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Supanova: Do the Funky Gibbons

Artist extraordinaire Dave Gibbons

FRANKLY, I was wondering whether I'd wasted my time at this year's Supanova in Sydney. I turned up late on Sunday arvo - half-pissed - and joined the queue to get something signed by Dave Watchmen Gibbons, only to be told by a coupla smiling Nazis that they weren't letting anymore people into the queue.

"Come back at 5pm and you might get lucky," they said helpfully, while I stumbled away, grumbling to myself. Soured my day, I can tell you.

Luckily, when I rocked back at 5pm, the queue was gone and after a little pleading, I was allowed to meet the great man.

"You're the lucky last," he said, smiling, as he signed my copy of Watching The Watchmen.

Yeah, Dave Gibbons: you ARE a nice man...just like everyone told me.

OTHER SUPANOVA THOUGHTS: AWF ran wrestling bouts all weekend. I missed them, but still chatted afterwards with Aurora, JT Robinson and TNT. All nice folk - shame AWF isn't one of my fave local promotions.

Caught up with AW, Camuke & Ali G. Camuke had a copy of Jiminy Glick in Lalawood for me - you legend! :D

Picked up a $2 introductory ish of Magellan (a promising-looking superhero web comic), a free copy (& poster) of The Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes from Black House Comics (very impressive comic) and the Tintin-esque hardback graphic novel Captain Congo And The Crocodile King by Ruth Starke and Greg Holfield. This looks friggin' awesome!

Also nabbed some Watchmen fridge magnets for JJ. All in all, a pretty fruitful haul.

Will I attend Supanova 2010? Yeah, maybe...as long as they bring out someone good in the comics field. Ben Templesmith in 2008, Dave Gibbons in 2009, who knows for next year? Fingers crossed.

Kim Kardashian...

...playing with a football on a beach in Miami. Lovely stuff.

Happy birthday for March 31, Vanessa Del Rio!

The WebMistress turns 57. Have a great day, VDR.

Kate Beckinsale...good for something, I guess

THESE pix (and outtakes) from a recent issue of Mean magazine are proof that Kate Beckinsale may be a crap actress, but at least she looks good in photos. So she's not completely useless. Isn't that nice to know?

Oh no...it's Coco!

COCO oiling her bootylicious body, then getting topless in the swimming pool...

My my my...ya gotta love this. :D

And now for something completely different...

SURE, we all got into Monty Python's Flying Circus for the wild (if uneven) humour of John Cleese, Eric Idle and co., starring in skits that changed the face of British comedy.

And Terry Gilliam's crude, brutal animation was breathtakingly audacious, too.

But, let's face the facts, it didn't hurt that Carol Cleveland and her gazongas were on show all the time, as well.

Mmmmmmm...nothing like a bit of cheesecake to go with your surreal comedy.

Now, you can celebrate Carol's busty greatness by heading to http://www.carolcleveland.com/.

It's slightly more fun than returning a dead parrot to a pet shop.