EXPLAIN YOUR AVATAR!!!

[Roygbiv666]

My avatars come from one of my latest scans and uploads. I really like this one by Don Orehek from Zany

Narf - it creeps me out a little, I gotta say. ;-)

[Yoc]

Naw, it's cool.
Skybandit's avatar, now that one is creepy!

[narfstar]

Now the admission that it looks just like me 

[Yoc]

As long as nobody looks like Skybandit's all is good!
*shiver*

[krankyboy]

It's the Fourth of July weekend everywhere, kranky.  It's just not a holiday a lot of places. 

Blast, I meant Independence Day.

That will teach me to post without thinking (yet again)....

[old comic lover]

Mine is a mix of Rin Tin Tin comics and Challenge of the yukon comics my 2 favs!

[narfstar]

Unfortunately Rinty and Preston were licensed properties. I do wonder of the individual comics were removed. Neither has been a rerun staple for a long time. I used to enjoy both shows.

[Whale]

Mine is Craphound (a character from Cory Doctorow's story, converted to comic later).

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=450;type=avatar

As we all fans of comics are considered craphounds by the rest of our civilization :-)

[srca1941]

Well, to explain my avatar, I must first explain my screen name. When I first started out online, my Yahoo account was Steve_Rogers_Captain_America. When I would register accounts elsewhere (to help remember them), I shortened that to "srca" and added 1941, the year of Cap's debut.

As for the avatar, back in 2004, after Marvel released the Masterworks debacle known as Golden Age Marvel Comics vol.1, I was approached to "try out" for doing some restoration work on the Masterworks. They were still trying to use fiche as source material, and sent me scans of several pages from Captain America to see what I could do with it. My avatar is my fiche restoration from page 5 of Captain America Comics #2. I never did get any work, but it helped lead me down the path that resulted in my Computer Graphics degree from Purdue last year, so my avatar both fits my screen name AND has personal meaning for me.

I also use it on the Collected Editions forums at MarvelMasterworks.com, and even have a couple of variations on it. There's my "Christmas Cap:"

http://images.yuku.com/image/png/a9a26df10364a956e5e829e43cd4f103d30d0ce0_t.jpg

And my "April Fools Day Cap:"

http://images.yuku.com/image/png/b51261f18f615965e89868e66335e852f87a5583_t.jpg

-Eric

[Yoc]

April fools indeed.  Nice story Eric.

[BAY575GOLDENAGE]

<----  this is my internet Alter ego "Bay the talking dog".

in real life it's my Son, Jimmy

[Mark Warner]

There is a story to mine. I was in the pub and on the next table were a young couple and they had the biggest cameras I have ever seen.

It emerged they were Russian and were on the south coast of England on a photography holiday. Which is a little bit bizarre as it is a few thousand miles return trip (3000+??). I cheekily asked if they'd take my picture and gave them my email address. I thought the chances of ever seeing it as slim-zero. At least 2 months later, when I had completely forgotten about it, the photo appeared in my inbox as a massive high resolution image.

It is now my "officical picture". I cropped and turned to b/w, for my avatar. Sometimes it's a strange random world.

[Yoc]

Cool story Mark.  And here I thought it might be the side-kick from Black Books.   

[tilliban]

Just got a major laugh out of GEOs avatar explanation.
Truly fantastic!!!
 

Mine is the logo from Ace Comics.
Because I think it a really beautiful logo and because I put some research effort into these underrated books.

The next weeks will finally see the COMPLETION of Ace's horror books.
And I will keep scanning books from Ace as long as my scanner will hold together.

[Mark Warner]

Cool story Mark.  And here I thought it might be the side-kick from Black Books.   

This has been mentioned before, but trust me I have a lot more hair than Bill Bailey and am nowadays probably funnier than him .. unfortunately neither of which is saying much