Soberfrog

Today's quote -

Now that the comic geeks have left town or at least gone home to their comic stuffed cramp apartments that they share with other like minded geeks. The west side piers can once again resume their normal tasks.
Lets look at an earlier version of a comic geek -
Gustave Verbeek published a series of upside down cartoons in The Sunday New York Herald, in the beginning of the 1900's. The first part of the cartoon is read normally, then you can turn it upside down and the story continues ! You will see that he was absolutely brilliant in this genre.
This upside down stuff prompts me to tell a short tale from my Dad's life. When he went to work (in London) via the tube  to go to the city, he used to read the
He so disliked people reading over his shoulder that he taught himself to read upside down. So now he was probably considered a little excentric - well wait. He then taught himself to write upside down too & he used to sit on the train doing the Telegraph crossword upside down as much for his own, as others, ammusement. This goes to show the family tradition of (maybe) extreme exentricities....

More tomorrow