Comments on: The Strange World of your Dreams, 1950s comic book by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 10:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: powellb http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479238 powellb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479238 Downloaded the four issues. They are in .cbr format. What is this? Can't read these files on my G5 or Mac Book Pro. Please help. I love Kirby. He influenced my art. http://artboxproject.net/artbox_store/BIO-POWELL_BURNS.htm Downloaded the four issues. They are in .cbr format. What is this? Can’t read these files on my G5 or Mac Book Pro. Please help.

I love Kirby. He influenced my art.
http://artboxproject.net/artbox_store/BIO-POWELL_BURNS.htm

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479240 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479240 See also: my friend Steve Saffel (full disclosure here) recently edited <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781845769314-0">The Best of Simon and Kirby</a> for Titan Books. It's an authorized collection "covering every genre in which they made their mark." The pics I've seen from it look beautiful. And I might as well plug <a href="http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/fictions/dreamlog.htm">my own dream logs</a>, if you're so inclined. Alan P. Scott not so anonymous as all that See also: my friend Steve Saffel (full disclosure here) recently edited The Best of Simon and Kirby for Titan Books. It’s an authorized collection “covering every genre in which they made their mark.” The pics I’ve seen from it look beautiful.

And I might as well plug my own dream logs, if you’re so inclined.

Alan P. Scott
not so anonymous as all that

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479248 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479248 Im doing a art project at the Moment (been slack last couple o months)where i do a single panel collages of my dreams using only google images. www.deniedinfull.blogspot.com using mixed resolution images relects that chopped up feel. i dont like hearing peoples dreams unless they express it as if it actually happend, ie not "I had this crazy dream last night..." dreams are awesome. Im doing a art project at the Moment (been slack last couple o months)where i do a single panel collages of my dreams using only google images.

http://www.deniedinfull.blogspot.com

using mixed resolution images relects that chopped up feel.

i dont like hearing peoples dreams unless they express it as if it actually happend, ie not “I had this crazy dream last night…”

dreams are awesome.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479269 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479269 @14 you can use comicbooklover or comical or ffview to read cbr. or you can just change the extension to .rar and extract it and use iphoto to view the jpg files inside. @14

you can use comicbooklover or comical or ffview to read cbr.

or you can just change the extension to .rar and extract it and use iphoto to view the jpg files inside.

]]> By: nerdcoreblog http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479302 nerdcoreblog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479302 It seems like the cbr/rar-Files are corrupted (for me at least, can neither open nor destract them), can anyone who has the JPG-Files up them on Twitter? Would be great! Thanx. It seems like the cbr/rar-Files are corrupted (for me at least, can neither open nor destract them), can anyone who has the JPG-Files up them on Twitter? Would be great! Thanx.

]]> By: nil8r http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479305 nil8r Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479305 Can anyone remember the name of the novel about the guy who theorized that, since dreams are the brain's housekeeping, where you work through your problems, therefore, hearing other peoples' dreams is actually detrimental to you, because you now carry the weight of their problems and work, and slack off on your own? I think the novelist was Irish, and it contained an icky scene using a pen to touch a dead mouse. Can anyone remember the name of the novel about the guy who theorized that, since dreams are the brain’s housekeeping, where you work through your problems, therefore, hearing other peoples’ dreams is actually detrimental to you, because you now carry the weight of their problems and work, and slack off on your own?

I think the novelist was Irish, and it contained an icky scene using a pen to touch a dead mouse.

]]> By: License Farm http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-480336 License Farm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-480336 Another masterfully done dream comic is "Roarin'" Rick Vietch's RARE BIT FIENDS. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it on here before, but as it's been a while since I've commented I just noticed that it seems my profile's become unhitched from previous comments. That's mildly annoying. Another masterfully done dream comic is “Roarin’” Rick Vietch’s RARE BIT FIENDS. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it on here before, but as it’s been a while since I’ve commented I just noticed that it seems my profile’s become unhitched from previous comments. That’s mildly annoying.

]]> By: Maddy http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479068 Maddy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479068 I love to listen to people's dreams. Beats their list of maladies. Here's the great site Slowave, which illustrates dreams: http://www.slowwave.com/submit.php I love to listen to people’s dreams. Beats their list of maladies. Here’s the great site Slowave, which illustrates dreams:

http://www.slowwave.com/submit.php

]]> By: jjasper http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479070 jjasper Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479070 I remember that episode of Max Headroom :-) I remember that episode of Max Headroom :-)

]]> By: Michael Burton http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-485222 Michael Burton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-485222 The files inside this archive are named with a .cbr suffix, but they should be .cbz files. Rather than being rar files in disguise, they're really zip files in disguise. I hope this helps anyone who was having trouble opening them. The files inside this archive are named with a .cbr suffix, but they should be .cbz files. Rather than being rar files in disguise, they’re really zip files in disguise. I hope this helps anyone who was having trouble opening them.

]]> By: kaosmonkey http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479079 kaosmonkey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479079 Glancing at the cover, my first thought was "That asshat is totally aping Jack Kirby. I wonder who it is." Glancing at the cover, my first thought was “That asshat is totally aping Jack Kirby. I wonder who it is.”

]]> By: arlopickens http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479080 arlopickens Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479080 I'm all alone. I'm rolling a big doughnut and this snake wearing a vest... I’m all alone. I’m rolling a big doughnut and this snake wearing a vest…

]]> By: ssll http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479088 ssll Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479088 Jesse Reklaw does this currently - His comic is called Slow Wave http://www.slowwave.com/ Jesse Reklaw does this currently – His comic is called Slow Wave
http://www.slowwave.com/

]]> By: carriem http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479347 carriem Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479347 hahahahaha THANK YOU, Mark. I also hate it when people tell me their dreams. Usually because the dream teller says something like, "I had a really weird dream last night!" Well, duh, yes, all dreams are weird. And if you're not in the dream, they are inevitably boring as hell. Then you have to make some sort of pleasantry indicating your gratitude for having your time wasted. hahahahaha THANK YOU, Mark.
I also hate it when people tell me their dreams.

Usually because the dream teller says something like, “I had a really weird dream last night!” Well, duh, yes, all dreams are weird. And if you’re not in the dream, they are inevitably boring as hell. Then you have to make some sort of pleasantry indicating your gratitude for having your time wasted.

]]> By: lackofoptions http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479111 lackofoptions Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479111 Was it the dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun god robes on top of a giant pyramid with thousands of naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? Was it the dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun god robes on top of a giant pyramid with thousands of naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479373 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479373 >> About 30 years ago my friend loaned me couple of copies of Simon and Kirby's early 1950s The Strange World of Your Dreams. Don't you think it's time to return them? >> About 30 years ago my friend loaned me couple of copies of Simon and Kirby’s early 1950s The Strange World of Your Dreams.

Don’t you think it’s time to return them?

]]> By: minamisan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479120 minamisan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479120 Why do you hate it when people tell you their dreams? It's where I get most of my best ideas. Why do you hate it when people tell you their dreams? It’s where I get most of my best ideas.

]]> By: Brother Provisional http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479123 Brother Provisional Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479123 I'm a big fan of art, literature, music, etc. inspired by dreams. I like the old trick Dali used to mine his hypnagogic mind for surrealist imagery. He would precariously hold a spoon by its tip, so that at the moment his muscles relaxed do to entering sleep, he would drop the spoon, which would then wake him as it hit the floor. My wife often blogs her dreams, if anyone is interested. http://mimsybuttons.blogspot.com/ I’m a big fan of art, literature, music, etc. inspired by dreams. I like the old trick Dali used to mine his hypnagogic mind for surrealist imagery. He would precariously hold a spoon by its tip, so that at the moment his muscles relaxed do to entering sleep, he would drop the spoon, which would then wake him as it hit the floor.
My wife often blogs her dreams, if anyone is interested. http://mimsybuttons.blogspot.com/

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479384 ill lich Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479384 Weird. . . I dreamed about this comic last night! Of course I was also naked and late for an appointment and my car was full of fish, and . . . Weird. . . I dreamed about this comic last night! Of course I was also naked and late for an appointment and my car was full of fish, and . . .

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479387 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479387 I donno. If you feel your time is wasted if they're telling you their dreams, wouldn't your time be wasted talking to them at all? I mean, people tell you stories about their lives you arent in.. if you arent even interested in that, why be friends with them at all? I donno. If you feel your time is wasted if they’re telling you their dreams, wouldn’t your time be wasted talking to them at all? I mean, people tell you stories about their lives you arent in.. if you arent even interested in that, why be friends with them at all?

]]> By: Davinder http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479645 Davinder Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479645 #22: Not at all, I (usually) love hearing stories about people's lives, because those stories have a PLOT. When people start describing their dreams, it's almost always a collection of disjointed experiences coupled with imagery that only has significance for them. I listen actively when people tell me about their lives, but I never care as much about dream stories as the teller does. I even loathe dream sequences in movies, books, and comics. So while I love Simon and Kirby, I'm reluctant to read the comics at the link above because of my dislike of the type of material they contain. #22:

Not at all, I (usually) love hearing stories about people’s lives, because those stories have a PLOT. When people start describing their dreams, it’s almost always a collection of disjointed experiences coupled with imagery that only has significance for them. I listen actively when people tell me about their lives, but I never care as much about dream stories as the teller does.

I even loathe dream sequences in movies, books, and comics. So while I love Simon and Kirby, I’m reluctant to read the comics at the link above because of my dislike of the type of material they contain.

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479393 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479393 #21: that wasnt a dream. Look down. #21: that wasnt a dream. Look down.

]]> By: tuckels http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479148 tuckels Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479148 I wish i had interesting dreams. The dream I had last night was that all my friends & i were hexagons. We had to tesselate. I wish i had interesting dreams. The dream I had last night was that all my friends & i were hexagons. We had to tesselate.

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479155 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479155 A note from my Dreamshop... I quit writing poems twenty years ago. I don't really remember how they were done, except that they almost always happened in the early morning. It was my belief that the inner critic was still asleep and the metaphorical language of dreams was free for an hour or so from the chains of logic and causality... In that brief sliver of time between morning wakefulness and sleep is when language comes unbidden, fractured and surrealistic, the result of my brain attempting to create order out of the jumble of unfiltered dream imagery. I love it when that happens. It gives me a glimpse of how great poets’ minds must function when, awake, they dream the poem into the world. The results, in my case, are never much good, but they are nonetheless the stuff of creation ... and of delight. If nothing else, they provide me a glimpse, however brief, of the muse at play; and my waking laughter is her tribute. This morning I felt myself teetering towards wakefulness out of a dream where I was the skipper of a fishing dory lost in the fog, my Radio Direction Finder broken, my ears straining for the ominous sound of surf. At the same time the boat was my dog, a border collie I used to take for walks on the beach. True to her breed, my little dog would obediently heel and follow me on our walk out, but once I turned to go back she would then take the lead and guide us home. Dreaming, I conflated dog with dory, two stories into one, as dreamers (and poets) do, and turned the boat in the direction where I imagined the harbor channel to be. Waking up, I laughed aloud and said to no one (I live alone): Ever the good girl, she nudges toward home, eager to serve her master's blind insufficiency. For a few ridiculous minutes this morning I was again, however briefly and insufficiently, a poet. That's how that stuff works. Poems begin in dreams. A note from my Dreamshop…

I quit writing poems twenty years ago. I don’t really remember how they were done, except that they almost always happened in the early morning. It was my belief that the inner critic was still asleep and the metaphorical language of dreams was free for an hour or so from the chains of logic and causality…

In that brief sliver of time between morning wakefulness and sleep is when language comes unbidden, fractured and surrealistic, the result of my brain attempting to create order out of the jumble of unfiltered dream imagery. I love it when that happens. It gives me a glimpse of how great poets’ minds must function when, awake, they dream the poem into the world. The results, in my case, are never much good, but they are nonetheless the stuff of creation … and of delight. If nothing else, they provide me a glimpse, however brief, of the muse at play; and my waking laughter is her tribute.

This morning I felt myself teetering towards wakefulness out of a dream where I was the skipper of a fishing dory lost in the fog, my Radio Direction Finder broken, my ears straining for the ominous sound of surf. At the same time the boat was my dog, a border collie I used to take for walks on the beach. True to her breed, my little dog would obediently heel and follow me on our walk out, but once I turned to go back she would then take the lead and guide us home. Dreaming, I conflated dog with dory, two stories into one, as dreamers (and poets) do, and turned the boat in the direction where I imagined the harbor channel to be. Waking up, I laughed aloud and said to no one (I live alone):

Ever the good girl, she nudges toward home,
eager to serve her master’s blind insufficiency.

For a few ridiculous minutes this morning I was again, however briefly and insufficiently, a poet. That’s how that stuff works.

Poems begin in dreams.

]]> By: Sceadugenga http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479159 Sceadugenga Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479159 Wittgenstein: <blockquote>People on waking tell us certain incidents (that they have been in such-and-such places, etc.). Then we teach them the expression "I dreamt", which precedes the narrative. Afterwards I sometimes ask them "Did you dream of anything last night?" and am answered yes or no, sometimes with an account of a dream, sometimes not. That is the language-game.</blockquote> I don't mind people telling me their dreams; it's kind of fun. But it's just a story they feel like telling when they wake up. Wittgenstein:

People on waking tell us certain incidents (that they have been in such-and-such places, etc.). Then we teach them the expression “I dreamt”, which precedes the narrative. Afterwards I sometimes ask them “Did you dream of anything last night?” and am answered yes or no, sometimes with an account of a dream, sometimes not. That is the language-game.

I don’t mind people telling me their dreams; it’s kind of fun. But it’s just a story they feel like telling when they wake up.

]]> By: Senna1 http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479193 Senna1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479193 @ #7 "Why do you hate it when people tell you their dreams?" cuz they're never filled with ukulele nor steampunk @ #7
“Why do you hate it when people tell you their dreams?”

cuz they’re never filled with ukulele nor steampunk

]]> By: mwschmeer http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479451 mwschmeer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479451 These are in the public domain now. You can also grab individual issues in CBR format at: http://goldenagecomics.co.uk//index.php?cid=255 There's a whole treasure trove of golden age comics that have fallen into the public domain on the site. These are in the public domain now. You can also grab individual issues in CBR format at:

http://goldenagecomics.co.uk//index.php?cid=255

There’s a whole treasure trove of golden age comics that have fallen into the public domain on the site.

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2009/04/29/the-strange-world-of-1.html#comment-479208 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-479208 #12 a dream full of steampunk and ukeleles would be RAD. Going to bed shortly, going to meditate on those two things shortly beforehand! :D #12 a dream full of steampunk and ukeleles would be RAD.

Going to bed shortly, going to meditate on those two things shortly beforehand! :D

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