Surfing With The Alien
In the Any Publicity Is Better Than No Publicity category first time novelist Iain Hollingshead and his novel “Twentysomething”
While We Were Out News
We missed this one: Dave Cockrum, the comics illustrator who popularized the X-Men died at age 63. Without Dave the ODDones would have never learned to read surely. (About our writing (or lack thereof) why you’ll just have to take that up with our high school English teacher Mrs. Hale.) Seems the X-Men were created in 1963 by comics pioneers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but the idea never gained ground with the comic buying public. Cockrum and Len Wein turned the concept around and published “Giant-Size X-Men No. 1″ in 1975.
Also of interest in the LA Times article is this: “The family has asked that, instead of flowers, donations be made to the Hero Initiative, a fund assisting comics creators in need. For details, go to http://www.heroinitiative.org.”
And yes as a matter of fact we did know that “Surfing With The Alien”
And finally a shameless plug: surf yourself over to Oddica and get your family some new apparel this season. Fake Legal note: Oddica is in no way related to ODD, but they do have a really catchy name, eh?
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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