Showing posts with label Wikipedia is crap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia is crap. Show all posts

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sometimes I Wonder

It's no secret I have very little respect for Wikipedia as a reference tool. Well, I'm starting to think that "Wiki" must be Internetese for "bum steer." Here's what I found on ZineWiki:
and I must say the about the only correct info on this is my name and the fact I'm a native Washingtonian. Twisted Conundrums was actually a column, not comix. I graduated high school back in the days of Tricky Dick.

Steve Willis is an artist, writer and publisher of minicomics, originally from Washington State, U.S.A.

Willis began producing minicomics soon after graduating high School, in the late 1980's. Since then he as produced a number of titles, and several issues were produced of a couple of his titles.

Some of his comics have appeared in the Northwestern newspaper 'The Stranger. Some of these comics were subsequently collected into a minicomic entitled Twisted Conundrums, released in 2001.




Sunday, September 19, 2010

LHO






LHO was published May 5, 2001. It had a print run of a whopping 26 copies (5 blue, 2 red, 4 green, 7 pink, 8 yellow).

The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. of June 2005 had 5 copies (2 pink, 3 yellow).

This minicomic was drawn with a #1 lead pencil.

I know it is fashionable these days to believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but the circumstantial evidence of the assassination being a group effort seems too big to ignore for me. But that doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor about conspiracy theories, as evidenced (I hope) with this work.

The story is basically true, except for a few details. Since there are people who will believe and quote everything they read (Wikipedia is a good example of a very bad reference source in popular use and frequently cited) I feel obliged to spell out some things. There really was an aquarium fellow and he did indeed look like Oswald, but I believe he had teeth. There was no Texas Book Depository box in his house. The person I knew who lived in his house later was actually living in the house next door, but she told me the new resident in her neighbor's house found tons of discarded aquarium stuff in the place.

And by a coincidence, not a conspiracy, the real-life fellow who looked like Oswald died shortly after this comic was first published.