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Recent Posts: Jess Jodloman Sunken Pearls of Cap'n Hatch Joe Kubert Tor 2008 The first issue of Kubert's revived primitive hero High Cost of Four Color Fun Reaction to Tom Spurgeon's essay on the state of comic books Madame Sans-Gene Illustration and review of the 1894 play starring actress Gabirlle Rejane Spirit #15 Art by Paul Smith. DC Comics - - - - - - - - ONLINE COMICS
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ARCHIVE PAGE 53
Photograph: Kennedy Center, Washington DC
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tokyo Faust! Tom Spurgeon at Comicreporter.com pointed out Brian Lee O'Malley's Livejournal entry on the comic book creator contract being offered by Tokyo Pop as part of something called a 'Manga Pilot Program' which allows new artists to submit work:
See the entire page on the Tokyo Pop Contract here
Photograph: Sunset over Roanoke Rapids, NC Click to enlarge to 1200 pixels [Above] The Julian Allsbrook Highway off highway 95, in the turn lane for Premier Drive. Roanoke Rapids is next to the Roanoke Rapids Lake, and a bit more distant is Lake Gaston. Crossing along the north of town is Roanoke River. The 2000 census claims approx 17,000 people for the town. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Fabvier in Greece
From the 1976 book by David Howarth, "The Greek Adventure" The story of the Greek Revolution to free itself from Turkey: also about the attempts by various Europeans to help.
In his history, he was typical of the roaming officers who had flocked to Greece in the early days and formed the Regiment; but unlike most of them he was a very capable soldier and his pride had some solid foundation. Most of them, if they had been colonels, would have called themselves generals, but not Fabvier: he struck to his Napoleonic rank. He arrived at the very moment when the Greeks had been beaten by Ibrahim (the Turkish Sultan] and had begun to change their minds about European tactics. Like Baleste, Tarella, Normann and all the rest, he offered to train an army; and in the desperate days when Ibrahim was in sight of Nauplia, his offer was thankfully accepted. It had all happened before. But this time, Greek soldiers were eager to learn, and Fabvier was just the man they needed: tough, dangerous when anyone opposed him, indifferent to comfort or money – he refused any pay – and completely the master of his trade. He would not accept volunteers, who he said would be the dregs of the population, and the government decreed a peculiar kind of conscription by lottery, in which one out of every hundred men in the country would have to join Fabvier's army. It is hard to imagine how this was organized, but it did produce some men. He gathered three thousand, nearly ten times the number of the Regiment at its best, and he started a course of training as strict as any in Napoleon's armies.
Review: Joe Kubert Tor 2008 Pre-Historic! Kubert has been in comics since nearly the very start of the industry, and now at his advanced age he is still turning his hand toward embellishing, or if you're a bit more negative about it, repeating, the adventures of the characters most attached to his career. READ THE ENTIRE KUBERT TOR REVIEW Click images below to enlarge
[Below] Joe Kubert Tor cover from July 1954 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Photographs: Skyways over Virginia Below: Highway 95 South, six in the morning Midlothian, Virginia, Looks like rough weather ahead. |
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 
The contract for this fun deal is horrible, draconian, ridiculous. It's like Satan wrote it.
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