Hey. Just wanted to throw up something new, so here’s Minerva. She’s announcing that she’s not going to your party and you can’t come to hers. What do you want? She’s a mink. Even the best of them are trouble. I remember this one time when I was a kid rafting down the Truckee River in an inner tube and …well, I’ll just say it involved a mink, a wild one and it was sort of awful.

I know, the box off to the side says I no longer do conventions, but I’m making an exception for this — I’ve been invited to take part in a San Diego Comic Con panel, 85 Years of Batman – A Look Back With Professionals, Thursday afternoon July 25th at 4:15 in Room 6A. I’m very excited to participate in this event with Michael Uslan, Mark Waid, Athena Finger and other amazing Bat-folks to be announced. See you there!

We’re working on an update here at the site, which is why a lot of the book and comics info is out of date. Please bear with us, Mat our genius web creator is giving us a great new look. In the meantime, here’s a sketch by Amy Mebberson of Slappy Squirrel being mad.

One of the biggest thrills of my early professional comic writing career was when I bought a comic I had written off the same rack where I bought comics as a kid. It was at Bill’s Drugs in Orinda, California. The same stand where I had bought Detective Comics #475, Spider-Man #121, Hulk #180, Uncle Scrooge #141 and hundreds of other stories I that had loved growing up.

Here we go again!

It looks like Minerva was able to shake off her holiday blahs after all, thanks to the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s “The Sound of Christmas” and the cartooning magic of Dave Alvarez. It’s nice to see her happy again. And Slappy?