Christmas Covers - December 19

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is 1976's The Spirit #12. The legendary Will Eisner presents The Spirit getting into, well, the Christmas Spirit.



(Sorry, no Christmas monkey cover today--I couldn't find a third :( Monkey Covers will return next week.)



Just 6 more 'get-ups' until Santa!



(You can find more comic cover Advent calendars at Polite Dissent and Raw Feed.)

Christmas Covers - December 18

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is from Mutt & Jeff #32 (Date uncertain--probably 1945). Bud Fisher's cover shows Jeff, in the spirit of the season, giving Mutt some gifts that he can truly use.



Just 7 more 'get-ups' until Santa!



(You can find more comic cover Advent calendars at Polite Dissent and Raw Feed.)

A different kind of 'contest': CBLDF Donations

Every pledge drive, our local NPR station has a 'new member challenge': if 10 people become new members for a certain amount over the course of an hour, a local business will match that donation.



I'm now making a similar offer, but for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF).



For the period between now and December 24, if 10 people make first time donations of $25 to the CBLDF, I will donate $250 to CBLDF.



(To donate, go to the CBLDF Website and click on the link across the top that says 'donations').



Just email me the confirmation email that you get from CBLDF when you make your donation. I'll post again once the goal has been met. (Please mention in your email if it's okay to identify you, or if you'd prefer to remain anonymous.)



(Of course, if you've previously donated to CBLDF I encourage you to do so again, but the purpose here is to drum up new support.)



From the CBLDF site: "The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community."

Owly Contest

Johanna of Cognitive Dissonance is running a contest where you could win a copy of Andy Runton's Owly. Go check it out. (I have yet to read Owly, but I've heard enough good things that I'll probably get it at some point.)

Christmas Covers - December 17

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.

From 2001's Superman #165, this cover from artists Ed McGuinness & Cam Kennedy depicts Clark & Lois trying to decide which of their special edition JLA ornaments to hang on their tree.

Just 8 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(You can find more comic cover Advent calendars at Polite Dissent and Raw Feed.)

The Page 123 Meme

Meme from Jen Contino, via The Johnny Bacardi Show



1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.





Thomas, Douglas. (2002). Hacker Culture. Minneapolis: Universty of Minnesota Press.

In 1988, a hacker who went by the handle "The Prophet" entered a BellSouth computer system and downloaded a file that documented improvements in the 911 emergency services that were soon to be implemented.

Christmas Covers - December 16

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is 1947's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #76. We once again have a cover by the legendary Walt Kelly, this time depicting those lovable scamps Huey, Duey & Louie attempting to help their Unca Donald fill-in for Santa.



Just 9 more 'get-ups' until Santa!



(You can find more comic cover Advent calendars at Polite Dissent and Raw Feed.)