If you see this, post a STAR TREK (yeah, I grew up in that odd liminal period between the ST:ToS and the movies—active fandom, some ephemera like this and novelizations, animated series etc.)

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

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If, by the end of the decade, there isn’t a Wes Anderson directed stop-motion animation adaptation of Saverio’s 40km quest from the village of Poppi to a monastery known for miracles, we will have failed as a creative society

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

As a Clash and comics fan, I feel like I need this Dick Tracy treasury edition Joe Strummer is reading during the “Rock the Casbah” video

Sorry, this is immediately where my mind goes when I hear about James Mason. He’s so good he just about makes T-bird sound classy!

OK, not quite official, but I'm calling it: Schlitz is gone. My story on what losing this beer means to Milwaukee, and Kirby Nelson and Wisconsin Brewing Co.'s effort to send it off proper. www.milwaukeemag.com/schlitz-is-g...

Before punk, there was pub rock: raw, DIY bands in packed North London pubs. 🍺 Out now in the Genre series: Mark Wilkerson’s Pub Rock, the short-lived scene that bridged prog to punk and put the crowd back at the heart of rock.

Also saw pieces from another, slightly more famous, Western Pennsylvania Slovak-American artist who worked in NYC in the Sixties

Happened to be in the area (long story) so popped into Johnstown PA to see their tributes to hometown comics legend Steve Ditko—two murals and nice exhibit in a local arts center. #ditko www.visitjohnstownpa.com/play/arts/st...

Tintin Cereal (1966-circa 1974): A sweetened, puffed rice cereal from Quaker, promoting the "Tintin" comic/cartoon series, and released exclusively in Quebec, where the series had developed a passionate fandom among children a 🧵

These two always arguing in my music library

Shame on me for only discovering today that surfin’ soldiers once rescued the future Thing. :: sighs, adds to back issue want list::

Simon & Kirby knew what’s what (All-Star Comics October 1943)

Somehow got automatically subscribed to a Substack author I don't want to have anything to do with...which was the final push I needed to delete my account from the platform. It's a shame and I hope more of the writers move onto other platforms.

Burger King Bratwurst Sandwich (2013-2013): Released for football season, this sandwich featured a butterflied Johnsonville bratwurst, raw onions, and yellow mustard on a sesame seed bun. Sold ONLY in Wisconsin and Illinois, with University of Wisconsin and Chicago Bears branding, respectively

Love this song but damn if I don’t feel like I need a shower every time I watch this video

office building, overall view, 2150 prospect, milwaukee, wisconsin, 1977

Given the weird image outage, I’m going to take the rare action of reposting myself because everyone needs to see the purple traffic cones at Paisley Park

Glad we went to Paisley Park last year on our Minneapolis trip. Serious security (bagged phones, smart watches off) and limited photo ops but there was plenty to take in and absorb about the artist in effectively his home. (Plus I love how they commit to the bit in the last photo 💜)

So much to unpack in this ad for dickeys including “dickey counter bar” and I shudder to think what the “jive talk” phrases “military objective” and “C.O.D” mean in this context

Happy #SupermanDay!

Remembering last summer’s Cleveland stop on Superman Day #SupermanDay

Good and productive day—lunch with a friend, put together a bookcase, reorganized my comics collections, and finished a silly months long listening project. (yes, my definition of “productive” is fairly loose)

This auction item is crazy. Jerry Weintraub at one point managed both Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, so he had a reversible satin jacket made that, depending which way you wore it, said "Dylan" or "Diamond" on the back. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/222...

Pencil logo sketches by Jerry Dammers for 2Tone, 1979. On show from Saturday at the new V&A East museum.

Y'all need to get the fuck off Substack.

Hand-colored dragon throne in Winsor McCay's pre-cel animation version of LITTLE NEMO (1911)

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Questioning life choices* *my very idiosyncratic LP organization which veers from the extremely generic (“contemporary” i.e. 21st century bands) to the ridiculously niche (the lower Manhattan music scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s which will be so ill-defined by me)

I don’t have a lot invested in sports these days but maybe the Brewers or Bucks could riff off of these for alternate uniforms?

Milwaukee, 72 years ago today Hall of Fame Milwaukee Braves player Hank Aaron at County Stadium. He spent 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, finishing with 755 home runs — a record that stood for 33 years until 2007. He endured a torrent of racist death threats throughout his illustrious career.

I truly do not care which of these text-based social networks is up, or down, or sideways, all I know is Bluesky has been a good place to find like-minded folks and hear from / interact with them regularly, that's literally as far as my lizard brain takes it

Wisconsin, 6 years ago today Four weeks into the Covid pandemic, Robin Vos forces 1000s of Milwaukeeans — many without access to any PPE — to decide between skipping an election and voting in person at the *five* polling stations available for hundreds of thousands of voters

we had four years where we didn’t have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it

New book pickups courtesy of @gonerrecords.bsky.social—couldn’t resist a book on Hawaii punk and indie bands so soon after our Oahu trip and I’m sucker for anything on 20th century downtown NYC music scenes

Not quite sure what Rhino Records was going for on this 1982 surf comp LP cover. Trying to get prog rock or D&D fans into surf instros? Thor catching the rainbow waves on Asgard Beach?

There’s got to be a least one weirdo who follows me that would dig an hour of ‘70s lounge* performers covering Jesus Christ Superstar tunes… * “lounge”= acts from hotel/resort lounges, bars, etc., not to be confused with the ‘90 lounge revival https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162578g

Adam Schlesinger was one of the first major musicians to die of complications from COVID-19. He was 52 years old. Adam Schlesinger October 31, 1967 ~ April 1, 2020

Picked up this fun Immediate Records comp recently but I’d like to smack the designer and whoever approved the grey text on slightly less gray background on the back cover’s track listing

Cover by Marc Swayze.

Milwaukee, 2026

Did a little shopping this morning at our local Punk Rock Rummage sale and picked this utterly stacked comp on Polydor UK. The Jam, Sham 69, The Cure, Gen X, Heartbreakers, Adverts, Stiff Little Fingers, etc. One of the other vendors (Atomic Records—MKE iykyk) complemented me on my choice!

Legend

neiland's supper club sign, tigerton, wisconsin, 1988