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Elvira’s House of Mystery 8 pg1 by Kerry Gammill

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Top 10 Halloween Mascots

Here is a list of my top ten favorite Halloween Mascots. Christmas only really has Santa Claus but Halloween has attempted several mascots over the years.

10. The Sanderson Sisters:

The Sanderson Sisters are the three stooges-esque bungling evil witches from Disney's Hocus Pocus franchise. They are loosely based on the traditional Maiden, Mother, and Crone concept and more directly may have been inspired by the three witches from DC's The Witching Hour comics (which later became the Hecateae in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.) There are currently two Hocus Pocus movies, a Disney parks stage show and a Broadway musical in development. They have all sorts of merchandise including throw blankets, dolls, and action figures. There are even Hallmark ornaments of them now. Unfortunately these characters are NOT in the public domain so only Disney is allowed to make up new stories involving them.

9. The Headless Horseman

This one is another localized figure the way Lestat is for New Orleans. The Headless Horseman is the mascot for the town of Sleepy Hollow New York (Formerly known as Terry Town but renamed for tourism purposes since Sleepy Hollow was its nickname and the basis for the Washington Irving Legend of Sleepy Hollow).

The Headless Horseman doesn't just exist in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In fact Headless Horsemen are so common in Irish folklore that they have a name for them. Dullahan.

8. The Wicked Witch of the West

The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz (particularly the movie version) has become the classic idea of the "Halloween witch." The Halloween special "The Halloween that almost wasn't" also suggested that Halloween cannot officially start until she flies her broom across the moon. Depictions of her or witches like her are everywhere in pop culture and not just around Halloween.

A version of her even appears in the fantasy soap opera, Once Upon a Time. She's the sort of character often taken for granted and she is in the public domain though MGM claims to own the rights to a particular shade of green for her skin tone. There's currently a highly successful Broadway musical telling her side of the story called Wicked (loosely based on the novel of the same name.) Wicked is currently being adapted into two movies.

7. Frankenstein's Monster.

I, myself, would not have added Frankenstein's Monster to this list but every year new costumes and decorations are made that depict him. He is in the public domain (meaning anyone can use him) and he is a well-loved character. Unfortunately few people know what the Frankenstein monster of the novel actually looked like so most of the merchandise is a zeitgeist creation resembling the version played by Boris Karloff.

6. Lestat

Owned by the estate of the recently deceased Anne Rice, Lestat was her favorite creation, the fictional French vampire brat prince. Lestat became the hero of her Vampire Chronicles book series after initially serving as an antagonist in Interview With The vampire. Lestat became the mascot for her annual New Orleans costume ball and is still the most popular Halloween costume in New Orleans.

Lestat was played by Tom Cruise in the 1994 film Interview with The vampire, which earned the low budget sequel, Queen of the damned and later a Broadway musical. Currently Lestat is played by Sam Reid for the Interview with The vampire TV series.

5. Elvira

Elvira was a TV horror host in the 1980s. She also released some music as the character. The character's creator is Cassandra Peterson. Elvira even got her own movie and several comic book series, including ones where she took on Dracula and Faust. She even hosted The House of Mystery for a while.

4. Count Dracula.

Though not originally invented for Halloween, Count Dracula has become something of a fixture around Halloween. There are Halloween costumes and decorations of him along with other public domain monsters.

Since Dracula IS in the public domain that means anyone can use him without having to worry about copyright infringement. And so Dracula has been a character in many Halloween specials including The Halloween that almost wasn't (also known as The Night Dracula saved the World). Monster High, Monster High 2, Scooby Doo and the Reluctant werewolf, Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School and Dear Dracula.

Not bad for a vampire that supposedly was the prince of Wallachia who, as a mortal, died in fourteen seventies and according to the fiction became a vampire after that.

Universal Studios claims to own the version of him with the red lined cape and widow's peak hairline and that is why the version in Hotel Transylvania (by Sony) does not have these details, which is odd since many other depictions of Dracula not from Universal, have used these particular traits. I think Universal was just giving Sony a hard them when they found out about Hotel Transylvania. 3. Stingy Jack.

Stingy Jack is the public domain folkloric figure who we get Jack-o-lanterns from.

A very short version of the story is this. A man named Jack cheats The Devil out of his soul but is not welcome into Heaven. So when he dies he is doomed to wander. He attempts to enter Hell just to find a place to race but The Devil turns him away. Mocking him, demons toss out an ember from Hell-fire that Jack places inside a lantern to light his way.

Now a ghost Jack wanders the world but he is also something of a coward. And similar carved lanterns- he would mistake as other wandering, damned souls, and these would drive him away. These lanterns are Jack-o-lanterns.

Over time the legend evolved to suggest that Jack-o-lanterns could ward off all wandering spirits. The earliest Jack-o-lanterns were carved from turnips but Irish immigrants North America found that Pumpkins were easier to carve. (And taste better too.)

Today it is considered good luck if you can keep your jack-o-lantern burning all Halloween night. And bad luck if it burns out before midnight because that invites the spirits into your home, that the Jack-o-lantern was protecting you against.

2. Sam / Samhain.

There are two versions of Sam.

The first is Sam Haim (deliberate mispronunciation of the Gaelic Samhain = "Sow-in"). He was the very spirit of Halloween from The Real Ghostbusters Halloween special "When Halloween was forever." He is a robed figure with a pumpkin-like head obsessed with honoring the rules of Halloween and punishing those that violate those rules...

Then we have Sam from Trick r. Treat. A child-like figure with a Pumpkin-skull head under his sack-like Halloween mask. This anthropomorphic personification of Halloween is obsessed with honoring the rules of Halloween and punishing those that violate those rules...

1. Jack Skellington.

This was probably obvious. Jack Skellington has the disadventage of NOT being in the public domain. Anyone can use Santa Claus but Jack is owned by Disney. They have owned him since the early 1980s when a young animator named Tim Burton wrote his original poem / children's book that ultimately became the 1993 stop motion animated movie.

It's easy to dismiss Jack because he is owned by Disney. And that means other people don't have the freedom to play with him the way they do with other characters like Santa or even Count Dracula.

Now the modern depictions of Santa Claus (at least here in the US) have him wearing red and white and and a lot of people take for granted that he always dressed this way but if you go backward to as recently as the nineteenth century, you'll find his robes used to be long and were many colors, from white, to blue, to green, to black. The main reason we're so used to Santa in his red suit with white trim is actually because of early twentieth century Coca-Cola advertisements.

So even Santa has been influenced pop culture and corporations.

Disregarding the limitations caused by being owned by Disney, Jack Skellington has become very iconic in the last thirty-years. The popularity of Nightmare before Christmas helped spread "American style" Halloween to Germany and other parts of Europe. So for them Jack has always been a fixture of Halloween, and not some 90s novelty.

Nightmare before Christmas was something of a sleeper hit. Disney did not realize how popular it was until about a decade after its original release. (Similar would also happen with the Box office flop, Hocus Pocus, now considered a Halloween classic.)

New stories are being published involving Jack Skellington and his Pumpkin Queen, Sally, and new merchandise is sold every year. This year a Mattel's Monster High / Disney collaboration lead to the release of a limited edition Monster High style Jack and Sally doll set. Upon release date the dolls sold out in less than nine minutes, proving that Jack is still very much The King of Halloween.

Also Jack Skellington has song numbers, which, if you know Christmas specials, has a way of preserving a character indefinitely in pop culture.

Jack Skelington has appeared in Nightmare before Christmas, the Kingdom hearts video games, Nightmare before Chrsitmas: Oogie's revenge video game. The novel All Hail the Pumpkin Queen, and the graphic novel Battle for The Pumpkin King.

#Halloween

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Elvira's House of Mystery #8 by Brian Bolland

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Elvira’s House of Mystery #8 (October 1986) cover by Dwight Turner and Dick Giordano.

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“Ghost: Retelling the Phantom of the Opera”

THE WORLD'S MOST HAUNTING LOVE STORY--AS YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IT BEFORE... A cavalier vicomte--the new owner of the theatre--insists on having his own work performed, all the while being haunted by a devilish spirit. A young soprano's grief for her father's death has robbed her of her ability to sing. A world-famous tenor has been mysteriously summoned to Paris... And a shadowy figure lurks through the opera house, torn between his desire for love and beauty, and his need for a terrible revenge.

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Retelling-Phantom-Alydia-Rackham-ebook/dp/B0868X2RLQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=phantom+of+the+opera+retelling&qid=1611947719&sr=8-1 EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER ELEVEN: “Mamselle, your hands are like ice,” Mercier whispered. “Please, let me help you.” “I’m all right, Mercier,” she answered. “I…I need to watch…” She let go of him and pressed herself into the curtain, her attention fixed on the stage. The stagehands were setting it with the dining table of Don Giovanni’s house, laden with wax foods. The lights came on. Musicians, Giovanni, and Leporello entered, and began their banter once more. The music became uneasy. It stirred and shifted, like a sleeping dragon. Donna Elvira appeared, making one last plea that Don Giovanni repent from his wicked ways. Giovanni refused, and Elvira turned to flee through the upstage door in tears— Screamed. Christine frowned. Tonight—that scream sounded different. She strained to see… Giovanni and Leporello argued about who could be at the door that would scare Elvira so badly. Dreadful knocks upon the wood. Leporello hid. Giovanni went to the upstage door himself. Opened it. The Commendatore stood in the doorway. Stony drapery cascading around him. A sword on his belt. His helmet gleaming in the lights. Giovanni recoiled. Mozart’s music gasped—and let out a fatal scream of its own. A chill raced down Christine’s spine. Silence. The Commendatore slowly raised an arm… But instead of pointing down at Giovanni… His finger directed the entire opera house to look to Box Five. “Don Giovanni! You invited me to dinner—and I have come!” The violins played a sinister pulse beneath the deliberate hammer-fells of that voice—that voice, without guttural resonance or sharp vibrato—only pure, fearsome penetrating tone. An instrument more perfect than mortal hands could contrive. Its power pierced to bone, filling the theatre, shaking the very floorboards. Rinaldi and Paquet—Giovanni and Leporello—looked stricken to the core. They stumbled, gaped at each other in confusion—but the music went on. So, they had to sing. And they did sing. As if a spell had been put upon them by that entrancing, terrible voice: they sang as they never had before. With his outstretched right hand, the Commendatore seemed to twist his fingers around Rinaldi and Paquet’s very souls, rending notes from their bodies like water from rags. But the Commendatore never addressed them, never pulled his dreadful gaze down from that box. And each phrase fell like a clap of thunder down upon the heads of those sitting in it. “Repent! Change your ways, For this is your last hour! Repent, villain! Repent! Yes! Yes! YES!” Suddenly, the statue flung its hand in the air, as if about to call down lightning. “Ah! Your time is finished!” And in a blaze of flame, and a billow of his cape, he vanished through the upstage door. An icy feeling of dread swallowed Christine. Rinaldi shared her foreboding. He shot anxious looks at Paquet as he continued to sing. “What strange fear now attacks my soul! Where do these fires of horror come from?” The chorus of “demons” now began to lurk onstage, their leering masks twisting and turning as they crept closer, and joined their voices: “No horror is too awful for you! There is far worse in store!” CRACK! BOOM. Christine’s head jerked up. A blinding flash overtook the ceiling. A cloud of dust exploded around the chandelier.

#Erik the Phantom #Phantom of the Opera #phan #Musical Theater geek #musicals

[angel-teeth]

Tagged by @robert-smiths-underpants

1) who do you know that goes out of their way to help the less fortunate?

He passed last year but my dad was always the type of guy to help others solely because it was the right thing to do.

2) swallow anything (not food) by accident as a child?

I ate lots of non food items as a child but it was never an accident.

3) kill bugs? Or save them?

If I’m in the shower then kill them. Save them in all other circumstances

4) Any advice for a 5 year old or Donald Trump?

Empathy and rational thought. Try it.

5) I would love to try...

So many things. Surfing though. Would love to learn that

6) I wish my hair...

Wouldn’t shed so much

7) Which would you rather give up on your phone: email, text, or camera?

While I use my email a lot It’d probably be the one i would give up on my phone.

8) coolest thing you learned this week

That oven crypts are a reuseable way to communally bury body’s and give them a proper funeral.

9) I can’t stand the sound of...

Constant throat clearing and sniffling. Get a tissue dammit

10) would you rather have an extra days out lumped onto your paycheck each week or a free day off each week?

My hours keep getting cut so I’ll take that extra day of pay please.

11) Just say no to...

Hanging around manipulative people

12) what is something that you do, that you don’t personally know anyone else that does it?

I compulsively pace and I can’t control it. I don’t know anyone else who does this.

13) Least favorite vegetable?

Steamed broccoli. Raw is fine. Steamed is gross

14) What is the closest item to you right now that is red?

My red couch that my butt is seated on

15) Favorite fairy tale or fable?

The Emperor’s New Clothes used to make me laugh as a kid

16) Last dream you had or last person you wanked to?

Lol I’m gonna pick dream obviously. I have this dream that I’m walking through this old house that’s sort of like the Winchester mystery house and it just seems to go on forever and ever.

17) What are you usually doing at midnight (pre-quarantine)?

Usually I’m in bed watching tv or if it’s a weekend im with my boyfriend and I’m probably trying to talk him into a drunk snack run at the convenience store across the street.

18) What job would you hold on a film set?

Oh uhhhh idk. I could probably do lighting or the effects like wind and rain or that shit. I can learn to operate machines rather fast. I could also be a decent personal assistant considering I kinda already do that irl.

19) 3 traits you don’t like in people

Greedy, self centered, manipulative

Bonus: your phone wallpaper

It’s Elvira naturally.

I tag @softweeb @finecervinebehind @heart-stained-in-hate @depeche-ch0de @bleurghhhhhhh @ulvenhekz @soulless-blunder @boxesandboxes

And anyone else who wants to do it!

#asks #answered asks #about me #questions thingy

[thecomicsnexus]

TOP 10 INK AND COLOR ARTISTS OF 2019′S REVIEWS

This year I felt the need to also do this list. Why? Well, when I was going through the most prominent artists with a 10 score, I noticed that some names were in almost all of them, but they weren’t the main artists. These artists are mostly inkers and colorists, and they are industry professionals, that usually worked for the publisher directly. This is the main reason they were involved in most of the art teams. Some of these were working for hire though. But you will also notice that unlike the writers and pencillers lists, this one is a lot more diverse.

NUMBER TEN JOHN HIGGINS (1949 - PRESENT)

John Higgins (born 1949) is an English comic book artist and writer. He did significant work for 2000 AD, and he has frequently worked with writer Alan Moore, most notably as colorist for Watchmen.

John Higgins was born in Walton, Liverpool. After leaving school when he was 15, he joined the army and, on leaving, spent some time in a commune in Wiltshire. He returned to Liverpool and, in 1971, resumed his studies at Wallasey College of Art. There, in 1974 he qualified in technical illustration, which allowed him to get a job as a medical illustrator at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

After getting his first comic book art published in Brainstorm in 1975, he drew the cover for 2000 AD No. 43 in 1977 and decided to go freelance in 1978, with an eye on becoming a comic artist. In 1981 he started getting regular work at 2000 AD, one of his early projects being the art for a Tharg's Future Shocks by Alan Moore, as well as doing covers for Marvel UK.

After this he worked steadily at 2000 AD and joined the British Invasion in the mid-eighties—notably doing the colouring on Moore's Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke, a job he got through colouring Steve Dillon's art on Moore's ABC Warriors story. This led to more work in the American market, although he has kept working on British titles too especially with Judge Dredd over 20 years.

He provided the art for Greysuit with Pat Mills, as well as working with Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti on The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning and Jonah Hex No. 28.

Higgins is also a writer. He wrote and drew his first Future Shock at 2000 AD and did the same for Razorjack, a comic book mini-series from Com.x, which was reprinted in 2009.

Higgins has worked in a number of different areas providing artwork for animation, film and book covers like The Cabinet of Light and The Morgaine Stories. In 2012, Higgins worked on the Before Watchmen project, drawing the serialised feature "Curse of the Crimson Corsair" which was initially written by Len Wein. Higgins later became the writer of the feature as well.

In 2016 he provided the art for six stamps commemorating the Great Fire of London, illustrating them in the style of a comic strip.

In 2017 a collection of his artwork was exhibited at the Victoria Gallery & Museum in Liverpool, in an exhibition called Beyond Dredd & Watchmen: The Art of John Higgins.

Higgins made it into the list thanks to his work on “Batman: The Killing Joke” and “Watchmen”.

NUMBER NINE ROMEO TANGHAL (1943 - PRESENT)

Romeo Tanghal (born 1943) is a Filipino comics artist who has worked primarily as an inker. He became well known in the industry in the 1980s for his work on DC Comics' The New Teen Titans.

Romeo Tanghal was born and raised in the Philippines. A self–taught artist, he started doing comics illustrations after graduating high school. He briefly worked with various local publications before emigrating to the United States in 1976. His first published work in the U.S. was "If There Were No Batman... I Would Have to Invent Him" in Batman #284 (Feb. 1977) for DC Comics. He then drew short stories for House of Mystery, House of Secrets, and Weird War Tales. He later became the inker on such features as Super Friends, "Scalphunter" in Weird Western Tales, and "Gravedigger" in Men of War. In 1980, Tanghal became the inker of George Pérez's penciled artwork on The New Teen Titans. Tanghal drew two origin stories for DC's digest line during this time, a ten-page short story in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 (Nov.–Dec. 1980) featuring Zatara and Zatanna and the origin of the Penguin in The Best of DC #10 (March 1981). Tanghal began working for Marvel Comics as well in 1986. He inked the comics adaptations of such films as Labyrinth, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Willow. Tanghal did character design and storyboards for Sunbow Entertainment from 1985 to 1987.

Tanghal received an Inkpot Award in 2013.

I usually think of Romeo when I think about the team of Wolfman and Pérez. Their work on New Teen Titans is the main reason he made it into this list.

NUMBER EIGHT LYNN VARLEY (1958 - PRESENT)

Lynn Varley is an award-winning American comic book colorist, notable for her collaborations with her then-husband, comic book writer/artist Frank Miller.

Varley grew up in Livonia, Michigan. Moving to New York City, she found work at Neal Adams' Continuity Associates. She debuted as a comic book colorist on Batman Annual # 8 (1982), written by Mike W. Barr and penciled by her then partner Trevor Von Eeden. Around the same time, she became professionally involved with Upstart Associates, a shared studio space on West 29th Street formed by Walter Simonson, Howard Chaykin, Val Mayerik, and Jim Starlin. Varley colored the first two issues of Chaykin's American Flagg! Frank Miller later became part of Upstart.

Varley provided the coloring for Miller's Ronin (1984), an experimental six-issue series from DC Comics that proved that comics in unusual formats could be commercially successful; and The Dark Knight Returns (1986), a four issue mini-series that went on to become an outstanding commercial and critical success. Miller also noted that Varley helped create the futuristic slang that Carrie Kelley and other characters use.

Subsequently, Varley colored other Miller books, including The Dark Knight Strikes Again, 300, Elektra Lives Again, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (with Geoff Darrow), as well as a number of covers for the U.S. editions of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. She also colored the backgrounds for the 300 movie (2007), produced by Miller.

Varley has only worked sporadically in the comics industry since 2005.

Varley and Miller were married from 1986 to 2005. They moved from New York City to Los Angeles in the late 1980s and moved back to New York shortly before the September 11 attacks.

Because of her collaborations with Miller, Lynn made it into this list thanks to her work on “Ronin”, “The Dark Knight Returns” and “Wolverine”.

NUMBER SEVEN GLYNIS “WEIN” OLIVER (1949 - PRESENT)

Glynis Oliver, also credited as Glynis Wein is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. For several years, she was married to Len Wein. She returned to her maiden name in 1985. She was born in England.

She has been recognized for her work in the industry with a Shazam Award for Best Colorist in 1973.

Glynis has an extensive career in comics, but the reason she made it into this list was her work on “Uncanny X-Men”, more specifically “the Dark Pheonix Saga” and the “Wolverine” mini-series.

NUMBER SIX BRAD ANDERSON

Not to mistake with the creator of Marmaduke.

Brad Anderson is a cartoonist and comic book colourist. He began his career in 1998 working for DC Comics in 1998 on the title Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. Ever since he has worked on countless comics for different publishers including Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics

Most recently, he has been working on titles like Batman Eternal, Green Lantern, Justice League and Convergence.

Little is known about Brad’s life (odd considering the popularity of the material he is part of). He made it into this list thanks to his work on the “Witching Hour” crossover and also on the Shazam Origin that run on the Justice League book.

NUMBER FIVE ANTHONY TOLLIN (1952 - PRESENT)

Anthony Tollin is a professional comic book colourist. Tollin started working for DC Comics in the early 70s as an assistant to Tatjana Wood in the coloring department. In the early 80s, he became the main colourist for DC, doing almost all of the covers of the publications of the company at the time. Tollin worked for DC until the early 90s, when he started working for other publishers.

He is in this list thanks to his work on “Vigilante”, “Ambush Bug” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths”.

NUMBER FOUR ADRIENNE ROY (1953 - 2010)

Adrienne Roy (June 28, 1953 – December 14, 2010) was a comic book color artist who worked mostly for DC Comics. She was largely responsible for coloring the Batman line (Batman and Detective Comics) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

Roy attended an art school in Wayne, New Jersey, where she studied painting techniques. Her first contact with comics was through collecting Marvel Comics' Tomb of Dracula, The Sub-Mariner and Conan the Barbarian. Roy's first work as a comics colorist was assisting her husband Anthony Tollin, who worked for DC Comics at the times. But it was long-time colorist Jack Adler who would give her the first job at DC: the cover of DC Special Series #8 (featuring the Batman, Deadman and Sgt. Rock team-up). Adler and Sol Harrison (who was also a colorist) were considered by Roy herself as her mentors and both trained her on coloring during her first years at DC.

Roy was also responsible for the coloring on many other titles during that time period: The New Teen Titans, The Warlord, Weird War Tales and Madame Xanadu. Nevertheless, she is predominantly known for her work on the Batman books: Batman, Detective Comics, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Batman: Gotham Knights, and Robin.

When computerized colors arrived to comics, the assignments to classic colorists decreased a lot. By 2000 Roy was largely out of work, despite training herself on the computer. Roy spent her last days battling cancer and died in Austin, Texas, at age 57 on December 14, 2010.

Adrienne Roy illustrated most of the comics of my childhood, and her “fuchsia” skies are pretty much her trademark on many Batman comics. She made it into this list thanks to her work on “New Teen Titans”, “Batman and the Outsiders”, Tales of the Teen Titans”, “The Judas Contract”, “Batman” and “Detective Comics”.

NUMBER THREE TERRY AUSTIN (1952 - PRESENT)

Terry Kevin Austin (born August 23, 1952) is an American comics artist, working primarily as an inker. He is best known for his work embellishing John Byrne's pencils on Uncanny X-Men from 1977 to 1981.

Austin grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University. He started inking comics as an assistant to Dick Giordano and Neal Adams, doing "Crusty Bunker" work for Adams' Continuity Associates. Austin came to prominence in 1976–1977, inking Marshall Rogers' pencils on a celebrated run of Batman stories for DC Comics' Detective Comics collaborating with writer Steve Englehart. During this same period, Austin inked Michael Netzer (Nasser) on DC's Martian Manhunter in Adventure Comics and Green Arrow/Black Canary in World's Finest Comics, as well as Al Milgrom on Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel. He later teamed with Rogers again on Marvel's Doctor Strange.

In 1977, Austin and penciler John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men. With writer Chris Claremont they produced a series of stories — particularly "The Dark Phoenix Saga" — which elevated the title into the top-selling American comic book.

Austin resides near Poughkeepsie, New York, where he plays volleyball and gets together often with fellow comics veteran Fred Hembeck.

Terry is a very popular inker that has almost no presence online (only through Fred Hembeck). He made it into this list mostly for his work on “Camelot 3000″ and “Uncanny X-Men”, most specifically, “The Dark Phoenix” saga.

NUMBER TWO DICK GIORDANO (1932 - 2010)

Richard Joseph "Dick" Giordano (July 20, 1932 – March 27, 2010) was an American comics artist and editor whose career included introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes and serving as executive editor of DC Comics.

Dick Giordano, an only child, was born in New York City on July 20, 1932, in the borough of Manhattan to Josephine Labruzzi and Graziano "Jack" Giordano. He attended the School of Industrial Art.

Beginning as a freelance artist at Charlton Comics in 1952, Giordano contributed artwork to dozens of the company's comics, including such Western titles as Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp, the war comic Fightin' Army, and scores of covers.

Giordano's artwork from Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories was used as inspiration for artist Roy Lichtenstein's 1965/1966 Brushstroke series, including Brushstroke, Big Painting No. 6, Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes.

By the mid-1960s a Charlton veteran, Giordano rose to executive editor, succeeding Pat Masulli, by 1965. As an editor, he made his first mark in the industry, overseeing Charlton's revamping of its few existing superheroes and having his artists and writers create new such characters for what he called the company's "Action Hero" line. Many of these artists included new talent Giordano brought on board, including Jim Aparo, Dennis O'Neil, and Steve Skeates.

DC Comics vice president Irwin Donenfeld hired Giordano as an editor in April 1968, at the suggestion of Steve Ditko, with Giordano bringing over to DC some of the creators he had nurtured at Charlton. Giordano was given several titles such as Teen Titans, Aquaman and Young Love, but none of DC's major series. He launched the horror comics series The Witching Hour in March 1969, and the Western series All-Star Western vol. 2 in September 1970.

He continued to freelance for DC as a penciler and inker. As an artist, Giordano was best known as an inker. His inking was particularly associated with the pencils of Neal Adams, for their run in the early 1970s on the titles Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow. Comics historian Les Daniels observed that "The influential Adams style moved comics closer to illustration than cartooning, and he brought a menacing mood to Batman's adventures that was augmented by Dick Giordano's dark, brooding inks."

By 1971, frustrated by what he felt was a lack of editorial opportunities, Giordano had left DC to partner with fellow artist Neal Adams for their Continuity Associates studios, which served as an art packager for comic book publishers, including such companies as Giordano's former employer Charlton Comics, Marvel Comics, and the one-shot Big Apple Comix. Several comics artists began their careers at Continuity and many were mentored by Giordano during their time there.

He had a brief run as penciler of the Wonder Woman series which included a two-issue story in issues #202–203 (October and December 1972) written by science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany. Giordano drew several backup stories in Action Comics featuring the Human Target character as well as the martial arts feature "Sons of the Tiger" in Marvel's black-and-white comics magazine The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. He was a frequent artist on Batman and Detective Comics and he and writer Denny O'Neil created the Batman supporting character Leslie Thompkins in the story "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley" in Detective Comics #457 (March 1976). Giordano inked the large-format, first DC/Marvel intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man (1976), over the pencils of Ross Andru. Giordano inked Adams on the one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1978. Throughout the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Ross Andru and Giordano were DC's primary cover artists, providing cover artwork for the Superman titles as well as covers for many of the other comics in the DC line at that time.

In 1980, DC publisher Jenette Kahn brought Giordano back to DC. Initially the editor of the Batman titles, Giordano was named the company's new managing editor in 1981, and promoted to vice president/executive editor in 1983, a position he held until 1993. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed in 2010 that "Giordano held the respect of talent as one of their own, and kept their affection with his reassuring calm and warmth."

Giordano provided art for several anniversary issues of key DC titles. He and television writer Alan Brennert crafted the story "To Kill a Legend" in Detective Comics #500 (March 1981). Giordano was one of the artists on the double-sized Justice League of America #200 (March 1982) as well as Wonder Woman #300 (Feb. 1983) He was promoted to Vice-President/Executive Editor in 1984, and with Kahn and Levitz, oversaw the relaunch of all of DC's major characters with the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series in 1985. This was followed by Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen in 1986. Giordano inked several major projects during this time such as George Pérez's pencils on Crisis on Infinite Earths and John Byrne's pencils on The Man of Steel and Action Comics, though during this period he always employed assistants for inking backgrounds, filling in large black areas, and making final erasures.

From 1983 to 1987, Giordano wrote a monthly column published in DC titles called "Meanwhile..." which much like Marvel's "Bullpen Bulletins" featured news and information about the company and its creators. Unlike "Bullpen Bulletins," which was characterized by an ironic, over-hyped tone, Giordano's columns ". . . were written in a relatively sober, absolutely friendly voice, like a friend of your father's you particularly liked and didn't mind sitting down to listen to." Giordano closed each "Meanwhile..." column with the characteristic words, "Thank you and good afternoon."

The Vertigo imprint was launched in early 1993 built upon the success several titles edited by Karen Berger including Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Sandman, Doom Patrol, Animal Man, and Shade, the Changing Man. Giordano inked six issues of The Sandman in 1991-1993.

Beginning in 1987, Giordano was in the middle of an industry-wide debate about the comics industry, ratings systems, and creators' rights. Veteran writers Mike Friedrich, Steven Grant, and Roger Slifer all cited Giordano in particular for his hard-line stance on behalf of DC. This debate led in part to the 1988 drafting of the Creator's Bill of Rights.

Giordano left DC in 1993, and still did the occasional inking job, but later returned to freelancing full-time. In 1994 Giordano illustrated a graphic novel adaptation of the novel Modesty Blaise released by DC Comics, with creator/writer Peter O'Donnell. He was one of the many artists who contributed to the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 wherein the title character married Lois Lane.

In 2002, Giordano launched the short-lived Future Comics with writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton. Since 2002, Giordano had drawn several issues of The Phantom published in Europe and Australia. In 2004, Giordano and writer Roy Thomas completed an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. They had begun the project in 1974 but the cancellation of many of Marvel's black and white magazines put it into limbo. The finished story was collected into a hardcover edition in 2005 and a colorized hardcover edition in 2010. In 2005, F+W Publications Inc. published the instructional art book Drawing Comics with Dick Giordano, which he wrote and illustrated. His last mainstream work appeared in Jonah Hex vol. 2, #51 (March 2010) for which he drew the interior art and the cover. His last comics work was pencilling and editing Baron Five, published by Hound Comics.

Giordano married the former Marie Trapani, sister of fellow comics artist Sal Trapani, on April 17, 1955. She died from complications of her second stomach cancer surgery in February 1993. They had three children together; Lisa, Dawn, and Richard Jr. Marie's death, combined with Giordano's increasing hearing loss, hastened his decision to retire from DC. Following the death of his wife, Giordano split time between homes in Florida and Connecticut. In 1995, he moved to Palm Coast, Florida, where he continued to work full-time freelancing, until his death. Giordano had suffered from lymphoma and later from leukemia, secondary to the chemotherapy. He died on March 27, 2010 due to complications of pneumonia.

Giordano served as mentor or inspiration to a generation of inkers, including Terry Austin, Mike DeCarlo, and Bob Layton.

Shortly after Giordano's death in 2010, The Hero Initiative created "The Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award", which debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con. The award recognizes one person in comics each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community.

Giordano received recognition in the industry for his work, including the Alley Award for Best Editor in 1969. He won the Shazam Award for Best Inker (Dramatic Division) in 1970 (for Green Lantern), 1971, 1973 (for Justice League of America), and 1974. He won the 1971 Goethe Award for "Favorite Pro Editor." Giordano received an Inkpot Award in 1981. In 2009 he was awarded the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award.

My favorite anecdote of Dick Giordano, is from Karen Berger (from the book “The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison”) about Grant Morrison’s thick Glaswegian accent.

“When I first met Grant, I was with Dick Giordano and Jenette Khan. I had set up appointments pretty much every hour with different writers and artists in this suite that we had rented to meet people, and Grant was the last person we saw on one of the days. And Dick Giordano was very hard of hearing... he wore two hearing aids and when Grant came in, Grant started talking and [Giordano] just took off his hearing aids and left the room. He couldn’t even read his lips.”

Dick Giordano is a legend, but he is in this list because of his work on “Camelot 3000″, “Tales of the Teen Titans”, “Vigilante” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths”.

NUMBER ONE TATJANA WOOD (1926 - PRESENT)

Tatjana Wood (née Tatjana Weintraub, in Darmstadt, Germany) is an American artist and comic book colorist.

Tatjana's father was Jewish, and her mother was Christian. During World War II, she and her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, were sent to an international Quaker boarding school in the Netherlands. Gaining Dutch citizenship was not easy, so after World War II, the Quakers arranged for the two to travel to New York City in 1947. Karl went on to the University of Chicago, while Tatjana stayed in New York, attending the Traphagen School of Fashion. In 1949, she met Wally Wood, and they married August 28, 1950.

During the 1950s and 1960s, she sometimes made uncredited contributions to Wood's artwork. One of the stories she worked on was "Carl Akeley" in EC Comics' Two-Fisted Tales #41 (February–March 1955). She did a number of animal drawings for that story.

Later, beginning in 1969, she did extensive work for DC Comics as a comic book colorist. She was the main colorist for DC's covers from 1973 through the mid-1980s. Wood did coloring work on the interiors of comics as well, including Grant Morrison's acclaimed run on Animal Man, Alan Moore's issues of Swamp Thing, and Camelot 3000. She won the Shazam Award for Best Colorist in 1971 and 1974. Tatjana has had no significant credits in the comics industry since 2003.

She is also a skilled dressmaker and weaver, who has crafted theatrical costumes and pictorial loom tapestries.

Tatjana's brother Karl died March 25, 2004. He was a distinguished scholar at the University of Chicago and the author of two books, Visions of Culture: Voltaire-Guizot-Burckhardt-Lamprecht-Huizinga-Ortega y Gassett (1966) and The Value of the Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography (1978).

Tatjana Wood has been mostly uncredited for most of her career. It is only thanks to interviews and reprints that we know of her work on many essential books, like the original Swamp Thing volume.

She made it into this list because of her work on “Swamp Thing” and “Camelot 3000″.

There were more artists that didn’t make it to the top 10, but were considered: Bob Oksner, Bruce D. Patterson, Tom Ziuko, Tom McCraw, Alfredo Alcala, Mike DeCarlo, Joe Rubinstein, Klaus Janson, Malcolm Jones III, Norm Breyfogle (for both lists) and Steve Oliff.

Being an inker or a colorist in comics can be an ungrateful job. But they mean a lot to certain artists. It is not the same to be inked by Romeo Tanghal or by Mike Royer. And because most of these artists had permanent contracts with their publishers, they ended up growing up in the industry. To all of them, thanks for the comics!

#2019 #artists #inker #colorist #comics #review #tatjana wood #dick giordano #terry austin #adrienne roy #anthony tollin #brad anderson #glynis wein #glynis oliver #lynn varley #romeo tanghal #john higgins

[viewfromthevault]

Fallout OC Interview

Thanks to the lovely @tarberrymentats for the tag 💜

Rules

Choose an oc

Answer the questions as that oc

Tag 5 people to do the same

I’ll tag @nonbinaryrobot @rogue-lavellan @drneverland @commonwealthcommoner and whoever else wants to do it because I never know if I’m bugging people by tagging them or not 🤣

Gonna do this with Lesley

Okay so I got waaayy carried away and thought maybe I should throw this under a read more for the sake of your dashboards.

1. What is you’re name?

“Lesley Elvira Mathews. Not a real fan of Elvira so don’t call me that unless you wanna get whacked.”

2. How old are you?

“Shit, I dunno. I was nineteen when I got the boot. How many years ago was that now?”

(Lesley’s timeline is a bit funky at the moment. I wanna say this takes place after main story stuff and before fo4, so she’ll be in her early twenties)

3. What do you look like?

“A fucking legend.”

4. Where are you from? Where do you live now?

“See, I thought I was born in Vault 101, but actually I was born somewhere in the wasteland then grew up in the vault. Not a fun environment to grow up in, to tell you the truth. A lotta assholes livin’ there, except Amata.

“I’m happy to say that now I live in my very own house in Megaton. It’s not a super private place, though. Gotta few couch surfers.”

5. What was your childhood like?

“Could’ve been better, actually. Like I said before, there were a lot of assholes in 101. Had a real hard time making friends. People liked to call me the problem kid because I got in a lot of fights, but I didn’t start all of them and those fuckers had it coming. Grown-ups complained about me all the time and the Overseer hated my guts, but that’s ok because I hated his about the same.

“I guess it wasn’t all bad, though. My dads were pretty great, even when James was too busy being James. Granny Palmer used to look after me when they were both busy, she was really nice. And then there’s my best friend, Amata. If it weren’t for her I probably would have went nuts in there.”

6. What groups are you friendly with? Are you allied with any factions?

“I currently do work with Reilly’s Rangers and the Regulators. I get to run around the wastes and kill bad guys for money?? They had me at ‘caps.’

“I used to be part of the Brotherhood of Steel, though I don’t remember actually signing up or anything. They dropped my sorry ass as soon as they thought I wasn’t useful anymore. Bastards.

“This one lady also said I could be part of this Railroad group if I didn’t tell this fancy suit where this android person went. Still waiting for them to call me back.”

7. Tell me about your best friend.

“It used to be Amata, but we went our separate ways. Good terms, though. The fella that fills that role now is the bee’s fuckin’ knees. Tall, knows his way around a gun, kinda cranky, but he has a secret softy side.”

8. Do you have a family? Tell me about them!

“Well, the family I told you about earlier kinda fell in on itself when James fucked off. Jonas was murdered and I got stuck with the blame, James zapped himself with enough radiation to ghoulify a super mutant. Last I checked, Granny Palmer was ok, as okay as you can be when your only grandson is killed. I don’t know if she’s still around. I also had a mom once, she died about five minutes after I was born.

“The family I got now? Pretty bomb. There’s aunt Cross, though I don’t get to see her much anymore, Butch who surprisingly is like a brother to me, Fawkes the coolest meta human around, Dogmeat the goodest boy, that little urchin from Lamplight that shows up now and then to drink all my Nuka-Cola, and Charon of course. I’d say Wadsworth, too, but he’d take offense to that.”

9. What about partner or partners?

“Oh man he’s fuckin’ great. Lots of people are scared of him, but he’s real sweet when you take the time to know him. A complete badass that I would absolutely die for. A lot smarter and funnier than people give him credit for. He’s one of the few people who actually listens to me and doesn’t get mad when I get to yakking too much. Is willing to stick his neck out for me, not that I want him to do that, mind you, but it’s real nice to know he’d never throw me to the wolves like others would. Nice ass... what were we talking about?”

10. Have you ever heard of the Brotherhood of Steel? What do you think about them?

“Uh, yeah? I just told you I was with them once. To be honest, though, they’re far from perfect. Sarah and the old man are pretty great, and Cross of course. But there’s a lot of shit that goes down without the old man knowing about it. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the guy died under ‘mysterious circumstances’ and they put up some wet mop in his place.”

11. Who are your enemies, and why?

“Jeeze who isn’t? I don’t know who’s paying them, but the Talon Company is dead set on killing my ass. Their client could be slavers since they hate me with a passion. Arefu doesn’t like me for some reason (ooc: thanks for the gitch, game). I don’t have enough fingers to count this shit out.

12. What about the Enclave?

“Those motherfuckers are lucky I wasn’t at Adams Airforce Base. I’d teach them the meaning of the word slaughter.”

13. How do you feel about super mutants?

“They’re real fun to fight with, but it’d be nice if they didn’t always try to shoot you on sight you know? Why can’t they be more chill like Fawkes?”

14. Have you ever fought a deathclaw?

*points at stump* “The fuck do you think?”

15. What’s the craziest fight you’ve ever been in?

“Me and a bunch of folks took over a spaceship once.”

16. Do you like fighting?

“Does a yao guai shit in a landfill?”

17. What’s your weapon of choice?

“I’m a real fan of stabbing shit, so I mostly work with swords. I have this neat ass one I made myself from schematics I got from vampires, don’t ask, I like to call Shishkebab. That baby has a funky little function where the blade catches fire, which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. I also got a neat sword with an electrified blade from a weird pre-war bunker thing.”

18. How do you survive? Your wits, your charm, your skills, brute force, some combination? (a.k.a. what’s your S.P.E.C.I.A.L.?)

“I’m fast, strong and I talk real good.”

[S-7 P-5 E-7 C-7 I-5 A-6 L-5]

19. Have you ever been in a vault? What do you think of them?

“Yes, I grew up in one. Keep up! As for the others I’ve seen, I guess I should consider myself lucky that I was stuck with the one I was. Vault-Tec is fucked, man.”

20. How do you beat all the radiation around here? Has it effected you?

“Rad-X and Radaway are pretty expensive, so for the most part I just try to stay away from it. I did intentionally get super sick from radiation once, but as far as I know it didn’t have any lasting effects.”

21. What’s your favourite wasteland critter?

“Dogmeat. He hasn’t tried to eat me yet.”

22. What’s your least favourite wastelad critter?

“Fucking mirelurks. With their big meaty claws and their gross shells, swimming arounf waiting to get you by the ankle. I hear they have more legs in other parts of the country.”

23. How do you feel about robots?

“I guess they’re ok. I wouldn’t put a whole lot of trust in them, but if they don’t bother me then I won’t bother them.”

24. How many caps do you have on you right now?

“Not enough for you to wanna mug me for after this wraps up if that’s what you’re asking.” (she’s fucking broke)

25. Nuka-Cola or Sunset Sasparilla?

“Sunset Saspawhat?”

26. Do you do chems?

“Only when I need to, they’re too expensive otherwise.”

27. Do you ever think about the pre-war world?

“What is there to think about? They fucked up the world and now we have to deal with the consequences.”

28. What’s your deepest regret? What would you do differently?

“Maybe if I got to Dad sooner he wouldn’t have died. Maybe neither of them would have died. I don’t know.”

29. What’s your biggest achievement? Or what do you hope to achieve?

“I guess my biggest achievement would be getting to where I am now, finding a place and people who like me because I’m me. Learning that I can be loved. Mushy shit.”

30. What do you want for the future? For yourself? Your friends? The world?

“To be able to live freely and happily no matter how you look or act. To always have an adventure waiting around the corner. I just want us all to have a good time, you know?”

#fallout #fallout ocs #lesley #fallout oc interview #oc tag game #myart

[wham-bam-alacazam]

Elvira Martin : Laid Bare

Name: Elvira Martin Sex: Female Nickname(s): El - This was a nickname given to her by her ex-husband Nate. She still really likes the nickname and it has a lot of icky sentimental feelings attached to it. 

Ellie - A term of endearment given to her by Cait Age: 27 Sexuality: Bisexual Height: 5 foot  10 inches Weight:145  pounds 

Skin tone: Elvira is very pale. She works hard to maintain her pale appearance, wearing long sleeves and carrying around a parasol to block out the sun. Scar(s): Elvira has a scar along the side of her face. It started about half way down her forehead and runs down by her eyebrow. It’s deep and left over from her days in the military doing field work. A suit of power armor exploded and metal blasted everywhere. She has a few other places on her stomach, arms and legs where the metal scarred after being removed. 

Tattoos:  She has one tattoo of a planchette on her high thigh that is very gothic and dark  

Eye color: Brown Hair: She has straight bangs and a bob of dark black hair. She maintains it very well. Whenever she can, she does her best to wash and tend to her hair. Impairments: She needs glasses for distance. Accent/Voice: Her voice is very smooth and regal. She speaks like she is always in charge. She keeps a tone like she owns the place, whatever dump that may be. Makeup: Her makeup is heavy and always on. She wears sleek winged eyeliner that is somehow always perfectly straight. Her shadow is a dark base with purple around it and under her eyes. Her brows are filled in to keep that thin, arched look. She wears a little blush high on her cheeks but that’s about it. Her lips are always a bright, bold red color with a maroon lining. Freckles/Birthmarks/Etc.?: She had a mole on her forehead that pokes out from under her bangs. 

Clothing: When she’s not in her armor, she wears a tux or a sleek black dress that she’s sewn together herself. Her armor is a vault suit with whatever she can find over it. She often wears a militia hat. She always wears her glasses. Weapon(s): Her signature weapon is a modified black baseball bat that’s been painted with her own intricate and ornate white detailing. It also has razor blades wrapped around it. She likes going in fast and hard. If she needs a gun, its a shotgun or a submachine gun. She’s also been known to use knives when need be. 

Faction Affiliations: Elvira is very much so a lone wolf but she was wrapped into working with the Minutemen and the Brotherhood of Steel. She doesn’t support or stand for much of what the Brotherhood does but she can’t help but feel secure in the familiar feeling working in a military setting with power armor. 

Stats Strength: 5 Perception: 5 Endurance: 4 Charisma: 7 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 3 Luck: 2

Perks: Big Leagues 2

VANS

Sneak

Hacker 2

Locksmith 2

Local Leader

Science! Addictions: Alcohol Loves: 

The dark and mysterious

Honest people

Being Goth

Working on power armor

Likes: 

Alcohol

Tinkering with weapons 

Shotguns

Cats

Neutrals: 

Comics

Morals 

Armor

Faction discourse Dislikes:

Being blood soaked

Her hair being ruined 

Classical music

Super Mutants Hates: 

People with alternative motives 

Being disrespected 

Rads 

Working for free Fears: Assaultrons- She had worked with too many in the past and know exactly what they are capable of, making them a huge fear of hers. 

Turning into a ghoul- While Elvira has nothing against ghouls, she hates to even think about turning into one herself. 

Disappearing- Elvira is terrified that she will disappear one day. That people will just forget about her and that she’s not important.  Quirks: She makes a ‘tch’ sound with her tongue whenever she is thinking or judging someone. Whenever she is anxious or worried she’ll play with her hair. Backstory: She met Nate in the army. She was working in engineering with power armor and he was a soldier. They married young due to pressure from their families. They weren’t really happy but because of pressure from their families, again, they stayed together. It was a toxic relationship on both sides but it all happened behind closed doors. They tried to look normal. Had a kid. Went to block parties. Smiled and waved. But neither were happy. Nate wanted to have a kid. He wanted so badly to have a kid. Elvira didn’t. They ‘had trouble’ having a kid. Their trouble was El continuing to take her birth control. When she finally found out she was pregnant at 26, El panicked. She tried to hide it from everyone, denying it to herself. But eventually she began to show and the jig was up. Looking back, that was the only time she never fought with Nate, purely because of how doting and kind he was being, she didn’t have enough energy to fight with him. After 9 months, she had Shaun. She wanted nothing to do with him and had severe postpartum depression. She wanted to get rid of it. She couldn’t raise a baby. It was Nate baby. Not her’s. She spent days in bed, doing the minimum she could with the baby. Eventually Nate called a doctor to the house to help and they did. She shook the depression and coped with it, but she never got rid of the feeling that the baby wasn’t hers. Of course, it was hers, but it felt so foreign. She started working more and more, trying to stay away from home and Nate ended up staying home with the baby. She got questions about it at work, wondering why she came back so fast but she avoided them all. Whenever she came home, she would always fight with Nate. He was disappointed in her mothering skills. He was angry that she was never home. That she wasn’t a wife anyone. She wasn’t ever a mother. He was the one always putting Shaun to bed and waking him up and changing diapers, giving 2am feedings. She hadn’t even tried to breastfeed. They would scream at each other. She had to work. She didn’t want this. It was his fault that she couldn’t leave. His crazy religious family. It was his constant nagging and complaining that drove her to work herself to death. Elvira ended up cheating on Nate and it came to a snapping point in their relationship. That brings it up to the bombs and the events of the game. She’s slow about trying to find Shaun because she never really wanted a kid but there was always that nagging sense of motherly duty that drove her to find him and the guilt of there being a baby out there alone with a stranger. Although, she was just as much a stranger to him as anyone else. Lover’s Embrace Quotes: 

“Wow you were loud enough to wake the dead.” 

“I did say I’d try anything once..” 

“Ow…” 

“Nothing could capture this moment” 

“Remind me to bring more candles next time we have a seance at the witching hour.” 

“Breakfast in bed, my dear?”

  Relationships Codsworth: He had always been kind to her, despite seeing the failing marriage he was involved in. He stuck around after the war and helped around the settlement because he found that he enjoyed helping people and serving. Elvira turned him over to Preston where she knew he would be happier serving.  Dogmeat: Good boy. She keeps him safe at him in Sanctuary. He stays at the house and is a lap dog. Preston Garvey: Preston and her are close but it is a very business like relationship. She thinks that Preston is too uptight and too driven. He had no goals outside of the Minutemen. But it worked out for her so she sticks around. She enjoys rebuilding the Commonwealth and bringing something other than violence around. Nick Valentine: She and him have very similar humor and get along well. They go out for drinks often. She appreciates his efforts to help her find Shaun and his sympathetic ear that he often leans. He understands. Piper: She gets on her nerves. She’s too peppy and sticks her nose where it doesn’t belong. But she’s doing the right thing. Cait: Elvira gets very attached to Cait after saving her from the Combat Zone. She feels like they were cut from the same cloth. She helps clean her up and takes her all over the Commonwealth with her. They get romantically involved. 

John Hancock: El and Hancock are bros in the first degree. They are very different but they go together very well. She is always ready for a drink with him. They can talk for hours and laugh and joke forever. Robert Joseph MacCready: Elvira likes how she can make MacCready squirm. He’s got a personality where she know how to mess with him and she does. She doesn’t like how weak willed he seemed to be. Paladin Danse: If Preston is uptight, then Danse is… something else. She regrettably works with him often but that doesn’t mean that she enjoys it. She tries to make the best of it but they clash heads just as much as she did with Nate. She and Danse will scream at each other until the world’s end. But when push comes to shove there is one big difference between him and Nate. El will take a hit for Danse. They have a connection on a deep level. A loyalty to something bigger than themselves, even if Elvira’s is gone. Possibly a romance here? Deacon: Little shit is everywhere and El laughs at it. She picks up on his lies quickly and plays into them. They are trouble with a capital T even if he gets on her nerves. Maxson: El and Maxson run circles around each other. They both have very dominant personalities but they don’t clash. They circle each other like dangerous and hungry lions. 

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#fallout #fallout 4 #fallout four #fallout OC #oc #ocs #writing #companion #fallout companions #fallout community #maxson #deacon #danse #maccready #hancock #cait #piper #nick #nick valentine #preston garvey #dogmeat #elvira #character #fallout character #character sheet

[dirtyriver]

Elvira's House of Mystery #8, October 1986, framing sequence art by Dwight Turner (pencils) and Dick Giordano (inks)

#Comics #Elvira #House of Mystery #Elvira's House of Mystery #Dwight Turner #Dick Giordano

[thenightling]

31 great songs for Halloween

1. This is Halloween by Danny Elfman (original demo version since I prefer when Danny Elfman sings it.)

2. Dead Man's Party by Danny Elfman / Oingo Boingo.

3. Weird Science by Danny Elfman / Oingo Boingo

4. Pet Sematary (Deliberately misspelt) - By The Ramones. For the Stephen King movie Pet Sematary.

5. Monster Mash - It's a classic but I am partial to the 1970s version sung by Vincent Price.

6. Thriller by Michael Jackson and Vincent Price.

7. Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.

8. Fright Night - From the movie Fright Night, by the J. Geils Band.

9. You won't Survive - By Count Crow - This is a parody version of "I will Survive" sung by Count Dracula. It's a little obscure but I love it.

10. Horror in Action - By Kayak. For some reason it always makes me think of Cain and the old horror anthology comics, House of Mystery. Sometimes I like this one more than Fright Night. It all depends on my mood.

11. Halloween Girl - by Blue Ash.

12. Halloween - By John McClutcheon

13. Halloween - by J. P. Ashkar. This one is relatively new. He's a lesser known Internet artist but he made a cute music video for this song that went viral last Halloween.

14. Anything can Happen on Halloween - Sung by Tim Curry for the 1986 film The Worst Witch. 15. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon 16. Bad Moon Rising by CCR 17. The Master's song from Dracula The Musical by Frank Wildhorn. 18. Spooky Scary Skeletons (Not one of my favorites but everyone seems to think this one is a classic now.) 19. I put a Spell on you - Bette Midler version 20. The Witches are back - Hocus Pocus 2 21. One way or Another - Hocus Pocus 2 version 22. Life after Life from Dracula the musical by Frank Wildhorn. 23. People are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen (Lost Boys cover) 24. Locked within the Crystal ball by Blackmore's Night 25. Hex Girl - by The Hex Girls from Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost 26. Haunted House - Elvira 27. Grim Grinning Ghosts - From the Disney Haunted Mansion ride, sung by Thurl Ravenscroft. 28. Witch's Brew by Omnia 29. Creepy Crawlies by Scary Bitches (the unofficial theme song for Spirit Halloween stores.) 30. You can't hide from the Beast inside by Autograph 31. Armies of the Night by Sparks.

There are a lot more but these are the ones I felt like listing.

[womenintranslation]

Thanks to Sarah Coolidge at the Center for the Art of Translation for this Fall Reading List: 8 Forthcoming Books by Women in Translation!

AUGUST 28, 2017

Fall Reading List: 8 Forthcoming Books by Women in Translation

by Sarah Coolidge

Because reading women in translation should not be limited to one month out of the year.

Women in Translation Month ends this week, but that doesn’t mean that the spirit of the month can’t last all year long. One great way to show your support for the cause is to support the presses and journals that are dedicated to publishing women in translation. Many of these presses are currently having sales (we currently have two!) in honor of #WITMonth, but hurry—most of them end this week!

And after August? The good news is that this fall promises a flurry of books by talented and groundbreaking female writers. In addition to Two Lines Press’s forthcoming A Working Woman by Spanish writer Elvira Navarro and translated by Christina MacSweeney, here are eight forthcoming books to look out for this fall.

1. Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg, translated from Polish by Eliza Marciniak

Transit Books, Available September 12, 2017

Our friends across the Bay at Transit Books are poised to publish this translation of the debut novel by Wioletta Greg, one of Poland’s most exciting writers. Greg is also a poet, so her novel detailing life growing up in 1980s communist Poland is sure to bring so much more than just interesting tales from the other side of the Iron Curtain. If you’ve read any of her work—published recently in the White Review and Granta—then you know why we’re so excited to finally get our hands on a book-length work of hers.

Join us September 21 at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco to celebrate the book’s release.

2. Katalin Street by Magda Szabó, translated from Hungarian by Len Rix

NYRB, Available September 12, 2017

Another novel by Hungarian author Magda Szabó, whose novel The Door was one of the New York Times Book Review’s “10 Best Books of 2015.” This latest novel, translated by Len Rix, is about three families living on Katalin Street in prewar Budapest. When the Nazis arrive in 1944, their lives are upended and only one family survives intact. Certainly not an uplifting tale but an important one, and Szabó is definitely a writer you should be reading.

3. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky

New Directions, Available September 26, 2017

We mentioned this book in our summer reading list, but it bears repeating. There are several reasons to get excited for this forthcoming translation. First, Jenny Erpenbeck, author of The End of the Days, is certainly one of the most interesting contemporary German writers being translated today. Second, the novel is translated by the masterful Susan Bernofsky. And third, the novel is described as “a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.” Contemporary, personal, and beautifully written—enough said!

4. Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Tilted Axis Press, Available October 6, 2017

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay exploded onto the international stage last year with her transgressive novel Panty in Arunava Sinha’s beautiful translation. She has been called India’s Ferrante, as well as “the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature.” In her follow-up novel, Abandon, Bandyopadhyay tells the story of Ishwari, a woman who runs away from her home and her family in order to focus on writing a novel. When her five-year-old son Roo follows her, however, things get complicated. A story about “the perpetual conflict between life and art,” this novel confronts the uncomfortable truths about motherhood and the female experience.

5. The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker, with an afterword by Elena Poniatowska

Feminist Press, Available October 10, 2017

From the publisher: “On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s identity. While the two women are strangely intimate, even inventing a secret language, they harass the narrator by claiming repeatedly that they know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman.” This may be the most intriguing description of a book tackling gender since Anne Garréta’s Sphinx. Rivera Garza, who has been praised by both Jorge Volpi and Carlos Fuentes, is the only author to win the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. And despite the fact that it has been fifteen years since Rivera Garza published this book in Spanish, The Iliac Crest could not be coming at a better time; in fact, the relationship between gender, language, and power is more relevant today than ever. And it only gets better—the book includes an afterward by iconic Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska!

6. North Station by Bae Suah, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith

Open Letter Books, Available October 10, 2017

You probably know Bae Suah as the author behind Recitation and A Greater Music. Open Letter is giving us more Bae Suah this October with North Station, a collection of seven short stories by the acclaimed Korean author. The stories’ premises are strange and alluring, for example: “the staging of an experimental play goes awry” and “time freezes for two lovers on a platform, waiting for the train that will take one of them away.” Bae Suah is known for combining Korean and European literary style; after all, she herself is a translator, having brought into Korean several works by German authors W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck (see #3 on this list). Translated by Deborah Smith, who won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, this book is definitely on our to-read list this fall.

7. Belladonna by Daša Drndić, translated from Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth

New Directions, Available October 31, 2017

Daša Drndić’s English debut, Trieste, got a good deal of attention with its historically-based account of one woman’s experience losing her son to Heinrich Himmler’s terrifying Lebensborn project. Drndić notably dedicates forty-four pages of that novel to listing the names of thousands of Jews who died due to Italy’s cooperation with the Nazis. In these times, fascism and its history should not be treated lightly. And Drndić is not one to do so. In this forthcoming translation by Celia Hawkesworth, Drndić provides us with a new guide into the dark past of the twentieth century: an old man named Andreas Ban, a retired psychologist living in a Croatian coastal town with memories going back to the devastation of WWII and the breakup of Yugoslavia.

8. Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel, translated from French by Ros Schwartz

Feminist Press, Available November 14, 2017

That’s right, a translated book about translation. The book, originally published in French in 2012, is a memoir by Mireille Gansel, the French translator of Nelly Sachs, Peter Huchel, and Reiner Kunze, as well as several classical Vietnamese poets. Gansel grew up in “the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything—including their native languages—to Nazi Germany.” Now reaching an English audience for the first time—thanks to Ros Schwartz and the folks over at Feminist Press—this book examines a singular life but also the universal experience of living in the spaces between languages. Here’s what the publisher says: “Gansel’s debut illustrates the estrangement every translator experiences for the privilege of moving between tongues, and muses on how translation becomes an exercise of empathy between those in exile.” Sounds absolutely fascinating! You can read an excerpt from the translation here.

#witmonth2017

[spellsword177]

Ranking Miss Marple Novels

Below is a note I did on Facebook a few years ago with some slight edits for Throwback Thursday.  I still largely agree with my rankings. A few years back, I completed an analysis of my favorite and least favorite Hercule Poirot novels.  Having just recently completed Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple works, I thought I might do something for this Mystery series where I rank all twelve novels.  Unlike her books with the Belgian detective, Ms. Christie was much more consistent with her elderly spinster.  I enjoyed each novel, but some naturally were better than others.  Remember, this is only my opinion and should you read these books for yourself you might find you have a different order. Rank:

12.  The Moving Finger (1943) – Jerry Burton from London is on a recuperating holiday with his sister in Lymstock after a recent plane crash injury.  Shortly after their arrival a rash of poison pen letters wind up appearing on doorsteps throughout the village.  Who wrote the letters?  Why was Mrs. Mona Symmington found dead after apparently receiving one of her own?  I ranked this one last not because I disliked it, but because it hardly had Miss Marple in it at all due to her late arrival.  The only thing I could outright complain about was who two characters were apparently just cast aside in the end conclusion, when the author had made it point to show how wrong it was for the same to be done to another character throughout the novel. 11.  At Bertram’s Hotel (1965) – Something is wrong at Betram’s Hotel.  Guests are too often mistaken for other people, and the nostalgic air for Jolly Old Victorian England is too perfect.  Why the Honorable Elvira Blake take a sudden, and very secret trip to Ireland?  Why did Canon Pennyfather suddenly disappear?  What does this all have to do with a robbery on the Irish Mail train?  Like the other novels, this one had several good and interesting twists, but the murder was completely secondary to the underlying plot due to this one deviating so far from the regular style, the ending was a bit farfetched, and Miss Marple played second fiddle in the denouement.  

10.  They Do It with Mirrors (1952) – A room full of witnesses to an argument behind a closed door between Edgar Lawson, who broght a gun, and Lewis Serrocold hear a gunshot.  Neither man is harmed, but Christian Gulbrandsen is shortly found shot to death in another part of the complex in front of an empty typewriter.  Who shot him and how?  Did anyone leave the room?  What was in the missing letter?  And what was Christian Gulbrandsen so concerned about that he had turned up unexpected? Like the other Marple books, I enjoyed this story.  I felt the solution to be a bit predictable and thin.

9.  The Body in the Library (1942) – A body of an unidentified young, blond woman in a cheap evening gown is discovered one morning the home of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry.  Who is she and how did she get there?  What does her death have to do with the Majestic Hotel? And how is Basil Blake involved?  The plot and twists involved in this one were good as was the twist solution, but I felt the culprit had been done before.

8.  The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962) – The film star Marina Gregg is seen with a “frozen” look on her face while looking over the shoulder of a Mrs. Heather Badcock at a fete being hosted by Marina at her own house.  Who or what did she see?  Why did Mrs. Badcock shortly drop dead from poison?  And was the poison meant for Marina Gregg?  This one was a good story.  I liked the focus on changes within the village versus an underlying nostalgia for the past, but I felt the demise of one character by a gunshot was not satisfactorily explained and the book relied too much on coincidence.

7.  A Murder at the Vicarage (1930) – Colonel Lucius Protheroe is found shot to death in the Vicar’s study with a partially completed letter.  Who killed the Colonel?  Why do two people with alibis feel the need to confess?  And what has all this to do with missing Church Funds?  Who is the mysterious Mrs. Lestrange?   The solution to this novel was entertaining and fairly original.  This was the first Miss Marple story, and is told from the perspective of the Vicar.

6.  A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) – “Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye.  Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie…”  Rex Fortescue is found dying from poison while drinking his morning tea in his office, and the police are called to investigate.  The story takes an unusual twist when rye for some unexplainable reason is found in the dead man’s coat pocket.  This was an interesting story to unravel and was filled with quite a few surprising twists.

5.  Nemesis (1971) – Miss Marple receives a postcard from a recently deceased old friend asking her to pay a visit to his lawyers in London.  While there she discovers the will asks her solve an unspecified crime in order to inherit £20,000 to dispose of as she chooses, and refers to her by her previously chosen identity of Nemesis.  This was an enjoyable read and would have ranked higher had I not disagreed with the motive being love as put forth by the author.  It was not love that drove this person, but obsession.

4.  A Caribbean Mystery (1964) – While on holiday in the Caribbean to recuperate from an illness, Miss Marple is drawn once again into murder when Major Palgrave is found dead in his room.  The man in question the day before had been about to show her the picture of a murderer, when he suddenly recognized the person in the photo standing nearby.   I’m much more generous than I probably should be with this one, but I appreciated the change in atmosphere.

3.  Sleeping Murder (1976) – “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young.”  Eighteen years ago newlywed Gwenda Reed witness as a toddler her stepmother being murdered.  Now she has inadvertently purchased the same house in which the murder took place and is haunted by the memories long since buried.  This story was published posthumously, but takes place in the 1930’s.  It is a thrilling tale and supports the idea some truths should stay buried.

2.  A Murder is Announced (1950) – “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m.”  So runs the ad in local newspaper at Chipping Cleghorn to the surprise of everyone including the residents of the estate.  Often sighted by many as their own person favorite in the series, this one does not disappoint.  The list of suspects is entertaining to sort through, and the twists are thrilling.  It is easy to miss some of the subtleties leading to the solution, but it is still guessable all the same.   It was difficult not to keep this in first place as I had read the books in order.

1.  4:50 from Paddington (1957) – Mrs. McGillicuddy has witnessed a man strangling a woman in a train running parallel to her own.  Who was this woman?  Why was she murdered?  Why did no one report her death or disappearance?  And what has it all to do with Rutherford Hall, an estate completely surrounded by railways separating from the local community?  It was an enjoyable read from start to finish and I appreciated the solution to a love triangle being left open at the conclusion.  I ranked this one so high due to the underlying heart I found in the book.

#Throwback Thursday #Agatha Christie #Miss Marple #Book Recommendations #Rankings

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Full Name: Arche Brown

Nickname(s): Archie, Che

Age: 40

Species: Extraterrestrial Lifeform (Uranus)

Sex: Male

Gender: Cismale

Preferred Pronoun(s): He/Him

Romantic Orientation: Pansexual

Sexual Orientation: Panromantic

Religion: Athiest

Occupation: Musician

Face Claim: Godfrey Gao

Relationships

Birth Order: Oldest

Parents: Cornelius & Elvira Brown

Siblings: Celeste Brown (adopted, human)

Family: Unknown family on Uranus

Physical Traits

Eye Color(s): Brown

Hair Color(s): Black

Height: 6′2

Body Build: slim, muscular

Notable Physical Traits: his signature smirk

Phobias and Diseases

Fears: space, fellow extraterrestrials, death of his human family 

Mental Disease(s): NA

Personality

Usual Mood/Expression:

Moral Alignment: neutral 

Jung: INTJ

Enneagram: The Investigator 

Four Temperaments: Melancholic

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Top Tropes: expressive ears, ineffectual loner, prince charming

Five Prominent Traits: mysterious, aloof, charming, reserved, intuitive

Misc

Skills: future sight, mind reading, manifestation, guitar, bass, drums, vocals

Hobbies: making music, writing, watching action films, people watching

Element: water

Animal: gizzly bear

Plant: dandelion 

Stats

Compassion: 6/10

Empathy: 6/10

Creativity: 8/10

Mental Flexibility: 4/10

Passion/Motivation: 3/10

Education: 9/10

Stamina: 7/10

Physical Strength: 7/10 

Battle Skill: 6/10 

Initiative: 5/10

Restraint: 7/10

Agility: 5/10

Strategy: 9/10 

Teamwork: 7/10

Musical-Rhythmic Intelligence: 9/10

Visual-Spatial Intelligence: 5/10

Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence: 7/10

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: 7/10

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence: 5/10

Interpersonal Intelligence: 5/10

Intrapersonal Intelligence: 3/10

Existential Intelligence: 5/10

Naturalistic Intelligence: 4/10

#☆ BUT UP HERE THEY FALTER NOWHERE | ARCHE ☆ #☆ ARCHE HEADCANONS ☆