I moved a bookcase the other day and found this little guy dangling out of an electric socket. There was no faceplate on the socket opening so the mouse was using it as an entrance and exit into the bowels of the studio. He must have hit the hot lead passing through and been instantly electrocuted. Thankfully he didn’t start a fire!

Here’s a curiosity I found. It’s a metal printing plate that was used to print an issue of SGT. ROCK comics, circa 1976. Normally a printing plate such as this is a mirror image of the finished artwork, but I’ve flopped it here so you can read Kanigher’s script.

They often describe Joe Kubert’s faces as “sculpted”. In this context they really become “sculpture”!

I know the feeling!

You might have read the news yesterday that scientists have finally isolated anti-matter atoms. No surprise to us comic book fans that Jack Kirby had been drawing them for years.

In the end, my trusty wingman on who-knows-how-many-pages-of-comics took everything I could throw at it.

Aghast at my treatment of this classic retro comics shirt? Be advised that I wore it regularly for a solid decade before pressing it into the service of higher art. Were you to purchase a pristine perfect 1963: MYSTERY INCORPORATED T-Shirt of your own; you’d do the same, I bet.

Just back from the jingle jangle of Manhattan to a lovely warm Columbus Day in Vermont. It’s so warm, in fact, that the forsythias are blooming. Forsythias are normally one of the first plants to show color in the spring of the year. Fears of global warming aside, I quite like the combination of the yellow flower and purpley autumn leaves.

The fall colors are going full bore up here in the mountains, with the maples and ash really putting on a show. But fresh flowers are still blooming in the garden. I don’t know the name of this flowering vine, but it’s spring-like colors stood out against the autumn foliage of the peach tree it’s growing up the side of.

We’ve had swarms of these large dragonflies gobbling up mosquitoes around the pond all week. Cindy found this one, which had given up the ghost, in the greenhouse. Click on the second pic for a detailed close-up of the eyes.

We were tying up Cindy’s tomato plants when Kirby found this bumbler who didn’t make it back to the hive last night. This is the poor feller’s back at 9600 dpi.

Apologies to those of you who suffer from insect fear, but its summer and I’m finding lots of interesting bug corpses. As long time readers of this blog know, I can’t resist scanning them at high rez to check out the detail. This is a moth who’s mouth mandible thingie seems to have got caught in the window screen from which I plucked him. Click on the image for a larger version (if you dare!)