Don't do it!

I was out of the country, visiting Rio and Curitiba in Brazil, but I'm back and ready to keep MYTHFITS going. I'll be posting a new strip each week, possibly more often. Thanks to everyone for stopping by to read. I'm enjoying these characters.

According to polls, readers of MYTHFITS will be fans as long as... the strip is updated more often (29 votes), Unicorn & Robot always love each other (17 votes), there's talking mushrooms (10 votes), and lastly, Poo has a happy ending (6 votes).

You readers also voted on your favorite character:

Unicorn (48%)

Robot (24%)

Poo (21%)

undecided (19%)

Startling results! Thanks for voting.

FCBM6 Day 6

It's day six of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Patricia Memmott. Patricia is entering on behalf of her daughter Lily, whose five comics are:

1. Sticky Burr
2. Mouse Guard
3. Nui
4. Amulet
5. Nemu Nemu

And her other thing of interest is Shaun the Sheep.

For Lily I have Babymouse: Queen of the World!, the first volume of Jennifer & Matthew Holm's popular kids graphic novel series.

For Lily's bonus comic, I'm sending her the Casper & Little Lulu Halloween comic.

Lily's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
7 entries
21 free comics sent so far
25 days remaining

New Library Comics: April 2010

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection in April :


AARGH!. / Northampton, England : Mad Love, 1988.

Aaron, Jason. Wolverine : The death of Wolverine / New York : Marvel Comics, 2008.

Amano, Taka. Kiichi and the magic books v. 1 / La Jolla, CA : Wildstorm Productions, c2008-

Arem, Keith. Ascend / Orange, CA : Image Comics/PCB Productions, c2004.

Baldazzini, 1958- Casa Howhard v. 1 / New York : Eurotica, c2001-c2004.

Bolton, John, 1951- Back down the line / Forestville, CA. : Eclipse Comics, c1991.

Boyd, Andrew. Scurvy dogs : rags to riches / San Francisco : AiT/Planet Lar, 2005.

Brown, Scott O. Secondsoul / Somervile, MA : Cyberosia, 2003.

Cabot, Meg. Avalon High coronation. Volume 1, The Merlin prophecy / Hamburg ; Los Angeles : Tokyopop/HarperCollinsPublishers, c2007

Denton, Shannon Eric. Zapt! v. 1 / Los Angeles, CA : Tokyopop, 2006.

Emerson, Hunt. Pilgrim & Son in The festival ritual / London : Knockabout, 2005.

Fingerman, Bob, 1964- From the ashes : a speculative graphic memoir / San Diego, CA : IDW Pub., 2010.

Fujita, Maki. Platinum garden vols. 2-3 / Los Angeles, [Calif.] : Tokyopop, 2006.

Ganter, Amy Kim. Sorcerers & secretaries vols. 1-2 / Los Angeles : Tokyopop, 2006-2007.

Gardner, Keven. The ride. v. 1 / Berkeley, CA : 12 Gauge Comics, 2005.

Grimm fairy tales. v. 1 / Abington, PA : Zenescope Entertainment, 2006, c2005.

Hatori, Bisco. Millennium Snow v. 1 / San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, 2007-

Kaneda, Mario. Girls bravo vols. 1-2 / Los Angeles, CA : Tokyopop, 2005-

Kano, Yasuhiro, 1970- Pretty face v. 1 / San Francisco : Viz Media, [2007]-

Kelly, Walt. Equal time for Pogo / New York : Simon and Schuster, c1968.

Kelly, Walt. Impollutable Pogo / New York : Simon and Schuster, c1970.

Kelly, Walt. Phi beta Pogo / New York : Simon & Schuster, c1989.

Kelly, Walt. Pogo even better / New York : Simon & Schuster, c1984.

Kelly, Walt. Pogo Puce stamp catalog / New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Kelly, Walt. Pogo, prisoner of love / New York : Simon and Schuster, c1969.

Kelly, Walt. Pogo's Body politic / New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976.

Kelly, Walt. Potluck Pogo / New York : Simon and Schuster, c1955.

Kelly, Walt. Prehysterical Pogo (in Pandemonia) / New York : Simon and Schuster, 1967.

Kelly, Walt. The Pogo peek-a-book / New York : Simon and Schuster, 1955.

Kure, Yuki. La Corda d'Oro v. 1 / San Francisco : Viz, 2006-

Loux, Matthew. Salt water taffy : the seaside adventures of Jack & Benny v. 1. The legend of Old Salty. / Portland, Or. : Oni Press ; [London : Diamond, distributor], 2008-

Mangaka America. / New York, NY : Collins Design : Distributed throughout the world by HarperCollins, 2006.

Nawoko. Voiceful / [United States] : Seven Seas, 2007.

Ogiwara, Noriko, 1959- The good witch of the West vols. 1-2 / Los Angeles : TOKYOPOP, 2006-

The raspberry ice cream war : a comic for young people on a peaceful Europe without frontiers / Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1998.

Rius. Machismo, feminismo, homosexualismo / México, D.F. : Grijalbo, c2000.

Schrab, Rob. Scud, the disposable assassin : heavy 3PO / Los Angeles, CA : Fireman Press Ltd., c1995

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire kisses v. 1 / Hamburg ; Los Angeles : Tokyopop, c2007-

Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000. My life with Charlie Brown / Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.

Superman family. v. 2 / New York : DC Comics, c2008.

Toth, Alex. Alex Toth in Hollywood. v. 2 / NYC : Pure Imagination, c2010.

Veitch, Rick. The Maximortal / West Townshend, VT : King Hell Press, 2005.

Willhoite, Michael, 1946- "Now for my next trick---" : cartoons from the Washington Blade / Boston : Alyson Publications, 1986.

Woo, John, 1948- 7 brothers. v.1 / New York : Virgin Comics, 2007.

Wood, Wallace. M.A.R.S patrol total war / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2004.



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Shameless Friend Promotion: Adam Buttrick

Adam Buttrick works the late night shift here at the library, and is also a budding cartoonist. He's put together a fun mini comic: Tim Tadabrucki and the Falling Light. It's an eight-page wordless comic with surreal overtones combined with a bit of video game sensibility.

Adam will be taking his mini to TCAF this weekend, or if you live here in Ann Arbor you can get a copy from the mini-comic rack at Vault of Midnight.

FCBM6 Day 5

It's day five of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Fred Johnson. The five comics that Fred listed are:

1. Detective Comics
2. Batman
3. Action Comics
4. Magnus Robot Fighter
5. Silver Surfer

And his other thing of interest is retro video games.

For Fred I have the first issue of Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters by Michael Thibobeaux and pals, along with the first issue of Tom Strong by Alan Moore & Chris Sprouse.

For Fred's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Star Wars Halloween comic.

Fred's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
7 entries
19 free comics sent so far
26 days remaining

FCBM6 Day 4

It's day four of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Nevin Steindam. The five comics that Nevin listed are:

1. Incredible Hercules
2. The Muppet Show
3. The Anchor
4. King City/Orc Stain
5. Criminal

And his other thing of interest is board games.

For Nevin I have Scott Gray & Roger Langridge's Fin Fang 4 one-shot, plus the first issue of Ellis & Robertson's Transmetropolitan.

For Nevin's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Popeye Halloween comic.

Nevin's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
6 entries
16 free comics sent so far
27 days remaining

Earth Wind Fire and Water

Bizarro is brought to you today by Maui Dude.

This is my last day in Maui, CHNW and I are taking an overnight plane to Austin, Texas where we will visit my daughters and attend the wedding of the elder one on Saturday. This is my first shot at being father of the bride, I hope I don't mess it up. I haven't used a shotgun in years.

So much for my plans to blog every day while I was here. There was just too much to do to get motivated to make time for it. The snorkeling is best early in the morning when the water is most calm, then the rest of the day we puttered around the island doing various things. A couple of mornings ago we swam with giant sea turtles and a couple of octopuses in the morning, then drove up to the summit of Haleakala, the dead volcano that makes up the larger part of the island, in the afternoon. The summit is 10,023 feet above sea level, which made my head 10,028 feet 8 inches above the ocean. This is several thousand feet above the clouds, so it is identical to the view out of a commercial airliner, but you're outdoors. The landscape is lunar, of course, all volcanic rock with a few small, dry plants poking out here and there. It was around 80º on the beach when we started the drive but at sunset on the crater's rim it was about 38º with a 40mph wind. I don't know the mathematical formula for figuring wind chill, but it was about as cold as we've ever been, even though we were wearing jackets, pants and hats. Very surreal.

Downloading and resizing the photos is something I've not gotten to yet, but I'll post some later.