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July 17, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
TOMORROW! Come see me tomorrow at the Old Wethersfield Book Walk!
(Those words are bleed-over from the following panel. They don’t count!)
READ THIS BOOK! (and no other)
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Kurt Schaffenberger!
July 15, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXIX
(Come see me July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.
•Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes (2010).
A life spent worthily should be measured by a noble line; by deeds not years. They only have lived long, who have lived virtuously.
•Richard Sheridan, Pizarro (1799).
July 13, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(TOMORROW! July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: It’s the morning of April 11. Nothing bad has happened yet. Colin (aka Agent Anderson) and Bernie are getting ready to change that, while Mickey (aka Sp!der) tries to use his cousin to ferret out the prospective shooter’s identity.)
3.Officer Oberman slept through his alarm, but hi...
July 10, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
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Carl Barks!
July 8, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXVIII
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published World, world, O world!But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,Life would not yield to age.•Shakespeare, Lear (1606).Happy people on many worlds—! They aren’t cursed by relentless fiends like I am.
•Jerry Siegel, Superma...
July 6, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: It’s the morning of April 11. Colin wakes up in Bernie’s house.)
Book V: One Short Morning1.Some time around dawn, wrapped in Colin’s comforter on his 600-count Egyptian cotton sheets, Carol drifted into a slumbe...
July 3, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!(get well soon)
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Miller & Rubinstein!
July 1, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXVII
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
READ THIS BOOK! (and no other)
Iron bars will bend and break.
•trad., “London Bridge Is Falling Down.”
And all my sloth and failure, all my passion
One with the sorrow of the Gaul and Goth,
And all our fireproof homes are burnt and ashen,
And in the moth-proof closets dwells the moth;
And every most unspeakable thing is spoken,
Rust in the rust-res...
June 29, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: Colin Lang left a stolen car running out on the street. Colin girlfriend Carol Wernick is at Colin’s house, wondering where Colin is and what he might be up to. She does not suspect, of course, the answer, which is that he’s nearby at Bernie Feldstein’s ho...
June 26, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
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Steve Muffatti!
