Pawprints From Space

It doesn't seem all THAT long ago that I moved to Ohio. But it has been nearly 17 years. I came here from Poughkeepsie NY leaving a very fun job with WaRP graphics (the publishers of ElfQuest) to get married and start a new life. When I arrived I kept up my comic connections and wrote reviews of independent artists/writers/publishers and their work for the now defunct  Indy Magazine (among other publications). I met some fabulous people along the way both via WaRP and Indy. Yes I am a girl AND a lapsed collector of comic books. Suddenly I feel awful for not having set foot in a comic shop in years. Does this mean being a lapsed comic book collector is akin to being a lapsed member of a religious group? Today I saw a post on Facebook from someone I met during my comic book publishing days, someone whose work I enjoyed a great deal. One of Terry Moore's characters from Strangers in Paradise (Darcy Parker) has made the list of the Top Seven Most Evilest Lesbian Exes (in...

Hard to believe that the summer is almost gone. School will be starting in a couple of weeks. All the school supplies are in the stores. SO tempting to buy a box of crayons - the big one with the sharpener in the back. I don't even know if they make that one any more, haven't checked. If I do I will come home with the crayons. Notebook paper, folders with cool pictures on them, pens and pencils... but the best was the smell of a new box of crayons. I miss school. There was so much potential at the beginning of the year. The possibilities, the things to learn and explore. New friends, new experiences, new textbooks - textbooks that I never sold back are still in boxes in the basement full of notes and yellow highlighter marks. Yearbooks and textbooks. College ruled notebook paper, not the wide lined paper - you can get more on the page that way. So exciting that first day of school. In grade school you are all fired up and there's so much potential. In high school al...