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Bureau of Drawers: Quarterly Anthology

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Greetings from the Bureaucrats!

Forgoing our usual annual Valentine’s celebration art show, many of our number are focusing on finishing up their pieces for our imminent and much ballyhooed foray into regular publishing. To put it another way, the Bureau of Drawers is hard at work on our first-ever entirely digital effort and first in a series of quarterly anthologies entitled The Bureau of Drawers Quarterly: A. The next edition will be “B”, et cetera. We’re all very excited to begin…I mean finish…our projects and submit them to you for your enjoyment in the incredibly affordable and convenient form of a digitally downloadable file. Please keep your eyes flickering nervously back to thebureauofdrawers.com for updates sometime near the end of this month.

In unrelated news, David Lasky, your friend and mine, has used his incredible networking powers to furnish me with his mother-in-law’s cat, Claudia. She is adjusting nicely and does not make my apartment smell any more than I am capable of doing myself. Let’s hear it for old friend’s old cats! Please let me know if you never want to hear about my cat ever again.

February Meeting: Pat Moriarty

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How do you make a living in a media market that’s changing faster than a politician’s promises? Better yet, how do you do it and make it look easy?

Nope. We don’t know either.

But if you come to our Feb. 18 meeting you’ll find out how our guest speaker Pat Moriarity does it.

For over 20 years, the fabulously talented Moriarity has done it all. As a commercial artist he’s created art for video games, CD covers, posters, stickers, T-shirts and more. He’s done underground comics, editorial cartoons, and was one of the artists who collaborated with the late Harvey Pekar on Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaption. (more…)

Surfing the Stan Lee Universe with Danny Fingeroth

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The January 2012 CNW Meeting Review – by Jeff Hawley

Can there ever be “‘nuff said!” about Stan “The Man” Lee? What a career! And what a book about that life and the man behind it (still web-slingin’ at age 89) penned by authors Danny Fingeroth and Roy Thomas, with Stan’s input (“The Stan Lee Universe”, 192 pgs., TwoMorrows Publishing).

At the specially-scheduled January 5th CNW meeting, Danny talked about the making of and displayed images from the book, keeping his audience face front and true-believin’! Even Mr. Fantastic might be hard-pressed to stretch his arms around this book’s trove of rare interviews with Stan and other comics luminaries, memorabilia, correspondence, photos and stories. The book encompasses the history of Stan’s legendary comic book achievements: co-creating Spiderman, the X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, Thor, Iron Man … the whole Marvel Universe! (more…)