Posted on 10/15/2017 12:01:37 PM PDT by mairdie
I once owned The Incredible Hulk #1 (from the first-run, short-lived series).
My oldest was a near-mint Detective #99 (WWII).
Downloaded, enjoyed and reviewed.
Thanks!
I just ordered it. As a poet, calligrapher, and author, I am sure I will enjoy this. Thank you very much.
Calligraphy is such a marvelous art. It’s a skill well beyond me, but one I admire so much. Do you have a link to any of your poetry? I enjoy reading people so much. Do you do calligraphy of your work, as well? And what type of writing? I love the rhythm of words. Sometimes I don’t know all the words of a sentence, but I often know the rhythm of the syllables and put in xx’s until I can replace them with words.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the book. Henry was a wonderful poet, but also a sincerely good man. I never read him but come away with a great sense of joy and peace. I hope you find that joy as well. Let me know if he appeals to you.
I ran to read it. Deepest thanks and gratitude. That was extraordinarily kind of you. Collecting the postcards became absolutely addictive. Poor husband. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Did you notice the relationship of the book with the music videos? They’re actually incredibly similar animals.
I have Conan The Barbarian #1
sorry...My all-time favorite comic book artist was Disney's Carl Barks. He did stories like the square country, the gold rush, etc. Incredibly hilarious, sensitively expressive art. I should have been more descriptive...
I’ll search out the name. I should have done that. Thank you. I love good comic art.
My poetry is as yet unpublished. I sometimes use idiosyncratic rhythm and rhyme; the hoity-toities who have perused examples consider it too ordered and abstract. Academia is controlled by secular hedonists who prefer the disordered and concrete.
Kipling and Poe are two of my favorites, so I am old(er) school.
I have one Kindle published, on nutrition, my vocation. I am writing a science-fiction tetralogy; I have about 100,000 words so far, mostly for the first volume. I may incorporate some of my poetry in that.
I have several shorter books on nutrition and theology in the works.
I am self taught in calligraphy. I was actually very good. Sadly, there is little call for it now in the digital graphic era. I used to make cards for others, and include a poem or Bible verse.
Yes, the rhythm of words is vital to good writing, I think, prose as well as poetry. When I write, I start with good grammar, then modify it as appropriate for voice, then substitute words that produce a better rhythm and alliteration. I call it word tasting.
An author who conveys a poetic feel to her prose is Patricia McKillip (The Riddle Master series).
My current avocation is singing and writing choral music. I back-doored into it: I wanted to set my poems to music, and took some classes on theory. I was good at theory, and good at harmony, so I ended up in some very high level choral ensembles, including arena extravaganzas like Star Wars in Concert, and The Lord of the Rings in Concert.
They were exhilarating, but my preference is for a cappella chamber choir music, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic. I toured Europe with two ensembles, and the first one competed in Italy.
I have been privileged to sing for some world-class conductors. I am not really quite at the level of some of my peers, but I am a very low bass; my voice type is always in demand, especially for Russian repertoire.
Your technique for composing is the one recommended by Gene Lees, lyricist (”Waltz for Debby”) and jazz critic, in his Rhyming Dictionary.
I had that one as well. I sold my collection years ago.
I did not want to sell it piece by piece, so I listed it as a set.
After days of trying to negotiate me out of that, a man bought my entire collection of thousands just to get 11 (!) comic books:
The eleven issues of X-Men that were drawn by Neal Adams. (They were near mint.)
The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine!
My mother did not give mine away, she threw them away!
I put a stop to that, but many of my oldest and most valuable ones were destroyed.
(A couple of years ago, a family that was about to lose the generational home found in the attic on their last day an old comic book: Action #1. They sold it for $1,000,000 and saved the home.)
As always: nothing substantive or positive to contribute.
Science fiction is WONDERFUL! That is absolutely exciting. You’ve got a good start there.
I wrote scripts and I remember the feeling of knowing I was close to writing the last words of the story, and knowing that the moment those words were on the screen, I’d be thrown out of that world and never again be in it in the same way. And so it came to be.
Calligraphy, like Chinese characters, is art. I would think that you would still have a whole world in front of you to combine calligraphy as art pieces. Ancient manuscript illumination is one of my favorite art forms, and I would think what you do might be very similar.
I had a one week class in screenplay writing. Learned a great deal about dialog tricks. Basically, partial sentences. Full sentences are artificial sounding. I went on from there by taping conversations with my friends and transcribing the conversations in order to analyze dialog. In my time, I had to compare the actual words spoken by actors with the words as written by the screenplay writer to see how actors wanted to say the sentence. Today it’s easier because many shows have fan written transcripts, which mean they’re the actors words, not screenplay writers. MUCH better. Even if you aren’t going with screenplays, that is where, like poetry is a skeleton, you find the bones of dialog.
Your music background is THRILLING! My voice is long gone but I remember loving singing in chorale. Coloratura. That is SO exciting. Brilliant!
I am so deeply sorry about your collection. It never makes it through my head how someone who loves you so much, like a mother, could not understand how something could mean something to you, even if it doesn’t mean something to them.
I had another friend who built his own home, two floors with a wrap around deck. He had three other friends helping him and he paid them only in beer. We became friends after it was built.
Like your wonderful library, it is amazing what people with the right talents can build for themselves.
THANK YOU! Your words are so kind. The absolute joy is to create something where nothing existed before. I was as proud of what I created in each of those boards as I was with the library as a whole.
Everyone told me that poplar wasn’t usable as is. That it was wood to be painted. But I kept seeing this amazing grain and these incredible colors. But if you treat poplar like any other wood, then it acts like tissue paper and stain just fuzzes the lines within the wood and you lose everything.
I finally worked out putting on a base that kept the grain intact. The next stage was using a stain that could go on OVER a base and those were awful to use. But every board was treated that way and I’d take them to show the Lowes people what was possible.
The best boards were the rejects at the back of the stacks. Greens. Blues. Oranges. Purples. The store people would move EVERY board out to get me the ones in the back. And if I found a 1/4 or 1/2 wondrous board, I’d take that, too. And we glued the boards up until we ended up with the required 3/4. Or if we found a board that blew your mind, we’d slice it down the middle into two identical boards 1.5/4 each, glue them back to 3/4, and use them as mirror reflections.
I’d lay out puzzles with numbers on the back and the team would lay them on the wall in that same order. Scared them, but it always worked. They were SO proud of what they accomplished. And they became dear friends.
Actually, this conversation just gave me a major character realization. I didn’t go forward with art history because of this crazy teacher who spent his entire life studying the payroll reports of the stone quarry to get clues as to which sculptor created which anonymous statue on the front of an Italian cathedral. I couldn’t even imagine doing such nitty work my whole life instead of just enjoying the beauty of art. Obviously, this was before I knew myself well. Drilling down into payroll records isn’t much different from the nitty on which I do spend my life. I COULD have gone into art history!
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