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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· 9d

Dug out my old copies of Secret Wars II (following @tomewing.bsky.social ‘s mega threads about #EventsDearBoy) and much enjoyed re-reading issue one, with a very sweet Molecule Man section and a fun bit of satire too.

Stewart Cadwall, ordinary chump and screenwriter for TV, gets given untold power by the Beyonder and it goes to his head. Here he’s fighting ‘the famous Captain America [who] has come to defend the corrupt institutions he represents! All hail the champion of lies, injustice, and the American decay!’ (From Secret Wars II issue 1, July 1985. Script by Jim Shooter, pencils by Al Milgrom, inks by Steve Leialoha.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· 27d

Brown is definitely a big feature. My kid tried on all the dresses and actually they looked much better on than I would have expected from just the brownness of the print.

Dress one: two different sizes of ditsy print but all in shades of 70s brown. The dress has a high frilly collar stand and a sort of bib thing, with an additional bit that’s supports to be tied in a bow. There’s a printed care label showing that it was bought rather than home made.

A second brownish dress with small ditsy print, but in a nicer warmer shade and with a zingy yellow trim that brings out some of the undertones in the main print. It has thin spaghetti straps making it into a nice sundress.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· 27d

We’re sorting out the loft insulation - well, my other half is doing most of it but he’s brought stuff down for me to sort out and get rid as necessary. This bag is a good one: proper genuine clothes from the 1980s! In browns and purples, ditsy print flowers, and all.

Close up of fabric in shades of purple-brown, with a beautiful dark red-purple piping. The motif is floral, featuring something like a pyramidal hollyhock shape. The dress is from the 1980s.

Close up of fabric in shades of purple-brown. The motif is floral, featuring something like a pyramidal hollyhock shape. The dress is from the 1980s. There is an out of focus purple button in a spherical shape visible towards the left side of the photo.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Jul 8

by going back into the past and ‘sift[ing] through ten weeks at super-speed before I found her’ (!! time doesn’t work like that but OKAY) (oh and apparently the Ripper was driven to murder because he “hated the evil conditions of London’s East End” yeah right.)

The ghost stalker’s letter is being analysed my a hand-writing expert(!) who deduces that this “John” character is clearly a psychopath (!!). Upon which the enlarger machine blows up. Script: Cary Bates. Art: Werner Roth/Vince Colletta. From Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane no 108, Feb 1971.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Jul 8

Have dug out my long box of Lois Lane comics! Featuring gems such as this one, where Lois is stalked by a ghost from Victorian England (er…) brought over to Metropolis with an heirloom dagger (ok…?) and then it is Jack the Ripper and he takes Lois back to Victorian London and Supes has to rescue her

Supes is being analysed by a ghost who turns out to be Jack The Ripper. ‘I can sense this man is a fantastically powerful being, not a native of Earth! But nevertheless, I must deal with him! I will tolerate no rival for this woman’s love!’ Script: Cary Bates. Art: Werner Roth/Vince Colletta. From Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane no 108, Feb 1971.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Jun 28

Have been on a reading spree of one of Lois McMaster Bujold’s fantasy series: the Penric & Desdemona series. I don’t buy lots and lots through Apple Books, I prefer physical copies normally, but US SF&F isn’t always easy to find in UK shops. There’s also the temptation to buy the next book ASAP!

Front cover of Lois McMaster Bujold’s novella ‘Penric’s Demon’, first in a series. The image depicts a fortified castle with towers and turrets, standing in a lake surrounded by low mountains. All looks rather generic European medieval stuff but not too princess-y or disneyfied.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 31

Check out the Beano collaboration watch that is launching in June! mrjoneswatches.com/products/bea... Many thanks to @andustar.bsky.social for the heads up on this. The launch event on 6 June in London has Beano artist Nigel Parkinson doing live illos, too.

Launch event for the Mr Jones Watches collaboration with The Beano: they are producing a limited edition Dennis The Menace and Gnasher watch. The launch event is in Neal St in Covent Garden, London, and features Beano artist Nigel Parkinson.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 23

Out and about in Cowley: this was actually from yesterday but it’s another sunny day and not much will have changed as yet. I hadn’t spotted this large fence mural before now, it’s pretty cool. Not sure if it’s still being worked on, the right hand side is less fully developed.

Mural painted on wooden fence in Cowley, near the John Allen centre. Someone’s face emerges from a mass of green growth that acts like hair: to their right is someone with a sunflower for a head. The mural continues to the right.

Mural painted on wooden fence in Cowley, near the John Allen centre. At the left of the mural is the person with the sunflower for a head mentioned in the previous picture. The images then carry on to the right, not quite sure what is depicted but I think it may be findings from archaeological digs perhaps, but there are also pipes with water or some fluid coming out.

Mural painted on wooden fence in Cowley, near the John Allen centre. What looks like a child or young person is sat in the back of a very long crocodile. The person is coloured in but the crocodile is rather unfinished looking.

Mural painted on wooden fence in Cowley, near the John Allen centre. This is the end of the mural seemingly. Someone’s face is shown looking leftward, blowing a conch or large horn. He has a beard and maybe a turban. It all still looks a bit unfinished and not yet coloured in. Maybe the greenery is intended to grow over the person a bit, as well?

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 19

Doing a bit of re-reading of X-Men (issue 210 or so) and check out the actual little map of the special event that was going on at the time (the rather grim Mutant Massacre).

Massacre Map from the back of X-Men 211 by Claremont and John Romita Jr - depicts the reading order of the Mutant Massacre special event. Aftermaths of this event includes the X Men ending up in Australia, Excalibur being formed, and something something X-Factor I forget. Next event after this one - prob Inferno I guess?

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 17

And then finally just on a nearby street, the James St Tavern holds a monthly art market which has some nice wee stalls, more studenty if you like, with stickers and prints and a range of items including fimo earrings and suchlike. I got this print and this wee fish magnet made in fimo.

Print of rock pool in green ink and pale green wash; and a small multicoloured fimo fish made into a magnet.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 17

Jon Crute had a range of pots of various sizes, colours, and textures, many at very reasonable price points. These small ones were about £30 each I think.

Eight small pots of various textures and colours sat on three shelves, which are themselves on top of a very handsome and chunky safe. The pots are by Jon Crute. Seen during Oxford Artweeks, May 2026.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 17

Marie Ward (CraicsGlass) had some beautiful nature-inspired stained glass: butterflies and moths, a couple of birds, and wee leaves too. Sarah Hanner Hopwood had watercolour and mixed media landscapes that were unassuming at first glance but had a gorgeous light in them, and minimalist quotes.

Hangable stained glass art with colourful butterflies, moths, and other nature-inspired pieces by Marie Ward. Hanging in a window to show off the light and colours. Seen at Oxford Artweeks in May 2026.

Landscape by Sarah Hanner Hopwood: watercolours in blues and pale greens. The sky is particularly vivid and takes up some half of the piece. There is some mixed media in the form of a small piece of pale fabric used as texture. The painting includes a quote that says ‘the grass singing as it sipped up the summer rain’. Seen at Oxford’s Artweeks, May 2026.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 17

Enjoyed my various bits of art seen on Friday and today (Friday on a routine checkup at the hosp, today for Artweeks in East Oxf). Illustrator Jonathan Brett at the JR: cutaway drawings inspired by the Haynes manuals, and whimsy with anthropomorphised animals.

Golden Eagle illustration in pen and ink, stylised as if it was a cutaway diagram from the Haynes Manual series. Art by Jonathan Brett.

Two illustrations in pen and ink, one of a humanoid fox riding a bicycle and the other of a humanoid stag riding a penny farthing. Art by Jonathan Brett.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 16

Well worth checking out this documentary for anyone who is interested in Afrobeat: Finding Fela: Music Is The Weapon. It’s a Dogwoof production by Alex Gibney. Some v good talking heads in it like Questlove, Femi Kuti, Yeni Kuti, Sandra Smith.

Cover of DVD of Finding Fela: Music Is The Weapon, a music documentary by Alex Gibney on Dogwoof. The image is of the shape of the African continent coloured in red, with a stylistic depiction of Fela Kuti in multi colour a bit like a heat map. His arms are both raised in fists in a position that turns out to be characteristic of him.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 14

This is probably down to you and your #EventsDearBoy marathon: I’ve dig out my long boxes of 80s comics and am re-reading some old Uncanny X-Men. You’ll be covering the Secret Wars II of course but possibly not for a while yet as it is moderately good? Certainly Claremont and JR Jr do a great job.

Artwork from final page of Issue 202 of The Uncanny X-Men (1986) written by Chris Claremont and pencilled by John Romita Jr. The Beyonder has given Rachel Summers a challenge that he patronisingly thinks will cheer her up, namely ‘choose whether to kill me or to save your teammates and indeed NYC!’. Failson.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 14

Transportation features a lot in the books, very creatively! the protagonists are a group of teenagers, mixed genders and backgrounds but all about 17 or 18 max. Two or three of them can drive (rural kids in Aus driving themselves to school) but otherwise it’s wheelbarrows, bikes, and all sorts.

Front cover of John Marsden’s ’A Killing Frost’. A photographic cover featuring a young white woman looking up in startlement or with an idea brewing. The colours in the image are dark purples and pinks.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 14

The series started as a trilogy, published in 1993-95, so it is of a certain time. It assumes an underlying complacency on the part of most of society; certainly the Aussies who are invaded are not expecting war to come to them and their homes. No mobile phones or social media, either.

Front cover of John Marsden’s book ‘The Dead of Night’. A photographic image of a young white woman with long hair and t shirt. She is looking towards the left of the cover and slightly outwards towards the reader. It seems like she is thinking carefully about something. The tones of the image are all blues and whites.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 14

Following discussions online about methods of transportation in post-apocalypse books, I re-read John Marsden’s series starting with ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’. It’s not post-apocalypse exactly but the existing order has been very definitively upended in ways that have a lot of similarities.

Front cover of John Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began. It’s a photographic cover: a young white woman with long hair looks towards the camera and beyond, with a gaze that looks cautious or considering. The tones of the image are all reds and yellows, as if she is in the midst of a fire.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 9

Have been re-reading this Georgette Heyer but frankly it is really not her best and I’ve stalled on it so will shelve it back. Full of deliberate use of archaisms (there’s a glossary at the back but you’d not know it until after you’d finished) and just too much stuff, as it starts from childhood

Dust jacket of “My Lord John” by Georgette Heyer (Bodley Head, 1975). A procession of stately medieval English nobles goes past on horseback, with brightly coloured clothing on all including the retainers and men-at-arms. The book is set in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in England and Scotland. The political scene of the time is turbulent as it covers the reign of Richard II and the accession of Henry IV, the father of the protagonist Lord John (later Duke of Bedford and brother of Henry V).

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 6

These two I borrowed from the library; the first one is one I’m getting our own house copy of (it’s the one that has the most coverage - the other one also looks good but has less in it).

A study skills survival guide for Neurodivergent Learners. By Julia Childs, illustrated by Jules Scheele. Front cover of book; cover design is like a striped paper bag with silhouettes of study items coming out of the top: alarm clock, scissors, pens, etc.

The Dyslexia ADHD & DCD-friendly Study Skills Guide: Tips and Strategies for Exam Success. Cover of a targeted study guide to help prepare for exams while neurodivergent.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 5

My copy of Nap Comix has arrived! I read and enjoyed the PDF I received as a Kickstarter backer, but having the physical copy is much better. The spot gloss on the cover has come out so beautifully!

An angled view of the spot gloss on the cover, it’s very shiny and has come out lovely.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 4

We really liked Thorne’s photographs in particular and some of Dillon’s specific smaller mono print / collage work that was done in a style that reminded me very strongly of 1950s book illustration.

White self-standing blocks each with a collage of mono prints forming stylised landscape images: by Anna Dillon, seen during Artweeks in 2026.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 4

The local makers had their act together and grouped up sensibly: we did appreciate the wee map of the village to show you what’s on.

Local artist drawn map of the village of Aston Tirrold, to help guide visitors coming over for Artweeks. There are three venues, a parish church, and some footpaths.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 3

They really are! Some great video about the quilting circle too. The quilters had a lot to say about what it meant to them, some great quotes, like this one.

Rules to bear in mind for the Poolakani quilting group: ‘Always make the quilt for the adult not the child. Let the child grow into the quilt, rather than out of it.’

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 3

I really loved the exhibition when I saw it a couple of weeks ago.

Painstaking stitching of a red flower on a yellow background: a quilt from Hawai’i.

Painstaking stitching of red flowers and green leaves on a yellow background: a large quilt from Hawai’i, with a symmetrical pattern that has 8 fold symmetry

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· May 2

A re-read: Ruth Elwin Harris’s quartet of books about four orphaned sisters growing up in the early part of the 20th century. They are all creators of one sort or another; the youngest is a writer and the other three are artists in different styles. Not sure that I can make a good job of describing

The Quantocks Quartet: covers to ‘The Silent Shore’ and ‘The Beckoning Hills’ - books one and two of the quartet, with the stories of youngest sister Sarah Purcell and eldest sister Frances Purcell.

The Quantocks Quartet: covers to ‘The Dividing Sea’ and ‘Beyond The Orchid House’ - books three and four of the quartet, with the stories of middle sisters Julia Purcell and Gwen Purcell.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Apr 21

My copy:

Pan paperback of Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Masqueraders’. A woman and a man are sheltering from the rain; they are both wearing 18th century clothing. It is a romance book: she is pretty, she is asleep, she is in the foreground. He is on watch looking out of the door of their shelter in case of pursuit or of better weather to flee further. His waistcoat thing is very natty.

Back cover of the Pan paperback edition of Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Masqueraders’. “Set in the sparkling society of Georgian London for which Miss Georgette Heyer’s novels are famous, THE MASQUERADERS is a story of a charming deception made necessary by the capricious politics of the age”

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Apr 19

And then finally of course you come back through the Natural History Museum which is always worth a snap or two.

Arthropods large and small: a HUGE spider crab takes pride of place on a circular display, with a radiating set of smaller arthropods on the disc behind it. The smaller arthropods are arranged in size order from the inside of the circle (small) to the outer edge (large).

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Apr 19

That was a good outing for me earlier today! First a darning workshop (Visible Mending) at the Pitt Rivers, plenty of good helpful explanations and support, enough time to crack on with it, and a nice group of other people darning stuff.

Darning instructor’s pre-darned materials, plus some thick cardboard circles to use as backing support when darning. Some wool balls of various colours too.

Swatch of plain white knitting with the darning needle insert over-and-under alternating stitches to show how it’s done, using a contrasting darker colour of wool.

My darning by the time I’d finished the first colour, with darning wool in a sage green going under-and over the stitches of the jumper I’m mending, in horizontal rows.

jinty comixminx wildebeest the third@comixminx· Apr 17

Here’s my local one. Looking at it, it may also be that we have different judging standards about it! I quite like them a bit wild. This one has had daffs which were nice but haven’t been deadheaded since; a little poppy; and leaves of a flowering plant that gives blue flowers later. Not an expert!