By Allan Angel August 9, 2022 Georgie stopped eating inside the building. He opted to go outside in the parking lot for his lunch at 8:30 pm. He worked swing shift from 5 pm to 1:30 the next morning. Since the pandemic hit, he was hesitant in removing his mask in the vicinity of his co-workers. He has had the most horrendous experience working with people in the plant. The job in itself wasn’t the most arduous task of the work night, it was dealing with people whose behavior were at times erratic and cruel. He never knew when one would blow off. He never got used to it. It was a night like any other night. He would walk to his car, a Chevy Cruze 2018, about 200 feet away parked under a tree, if he was lucky, and open his saran wrapped Tupperware to eat whatever meal he had, most likely cooked by his 85 year old mother. A Squirrel times four But something weird seemed to emanate, almost as if evil spirits were seeping its
By Allan Angel August 8, 2022 It was 1996, and I was very artistically inclined to do something different. I wanted to write what kids wanted to read in comic books. My cousin Hilda for one reason or another always hanged around my studio. She was 8 at the time and we would have dance parties playing Madonna songs along with my other cousins. We had our own Madonna fan club and she was responsible for getting me my second set of Madonna polaroids with that entertaining interaction at Madonna’s Las Vegas show. Spike a comic book written by an eight year old girl. By Allan Angel and Hilda Acasio. An irreverent comic book for adults only co written by an eight year old girl. G-Rated I wanted a G-rated comic book, but I didn’t know how. I had gotten used to the adult type independent comic books such as those from Vortex comics like Black Kiss by Howard Chaykin. Ironically, my bible teacher had a last name like him but she authored Christian books, 2 of the characters dedicated