Do Brains go with Beauty? Do Thrills go with Romance?
YES…..in MYRA NORTH, Special Nurse
I stumbled across this little noir comic strip while I was poking around the archives of the Dallas Newspaper. I “clipped” these panels because I liked the artist’s style; reminded me of old Dick Tracy and Li’l Orphan Annie comic […]
I’ve been searching through a lot of old digitized newspaper articles, and along with the text are lot of great old ads. Most of the graphics are obscured but you get the gist of what they represent. I found this old ad for “snake oil” and played around with photoshop to get a pattern on […]
It was hot last night and the long unremembered scent of mimosa assailed my nostrils, returning me to childhood, to a time when these pink bottle-brush blossoms carpeted the the neighborhoods of South Oak Cliff, to a time before cigarettes, alcohol, broken relationships, and all the other burdens of growing up had not yet spun […]
I almost didn’t go to work yesterday. The sun was shining, the temp was 65 degrees and I stopped at a traffic signal and saw the ghost of my youth pedaling furiously across the intersection. Of course we didn’t have helmets or knee pads or elbow pads in those days. We didn’t even have child-size […]