Last week CBS News did an article on the Ventriloquist Convention, called "VentHaven" held in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. The most delightful thing about the CBS report was that the correspondent they used was Candice Bergen. Just in case your too young to know, but Candice is the daughter of the world's most well know ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the wise cracking Charlie McCarthy

Seems that the archiving feature isn't working right now, so previous posts to the blog are currently not available. I'll work on getting that repaired.

After a week of vacationing and a great family reunion at Lake Tahoe, it's time to get back to the keyboards. Computer keyboards that is.

My friend Neil Sterett and I went to the Antiques & Collectables Show at the Portland Expo Center on Saturday. They had 1800 booths and we only made it through about 1/4 of them. We found some great gems in our "Swapo Safari". I'll post examples of some items the next few days. One great find was the "Natural Color Meat Identification Kit" Yes, over 100 life like color photos of meat - just waiting to be cast into a Quizno's commercial.

We also found a couple of pre-Dick and Jane grade school readers from the early 50's - with some great illustrations to be utilized for sinister purposes at a later date.

The comic book advertisement shown here is from an edition of Wonder Woman, in the pre-zip code days.

Just a note of thanks the theme wizards over at Gardner Designs. They came up with the "Comic Book" theme for this website and with a few of my own revisions, was able to get the site online in fairly short order.

Hope everyone has a safe 4th (and 5th, 6th, 7th, etc)

The one thing I do know and enjoy is comics. Being a cartoonist I guess it's only natural. For the last few years, I've been collecting old comic book advertisements and throwing them into a file, figuring that someday I'd get around to putting them on a website or writing a book about them or something. Everytime I sift through the files, I'm continually amazed how over the span of a few decades, the comic book advertisment evolved to such iconicity. Enjoy!