Long overdue

Nothing comic related this time, just spouting off about something I think is important.

Today is the Anniversary of D-Day. To quote Tom Hanks: "The peaceful world as we have known it for over half a century began in Normandy on June 6, 1944." That was the beginning of the end of WWII.

I learned something today that kind of floored me...there are something like 50+ monuments to the Allied heroes of D-Day. But somehow, the US Navy has been left unrecognized all this time.

Someone finally decided it was time to fix that. A sculptor here in the states is creating the bronze monument seen here. This September it will be shipped to Normandy, France (possibly the only place in France that still likes us) ;) and installed to honor the seamen who successfully conducted the largest naval operation in world history as well as those navy personnel who lost their lives.

Go to the site and check it, and contribute a couple bucks if you have it. The people and events of WWII need to be remembered.

IT IS.....DONE!

Finally completed lettering the NYE INCIDENTS GN for Devil's Due. Of course, as things tend to go, NYE along with four other things kind of all came in at once and needed to be done ASAP...as compared to drifting in over the previous MONTHS as scheduled.

In spite of power outages costing me half a day and other little things coming up I managed to do the final two chapters in three days (as well as working on other jobs while waiting for scripts or correction notes or whatever). Which is pretty fast for me given that the previous chapters took about a week each. Maybe I need the pressure to get my speed up.

Also got TRAILER PARK OF TERROR #9 out last week. Most of the material for that came in just a couple days before NYE so it got in line first. This issue has a very.... interesting... "theme" of sorts. Whatever could it be? Might the cover art give some slight clue?

In some ways, I'm starting to feel like letterers are the ER doctors of the comics team. Invariably everything that can go wrong, does. (DAMN YOU, MURPHY! DAMN YOU AND YOUR LAW TO HELL!) Anyway, once Murphy has done his damage to the production schedule and moved on, the frantic "parents" rush their ailing "baby" in my ER and say "So, umm....any chance we could...y'know...maybe get that tomorrow? Or the next day? Pleeeease?" Other work, personal commitments, SLEEP be damned this thing needs to be saved.

So, yeah, we're like the ER docs.

Except, y'know, they get paid reeeeeally well.

And people respect them. (I've seen comic book reviews where everyone from the writer down to the editor was listed in the credits...but not the letterer. I mean c'mon, people! You have to go past the letterer on the credits page to even see who that editor was!!)