Susie Bright, Underground Comix, and Great Stories

Over at Susie Bright’s blog is a great journal entry where she remembers encounters with the greats of West Coast underground comix (like posing nude for them during a jam session) and then is gifted by Spain with a comic featuring her as muse. Now that’s immortality. Illustrated with some choice examples of comix work …

"He fell into a brown study…"

Bartleby provides a handy reference to “brown study” in the classic literature. (Only 4 results? Search at Project Gutenberg on the term and see a lot more–389, with the term in context, to boot. Where are the online concordances of great literature, he cries?) World Wide Words helpfully provides an etymology. For reasons known only …