LOSING OUR GREATS...

As most of you know, We lost another one of our legends. The truely great ALEX TOTH passed away on may 27th at the age of 78. Its said from his eldest son, that Alex died at his drawing table doing what he does and always loved doing. If thats the case, Its the elegant end to a truley fantastic giant of our industry.
This guy is a guy that was looked at as an inspiration and influence from everyone from Bruce Timm to Alex Ross.
He was a brilliant and opinionated artist. Opinionated...He makes ME look tame in comparison. His views on the artform were STRONG and for the most part SPOT ON.
With the passing of Alex Toth along with the passing of the great Joe Grant almost exactly a year ago from Alex Toths passing
The originators...We are truely losing all of our greats.
Enclosed is a strong view from the great Alex Toth on the state of an industry. God Bless ya mr. Toth and thanks for the inspiration.

"ALEX TOTH VIEW FROM THE INSIDE."

"I'm rewriting this for the umpteenth time, in different ways, yet saying the same thing -- that the party's over, kiddies! Since I was born in 1928 -- and was just old enough to applaud the first comic books in the early and mid-1930's, I've witnessed the best and worst of the form from then to now -- I loved the medium of the comic book as I did the syndicated comic strip in its countless forms, subjects, treatments -- in my time. Now in the autumn or winter of my life, my eyes have seen the bad drive out the good, the terminal deterioration and all-but-lost/dead adventure strip -- and the fun and magic, and delicious innocence and surprises in the comic book; which, unless room is made for such again, will not, cannot, should not, survive.



The ugly, mean, vile, banal, twisted, sick, bloody celebration of torture, rape, cruelty, filth, demonic and socio-political psycho-babble -- and death -- is disgusting stuff to me -- and it's our youngest writers/cartoonists/editors cranking out this garbage! Which is sub-anti-human drek, devoid of original thought or of moral, ethical values -- it is hopeless fatalism, nihilism, anarchy, pointy-headed anti-everything gibberish -- and most of it dares to label itself 'adult' -- 'for mature readers' -- etc, ect -- which is nonsense!



Much more 'adult and mature' are the stories no one can, or will, write about and illustrate: Joy, wonder, love honor, humor, wit, intelligence, invention, compassion, trust, respect, duty, character, sacrifice, sentiment, family, discovery, exploration, history, the myriad peoples, customs, and stories abounding out there in the world -- human stories!



It's just too easy and predictable to grind out incessant repetitions of the doom and gloom, post-armageddon bilge, garbage anti- and non-heroic bumbling 'heroes', to feed the sickness of its own making -- damn how well it may be written or drawn! It's garbage! Created by the young for the younger and youngest readers -- who, for twenty years of it, almost two generations now -- keep buying it! It's beyond me! I fear for our future -- if we're to have one (?) -- if such is 'entertainments' for our fathers and leaders of tomorrow! What might their offspring be like, then, I wonder.



Nope, sorry -- I see no future for us, for them, for comics, tv, movies, etc, unless we kick 'sick', and give kids back their childhood years of innocence, hope, faith, joy, wonder, morals, morale, just plain good clean fun --



The sick kick plagues comics everywhere, east to west, from Japan to England to Europe to here --(I don't know about our Southern Latin neighbors)-- we've had enough of desolation of spirit and shock to our senses. The comic book is, in the hands of today's worst practitioners and proselytizers of this mind-set, committing suicide! and murder! of its traditions, roots!

It cannot stand --
As it is, it should not!



A pox on it, and those who uglify children's minds and senses and expectations with their miasmic miserable muck and mayhem!

And the pale horses they rode in on!

'Cursed be the fool who destroys wonder!

Remember?

I do . . ."

© 1991 Alex Toth

BAD DAYS FOR LIBERALS/DEMONRATS......

But wonderful days for Conservatives, our incredible military and everyone else that loves this country and freedom in general.

For starters, last week (June 7th), the roach known as abu al zarqawi was was killed by our fantastic guys in uniform. AND on the same day, Iraq filled two critical positions in their government. You would think that EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, would be thrilled with this news. Well everyone but our sweet little radical lefties, also known as:...the demonrats.

As I sat there, reading the news via internet, and watching the incoming reports on TV, I could almost hear the shriveled little blackened olive pits that stand in for their hearts-----breaking.

You see this is bad news, BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD NEWS for the nutty left. I am positive that the reaction that they were having as they read and watch the same reports of this incredible news, that their reaction would be the total opposite of MY reaction. And I made bets with myself on what I would see.

And sure enough...My assumption was spot on. OOOOO the sorrowful faces that I saw at the death of this terrorist. Even as they stood before the microphone to say what good news this was. And then turn and try to downplay the meaning of this achievement.

Nutty 'san fran nancy pelosi'....democratic 'leader', (AHEM)...came out and said, “I salute the troops...." And then went on to talk about social security!

THAT WAS IT! …." I salute the troops...”.

SURE you do.

Glum faces all on the political hard left. I found myself actually looking for black armbands on them to mourn the loss of zarqawi.

But why? Why this reaction?

Were these NOT fantastic achievements? Is this not great news? Isn’t this good for ALL? To stomp out this roach and take in a treasure trove of intelligence and have the Iraqi government fill TWO key positions in there cabinet. Isn’t that a good thing? Well obviously, yes. Yes it is.

So why all the gloomy faces from the demonrats?
Well. ANY good news is bad news for them. Because they depend on sadness. They depend on tragedy. They depend on bad things happening to give them SOME sort of traction. EVEN if that is at the expense of the country. They don’t want zarqawi dead. Because He HELPS them. As long as he keeps those beheadings a’ coming, then they can point and shriek about "quagmires" and "Vietnam". He (zarqawi) is, in essence....an ally for the crazy liberals.

With the number three terrorist taken out, a person who is responsible for THOUSANDS of deaths..(THOUSANDS!).He is a pawn no longer on the 'payroll' of the spineless ‘cut and run’ liberals.

And that is EXACTLY what they are...'cut and runners'. They want out of this war. They do not have a good track record with evil or dealing with evil. Wrong over and over and over again. History is a good indicator of the liberal heart (and spine) when faced with true evil. And one of the reasons they are always wrong, is that they view THIS country to be as evil as or more evil than say....nazism/facism, communism, and now radical Islamism in the form of the Taliban and al-qaida.

Such brave folks. And why not? Its safer to take a stand against a government that WON’T slit your throat and hold your severed head up to a video camera, and then post it on the internet. Brave indeed.

So a bad day for our little pets known as the loopy lefties...The cut and runners. To them, a better world is one with Saddam Hussein still ruling, the rape and torture rooms still in effect and heavily in use. zarqawi still alive and beheading innocents. And the U.S. trying to coddle osama bin laden, to try and "understand why he hates soooo ve-wee much!"

The "cut and run" label is a perfect term for the demonrats. Because they've never met an evil that they aren’t willing to deal with in their own interesting way....To hang their heads, tuck their tail firmly between their legs and skulk away with a whimper.

The modern democrat.

PS: So long zarqawi! Hope you took some marshmallows so your hiney isn’t the only thing roasting.