BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:COMICS &COMIC STRIPS

Nelson Breen, Emmy Award Winning Film-maker & COMIC STRIPSI was a religious reader of every comic in both The Daily News and The Daily Mirror throughout high school. So much so that when I went off to the University of Virginia, my mother would cut out the strips every day, put them in order alongContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:COMICS &COMIC STRIPS”

BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS

page from THE NEW CENTURY DICTIONARY For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennysonquoted in metaphors be with you by Mardy Grothe (New York: Harper, 2016)**COMIC BOOK SLANGSplash Panel — ” The first panel of a comic book story, larger (sometimes, or full page) than the other panels; itContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS”

BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM

ON A WOMAN CROSSING HER LEGS”When you make a woman cross her legs in the films, maybe you don’t need to see how high she can cross them, but how low she can cross them and still be interesting.”Will H. Hayes, Censorship “Czar of the Movies”See Current Biography 1943**HOLLYWOOD SIMILEOn February 14, 1967, Sheila Graham’sContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM”