Author: Glenn Hauman

"Once more into the breech," in the immortal words of the Human Cannonball. And no, you aren’t going to get puns of a better caliber.

• Wolverine comics from the 1950s. (Via Avram Grumer.)
• The works of Richard Mullins— it may be fine art, but somehow I don’t see this guy getting the job pencilling Action Comics anytime soon.
• Via Johanna, we learn that Newsarama is rebuilding, and may be wrecking a lot of their existing infrastructure to do so. Good luck with that, fellas.
• Brad Guigar shows how to Unshark Mask in Photoshop. A handy skill when you least expect it.
• Want to do nothing but lie around for 90 days reading comics? NASA might pay you to do it.
• The other career of Alex Ross. And then he photographs himself to paint himself to…
• Lt. Worf endorses Barack Obama:

I am moved by the story of his humble origins, his absent Kenyan father, his mother working to make ends meet, and growing up without his father in an environment where his racial identity was unclear.  After all, I, Lieutenant Worf, am a Klingon by birth, but raised by Caucasian humans, the Rozhenkos, on the farm world of Gault.  So I know a little bit about absent fathers, and being a dark-skinned man, looked upon as an alien in a white world.

• A former voice actor for Peanuts specials is a candidate for a school board. His platform? "Waa waa WAA waa waa…"
• In a switch, Jessica Alba wants to stare at you.
• And finally, Rating The Super Hunks. I’ll take Rachel’s word for it, but bear in mind she thinks the guy in the Iron Man costume is worth marrying.

Following up on yesterday’s post regarding industry-wide efforts to raise money for artist Gene Colan, Clifford Meth is putting together a massive, additional auction to benefit the creator and generate money for his rapidly growing medical bills.

So far, contributions have come in from (deeeeeep breath) Neal Adams, Norm Breyfogle, Randy Bowen, Ed Brubaker, Adam-Troy Castro, Paty Cockrum, Peter David, Rufus Dayglo, Tom DeFalco, J.M. deMatteis, Pat DiNizio, Harlan Ellison, Mark Evanier, Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Joe Kubert, Erik Larsen, Bob Layton, Jim Lee, Stan Lee, Leah Moore, Albert Moy, Michael Netzer, Josh Olsen, James A. Owen, Tom Palmer, Greg Pak, Mike Pascale, Jim Salicrup, Bob Shreck, Dave Simmons, Gail Simone, Walter and Louise Simonson, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Juan Torres, Andrew Wildman, Marv Wolfman and Ash Wood.  More will be coming in any minute, I’m sure — keep checking that link above.

Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson (a.k.a. Dana Scully from The X-Files) is raising funds for her neurofibromatosis charity by auctioning off “doodles” from celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Simon, Pegg, Dom DeLuise, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Monkees; as well as comics folks like Tom Tomorrow, Garry Trudeau, Neil Gaiman, Sergio Aragones, Seth Green, and Bill Mumy. The full list is here.

Oh, and the Gahan Wilson drawing pictured here is for the second auction– though I suppose it could be a Dracula for Colan, couldn’t it?

We were getting ready to put up today’s installment of Demons of Sherwood, but this is what we found on the server…

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