Inspiration / 19 May 2021

Superman vs Nick O’Teen

I found a treasure trove of old British comics in my attic (Buster, Whizzer & Chips, Beano, Dandy, Jackpot) and I will probably do a post about those another day. But the back of one of them really caught my eye with this anti-smoking campaign directed at kids, that uses classic comic-book hero Superman. His […]

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Spark in the Dark / 17 July 2018

The Far Side

I have been reading The Far Side cartoons with my kids over the past few months and I have been pleasantly reminded of how truly brilliant, concise and hilarious they are.  In many ways they are the perfect little cartoon haiku. There is so much densely packed into each frame, and that constraint leads to […]

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