The Free Flow of Credit

Today's Google logo featuring E.C. Segar's Popeye made me happy, though for a personal and kind of obscure reason.

I have this vivid memory of seeing the movie Annie in '82, probably with Kurt Busiek and other friends. It was the year we graduated college and were seriously pursuing our hopes of making comics professionally.

Annie was based, of course, on the popular Broadway musical, and the musical was based, of course, on the famous long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold...