Cindy was published by Marvel comics. It’s an example of the “Good Girl” comics trend that goes back to WWII. It is a genre that is beyond the normal comic book. Humor, adventure, sci-fi and more have all featured “Good Girl” art.

About the cover below: “I don’t know the artist responsible for this cover, but it’s a real knockout! It’s even a kind of greytone production, giving an almost painterly effect with added depth.” Samuelsdesign.com

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Etsy is currently publishing a serie titled Handmade Weddings. Today’s post is covers a Hobo Wedding, the antithesis of the TV show “Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?” that was airing on Fox years ago.

“The Handmade Wedding Series has been delighted to bring you some real weddings. And hobocampcrafts’ self-described “hobo” wedding kept it so real with a budget of only $5000!

Many little girls dream about their weddings, but the idea of getting married never even dawned on me. So when my boyfriend got down on one knee, I knew I had a lifetime of planning to catch up on.

We had a budget of about $5,000 — a generous amount from my retired parents. Well aware that if we went over budget it was coming out of our pocket, we decided to keep our wedding fun and unique, but simple. We were inspired by a DIY wedding article in the now-defunct “Budget Living” magazine.” [Etsy]

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It appears that some bits of western culture is definitely reaching Afghanistan. On March 13 mainstream media reported that a woman from the conservative Pashtun belt, that’s the Afghan version of the U.S “bible belt”, is one of the top three contenders in the country’s version of “American Idol.” I wonder if members of the Canadian Army based in Afghanistan to protect big oil companies interests watched it.

Bridget Johnson says, “Isn’t the point that 11 million Afghans — a third of the country’s population and 90 percent of the TV-watching population — eagerly tune into Star each week, that 300,000 votes were text-messaged in for the recently aired finals, and that music is filling homes and hearts again despite clerical objections?

Being an American Idol junkie, I considered myself the perfect journalist to delve further into Afghan Star. So I watched all of the episodes put on YouTube by Tolo TV, the network that has raised so much of that clerical ire. The audition tapes were the best: As Idol begins each season by showing the good — and the very, very bad — performers from audition cities, Star also had audition shows from Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif, and more; more than 2,000 hopefuls tried out for a chance to win $5,000 U.S. and a record deal. The audition shows opened with catchy music and fast-paced shots of the host city and its people — with production values equal to that of American TV, and some of the landscapes resembling Barstow.” [PAJAMA MEDIA]

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