Author Archives: PinkDreamPoppies

I’ll be writing in more detail about this later (probably in a day or two), but recent findings in Minnesota, where the State funds an abstinence-only sexual education program for its public schools, seem to be suggesting that the program … Continue reading →

I’m just poking my head back in to see how things are going. Amp seems to be holding the Alas fort down pretty well so I don’t feel so bad in letting you all know that I won’t be posting … Continue reading →

Via Jenn Manley Lee I’ve learned that frequent Alas poster, personal friend to some here at the blog, and master of In Contempt Comics, Kevin Moore, and his wife Jenn Moore are saying hello to their new-born son, Owen Robert … Continue reading →

So the year’s just about ended, the holidays have come crashing down on us like corporate logos fallen from skyscrapers, and the critics of the world have begun to assail us with their Year’s Best lists. Those of us who … Continue reading →

So I posted that last post, got up, walked across the room, and started thinking again. I hate it when that happens. Most people’s expose to comics is by way of the newspaper “funnies.” Personally, I feel that these pages … Continue reading →

Well, not the absolute most annoying, but certain high up there on my list of really annoying things… I was reading through Time Magazine’s review of the second volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen when I came across this … Continue reading →

Over the course of the past year or so I’ve become very interested in comics (or graphic novels or sequential art or whatever you want to call them) but have had a hard time finding stories that are along the … Continue reading →

Ted Rall does a pretty good job of rounding up the facts of what’s going on with the Selective Service System these days in addition to speculating about whether or not the draft will be reinstated and when. The draft … Continue reading →

While sick I also had time to kill on the internet, that great eater of time. Scott McCloud gave birth to this gem of a comic, But No One Ever Noticed the Walrus (in two parts, here and here) which, … Continue reading →

So for the last two weeks I’ve been sick with something that resembles a cold but is actually the unfortunate side effect of having accidentally eaten multidimensional strawberries with the wrong sort of sugar. Being trapped at home with snot … Continue reading →