Most everybody who read comics in the 1950s and 1960s will remember Charles Atlas, the guy who wouldn't take sand in his face. Ange...

This image was generated on a Commodore 64 graphics program and was intended at the time to be a possible front page for the New Frontiers...

If you put Julie and Kyle together, what do you get? KYLIE, of course! Kylie Jean Kramer, our second grandchild, was born on Friday...

Here's a photo of John Lennon in a Superman shirt from Roger Sormo, Woblog, http://wogew.blogspot.com/ , subtitled "All Things B...

In Watchmen: The Art of the Film by Peter Aperlo, there's a huge amount of sketches and pre-planning art. "Among My Souvenirs...

Well, here is the final Rorschach blot in the series. What do you think? This has been silly, but I trust that this experience hasn...

Now, the term "cretin" is purely a generic term and no insult to any cretin, living or dead, is implied. Unless you know so...

You Know, I don;t see what's so complicatedc about the whole "seeing things" in the Rorshach blots. Doesn't everybody ...

Surely you could see this one coming! When else could Rorschach Plaat vii remind ANYBODY of? Well, OK, maybe a pan of pork chops ... ...

Here is another macro-image. An easy one, eh? The Rorschach book said that oftentimes folks would "see" a flayed animal i...

OK, this is another easy one.  But on the other hand, you could consider it a two-fer! If you've seen the wonderfully creepy movie T...

This time, it's EASY to tell the picture in the Rorschach blot.  Even someone who doesn't read comic books will recognize a bat, hu...

OK, this is going to be longer than a week, until we share all the workings of my benighted little brain, at least in regards to the infamou...

Well, by now you should not have expected profundity. If you knew we had a seven-year-old kid in the house, then you might have expected ...

I'm happy to share the news that  the 1994 FOX series M.A.N.T.I.S. , which died after one season in the Friday-night "death slot,...

Henh-henh. You thought this would be about Watchmen 's Rorschach! Actually, a recent thrift-store find was a book on how to show-and...

Some of you, my friends, hang about because you know me. Some have droppeth as the manna rains from Heaven. Anyway, a few of you guys mi...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/2010%20August/Shakerset01.jpg In about 1975, you could pop into your local...

If you are "of a certain age," you will remember when it was a luxury to have an icemaker in your refrigerator. If you are MORE of...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Comic%20Ads/WristradioSboy86.jpg From Superboy #86 and January 1961, we have an ...