Category: Sci-Fi

The New Words & Pictures Museum

Ghost Rider illustration by John Romita, Sr. on display at the Lucas Museum

Kevin Eastman’s defunct Words & Pictures Museum in Northamption, MA, was funded with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles money. Now, George Lucas has his vastly more ambitious Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, funded with Star Wars money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/arts/design/george-lucas-museum-narrative-art-opening.html?unlocked_article_code=1._FA.1xRd.IPy_K3q36n2G&smid=url-share

Great stuff, but I think it should be noted that the market for comic book original art became greatly inflated with the entry of movie star money. There were stories of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg bidding against each other through proxies. While it can be said that people are now paying what formerly throwaway art is worth, far fewer fans can afford it.

Late for the End Times

Somehow, until now I hadn’t watched the 2019 Amazon Prime 6-episode adaptation of Good Omens, the 1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. At heart, it’s a very entertaining and amusing bromance, with exquisite production quality. The actors were quite obviously having a very good time.

I wanted to watch the series because this week I’ll be seeing Colleen Doran (DOR-an) at the National Cartoonists Society annual meeting and Reuben Awards dinner. This year it’s being held in Columbus, Ohio, in association with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Colleen wrote and illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Good Omens.

https://goodomens.com/products/good-omens-graphic-novel

Regarding certain allegations against Neil Gaiman, all I can say is that Colleen had and has absolutely nothing to do with any of that business.