Dang, Skilskin, I kinda liked wooken toys... made for wookies, don'tcha know. Oh, and I like b/w comics and movies too... the oldies from the teens to 30s that TCM shows. But as long as a comic strip is well drawn, I don't much care whether it's color or b/w. As for Capp Enterprises getting on the ball and publishing Abner 1962 to 1977, well, I wrote to them and suggested they put those years online and sell subscription access. But I received no reply. Maybe if we all wrote, and pleaded most abjectly and pitiously?
As for my hands... they look pretty good for their age, except for one thumb that won't bend any more and looks pretty uggy. Good thing we can't post photos here, huh?
Also, merrytoymaker, have you heard of love and Rockets comics?
Probably the most amazing stories I have seen since li'l abner,
doesn't hold a candle to li'l abner but great in it's own
right (by the Hernandez Bros.) I learned a lot about deep Mexico.
They are mostly black and white comics - I like black and white comics that are well drawn and inked. I like black and white movies too they are eaiser to watch.
Dang merrytoymaker, what do your hands look like
from years of making wooken toys with sharp
powerful tools? I sure wouldn't call you a
fool - not to your face anyway LOL - I bet your
real experienced with sharp powerful tools.
I don't know why but when I think of sharp powerful
tools I think of the Texas Chainsaw movies LOL
Moving back to Abner - I just wish they would get
on the ball and start printing the dailies that
that have not been collected and printed yet.
I am real curious to see what Al Capp was thinking
in his later years. Did anyone ever read the one
where the aliens pick up li'l Abner in their saucer
and then pick up a gorilla too - hilarious!
I like how Capp always gave the people what they
wanted and still got his point across too.
Like the only reason he had daisy mae and li'l
get married what because the fans couldn't take
it anymore - He himself never planned on them
getting married.
Ottodesu: Omigosh! You're right about Chickweed! As you may know, I lurk at most comics pages... just not enough energy to write at more than one, this one. Anyhow... all is not lost. Pibby's comments are still intact over at Ucluck, and for Chickweed there's still http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/
Maybe Brooke will try to move Chickweed over to Ucluck. If Capp were still around, he'd move Abner there, methinks.
merrytoymaker: That sounds like quite an excellent idea! My business is photographic archiving, where people bring me the family's entire collection of slides, negatives and prints to be converted to digital form for internal distribution and hence preservation. The point is that there is a very considerable amount of knowledge and information that resides sometimes in a single source. Toymaking of the nature that you have been involved is perhaps in a receding time, but I strongly predict that amusements will ebb and flow between the physical realm and virtual. In other words, people will not always want to place computer games. So get on with it, provide your hard won (sometimes painfully won) expertise as the seed for capturing this knowledge so that it stays alive for when it is needed. (And of little - or perhaps ironic - relevance, the discussion and rating area of 9 Chickweed Lane has been disabled. Point may well be that nothing lasts forever.)
Ottodesu: Speaking of sharp...
thanks for your concern. Mere inconvenience, a wake-up call, not incapacitance. Many happy memories, shared with wife, who is a storyteller and tutor in her retirement. I'm now a full-time loafer, though I'm thinking about doing a toymaking website of the wiki sort.
merrytoymaker: I was charmed by your story . . . and then winced. I hope the injuries were a mere temporary inconvenience, not permanent incapacitance. So we have three numerically significant events in the second half of the year. Well, each deserves a celebration!
