Click on picture for larger image . BADVERTISING #6 From Look Magazine, July 23, 1946. Weren't you happier before you knew that toothb...

Click on picture to view larger image. BADVERTISING #5 From the April 23, 1945 issue of Life Magazine. They don't call them "Sc...

More Richard Powers book covers today. While overall I think Zacherley's Vulture Stew from 1960 is a better cover, I still love Zacherl...

I have two rooms in the basement, both stuffed to the ceilings with books, old magazines, comics, all of the ephemera of an obsessive-compul...

The genesis of this story goes back a few years to a very realistic dream I had about a person now deceased, but close to me in life. It mad...

This is the second comic strip I did about my old coworker, Grunt. I couldn't include it in my original Grunt posting because it wouldn...

Click on picture for full-size image. As I mentioned in my previous blog, when I started my job 30 years ago I worked with an outlaw biker n...

Today was an anniversary for me, but I shared it with only a couple of people, because it's not that big a deal to anyone but me. Today ...

BADVERTISING # 4 When it comes to the human body and our paranoid insecurities about body image, canny entrepreneurs will step in to sell u...

Click picture to see larger image. BADVERTISING #3 I'm guessing the folks who make Dingo boots don't have this 1979 ad of a three-l...

Click on picture for larger image. BADVERTISING #2 The Charles Atlas ad showing the guy getting sand kicked in his face might be one of the ...

Click on pic for larger image. BADVERTISING #1 One tactic of advertising is to take products no one has ever heard of, don't want, don...

A few years ago my wife bought this music box from Franklin Mint, a partial representation of the album cover from The Beatles' Sergeant...

My friend in California dropped me an e-mail this morning. He told me that he was anticipating a problem--maybe even layoffs--at the hotel i...

Yesterday I got an invitation in the mail to a family reunion of the polygamous side of my heritage. Nathaniel Henry Felt was an old-time Mo...

This morning I saw something I hadn't seen before. I came out of one of the schools on my route and while getting into my truck I saw a ...

When I was a kid, being dragged along by my mom to the grocery store was only made tolerable by being able to hang out looking at magazines ...

It's been a few days since I posted. My head is swimming in sweat from 90º+ temperatures. The first week of June, yet! Probably due to g...

Alex Toth is dead at 77! Died at his drawing board, which is probably the way he would have picked to go. Toth was a true pro, who had a lot...

School's out for summer! Friday was the last day until the kids go back in late August. Remember how that used to feel? That is, if you...