House ad for “Batman: Year One,” David Mazzucchelli, 1986

DC Comics.

(How much money will you give me?)

Me: “All our lives are fleeting, friends, so use what time you have in a meaningful way.”

Also me: “Anyone dare me to eat this watermelon chunk with ketchup on it?”

Cover to “Absolute Carnage” #1, Ryan Stegman, 2019

Marvel Comics.

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“Would you come into my Parler?” said The Spider to The Fly.

“Would you come into my Parler?” said The Spider to The Fly.


“There’s news for real Americans — the MAGA girls and guys!


The way into my Parler is up a winding stair.


If you have a brain or conscience, just leave them out there.”


“Oh yes, yes,” said the little Fly, “a place to bash and blame


those party-pooping liberals who fact-check all my claims!”



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“Take the Fair Face of Woman,” Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Oil on canvas.

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Spillwords Press features “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival”

I’m honored to share here that Spillwords Press published another poem of mine today — “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”  You can find it right here.

Thanks once again to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice through this outstanding online literary magazine!

Variant Cover to “Captain America” #13, Butch Guise, 2019

Marvel Comics.

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world …”

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.  There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague



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“Mam and Dad in Forest,” Øyvind Holmstad, 2016

Crayon.

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By Øyvind Holmstad – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68537968

Thank you, Veterans.

Jim Beach, right, a Vietnam veteran, and a friend look at the countless tombstones during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, 2006. Defense Dept. photo by Cherie A. Thurlby

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