My agenda—such as it was—was very small: Go to Harrogate for Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival, and then spend a week in London, exploring bookstores and visiting favorite haunts. I was successful on both points, but ... I had a... Continue Reading →
I was out on my second walk of the day when I realized today is the 25th anniversary of me moving to San Diego. It is now officially the place where I’ve lived the longest. I moved here from Pittsburgh, PA on December 1st, 1998. Just me and my faithful feline companion, Ollie, on a... 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 →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. They say that when you’re a witness to some kind of tragedy, you remember everything about it: Where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. I was only... 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 →
Oh, to live in London and just walk around and explore bookstores one day of each week. That would be a definite nirvana for me. Taken in 2019, I believe, on Charing Cross Road. If you enjoyed this post, please leave a like or a comment and follow me here and on Instagram@gg92118!
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 →
Hey, all I know is, I saw the bridge, Big Ben, and the bird and just started snapping photos. This is one of my all-time favorite pics from any trip, anywhere, that I've ever taken. God, I love London. If you enjoyed this post, please leave a like or a comment and follow me here... Continue Reading →
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