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See also this journal on February 24, 2024:  Wittenborn.

In memory of a comic-book artist —

His views on physics at

http://web.archive.org/web/20060805085915/
http://nealadams.com/PhysicsOfGrow.html

… and a New Yorker  cartoon from
his reported date of death — April 28 —

A different sort of scourge —

The Source:

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

The title was suggested by the previous post.

See as well posts now tagged Crumbs.

In memory of Gahan Wilson, "too cool for  school" —

Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst
in "Spider-Man 2" (2004) —

Spoilers for another Kirsten Dunst film,
"Midnight Special" (2016) —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

From another obituary for
the "Spider-Man" screenwriter —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

See as well . . .

http://www.walterkaufmann.com/articles/1970_Prologu_Ich_Du.pdf .

(Continued)

Two visions of happy neurons:

This post was suggested by a link in today's New York Times —

"Simon Denny, the New Zealand artist whose work incorporates
board games, intervenes by introducing his own pieces into an attic of
the late-18th-century Haus zum Kirschgarten, already filled with
'old historical dollhouses, board games, chess games' and the like …."

The previous post illustrated 
"Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard."

A search for Psychonauts in
this journal yields …

In other news …