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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud aka Moebius (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012)
Mood:  sad
Topic: Comic Book Artists

                                        

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Is Sad To Mention...
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud aka Moebius
8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3619 -  Sad to mention the passing of Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, aka Moebius. (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012.)

At the top of this blog is a photo of Moebius, and also one of the works of his that I enjoyed.

Here is the link to his Wikiepedia entry.

Here is the link to his Grand Comics Database entries.

My condolences to his family and friends. 


~Michael D Hamersky On Comics


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,619 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,716 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Saturday, March 10, 2012 2:47 PM PST
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Friday, March 9, 2012
WonderCon 2012 Starts NEXT Week! In Anaheim, California!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Cons

  

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WonderCon 2012 Starts NEXT Week!

 

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3618 -  Well... It looks like Tina and I will be attending the upcoming 26th Annual WonderCon!

This one will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim, Orange County, California, instead of in the usual San Francisco Bay area.

I haven't been to this comic con for a while... And am looking forward to attending this comic convention while it is in the Southern California area this time!

Here is the Facebook Fan Page for the WonderCon.

Here is the web site for the WonderCon.

Here is the start of the programming for the 2012 WonderCon.

After seeing all of those, and you want to go... Here is the link to the registration page!

And, last, but not least... Here is the link to the album where I will be posting pics from the con at my Facebook fan page!

See you there next week?!

 

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,618 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,715 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Friday, March 9, 2012 12:16 PM PST
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
My Take On: The Science of Superheroes
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

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The Science of Superheroes
By Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg
THE MOST COLLECTIBLE ITEMS at my own online comic book shop!
  

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3617 -  Although the title of the book is 'The Science of Superheroes'... This book is actually 'readable'! 

Yes, it is a 'popular science book', but it also has an interesting hook, in that the superheroes are actually used to introduce discussions of different scientific questions.

What kind of questions?  Well, Batman brings up the topics of gadgets; Spider-Man brings up spiders;  and Green Lantern has black holes and color theory, for example.

Each chapter brings ups a superhero and then a discussion.

For example:  More Powerful than a Speeding Locomotive: Superman - The Superman Legend Beings, What Makes Superman super?, Alien Visitors, The Drake Equation, Rare Earth?, and A Question of Gravity, all within Chapter 1!

Chapter 2 is:  Rays --Cosmic and Gamma: The Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk - Humble Beginnings, A Fantastic Foursome, Frankenstein's Monster--Marvel Style, The Perils of Technobabble, the GFP Hulk.

These two chapters are worth the price alone, but there are eight more chapters! With Ant Man and the Atom, The Flash, The X-men, and even Donald Duck!

Plus there are also two appendices: The first appendix mentions the material that wasn’t covered in the book, plus why it was left out. The second appendix is a collection of brief interviews with comic book creators, including Len Wein, Mark Wheatley, Brett Booth, Buddy Scalera, Mort Castle and Max Allan Collins.  Good reading in both appendices!

One of the things that I realized in writing this blog... Is that the book authors concluded that Marvel’s characters were more likely to be based on inaccurate science than DC’s were.  That's because DC’s writers were supposedly more familiar with popular science theories and science fiction.  I'm not 100% certain of that, but it was interesting to see that in print here.

In summary, this book has just the right 'tone' for someone interested in superheroes, or in this case, 'The Science of Superheroes'.  It is relatively easy to read, with straightforward, but not overly stuffy or serious. It was nice to see that the authors aren’t making fun of superheroes.

I would give this a VERY FINE PLUS (VF+) 8.5 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (September 29, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471468827
ISBN-13: 978-0471468820

Here is where you can purchase this book,  The Science of Superheroes!

 

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,617 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,715 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Thursday, March 8, 2012 11:58 AM PST
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Spotlight On: Kelly 'Xena' Mitchell!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Other Cons

                                        

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 Kelly 'Xena' Mitchell!
  

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3616 -  This blog is a feature on Kelly 'Xena' Mitchell!  

Kelly 'Xena' Mitchell is a part time warrior princess, part time librarian and full time xena fan!

Only having taken on the warrior princess persona for 2 years, she has become well known in the xenaverse for her obsession with xena and remarkable resemblance to a young Lucy Lawless.

She enjoys travelling from state to state in Australia for various conventions and is one of several highly passionate Xena fans who have made their own Xena Movie Campaign, which already has over 12 000 supporters and continues to rapidly grow in numbers.

She is an avid collector of Xena: Warrior Princess props and hopes to attend her first Xena convention (which will also sadly be the last Offical Xena convention) in Burbank, Los Angeles in 2013.

“Xena has been and always will be a huge part of my life. She was a role model for me when I was younger and gave me the strength to battle through several tough situations I endured as a child. I’m now 24 years old and I still find the Warrior Princess helps me in my day to day battles; if I am ever unsure of a decision I always sit and ask myself “what would xena do?”.

"I think the show has a lot to offer people in terms of self-acceptance, self-discovery and relationships as well as the laughter and joy Xena and Gabrielle bring on their epic adventures across Ancient Greece and other ancient lands. Although the show has ceased over a decade ago, the fandom for the show is standing strong. I am merely one of several thousands of Xenites (as we like to call ourselves) worldwide. Xenites themselves are often seen a different breed of fandom, mainly due to their strong levels of enthusiasm for the show and for their loyalty and kindness toward a worthy cause or anyone in need. They are highly supportive and encouraging toward one another and often form friendships with others that will last a lifetime.”

Links
Website: www.ilovexena.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kikivader
Xena movie campaign: http://www.xenamovienow.com/

 

Thanks to Kelly for taking the time for this blog!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,616 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,714 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:35 AM PST
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Good Days and Mad... A Memoir by Dick DeBartolo!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

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Good Days and MAD
A Memoir by Dick DeBartolo
THE MOST COLLECTIBLE ITEMS at my own online comic book shop!
  

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3615 -  This book, written by Dick DeBartolo, a longtime MAD magazine contributor, actually is not a history book!  

Instead it is a collection of mostly amusing anecdotes by Dick.  

MAD magazine's founder, William Gaines, (who died in 1992), becomes the superstar of this book.

So many stories are told of William, which would only be natural.  He died less than two years before this book was published.

Dick also goes into his own efforts and exploits during his 30 MAD years which this book covers.

Plus, interspersed throughout the book, are numerous "forewords" from other MAD contributors, including Annie Gaines, John Ficarra,  Lenny Brenner, Michael Gelman, John Caldwell, Al Jaffee, and others!

I have read several of the MAD books before, but this one is truly 'A Hysterical Tour', as it says on the front cover of the book!

I would give this a VERY FINE / NEAR MINT (VF/NM) 9.0 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

Hardcover: 289 pages
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr; 1st edition (November 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560250771
ISBN-13: 978-1560250777

Here is where you can purchase this book, Good Days and Mad: A Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes at Mad Magazine!

 

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,615 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,713 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Monday, March 5, 2012 6:04 AM PST
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