THE TITUSVILLE ADVENTURE!

Spent one week visiting my sister over at Titusville, FL. Great sights at the Kennedy Space Center and many other wonderful attractions. But missed the dolphins, manatees and other wildlife that refused to make an appearance while I was there! All in all, it still was a worthwhile visit!

LIDDLE WOLFGANG by Mel Crawford!

This comic book character appeared in the ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE comic books and also in THE MUNSTERS as a bonus short story during Gold Key's golden era of the 1960s.  Liddle Wolfgang was a rambunctious and imaginative kid obsessed with monsters and horror stories. The comic artwork has sometimes been mistakenly credited to Al Kilgore (who was the artist on the BULLWINKLE daily syndicated comic strip), but it was the work of the much underrated Mel Crawford. I loved these little stories and here's a small sample of Liddle Wolfgang's adventures:

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES!

You're either very ugly or have a criminal record!

FERNANDO LLERA - Mini-Biography

FERNANDO LLERA is a comic book artist, editorial cartoonist, illustrator, actor and writer from Mexico City.   He created his first comic strip, "MOBSTER NICK" in 1970. Six comic book issues of MOBSTER NICK were published by NOVARO under the Domingos Alegres banner in 1973-74.     From 1974 to 1992, he wrote and drew the Spanish language versions of "THE PINK PANTHER" and "BEEP BEEP, THE ROAD RUNNER" comic books for Western Publishing Company's Latin American licensees, Editorial Novaro and later Editorial VID.  He performed as a comedian at several local dinner theaters.  In 1985, he wrote and appeared in two comedy TV series. He's also a licensed radio announcer and from 1995 to 2007, he co-hosted a daily two hour radio talk show for Grupo Radio Centro, a large Mexican radio network.  He has illustrated several humor books and his cartoons have been published in several magazines. He published some editorial cartoons for Mexico's Reforma newspaper from 2004 until 2006. He has also appeared as an actor in Mexican films: HASTA MORIR ('Til Death - 1994) and BORRAR DE LA MEMORIA (2010). He was interviewed on-screen for a feature length documentary about the NOVARO era: NOVARO, THE MEXICAN COLOSSUS (2016). Since 2006, his editorial cartoons have been appearing regularly in Excelsior, a Mexican daily newspaper. 

NICK'S NEW YEAR STARTS WITH A BANG!