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New Lineup for Yesterday
Inspired by the legendary Ogden Nash doggerel “Lineup for Yesterday,” and by Opening Day, and by all the research sloshing around in my head from writing The Comic Book Story of Baseball: NEW LINEUP FOR YESTERDAY after Ogden Nash A is for Alan, who turned two with Lou As well as any pair ever could…
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The Comic Book Story of Baseball
Look at this beauty of a cover for The Comic Book Story of Baseball. It’s a full-length graphic history of the game from stool ball through yesterday’s box scores, with art by Tomm Coker and C.P. Smith. I’ll share pages as I can, but right now I’m basking in the cover (and wondering if the…
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An Inauguration Fiction
NEIGHBOR There wasn’t much of a fuss. They came by and took my neighbor in. His name was Abdul, he was from Afghanistan, used to tell me stories about fighting the Soviets. One time he was drunk and showed me some bullet scars. We were talking soccer another time and he said he watched the…
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Science Fiction Becomes Reality, Part the Zillionth
This is an interesting article in the New York Times about how Lucasfilm worked through the various issues involved in (SPOILER ALERT) using digitally recreated dead (Peter Cushing) and younger (Carrie Fisher) actors in Rogue One. I thought it was pretty cool to see this for a number of reasons, but one of them was that I wrote…
Crooked House Fictions 