Typography Tuesday

This week we present some more non-Roman type from the 1908 type specimen book Some Specimens of the Roman, Oriental, and Foreign Types Now in Use in the Offices of William Clowes & Sons, Limited, published at the Clowes head office in London. Clowes was founded as a printing company in 1803 by William Clowes in London. By the early 1820s, Clowes became a pioneer in the use of steam-powered printing in England, and by mid-century William Clowes & Sons was one of the largest printing companies in the world, and is still in operation today. This specimen book presents all the fonts in use by the company at the turn of the 20th century.

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Solicitudes

Presentación de mi perfil, lo que escribo, reglas.

¡Hola pequeña personita! Me presento, soy deadolloading aún que pueden decirme Joven D, Doll, Dolly o como gustes. Mis pronombres son She/Her/Him, ¡Pero puedes decirme como sea!

Mi blog es totalmente en contenido en español, esto es debido a que no se mucho de inglés y hasta que no lo aprenda en su totalidad, no haré contenido en inglés.

El contenido de mi perfil apunta específicamente a todo lo relacionado con fanfics, pequeños escritos míos, etc. Igualmente los fanfics van del famoso Character x Reader o como el famoso Character x T/N.

Personas de cualquier edad, genero, creencia o nacionalidad ¡Es completamente bienvenido! Ya que mi contenido va para todo público ya que me incomoda escribir cualquier cosa NSFW, por lo que todo mi contenido es SFW, en caso de ser lo contrario se pide que no interactúen con esa publicación.

Requests are open!

Lea esto antes de solicitar cualquier fanfic, headcanon y esas cosas (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

Nota: A veces no puedo publicar mucho debido a lo ocupado que suelo estar.

Soy muy imaginativo con headcanons, escenarios/drabbles y es posible que veas mucho de eso en mi perfil, pero nada de fanfics o one-shots y tendrás que esperar mucho tiempo para que haga uno.

Por favor, no envíe hagas spam de solicitudes porque en esos caso no lo haré.

Si no publico un post muy largo, puede ser porque no tengo mucha imaginación en ese momento, disculpas de antemano.

¡El inglés no es mi primer idioma! Así que lo siento mucho por lo que solo escribiré en español.

Cuando pida algo en mi bandeja, por favor dame detalles de lo que quieres, como una parte específica que desea que agregue, qué personaje, género del lector, etc.

Solo puede escribir de 2 a 3 personajes a la vez.

Quiero que este lugar sea seguro tanto para mí como para los lectores.

Tengo todo el derecho a rechazar una solicitud, especialmente si rompe con las reglas que ya tengo.

Acepto escribir

Relaciones poliamorosas.

Dolor/comodidad.

Pelusa.

Amor, oc x character

No acepto escribir

Incesto

Sexo/NSFW

Violencia

Pedofilia, zoofilia

Relaciones altamente tóxicas

Fandoms y personajes para los que escribo !

Videojuegos

Phantom of the Opera - MazM

Christine Daae Sorelli Dupont Melek Levni Detective Hatim Eric

Genshin Impact

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Mario Bros

Princess Peach Princess Daisy Rosalina Pauline Mario Luigi

Cuphead

Baroness Von Bon Bon Chef Saltbaker Cala Maria Hilda Berg

Five Night's at Freddy's

Michael Afton William Afton Henry Emily Clara Afton Animatronics

Sims 4

Elvira Lapida

Series/Anime/ARG

The Mandela Catalogo

Cesar Torres Mark Heathcliff Adam Murray Jonah Marshall Arcangel Gabriel Alt!Archangel Gabriel Sarah Heathcliff

Popee the Performer

Papi Poppe Eepop Kedamono

Kimetsu no Yaiba

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Welcome Home

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My Hero Academia

Kyoka Jiro Eijiro Kirishima Denki Kaminari Mei Hatsume Mt. Lady Tsuyu Asui Tenya Iida Endeavor Ochako Uraraka Momo Yaoyorozu

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Tomoyo Daidōji Tōya Kinomoto Yukito Tsukishiro Maki Matsumoto Nadeshiko Kinomoto Syaoran Li Fujitaka Kinomoto Kaho Mizuki Sakura Kinomoto Clow Reed Caras Clow

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Dragon Ball

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Scooby-Doo

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Moral Orel

Bloberta Puppington Clay Puppington Rod Putty Stephanie Putty Nurse Bendy

The Amazing Digital Circus

Ragatha x Reader Pomni x Reader Caine x Moon Caine x Reader Jax x Reader Gingle x Reader

Otros personajes (serie o película)

Miss Peregrine - Miss Peregrine y el hogar para chicos peculiares Carrie - Carrie 1976 Michael Myers - Halloween Jason Voorhees - Viernes 13 Thomas Hewitt - Masacre en Texas 2006 Ghostface - Danny Johnson Phantom of the Opera - Movie 2004 Blue Diamont - Steven Universe Yellow Diamond - Steven Universe Personajes de Disney - Solo si lo conozco

⠀⠀ ⠀ Reglas ⛧ ?!

ㅤㅤ⛧ Especificar por favor lo que quieren, no soy adivina. Si quieren cierta situación especifica, ese tipo de cosas ya saben.

ㅤㅤ⛧ Al momento de escribir para lectores, lo diré de una vez, no se mucho de pronombres. Por lo que si quieres de un personaje no binario o algo así, por favor dime como es su uso de pronombres para escribirlo y te sientas cómodo.

ㅤㅤ⛧ Esto totalmente abierta a la idea de escribir OC x Character, para eso pido que en privado me den algo de información de su oc. Alguna ficha, descripción de personalidad y física, ese tipo de cosas.

ㅤㅤ⛧ Pido que me tengan paciencia, suele escribir de forma muy tardada debido a mi gran bloqueo de escritor. Ténganme paciencia, soy nuevo en esto :').

ㅤㅤ⛧ ¡Pueden pedirme cualquier cosa! Romance, platónico, relación padre/madre e hijx, de hermandad, etc.

ㅤㅤ⛧ Por favor, pido respeto ya que esto es como un tipo de pasatiempo para mi. No vengo a molestar a nadie y tampoco vengo a que me molesten. Si no les gusta mi perfil o tienes problemas conmigo, te pido amablemente que dejes mi perfil y con gusto puedes bloquearme.

Eso sería todo por mi parte, bienvenidos a mi perfil y espero que les guste mi contenido.

¡Nos vemos!

2023 Favorites:

Books:

- Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchester

- Vertigo by Narcejac & Boileau

- Pronto by Elmore Leonard

- Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes

- Someone Who Isn't Me by Geoff Rickey

Albums:

- Speed, Sound, Lonely KV by Kurt Vile

- Matthew & Son by Cat Stevens

- Tell Mama by Etta James

- The Art Pepper Quartet by Art Pepper

- Count Bassie and the Kansas City 7

Movies:

- The Man from Laramie dir. Anthony Mann

- Forty Guns dir. Samuel Fuller

- Three Days of the Condor dir. Sydney Pollack

- The Children's Hour dir. William Wyler

- Brazil dir. Terry Gilliam

- Hud dir. Martin Ritt

- Written on the Wind dir. Douglas's Sirk

- Basket Case 3 dir. Frank Henenlotter

- Magic dir. Richard Attenborough

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Wednesday 2 January 1839

8 ½

12 20

fine mild damp windy morning F41 ¼° inside study and breakfast at 9 ¾ in ½ hour – then out – in the stable and about – Captain better but dullish yet – his 2 eight-oz. doses of Epsom salts yesterday do not seem to have done him much goof in the purgative way – Booth came before 11 – went with him to Listerwick to meet Holt – measured the scale at the water wheel = 500 yards – all agreed that 2 per yard for filling would be enough - .:. say filling 4 guineas – driving rain great part of the time – then planning Listerwick coal shades and walling and blacksmiths’ shop – the wall against John Oates’s house and forming the back of the shades, and all along that side will be 12ft. high from the bottom near the steam engine house saying from 12 at the deepest to about 9ft. – shade 6 yards diminishing to 5 yards wide and then more shade diminishing to about 3 or 3 ½ yards wide towards, and near to the entrance gate – Robert M- asked 3/. per rood (face measure – masons’ rood) for walling I to find stone and carting – I proposed 2ft. thick in the bottom with backings against the solid and a 2ft. broad setting on at the surface to which Booth assented as quite sufficient – Robert Fielden fireman came – brought good character from the Low moor engineer and what we thought more of good character from Messrs. James Ackroyde and son – and besides Robert Mann knows and speaks highly of him – not certain whether Holt engaged him or not, but I said he was to engage him if he thought proper – Left Holt at Listerwick and took Booth to the 2 quarries – A- rode up to Hipperholme Lane ends at 2 to say if SW. did not see me, she had told him to bring the rents to Shibden at 3 – ordered about another little baring (about 15 or 20 yards super) at Hipperholme quarry (A-‘s) and then to Sun wood quarry – Jack Green, William Lord and Thomas Sutcliffe (and Robert Mann had been with us and returned) making the road good to the foot of the street – ordered about this – then to Mitham – saw SW. for a moment and brought away the rents, and took Booth to the meer and explained my idea about a new clow close up to the boat house – then in returning Mr. Thomas Greenwood came up to me at the little entrance into the walk – stood some time talking there – then walked towards the house – G- wished good afternoon (seeing I had no intention of asking him into the house) and went away about 4 – he had come, I suppose to settle – to pay his rent and have his bills paid – I told him I would send Booth to him to settle these matters tomorrow morning – G- leading to the subject, I mentioned the message I had received thro’ Mr. SW. – and the grievance about the masons work yard close under the hotel just before I went from home – at 1st G- said he had taken the bit of ground there – on convincing him, he not taken it, and repeating the circumstances, he owned it was a sufferance that he was to have put ’a log or two of mahogany there’ – and said the men had put the stones there without his orders – he finding this however not tenable said he would keep the ground if he might have a road made – I said I wanted to know what he would rather do – he might keep the ground or give it up just as he thought best – he said if a man lost by a thing one year he ought to have a chance of making it up another – It seemed he wished to keep the land – I said B- was to see into the matter of the road tomorrow and let me know about it and also to see about walling out the cottages at the top G- had said at first he had offered me £2 a year for the bit of ground in dispute – I said I remembered nothing of that but would not have let it at any price – G- was so agitated at one time I thought he would have cried – but the quietness and calmness of my manner passed this off and kept all straight he saw I was not pleased, and not inclined for useless talk – poor G-! as I said to B- afterwards I felt (at heart) sorry for him – tho’ he was rightly saved for his foolishness – B- had cold meat for dinner in the housekeepers’ [missing – room] – then had him upstairs – gave him the bills owing to G- and an account of rent owing – only a few shillings between us – for him to pay if he has still the pew in the old church – it was 5 when B- went away – then had Joseph Mann who came for a bill to get receipted and tell A- the Landymere strate he had bored thro’ – the 3 Manns John Robert and Joseph have taken Mr. Freemans’ quarry – dressed – dinner about 6 ¼ - coffee – read the newspaper – A- read her 2pp. of French and went to bed at 10 ½ - I remained 20 minutes longer and finished all the above of today – windy day with occasional driving showers till between 1 and 2pm afterwards fair – F40 ½° inside and 39 ½° outside at 11 pm

F.W. Lawson - Did I offend?, 1866, illustration p. 32 for the poem The Christmas Tree by Henry S. Leigh in London Society, vol. 10 (The Christmas number), published by William Clowes and Sons, London,

Francis Wilfred Lawson (Lawsen) (1842-1935) was a British painter and designer of wood-engravings. He was born in Wellington, Shropshire.

It's Fashion Friday! We are featuring clothes worn during the reign of Richard II (1377-1399). This man is wearing a houppelande, which is a mostly shapeless robe that includes body-length sleeves. Some houppelande sleeves, such as this example, were cut into patterns.

Images from:

Lewis Wingfield's Notes on civil costume in England from the conquest to the regency. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1884.

Call Number: GT730 .W5 1884

Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/2zjhijO

When the Men of Dumfries Tried to Drown Women...Twice

By: Lisa Timmerman, Executive Director

In the 1750s-1760s, Prince William County Court ordered “…some person to erect a ducking stool on Quantico Creek of the Town of Dumfries” twice, specifying Henry Lee, Bertrand Ewell, Allan Macrae, Foushee Tebbs & George Brent in 1757, and Allan Macrae, William Carr and James Douglas sometime between 1761-1763. While we do not have the original two court orders in our records to check the transcriptions, the two separate orders are intriguing. In 1759, Prince William County moved the courthouse from Occoquan to Dumfries where it remained until its departure for Brentsville in 1822. The timing of the ducking stool construction fits with the theme of centralizing Dumfries as the court town, but did anybody ever build it? And use it?

(Illustration from: Weems, Mason Locke. God’s Revenge Against Murder or The Drown’d Wife. Philadelphia, Printed for the Author, 1823. Book in HDVI’s object collection)

In early Virginia, white male officials attempt to control white women extended beyond their actions to their tongues. In the 1660s, the General Assembly enacted various laws aimed at women “causing scandalous suites,” “…oftentimes many brabling women often slander and scandalize their neighbours for which their poore husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suites, and cast in greate damages . . . after judgment passed for the damages the women shalbe punished by ducking…” the amount of times determined by the equivalent damages in tobacco. This Act tried to prevent women from speaking in political affairs and also provided a way for men to punish women without losing their beloved tobacco. The General Assembly also ordered every county to outfit a pillory, a pair of stocks, a whipping post, and a ducking stool near the courthouse. It should be recognized that these statutes also further identified and restricted black persons, specifically targeting servants and the enslaved with corporeal punishments eventually leading to the “An Act Concerning Servants and Slaves” aka Virginia Slave Codes of 1705. While white men strove to contain everyone not white, male, or wealthy, white officials also ensured that even unborn children would become enslaved.

Locally, two court cases against women are interesting to examine. Meet Margarett Sewill. The court brought charges against her on 09/23/1760 on suspicion of felony for “stealing about four yards of linen from Robert Foster” with Justices Henry Lee, John Baylis, Foushee Tebbs, Allan Macrae, Lewis Reno, and Lynaugh Helm sitting in judgment of her. The court sentenced “with consent of Margarett” to thirty-nine “well laid” lashes across her bare back at the public whipping post, determining that the case was not serious/severe enough to send to further prosecution in Williamsburg. Almost a year, 09/02/1761, Justices Allan Macrae, William Tebbs, John Hooe, Lewis Reno and William Carr presided over Margaret Darnell as the court charged her “…for feloniously stealing sundry goods of the value of 20 shillings current money” including a “handkerchief and a ribbon the property of Jane Caudell.” Instead of confinement, Ms. Darnell consented to fifteen lashes on her bare back at the whipping post.

(Illustration from: Ashton, John. Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, London: William Clowes & Sons, 1882 via Project Gutenberg)

Charged with felony, the Courts did not consider the ducking stool (if it was an option) favoring the public whipping post. Is this because there were no stools or “brabling” women in Prince William County? While we cannot answer this without thoroughly searching all court records for data, we do know accounts of ducking took place in nearby Fredericksburg and Winchester. Former HDVI Historian Lee Lansing speculated the Dumfries stool placement close to the purported stocks near the intersection of Duke Street and King’s Highway (Route 1). Whether whipped or forcibly submerged in water, men willingly corporally punished women in attempts to control their actions and voices. Of course these efforts did not stop women and after the unrest of Bacon’s Rebellion (another blog topic!), the 1677 “Act of Releife” again attempted to control married women’s tongue by punishing them for speaking out against the white patriarchy with lashings on their backs and even possible prosecution as a “…rebell and traytor…”

Although we currently do not have the names of women ducked, or the names of the men that defied, forgot, or constructed the stool, torture was a real concern for the women in Virginia. As is the case with so many people, we must continue to search and provide a voice for those women silenced by abuse.

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(Sources: HDVI Archival Files: PWC Court & Jail Records; Henings Statue’s at Large;  Egloff, Nancy. Punished by Ducking. Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Blog, part of Jamestown’s Tenacity: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia” exhibit, https://www.historyisfun.org/blog/punished-by-ducking/; Richter, Julie. Women in Colonial Virginia. (2020, December 14). In Encyclopedia Virginia, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/women-in-colonial-virginia; Spencer, Michael. Ducking Stools in Fredericksburg. Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc., 10/23/2018, https://hffi.org/ducking-stools-in-fredericksburg/)

LE CONTE DE TOM KITTEN BEATRIX POTTER http://www.pub22.net/open/uns14837/14837-h/14837-h.htm Auteur de  "Le conte de Peter Rabbit", & cie Première publication en 1907 1907 par Frederick Warne & Co. Imprimé et relié en Grande-Bretagne par William Clowes Limited, Beccles et Londres DÉDIÉ À TOUS LES PAPILLONS , EN PARTICULIER À CEUX QUI SE TROUVENT SUR LE MUR DE VOTRE JARDIN Il était une fois trois petits chatons, et ils s'appelaient Mittens, Tom Kitten et Moppet. Ils avaient leurs petits manteaux de fourrure ; et ils dégringolaient sur le pas de la porte et jouaient dans la poussière. Mais un jour, leur mère-Mme.Tabitha Twitchit attendait des amis au thé ; alors elle ramenait les chatons à l'intérieur, pour les laver et les habiller, avant l'arrivée de la belle compagnie. D'abord elle frottait leurs visages (celui-ci est Moppet). Puis elle a brossé leur fourrure, (celui-ci est Mittens). Puis elle a peigné leurs queues et leurs moustaches (c'est Tom Kitten). Tom était très vilain, et il set grattait. Mme Tabitha habillait Moppet et Mittens dans les pinafores et les tuckers propres ; et puis elle sortit toutes sortes de vêtements élégants d'une commode, afin d'habiller son fils Thomas. Tom Kitten était très gros et il avait grandi. plusieurs boutons sauterent. Sa mère les recousut. Quand les trois chatons furent prêts, Mme Tabitha les laissa imprudemment retournés dans le jardin, pour être à l'écart pendant qu'elle préparait des toasts chauds et beurrés. «Maintenant, gardez vos vêtements propres, les enfants, vous devez marcher sur vos pattes de derrière, loin du cendrier sale, de Sally Henny Penny, de l'étable et des flaques d'eau. Moppet et Mittens descendirent le sentier du jardin de façon instable. A présent, ils foulèrent leurs sandales et tombèrent sur leur nez. Quand ils se lèvent, il y avait plusieurs papillons verts. "Laissez-nous grimper la rocaille, et nous asseoir sur le mur du jardin", demanda Moppet. Ils tournérent leurs pinafores vers l'avant, et sont jeterent dessus d'un un saut à l'autre ; Le tucker blanc de Moppet était tombé sur la route. http://www.pub22.net/open/uns14837/14837-h/14837-h.htm

1837 Wednesday 13 September

7 1/2

12 10/..

good kiss last night small rainy morning Fahrenheit 53° at 8 40/.. and breakfast with Ann –

William Knighly was to have come – prevented by the rain – Mr Gray came before breakfast was over – Ann soon left us – talked over the manner of roofing the turret – called off to the York plumber about the water pipe into the house ? closet and that into my study in the tower – both pipes laid today – tolerably fair –

out about from about 11 to 1 – from then to 2 1/2 with Robert Mann in the tower drilling hole in top room for my water pipe –

out from about 2 1/2 till came in at the moment of Ann’s return from cliff hill, at 6 20/.. had Booth had been with Robert Mann – looking about road to mask the wall against the wheat field glen and then to the meer – meer goit clow and meer head – the Spriggs water turned into the brook – stood there a long while raining almost all the time, talking about the incline and colliery and Engine pit – Robert Mann thinks where we have got to  the bottom we had best tub off the upper bed water – told him to calculate the expenses – if this should be down the pumps ought have light work and there would be 10 or 12 horse power to spare – worsted frames let at £20 a piece in the town and £18 in the country but Robert Mann agreed I should early get the greater sum –

larger frames 14 yards wide – 3/4 horse power = 1 frame – (windows up the build 8 feet from centre to centre) –

3/4 horse power = 1 frame therefore 9 horse power = 12 frames at £20 = 240 per annum –

Robert Mann thinks the coal sold at the Platform will average 10 shillings per load and that probably 6 shillings per load till pay all expenses –

soft bed coal got at 4/3 per score loads, on the average

hard ditto ditto – 5/. -----------------------------------------------

a good collier will get 25 loads a day soft bed and 15 to 20 hard ditto but say on the average

-------------------------------20----------------------------- and 15 hard ditto throughout the year

there will be 4 heads to Drive 2 water level and 2 to the Incline

there will be 3 men to each head to work in shifts = 12 men

1 man will get 20 loads at a shift or if in hard stuff 15 loads and there will be coal enough got for the sake of beginning to bring custom to the concern –

might set on 5 or 6 colliers in the hard bed – yes! for I shall then get up to Mr Rawson and prevent his stealing and then will upper bed to mix with the lower if required –

Suppose 12 men get 15 loads each per day = 180 X 6 = 1080 loads at 8d = £36. per week

Suppose 6      ���      “   15 loads    “          “         = 90 X 6 = 540        “       at 6d = £13.10.0 per week

Suppose me to get £50 per week                                                                           49.10.0

Profit on low bed 2d per load on 1080 = £9.0.0

Ditto on upper ditto 1d per load on 540 = 2.5.0 } = £11.5.0

Suppose the Incline takes 2 years or 104 weeks and I make £10 per week profit on coal:

104 X 10 = £1040 towards the £3000 + the Incline will cost –

Booth shewed me his estimate of Little marsh farm before I had Robert (after 2 1/2 ) – It will cost £100 + - ordered –

came in at 6 20/.. dressed – some time in the cellar – an ingnigma gave out 1 bottle enigma – dinner at 7 1/4  - tea – York coffee not arrived – Halifax coffee not good –

Ann and I came upstairs at 9 3/4  - ten minutes with her at the water closet then till 11 wrote all but the 1st line of today –

small rainy morning till about 11 then tolerably fair for a while – heavy rain between 1 and 2 for near an hour – then a gleam – the showers – then all the time I was at the meer head with Robert Mann – he mentioned Mr Hutchinsons black horse and the young man who drives it – one of the best horses we have and the man steady – I may perhaps have both – thought of 14/. a week for the man to board at Sam Booth’s – Robert Mann’s son David will take the middle back Mytham cottage –

tea between 8 and 9 and read the paper – Had ? the ? just before dinner – letter 1 1/2  hurried pages from Mariana Lawton asking about school I recommended in Germany Mr W Crowe must take his boys from Meinsingen in Switzerland ! Fahrenheit 52° at 10 p.m. raining heavy now at 11 p.m.

10 INDIE COMICS YOU NEED TO READ

Not only of giant publishing houses lives the comic and for that reason I made this list of the best of the independent comics. Because they are there even if we don't see them and we know they deserve our time, with themes beyond the common super hero, and characters that are marked in our memory. (In this list I will not include Vertigo since it is a subsidiary of DC so it does not make sense, in addition i will make a list of those vertigo comics that you can not miss)

10. PALESTINE by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics)

Palestine is a graphic novel that highlights the experiences of its author at the Gaza Strip in the early 90s, focusing on the history and personality of the Palestinian people. The story is highly contextual to the temporal period, but it usually makes some flashbacks to inform the reader about the reason of the situations that occur. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT?: Palestine is without a doubt a political content, but its intention is not to dig into that, but to make the cut of the human story and the details of the people who have to pay the price for the actions from third parties that live far above them. At the same time, the author is part of the work not only as an impartial observer, but as a human being who is affected by the situation.

9. BLACKHOLE by Charles Burns (Kitchen Sink)

Is the story of a small town in the middle of the United States at the 70s, we follow the lives of some teenagers who run away from their homes to live in the forest, after being infected with a disease that produces horrible deformations. Without authority to guide them or a prospect of life, they relax between drugs and debauchery, in addition to being used as "the Bogeyman" for normal adolescents to behave. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT?: Black Hole is a deep analysis of life in general, but focused on adolescence, diving into the problems of socialization, self-discovery and perception of the reality that surrounds those who are in that moment of life, represented from a fictional, dark and melancholic angle, but no less concrete and real.

8. LOVE & ROCKETS: PALOMAR by Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez (Fantagraphics)

Love & Rockets is a cartoon of the eighties, which moves within the genre of magical realism and is developed in a world that seduces between Latin and punk, with a twist of science fiction. Palomar, specifically, is a series of stories within this world located in a Latin American city, where its people develop their daily life until they are confronted with extraordinary events. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT?: Love & Rockets is not only one of the raiders in the independent comic movement, but in addition to its captivating stories, the technique with which they are developed is unique in terms of time management. Fans of superheroes may feel out of place at first, but it does not take long until you end up identifying

7. GHOST WORLD by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics)

Ghost World tells the story of two friends recently graduated from high school, who mired in the stupor of a small American town, spend their days wandering, analyzing popular culture, judging the people of their city and theorizing about their future, as the arrival of it distances them. WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE TO READ IT?: The darkness and mild bitterness of this story makes it stand out from others of the genre, thanks to his analysis of adolescence.

6. SEX CRIMINALS by Matt Fraction (Image Comics)

It is a comic cataloged as a sex comedy, starring a couple who stops time qhenever they reach an orgasm (more precisely during the refractory period, but that is very well explained in the story), and take advantage of this to commit thefts Sex and crimes, as the title of the collection indicates. WHY SHOULD YOU READ IT? who introduces Suzie (the protagonist) is herself speaking to the readers, playing to break the fourth wall and declaring from the beginning that this series will alter and take advantage of the possibilities offered by this medium as much as the authors can with their creativity. With this not only get the attention of the reader, but also achieve some pages with excellent composition, ways to narrate different from the traditional but used in a useful and not capricious ... and more.

5. SECONDS by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Ballantine Books)

Katie, a 29-year-old girl who is about to take that important step of taking charge of her life now that things are going well: she is a beloved chef at the Seconds restaurant and everything goes according to plan to have her own restaurant called Katie's But a word leads to a gesture, a gesture to a moment and that moment throws you in the opposite direction towards your dreams. WHY SOULD YOU READ IT? Bryan Lee O'Malley gets a comic suitable for all audiences because despite its youthful appearance gives full on topics which sooner or later we will weigh and is to accept our mistakes and try, somehow to move forward.

4. I KILL GIANTS by Joe Kelly (Image Comics)

Barbara is a pretty headstrong young high school girl who loves Dungeons and Dragons, dislikes school, isn't interested in friends or other people, and is obsessed with giants - more accurately, killing giants. But in our everyday world, is Barbara just a weird kid because we all know giants aren't real. Aren't they... WHY SHOULD YOU READ IT?  This coming of age story is also about friendship, courage, bullies, allies, family, and the power of the imagination, this is a wonderful, touching story that should not be missed.

3. PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi (L'Association)

Is the autobiographical story of the Iranian Marjane Satrapi, the story of how she grew up in an Islamic fundamentalist regime that would eventually lead her to leave her country. The comic begins in 1979, when Marjane is ten years old and from her childhood perspective she witnesses a social and political change that ends more than fifty years of the reign of the Shah of Persia in Iran and gives way to an Islamic Republic. WHY SHOUL YOU READ IT? With this work, Marjane Strapi has managed to show at a stroke that the comic is capable as can be literature or cinema to reflect with crudeness the less sweet episodes of History. Persepolis is a complaint of religious fanaticism and more specifically of the repression exercised by fundamentalists against Iranian women.

2.FROM HELL by Alan Moore (Eddie Campbell Comics/Top Shelf Productions)

From hell tells in his own way the story of Jack the Ripper. It focuses on the figure of William Gull, a magnificent doctor, first assistant of the English Royal Family. He is a doctor who is certainly respected and professional. On the other hand, it belongs to the well-regarded by the sect of The Masons. With the passage of time and the events that are spinning in their environment, something inside William breaks down. WHY SHOUL YOU READ IT? A story in which fiction and reality can not be better mixed. There are no dividing lines here. Very few people today would know how to differentiate what was truly true in everything that happened. Moore was commissioned with From Hell to provide us with his version of events. Who knows if we are not facing the best illustrations of a tragic event that marked a whole era.

1. MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)

The son of a holocaust survivor in World War II, interviews his father in order to make a story that relates his father's struggle to support his family and his sanity at the same time. Likewise, the mere fact of remembering all these events, cause father and son to be involved in so many moments of reunion and family tension. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT? Maus is not just a post-modernism clinic in comics but also must be the most accurate, sensitive and coherent human story that has ever been made in cartoon format, even after his successful decision telling everything with anthropomorphic animals, in order to alleviate a little the historical tension. At the same time, the accuracy of the historical recapitulation of the hand of a survivor and the metanarrative of the author describing the process of creating the same comic, generates this impeccable hint that won the Pulitzer Prize.

BONUS: Because there is a lot out there you should check those too. they are a good mix of art and narrative

SAGA (Is a must read)

REVIVAL

THE INCAL

BERLIN

HABIBI

LA VENTE DE TOM KITTEN PAR BEATRIX POTTER Auteur de  "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", & c. Premier publié en 1907 par Frederick Warne & Co. Imprimé et lié en Grande-Bretagne par William Clowes Limited, Beccles et Londres DÉDIÉ  À TOUS LES PICKLES, -POÉTIQUEMENT À CELUI-CI QUI CONSERVE MON MUR DE JARDIN Il était une fois trois petits chatons, et leurs noms étaient Mittens, Tom Kitten et Moppet. Ils avaient peu d'amour pour leurs propres manteaux ; et ils se sont jetés sur la porte et ont joué dans la poussière. Mais un jour, leur mère ... Mme. Tabitha Twitchit - attendait des amis au thé ; alors elle emmena les chatons à l'intérieur, les lava et les habilla, avant que la belle compagnie ne soit arrivée. D'abord, elle frotta son visage (celui-ci est Moppet). Ensuite, elle a brossé sa fourrure (celle-ci est Mittens). Ensuite, elle peigna la queue et les moustaches (c'est Tom Kitten). Tom était très méchant et il grattait. Mme Tabitha a habillé Moppet et lui a enfilé des mitaines dans des pinafores propres ; et puis elle a pris toutes sortes d'élégantes vêtements inconfortables dans une commode, afin d'habiller son fils Thomas. Tom Kitten était très gros, et il avait grandi ; plusieurs boutons éclatent. Sa mère les a cousu à nouveau. Quand les trois chatons furent prêts, Mme Tabitha les remis malheureusement dans le jardin, pour être hors de sa portée pendant qu'elle préparait des toasts chauds au beurre. "Maintenant, gardez vos robes propres, les enfants ! Vous devez marcher sur vos pattes postérieures. Vous devez vous tenir à l'écart de la cenduité sale, de Sally Henny Penny, du cors et des Puddle-Ducks".

Staff Pick of the Week

The commemorative box created by the publisher.

Parts of the letter that Beatrix Potter wrote to her governess’s son, Noel.

Staff Pick of the Week

Before The Tale of Peter Rabbit became a well-loved children’s book for those in England, and eventually spreading further, it was a story created for one special boy. Beatrix Potter was very fond of her last governess, Annie Moore, who had left her position in order to get married. The two women kept in touch and Beatrix was known to send Moore’s growing family illustrated letters featuring many animal friends. When Moore’s eldest son Noel fell ill, Beatrix wrote him one of her famous letters and Peter Rabbit was born.

The idea of publishing Peter Rabbit didn’t come to mind until it was suggested by fellow author, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Despite Peter Rabbit’s monumental success presently, Potter’s story was rejected multiple times and she ended up publishing it herself in 1901, though it was a limited quantity and sold within her social circle. To no one’s surprise, however, it was a big hit! Frederick Warne & Co had rejected the idea the first time around but quickly reconsidered, if Beatrix would do the illustrations in color. This she did, and the first edition was published by Warne in October 1902. After that, the story took off, and is now a “must have” on children’s bookshelves.

To commemorate 100 years of the original Peter Rabbit picture letter of 1893, Frederick Warne & Co created this 1993 limited-edition commemorative box set in a limited edition of 1175 copies that includes a copy of the original Peter Rabbit letter and facsililes of her privately-printed edition of 1901 and the first deluxe Warne editon of 1902, all printed and bound by the venerable William Clowes Limited. Although it’s a facsimile, it was made to look and feel exactly like the original. It’s very convincing! I chose this book as my first staff pick not only because I like her artwork but because it looked like it might’ve been an original.  

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-- Sarah W., Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

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Thursday 6 October 1836

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No kiss fine frosty sunny morning and F47° at 7 50 - out till 9 10 at which hour breakfast - had had Mr. Husband and during breakfast Mr. Washington came - brought back A-‘s plans, and came to tell her that all Mr. Harrison’s property was on sale by private contract - wanted to know if A- would buy the 2 fields near Hipperholme and the 2 or 3 fields near Southedge farm - I said I would mention it to A- but thought we had both enough upon our hands already - at 10 ½ off with Robert Mann to Hipperholme quarry to see about stone for the meer-drift clow, and meer-bywash and to see about stone for rubble - none fit for the latter - too good,  or not good enough - went to Mytholm quarry - then returned to Hipperholme quarry, and took the 2 men (Hartley and Benjamin) to Mytholm to get a little stone for the rubble-breaker - then till after 12 - then the men went to dinner and I sauntered home by Lower brea and the walk - came in at 1 ½ - Mr. Jubb came soon afterwards A- better, my aunt not worse, but very weak and exhausted - A- and I talked over, Mrs. Bull’s letter - would rather have a housekeeper than try Sarah Parker as cook of whom I had given up all thought supposing from Mrs. Bull’s being so long in answering my last letter that she was looking out for a housekeeper poor A- is anything but agreeably decided one way or other and ended as is often the case by getting low and crying so took her downstairs got A- downstairs for a few minutes - then saw her to bed (to lie down) and out again at 3 - went to the Lodge to tell Matty to come every day at 2 ½ to sit with my aunt, while Oddy walked out - William Pollard poorly with a bad cold - went also to say that nobody was to be allowed to come along the road and that 3 gentlemen had just come along that way from curiosity - except from the 2nd floor, there is no window that overlooks the gate - I see the Lodge is more beautiful than convenient - Had I understood things as well when it was begun as I do now - this would have been different - with one or other and lastly in the back stable till dark at 6 ¾ - dressed - dinner at 7 - A- sat down with me, and enjoyed the moorgame - then left me, and I sat (asleep the last ¼ hour) 35 minutes afterwards - she have been rather peevish with me so I staid downstairs she is always ssorry afterwards and makes it up - coffee upstairs - A- read a little French - came to my aunt at 9 and while with her wrote the above of today - Ingham and his man and boy at the upper dry arch-wall - Charles and James Howarth making Listerwick engine pit frame - 4 York joiners since some days past - Thomas put up the scullery plate-rack - valued the workmanship at 40/. and the wood at from 10/. to 15/. - Booth here - marking out on a board the west tower window tops - James Sharp and Abraham Murgatroyde all the day putting in the staircase stone window frame - Joseph Sharpe at the west tower cellar steps - 4 or 5 set today - 2 hewers as usual and lads - Robert Schofield breaking stone in the court, and his man on the new road - Joseph not here - Robert Mann + 4 Matthew Jack and Sam and a new man - 2 one horse carts as yesterday but Binns sent a man instead of coming himself - they brought each a load of rubble the 1st thing and in the afternoon they Frank brought each a load of lagging stone for the court from Little marsh quarry hole - Frank in the morning carted stone for Joseph Mann to Long goit and afterwards brought rubble - Sugden had the 2 bays in the break this morning - I saw them, and they seemed to go very well - had Mr. Husband this evening - told him the idea that had just come into my head about a barn tower-wise outside built up against the lowend of the farmyard 8 yards square opening into and open towards the farmyard - and have a wood (boarded roof) not seen - H- said the roof would be done for £10 or £11 - then mentioned to him my dislike of the north room, north chamber, and upper buttery chimneys - could not do them otherwise at the time - he said they could easily and without much expense be altered - Settled at Mytholm quarry this morning that the man having the stone got for him and no wheeling them to the breaking place should do the rubble (the coarse sort) as at 1st agreed at 1/3 per yard cube - had just written the above of today at 10 pm very fine day

In going to Mytholm quarry this morning 2 gentlemen wanted to speak to me Mr. Rigg (son of the dyer and son-in-law of the person with him) heard I had mill-power to let - Mr. Rigg, corn-dealer, Hall-end, Halifax, said I believed the mill was let - if they heard nothing to the contrary in the course of a week, they were to consider it let - they would give me £20 per horse power - but wanted a little bit of land - I said there were 4DW and a pile of building I meant to let with the mill or colliery - (meaning Mytholm) - sat in my aunt’s room writing all the above of today and making memoranda till 10 25 at which hour F48° - very fine day

Told Robert Mann with Jack Green about 17 weeks rent at 45/. per annum of his cottage supposed per week = 17x10 = 14/2. JG- charges 10/. for digging in the garden John Booth thinks 5/. enough for what JG- did - told Robert M- to give him 7/6

Arthur Boyd Houghton - The Christmas tree, 1866 illustration p. 80 for the poem The Christmas Tree by T.H.S. Escott in London Society, vol. 10 (The Christmas number), published by William Clowes and Sons, London, December 1866, pp. 79-80 Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836 – 1875) was a British painter and illustrator. He was born in Kotagiri, Madras, India. Houghton lost an eye at a young age, but that did not prevent him from producing fine quality works. Houghton was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Houghton was very talented at creating wood-engraved illustrations for English book illustration. He painted in oils and watercolour. Houghton died tragicly in his thirties.

CANTLON'S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF SEASON REPORT - VOLUME 7

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The ECHL's Kelly Cup has been won. The AHL's Calder Cup winner was decided. On Wednesday night, the top award in professional hockey, the Stanley Cup will be awarded to either the St. Louis Blues or the hosting Boston Bruins. While that might be the top talk of the sport right now, it's not all that's going on in what was once again another busy week in the off-season. PACK UPDATE When JD speaketh people listen. In his first interview since taking over the Presidency of the New York Rangers, John Davidson spoke about the direction of the organization he now commands will be taking. The first topic he spoke about was here in Hartford and the dysfunction that has been the Wolf Pack over the past five years which is how long it's been since their last playoff appearance. Not only have they not made the playoffs, but the Wolf Pack have been languishing at or near the bottom of the entire AHL over that span. It's been one season worse than the next with no winning, no player development, and no fan happiness. Read about it HERE. LARRY PLEAU FEATURE Larry Pleau is one of the true Hartford Whaler legends. In his early career, the Lynn, MA native played for the 1963-64 Memorial Cup finalists Montreal N.D.G. (Notre Dame de Grace) Monarchs with future NHL’ers Carol Vadnais and Rogie Vachon, and the head coach was a very young, Scotty Bowman. He played in the AHL just before the WHA emerged. He played for the first Montreal-based team AHL team, the Voyageurs. They finished tops in a nine-team AHL but lost a second-round, three-team round-robin series to Buffalo and Springfield. He played for Montreal in 1971-72, after starting with the AHL team that moved to Nova Scotia, that lost to the Rangers in six games. Pleau jumped to the renegade WHA the following year. He played for the New England Whalers in their first season in Boston where they won the WHA Avco Cup. Pleau played all in seven New England Whaler WHA seasons, finishing as the second all-time leading scorer with 372 points to Tom Webster’s 425. He was tops in assists with 215 and second in games played with his 468 to Rick Ley’s 478. Brad Selwood was third with 431. When the Hartford Whalers were born, Pleau was with the team in its early NHL days. After retiring as a player, he worked behind the bench. Pleau as an assistant for two seasons (1979-1981) before being elevated to the head coach where he replaced Don Blackburn in 1981, Pleau was a head coach until 1983 before he making a second foray into the AHL, but as a coach. He was the head coach in Binghamton, who, at the time, was the Whalers' top affiliate, from 1984-1988. He won the AHL Coach of the Year (Louis A. Pieri Award) in 1985-86. He was brought back as a Whalers' head coach once again in 1987 as a mid-season replacement to Jack Evans where he stayed until 1989. Pleau hooked-up for a long association with the Rangers. He was there from 1989-1997 as their assistant GM, and Director of Player Development. He was also the last General Manager for the Rangers' Binghamton affiliate from 1995-1997 before the Rangers moved their farm team to Hartford. He moved on to become the GM of the St. Louis Blues from 1997-2010 and is still in a Senior Advisor role with the Blues. Read a fabulous piece on his relationship with the Blues HERE. CALDER CUP FINALS The high-speed hockey train called the Charlotte Checkers won their first Calder Cup title. Trailing by a 3-1 score on Thursday night, the Checkers dominated the second half of the game and scored four unanswered goals for a 5-3 win over the Chicago Wolves. They then went on to clinch their first title Saturday night in Chicago with another 5-3 win. In the deciding game, Morgan Geekie had a goal and two points, Andrew Poturalski scored twice and Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 26 of the 29 shots to have AHL Commissioner, Dave Andrews, come down and present the team with the Calder Cup. In Game 4, Nicolas Roy scored two goals, Martin Necas also chipped in with two points and ex-Wolf Pack, Dustin Tokarski, picked up his sixth win in the AHL post-season without a loss. Tokarski finished the campaign with a 13-0 record since being reassigned to Charlotte by the Rangers on February 28th in a swap that sent defenseman Josh Wesley to Hartford. The last Wolf Pack playoff win was on May 15, 2015, in a 6-3 win over the Hershey Bears. The Pack was led by Marek Hrvik, who had a hat trick. The Pack has had 56 franchise hat tricks during the regular season, but only four in the playoffs. The record for goals in a playoff game is held by Chris Kenady. He had four goals on April 20, 2000, against Springfield. Also that year, the Manchester Monarchs, in their last AHL season, swept the Pack en route to the Calder Cup. They scored the game’s first goal in 15 of the 19 playoffs games that year winning all 15 games. Charlotte’s performance is the only team that has come close to that level of perfection, During this playoff season, the Checkers scored first eight times, but in three of their wins, the opponent scored first.  KELLY CUP FINALS In their first ECHL season, the Newfound Growlers captured the championship in six games. They won the decisive championship game 4-3 over the Toledo Walleye at Mile One Centre in St. John’s. They became the first, first-year team to win the title since the Greensboro Monarchs in 1990, who were then coached by former Whaler, Jeff Brubaker. Former QU Bobcat goalie Michael Garteig played in 19 playoff contests for the championship squad. Five members of the team were from St. John’s, starting with playoff MVP, Zach O’Brien (16 goals and 29 points), and including captain James Melindy, Marcus Power, and Adam Pardy (Bonavista), a former NHL defenseman rounded out the playing quartet. After the game, Pardy announced he was retiring after giving his nephew a championship to see in person. The fifth Newfie was former New Haven Nighthawk, and Rangers assistant coach, and Mt. Pearl native, Darryl Williams, who is in his second coaching stint in his native province. The first was with the St. John’s Fog Devils (QMJHL) where, for three seasons, he was an assistant coach. He was hired temporarily in December with the medical absence taken by head coach and ex-Ranger, Ryane Clowe. He was formally added to the staff at the end of January. Williams is a St. John’s resident. Williams was a rough and tumble player during his skating days. He had 495 PIM in 136 AHL games along with 29 goals and 56 points. They all came during his time with New Haven, "Willy," as he was known, played and racked up 1,906 PIM in 540 IHL games along with 98 goals and 224 points. He played with Phoenix, Long Beach, and Detroit. He played in only two NHL games in 1992-’83 and had 10 PIM. Ex-Pack, Matt Register, played for the runner-up, Toledo Walleye. He climbed the statistical ECH playoff ladder with 124 playoff games played and 14 assists in the Kelly Cup Finals. UCONN 2019-20 SCHEDULE RELEASED The Huskies hit the XL Center for the first time on November 11th and 13th. It's a Friday and Saturday night with two non-conference games against Army (WCHA) for the home opener and then RPI from ECACHL conference the following night. The first Hockey East game will be against Merrimack on November 1st. They then will mark their visit ever from Miami (OH) (NCHC) on November 29-30, a week after Thanksgiving. The first-ever Connecticut Ice tourney with all four CT Division I college teams is from January 25th and 26th at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. The schedule is HERE. NAHL DRAFT One of the last two major North American drafts was held last Tuesday when the US Tier II junior circuit-the North American Hockey league. Here are the CT connected draftees. Matt Crasa (Selects Academy at South Kent Prep) was selected in the second round (31st overall) by the Amarillo (TX) Bulls. Crasa is a Sacred Heart University (AHA) commit for 2020-21. He was drafted by the Sioux City Stampede (USHL) this spring and by Windsor Spitfires (OHL) in 2017 Cooper Swift, (West Hartford/Choate Prep) also went in the second round (35th overall) by the Jamestown Rebels. He was selected by the Fargo Force (USHL) in their draft earlier in the spring. Corey Clifton was drafted in the third round (55th overall) by the Corpus Christi (TX) IceRays. He will become the third Clifton from his Matawan, NJ family to play at Quinnipiac University (ECACHL) in 2020-21. He played this season with the Surrey Eagles (BCHL) and was just traded this week to the Trail Smoke Eaters to play next season. He was drafted by Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) in 2017 and previously by the Aston Rebels (NAHL) in 2017. His brother, Connor Clifton, is competing for the Stanley Cup with the Bruins while his oldest brother, Tim Clifton, is with the San Jose Barracuda (AHL). Ian Pierce of Kent Prep went in the third round (60th overall) to the St. Cloud Blizzard. He is a Dartmouth (ECACHL) commit for 2020-21. Kennedy O’Connor (Loomis Chaffee) also went in round three (67th overall) to the Shreveport (LA) Mudbugs. He is a UMASS-Amherst (HE) commit for 2021-22. The Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) took him in their draft in April. Carter Primo Self, (Selects Academy at South Kent Prep) was taken in the fifth round (127th overall) by the Amarillo Bulls and is a Miami (OH) (NCHC) commit for 2020-21. Matt Iasenza of Canterbury Prep (New Milford) went in the sixth round (144th overall) to the New Jersey Titans and has no college commit at this time. Philip Ekberg of the CT Jr, Rangers (USPHL) was taken in the ninth round (212th overall) by the Maryland Black Bears and also in uncommitted at this time. Logan Martinson, the son of former Nighthawk, Steve Martinson, the current coach of Allen (ECHL), was taken in the tenth round (236th overall) by the New Mexico Ice Wolves. He was selected by Langley (BCHL) in their 2018 Draft and in 2017 by Tri-City (USHL). The another CT Jr. Ranger was taken. Maxim Kuznetsov went in the tenth round (260th overall) by the Johnstown. Tomahawks. The last amateur draft before the NHL Draft in Vancouver in two weeks will be the QMJHL (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League) in Quebec City on Saturday at the Videotron Centre. PLAYER & COACHING MOVEMENT Ex-Sound Tiger head coach Jack Capuano was hired as an associate head coach for the Ottawa Senators. Five more AHL’ers leaves for Europe. Josh Jooris, the ex-Ranger, leaves the Toronto Marlies and heads to HC Lausanne (Switzerland-LNA) on a rare three-year deal. Jooris holds Swiss citizenship. When his father Mark Jooris, a Vancouver scout and Junior A coach, played for Lausanne in the 1990s, he also played some junior hockey there before they returning to Canada. Libor Sulak leaves Grand Rapids for Severstal Cherepovets (Russia-KHL). Braden Christoffer goes from Bakersfield to Sterjen (Norway-NEL). Travis Murphy and Andrej Suster both go from San Diego to Kunlun (China-KHL) on two-year deals. These exits make 36 AHL’ers to sign in Europe. 21 of the league's 31 teams have now lost at least one player to Europe. Ex-Sound Tiger defenseman Mathieu Gagnon Brampton (ECHL) signs with Manchester (England-EIHL). Kevin Morris, (Salisbury Prep), the son of ex-Nighthawk, Mark Morris, announces his retirement after playing with Coventry (England-EIHL) this past season. He completed his MBA and heads off to the working world. Alex Barron (Quinnipiac University) signs with HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL) after splitting last season with EHC Freiburg (Germany DEL-2) and HK SKP Propad (Slovakia-SLEL). Mitch Ferguson of Division III SUNY-Geneseo (SUNYAC) signs with GHC Bordeaux (France-FREL) next season. That raises the number of college players signing in Europe to 33 and the total number of collegians to have signed pro deals art 218. Ex-Sound Tiger, Peter Mannino, who was let go at the University Miami (OH) (NCHC) as their associate head coach, doesn't stay unemployed long. He lands with the Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) as their new head coach. The Sioux Falls Stampede are the new USHL Clark Cup champions. They completed a three-game sweep in their best-of-five final over the Chicago Steel by the score of 5-1. Leading the way for Sioux Falls was goaltender Jaxson Stauber, the son of former Wolf Pack and Nighthawk goalie, Robb Stauber. The younger Stauber head to the University Minnesota-Mankato (NCHC) in the fall. Chicago was led by their head coach, the former Wolf Pack captain, and Sound Tiger, Greg Moore. THE CRAZY WORLD OF BILLY TIBBETTS The following link is of ex-Pack, Ranger, and Danbury Whaler, Billy Tibbetts. He actually ran for the Scituate, MA city council and lost. It’s a tour de force performance of classic Tibbetts and his riding high, riding low. It's unfiltered, raw, and unbridled. WARNING: For those sensitive to foul language, there are swear-words in some of these series of one and two-minute video clips. Tibbets is a lot of things, boring isn't one of them. HERE Read the full article