Interesting (if slightly disturbing) story about how you got your first comic. Sometime around that age, I jumped off the third step coming down the stairs in the living room, and accidentally tripped and hit my head against the door frame. It was the ONLY spot where a bit of metal was sticking out (where the latch was). Blood running down my face, it wouldn't stop, they had to take me to the emergency room (just a few blocks away!!) and for the first of only 2 times in my life, I needed stitches. The scar is still there, but mostly hidden under my hair.
I'd completely forgotten
THE FRIENDLY GIANT. One more of an endless number of TV shows I watched as a kid in the 60's I haven't seen since. He was a sort of host for cartoons, wasn't he?
The blog looks okay. I got ONE single criticism of my own blog since starting it up 2 years ago, which was, the background was black, and the text was purple, which made it difficult for one person to read. My own reading glasses are several years overdue for a new subscription, but since I had no trouble reading my site, I figured it was okay. The nice thing was, the guy who complained said he copied the text of an article to
WORD so he could read it, something he normally wouldn't do except he found it interesting enough that he really wanted to read it! I've done that myself with some websites that were FAR more difficult to read. ("Who designs this stuff???") Black text on white background should be no problem...
I must be the only one left online these days who's still using a "regular" computer monitor, instead of WIDESCREEN one. Fortunately, Firefox has this cool add-on, "NoSquint", which allows me to SHRINK a web page and at the same time BLOW UP the text (so the text is the same size, but the page is thinner). After a recent "upgrade", the "NoSquint" got ALL F***ed up!! But a more recent upgrade seems to have fixed it. (I did write in to them to complain 3 times.) Just wondering if you know offhand how wide your screen is? When I post images, I find 700 pixels is perfect for the width of MY screen. (If you go to the
MASTERWORKS message board, the IDIOTS there love to post tons of images within messages which make it IMPOSSIBLE to read the messages without constantly scrolling horizontally left-right-left-right... or, using a different add-on to SHUT OFF all the images so the text actually fits in my screen.
This is why, when I do threads on message boards, I prefer links to images, rather than embedded images.
Anyway, for me to look at your blog without horizontal scrolling, my "NoSquint" settings are 80% for the page and 115% for the text. As it happens, the settings for the
Comic Book Plus site are 115% and 20%. The thing is smart enough to save settings separately for EVERY site you use them on. (That's what got messed up for a couple months back there... settings from one site would be carried to another, so you'd have to manually adjust every time you'd go to a site.)
Is this any help?