Independent Bookstore Day is held on the last Saturday of April every year. So naturally the 900-pound gorilla of book sales decides to have that and surrounding days as the weekend of their Spring sales event – doing what they can to ruin any effort by the small independents to survive. For anyone out and […]
Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]
Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025 From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San […]