Halloween 2019 Five Second Flick--Part II

Here’s another Five Second Flick I made to celebrate tonight’s festivities.

Halloween Five Second Flick--Part I

Here’s a Five-Second Flick I concocted merging a Halloween image created by "Korolevatumana" With the Windows 3D Effect Program.

Enjoy!

2019's Halloween Greetings

Halloween approaches!

It’s been a few years since I concocted some Halloween greetings, using my ComicLife program.

This year, I decided to feature some of our artificial jack-o-lanterns.  The one featured in the top image, my wife and I call “Jack.”

Yeah, original, I know.

Anyway, I purchased Jack 20 years ago, from Spirit Halloween.  He still lights up when we plug him in and place him in the living room window.

The next jack-o-lantern is almost as old.  I purchased this one at Fred Meyer, I think, and usually place it in the living room/hallway.

My wife bought this white jack-o-lantern, but I don’t know where from, or when.  Unlike Jack, this one, which we haven’t thought-up a name for, has a red light as opposed to a white one.

While trolling the internet, for Halloween memes, I came across this quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which Ray Bradbury used for the title of one of his novels:

Holiday Greetings 2017

Last month, my wife and I spent Veteran's Day at The Museum of Flight.

On the way back home, one of the radio stations already started playing Christmas music.  One of the tunes that popped-up was Snoopy's Christmas vs. the Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen.

I was surprised to discover my wife never heard of it.  I remember having a 45 RPM record of it and playing it constantly during the Christmas Season.

This inspired me to concoct one of my e-greeting cards for the year.  The picture is from an air war game during last year's Enfilade Convention.

I scrolled through my picture files for other images I could convert to a greeting card.  The only other picture that struck my fancy was this image from the same file of my friend Dean's First Battle of St Albans game.

Now it is a bit anachronistic, because the carol, Here We Come A-wassailing, wasn't composed until 1850.  But I I thought it'd be funny to have this band of knights signing a "road trip" Christmas carol, instead of some bloodthirsty fight-song.

And finally, here's a picture of my siblings and I.  Despite the fact it was taken during our mom's funeral I love this picture, especially since it was the last time we've all been able to get together.

Since we looked like a team of professionals, I thought paraphrasing a line from Die Hard would make a great opening line.

Best wishes to all of you this Christmas Season and throughout the New Year!

Honoring 9-11-01

(Image by Tom Stiglich)

Part of my inspiration for making wargame-related webcomics comes from reading the daily funnies.  Since I moved to the Pacific Northwest, my "default site" for the funnies has been the Seattle Times.

I was touched to find a couple comic strips that paid tribute to 9/11.

My favorite was from Dick Tracy by Joe Staton and Mike Curtis:

Celebrating the 4th of July!

Best wishes to all of you this Independence Day.

I thought I'd use the occasion to play around with some photos I took of last year's Enfilade convention to create a holiday greeting card, along with an announcement for next year's convention theme.

Honoring Memorial Day

(Image from:  Memorial Day 2017 Pictures)

Best wishes to all of you this Memorial Day.

Happy Easter!

(Image from:  The Sun UK)

Best wishes to all of you this Easter Sunday.

Writing Some E Cards

Or reading Stern Rake Studio.

Then again, maybe not.

Anyway, no matter what you've been reading, I've been trolling Some E Cards for inspiration.

When I come down with writer's block, I'll write one or two using the Create Your Own Cards program.

My first one referenced Star Trek, and I filed it under the Workplace Category.

Then after seeing the little-used military-style images, I concocted several more referencing Murphy's Laws of Combat.

I'm not able to combine each "law" with an image because the sentence length is too long to fit into the picture.  So I've been skipping around a bit when I find an image that interests me.  Since there's no military category, I filed these under the Veteran's Day November Holiday Category.

Here's what I've come up with so far:

If I think of any more I'll post them here.

Happy Valentine's Day!

(Image from:  John Lustig's "Last Kiss")

For this Valentine's Day, I thought I'd hijack utilize images along the lines of Stern Rake Studio's webcomics and wargaming theme.

(Image from:  World of Tanks Weekend Special)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

(Image from:  Christmas Wreaths 2016: 11 Decorated Christmas Trees)

Best wishes to you and yours this Christmas Day.

Honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor

(Image by Steve Breen)

Happy Thanksgiving!

(Image from:  Thanksgiving Day HD Animated Images)

To ease your Turkey Day tension, the Seattle Times has provided a recipe guide for your imperfect holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!

(Image from:  Northwest Crossing)

Last year, we had a 100-piece bag of candy, and ran out before we planned on turning in.
I ended up giving out cocoa packets from my stash of Starbucks Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa.

This year, we bought a bag of 155-pieces of candy--along with cocoa, this time from Nestle, and hot cider packets specifically for trick-or-treaters when the 100th piece of candy is gone.

Hopefully we'll be ready.

(Image by:  Joao Francisco Oliveira)

Happy Columbus Day!

(Image from:  MBA in the USA)

Happy Labor Day!

(Image from the article:  The Real Rosie the Riveter Dies at 92, 22 April 2015)

Happy Independence Day!

(Image from:  Seattle Pipeline, with list of events)

Honoring Memorial Day

(Image from

I love my wargaming hobby. 

However, as a retired service member I'm aware every day that real wars have real costs.

Happy Easter!

(Image from:  IBT--World's Oldest Hot Cross Buns)