Howdy Doo!

Julie and I hit the Sheldon art museum on campus today to check out the Comic art exhibit. Well, ok I went to see it, Julie went to see other things there - but anyway - it was ok. I felt that the collection over emphasized Will Eisner and didn't have nearly enough Alex Ross, Jack Kirby, Moebius. Each only had one or two pieces. Steranko wasn't even represented! ERF! Most of it was based on newspaper strips instead of the comic books so I supposed that's why all the emphasis on Eisner. Don't get me wrong Eisner is da man. He created a lot of the visual tricks used by todays hacks. I would have liked to see something that gave a thourough representation from the early days to todays artists, though. Three pieces by Sheldon Moldoff - none of them showing the Green Lantern, a character he created - and none by Todd McFarlane or Erik Larsen? No Gil Kane, no Carmine Infantino, no Steve Ditko - who know, the guy who created Spider-man with Stan Lee? That's a more than a little skewed toward the Golden Age. Oh well - at least there was an exhibit. Beggers can't be choosers, or least shouldn't be. I understand that it all came from somebody's personal collection - so maybe that's all that he was into.

BTW: I did have my butt planted for the 11 hours of Iron Chef yesterday. Loved it! Watched Iron Chef and went through some comics during commercials. I was a very happy man. :)