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So it’s been a full month since I last posted anything here, and I apologize; life gets in the way sometimes. And it’s doubly sad that it took this news to get me back to the CBGXtra keyboard. Mark Evanier … See More

Hope you enjoyed both Thanksgiving and your 40th (ahem) B-day! (Guessing you were thankful for not looking anywhere near your age…Must be that Wrightson painting in your closet!) Really enjoying your latest Balloons columns in CBG, btw…So much of it … See More

Maggie celebrates 40 years of Comic-Con International: San Diego with special memories in this month’s Beautiful Balloons, which you can download here. Related Posts:No Related Posts

I’m not going to keep this up for long, but wouldn’t it be great to get this on a daily basis? Or in a book? Or (better yet) the original run printed large — in a book? Related Posts:No Related … See More

Another basement find was a scrapbook which we may actually have put together ourselves. It contains the version of his Barnaby strip that Crockett Johnson (penname of David Leisk (1906-1975) put together as a revival of the strip he’d created, … See More

This is sort of the way my life goes. After several weeks of working out the details, I’m having my furnace replaced with a heat pump system — and (I hope) solving a matter of not having a second-floor air-return-vent thingy … See More

About an hour ago, I received a phonecall from my brother (link on the left), to whom I’d sent packets of the four Halloween comics. He called to say that the comics seemed to be a success in his area … See More

For the second year in a row, a few comic-book companies have produced giveaway comics specifically as Halloween treats. Unless you frequented an area comics shop (and you should be doing that, of course), you may not be aware of … See More

Yeah, my postings haven’t exactly been a daily event recently — AND tomorrow and Tuesday I’ll be obsessed with wrapping up the next issue, so STILL no postings … But where I’ve been was much fun: the Friends of Old … See More

My good friend Geoffrey Blum and I were talking recently and puzzled over how do you read comics to young children. I tried to do it once or twice and found it a tad awkward. Maybe Maggie could discuss how … See More