Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
Q Magazine Comics Reviewer & your Blogger at http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.co.uk/ Husband of the Splendid Wife, walking companion of Eyebrow Girl, the Hound Supreme, escaped teacher, irredeemable amateur
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Ty Templeton’s wonderful “How To Lie To An Editor” strip, from DC’s “Shop Talk”, April 94, a monthly newsletter for freelancers that I had no idea even existed until recently.
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“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
Howard Zinn
(Panels by Mike Sekpwsky, Gardner Fox et al, from Justice Of America #30, 1964)
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“A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
Ben Franklin
“There are all sorts of filtering devices to get rid of people who are a pain in the neck and think independently.”
Noam Chomsky
(Panel by Bernard Bailey et al, from Adventure Comics #57, 1940)
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“A house is a machine for living in.”
Le Corbusier
(Panels from Gerard Jones, Curt Swan & Ty Templeton’s “The Little Clubhouse That Could”, from Secret Origins #46, DC Comics, 1989)
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“There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.”
Cicero
(Panel by Alan Brennert, Jim Aparo et al, from The Brave And The Bold #178, 1981)
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“Modern man has lost the option of silence.”
William S Burroughs
(Panel by Marc Andreyko, Javier Pina et al, from Manhunter #25, 2006, DC Comics)
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“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.”
Dante
(Panels by Jack Kirby, w. Vince Colletta et al, from Forever People #1, 1970)
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“Those who make revolutions by halves dig their own graves.”
Lenin
(Page by Frank Miller & Jim Lee, from All-Star Batman # 5, DC Comics, 2006)
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“There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism”
Denis Diderot
(Frame by Chris Sprouse & Grant Morrison, et al from Batman: The Return Of Bruce Wayne #1 2010)
