Bear with me...

Last night we rented the film "Grizzly Man". If you loved Drop Dead Gorgeous, this is just as funny... but real. It's a documentary about a fruity dude who gets eaten by a bear. It is deeply disturbing, but as fascinating as anything I have seen lately. I had to fast forward through some of it because the guy and his girlfriend and the coroner all made my skin crawl, but it inspired me alot. You know the nasty wristwatch in Pulp Fiction? There is a version of it here and it actually happened.

My favorite part is when some old Republican is giving his opinion on the guy: He got what he deserved. It fact, we should send a pack of hungry Grizzlies into Berkeley to eat ALL the hippies.

And that made me wonder...

What city gets credit for being the birthplace of comics? Where was Jack Kirby when he changed the world? Which characters are so pivotal that their birth could stamp a location as the womb of greatness?

Kirby was working in New York.

It's not a biography of Kirby, but you might want to check out The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. It's a book about two kids who write comics in the 1930s.

Even saying that the story was "inspired by" Kirby's life is probably stetching it. I did enjoy the book, however, there is this really disturbing part where one of the main characters realizes he's gay after spending some time with his father in a steam room....I didn't mind the gay portion of that character, but that stuff with his father is creepy.

Back to topic: I would definitly have to say that New York has and is the center of the comic publishing world. Marvel and DC both have their original offices there. So its been the birth place of every high and low that comics have seen in the last sixty odd years.

Wow. I have had that book in the trunk of my car for three years since my stepmother told me how good it was and lent it to me. Now I am glad I didn't read it. Thanks for the warning.

I guess I should caveat Grizzly Man too, the fruity guy lists the reasons, in detail, that it is easier for a gay man to get laid than a straight man, all the time trying to convince us (unsuccessfully) that he is strictly straight. It's hilarious.

This really needs to go in Another Realms or one of the Comic Book forums.

I thought Billy had freed us all from those laws. Where should the Western Front thread go?