Outcault was of course, the creator of Hogan's Alley and of the Yellow Kid, America's first regular comic strip character. Outcault...

Above is Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. It's tiger stripe surface constantly changes due to water ice escaping from the interior and res...

I don't know why, but grotesque, even evil, puppet designs have been a staple of childrens media ever since Punch and Judy. Whe...

Wow! I LOVE this Nespresso commercial! This version seems a bit abrupt though. Maybe it's cut down. I'm a big believer in using...

Here's my own version of the Welles/Jaglom restaurant-type dialogue, with Mike as a sort of Orson Welles.   It's a fairly accu...

A new book has come out: "My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles," edited by Peter Biskind. ...

I thought I'd put up a blog about Topffer, the Swiss artist who's said to have invented the comic strip. All the illustrations in...