The last design, with the blocky letters and Screaming Yellow Zonkers coloring was done, in great part as an accommodation to Dr. Jerry Bails (more here), founder of comic book fandom and, more importantly, a true comrade and a mensch (and a goy explains how to be one here). (And a terrific biographical esssay is here.)
Dr. Bails passed away last year, the Friday after Thanksgiving. We had met, to the extent we had met, through (unsurprisingly) a comic book history email list or two. When health permitted, he was an active participant. Although he knew, like, everything relating to the subject matter of the list, he occasionally slipped in the odd political observation. (They were too factually based to be opinions.) It was obvious that his politics were what you could call sympathetic to this list. I sent him the URL for the then-iteration of this blog and he advised that reading was difficult for him so I redesigned it to be as easy to read as possible. Which, unfortunately, wasn't easy enough. And, somewhat unsurprisingly, Dr. Bails did not go into the scope of illnesses, leaving it just as, you know, a simple vision thing, like the other old people get, part of aging; it was a lot more than that....
Anyway, the prior design failed to serve its purpose and was too, well, playful looking. So now for something a little more mature....
Here's to you, J.B.!
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