From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Holiday Wish Lists
Organization: The Eight Tiny Reinsquid of the Poor
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:40:37 GMT

If we're done with elections, it must be time for the holidays...

The CBG (why do I always want to call it the CGB? Must be a Russian thing.) 
has been having people submit 5 comic-related (sorta) gifts that they
either want or suggest giving for Holidays. So I'm curious, what's on
the net.holiday.wish list? If you were giving gifts to friends interested
in comics or you want something left under your holiday decoration of
choice, what would it be? 

Remember, you'll be graded on originality so I don't want to see a
whole bunch of people all saying, "Rob Leifeld's head on a stake!" Gifts
may exist or may be imaginery, but try to tie them into the comic 
industry at least slightly. Try to keep it to five, but you can probably
get away with a few ties.

Since I'm the one appropriating this idea, I better go first.

1. Frames. Recently, I've been buying and receiving a lot of posters and
   prints. Despite urges just to tack them up on the wall, I've got 
   most of them stored away in poster tubes waiting for frames. However, 
   frames seem to cost more than I spent on the art. A certificate for
   frame work or even a course in frame making would be a good gift.

2. Cerebus plush toy. You know I almost ordered one of these about 10 years
   ago? Instead I ordered a Cerebus T-shirt. *sigh* Most Cerebus fans, 
   especially those who have been hanging on for awhile and remember the
   original ads, would trade their copy of issue #51 for one of these.
   I know I would and mine is signed by Dave.

3. Endless Candid portfolio. This doesn't exist, but it should. Instead of
   having artists do formal family portraits, why not have a portfolio of
   Endless in somewhat informal sittings? Death sorting through her floppy
   hat collection. Dream, in jeans and T-shirt, listening to Iggy Pop.
   Delirium playing with frogs. Destiny...well I can't think of an informal
   Destiny pose, but you get the idea. Farm it out to 7 different artists.  
   (I'm sorry, I must insist that three of those seven are Dringenberg,
   Vess and McKean.) Works for me.

4. Sam and Max stuff. Buy lots of this, so Sam and Max will be up to their 
   "puffy white butts in ill-gotten royalty dough." Plus Marvel might 
   make Sam and Max Freelance Police a regular thing and never bag with
   Dirt magazine again. Don't forget: shirts, pins and stickers. 

5. (tie) Peter A. David Signature Basketball. Probably in alternating
   gray and green sections. Just like the ball used by PAD when he shows
   his daughter(s) how one-on-one should be played.

   A copy of Batman: The Animated Movie. A full-length movie with plenty
   of time for a nice plot, plenty of villains and crisp Spectrum
   animation. Not presently available, but maybe soon, I hope.  
--
  Lance "Cr2O3.2H2O" Smith | "Quick! Get behind me! I don't know what a
    (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)    |  little peanut like you could do to so upset
     Absinthe makes the    |  him, but it looks like Doomsday really wants 
      time grow softer     |  to kill you"    _Mr Peanut meets Superman_
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