The Less Said the Better!™

Blurring the Boundaries between Text and Graphic, Word and Picture, Art and Culture

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Fantastic Beasts and Other Unwritten Big, Fat Books

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Some thoughts on the eve of one of the most ambivalent, if not pre-hated, movie releases in recent memory. Revised with a couple of elaborat...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Shows and Other Cons: The Disappearance of Comics, Episode Omega

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The comic book convention as we know is disappearing out from under us; the replacement of the word “con” with “show” in the fan vernacular ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Why the 1963: WhenElse?! Annual—and Why Not

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As followers of my Facebook page may know, I’ve recently opened a can-of-worms project with the working title 1963: WhenElse? Annual . What...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Why In Pictopia Has No Author

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Update - December 16, 2023: Now including my groveling final plea to Alan prior to his final response! This is the last communication I rec...
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Friday, October 1, 2021

J.K. Rowling: The King Lear of Kiddie Lit

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It’s been nearly a year since I’ve blogged about She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-But-Must-Be-Obeyed (even if one is a conscientious objector in t...
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Friday, August 13, 2021

1989: A Transition Year for Drawing Clarissa

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This is a sketch of Clarissa James in 1989, and one of the very first sketches putting her in the Ms. Megaton Man uniform that would become ...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Who's the Greatest Artist Alive Today? Meet Arne the Android!

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I've written elsewhere on the death of drawing ; suffice it to say, over the course of my lifetime, I've watched hand drawing go fro...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Clarissa at #100

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The Ms. Megaton Man ™  Maxi-Series at the Two-Year Mark  The Ms. Megaton Man™ Maxi-Series is fast coming upon episode #100, as well as th...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Other People’s Plato’s Caves

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The Allegory of the Cave is told in Plato’s Republic 514a–520a. Briefly, it says, In a cave deep underground, a group of prisoners are cha...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Everyone’s Entitled to be a Muggle: The Aunt Petunia Defense of J.K. Rowling

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Defenses made on behalf of J.K. Rowling break down into three basic arguments (or non-arguments, as the case may be). They are:
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Donald E. Simpson
Don Simpson is the author of the Ms. Megaton Man™ Maxi-Series, a serialized prose novel. He is the cartoonist and creator of the comic book and graphic novel series Megaton Man™, Border Worlds™, and Bizarre Heroes™, and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish.

Don reviewed fiction and nonfiction books for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for several years and taught writing, YA Lit, and other courses at universities in Western Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Art and Architectural History from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013.

Original and commissioned artwork by Don Simpson is available for purchase. Inquiries are welcome.

The E. is for Edward.

All characters, character names, likenesses, words and pictures are ™ and © Donald E. Simpson 2024, all rights reserved.
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