Closing the price gap
Biofuels, ethanol and biodiesel, are getting more competitive as the price of oil soars.
Daily archives: June 21, 2005
Keep it in the family
Investigating the father/son dynamics in creating comic strips.
The family arrangement prevailed not only in the funny pages but also in real life. Now age 81, Walker presides over a nest of strips worked on by his sons, as well as the sons of Dik Browne. It takes a complicated chart to trace this family tree, but, in a nutshell, “Hi and Lois” is now produced by Brian and Greg Walker and Chance Browne, “Beetle Bailey” by Mort Walker and Greg Walker, and “Hagar the Horrible” by Chris Browne.
Technorati tag: Comic strip
Little grey Bond
My secret agent has received an undercoat of grey and awaits the first, broad strokes of colour. His car, meanwhile, is stuck in the scrap yard. A lack of parts and damaged body shell mean I’m putting aside the EBay purchase and getting another. The combine cost is still less than six quid and the scratchbuilt parts I’ve put together so far will go in the new model just as well.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Figure Painting
Art for Art's sake, Money for God's sake
Novelist and former ad executive Michale T Owens is selling a page of advertising space in his upcoming novel on EBay. On Friday, when Yahoo wrote about this, the high bid was $6.49, so he’s likely to remain a starving artist for a bit longer.
Technorati tag: Advertising, Novel