• Downloadable neuro-notecards, courtesy of the Accidental Mind
• When you're tasked to put together a prehistoric monster based upon a random jumble of fossilized bones, sometimes some entertaining mistakes get made.
• How many Hollywood-style gunfights really happened in the Old West? Less than twenty.
• Tom Gauld's Characters for an Epic Tale. My upcoming American classic incorporates several of these, with places of prominence in the narrative for the Dancing Bear, the Bird Man and the Magic Cow.
• An early Sylvain Chomet animation: "While American popcorn-eating tourists wobble around and pigeons are too fat to fly, a starving French gendarme is desperate for food." Posted mostly for the crazy anthropomorphic pigeon.
