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[davemerrill]

Cynical, manipulative politics use romance for their own ends making America great this week at STUPID COMICS!!



America's voters care how rich your girlfriend is?? Actually a few years earlier than this story Rockefeller lost the Republican nomination because he - gasp - married a previously divorced woman; the Repubs chose Goldwater instead, thereby handing LBJ one of the greatest landslides in history. So maybe America's electorate WAS a bunch of nosy busybodies and I shouldn't complain about this comic story, for that reason anyway. Get historied up at installment #227 of Stupid Comics! Probably won't be one next week, it's a busy week.

Meanwhile Brian Bolland defeats a fine-art thief with class and sass and Jason Thompson tells us the Ippongi Bang story!

It's the weekend; I am going to spend it cleaning house and putting up shelves and maybe buying some plants. Monday is a holiday here but I have to work anyways. I may have Thursday off to get Neil at the airport, and then again I may not. It's going to be a busy week next week, culminating in, of course, THE GLOMPING CIRCLE, which is the name of my psychedelic rock band, only I spell it CYRCLE. Don't miss our 40 minute freeform jams and our flute solos!

Comments

Let me assure you...

[rootstudio.livejournal.com]

...as an American* that since the dark days of Lee/Buscema romance comics US voters have become markedly dumber. I provide the following true life quotes as evidence.

"I'm voting for Clinton because he's sooooooooooo handsome."
"Dubya should be president because his daddy was president!"
"Go ahead and buy Heinz ketchup... IF YOU LIKE SUPPORTING TERRORISM!"


And that Ippongi Bang article was awesome. It brings back fond memories of the "golden age" of Antarctic Press. Back in the day I was lucky enough to track down all the Bang books. Good fun stuff well worth reading.


And the Glomping Cyrquelle... Fine purveyours of thelemic magick so kawaii. ^_^ Seriously tho, creepy greasy nerdball stuff like that is why I pretty much gave up on conventions.

PS....

[rootstudio.livejournal.com]

Did a little poking around after posting and remembered that I had this...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/7620370@N02/4626760827/)

[gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that Ippongi Bang article was really nostalgic.

[gyopi.livejournal.com]

I'll freely admit that I remember Ippongi Bang more for her running around in her Lum costume than for her artwork. Yes, that makes me a terrible person, or something.

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think that would make you an honest person.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Bang's autobiographical piece about her mission work in Bolivia, which seemed to involve other members of Studio Do-Do as well (I remember Kuni Kimura one year at AWA confounding the opening ceremonies audience by addressing them not in English or Japanese, but Spanish). Helping out poor kids is a very old-school shonen hero thing to do; Jason noted that Bang is of the bancho era.

--Carl

[shihtzu.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm not sure how they do it in Canada, but in the U.S. everyone elected to city council is also granted a seat in the House of Representatives. It's why so many of them are such loons.

Speaking of which, please tell me this week's edition was in honor of Rep. Mark "Here, watch this video of me discussing the effectiveness of abstinence education with the staffer with whom I'm cheating on my wife" Souder.