Some aimless wandering brought me to this transcription of newspaper articles from issues of the long-defunct Brooklyn Daily Standard Union. They all date from the summer of 1887 and are part of a larger transcription project; which I have yet to explore because I’ve been engrossed in reading samples like this:

Sixteen year old Maggie GORMAN has been missing from her grandparents’ house in Clay street, since Monday of last week. Her grandfather believes she has been abducted by a certain woman of bad repute.

I’m fascinated by the 123-year-old dramas summed up so pithily by this paper. Robbery, abandonment, mysterious disappearances, insanity, calamitous fires, women of ill repute, drunken brawling… all manner of human misbehavior and misery…

Let’s hope Frank is happily slaying beasts and hanging with barely clothed nymphs somewhere, in another dimension.

A gallery of some of Frank’s art

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-fantasy-illustrator-dies-at-82/?src=mv

QUERY: ’sup?
{initiate protocol: givefive}
RESPONSE: you are aware of how I do

Hilarious interview with the Mayor of Johannesburg.

letterheady.com displays interesting & notable letterhead designs.