Serial Gaps

I’m now so used to the idea that everything is on the web that I get a bit startled and puzzled when I find something has gone missing.

For example, the Glasgow Daily Record had a strip on its comics page called ‘Grandad And The Lad’ — which was terrible, don’t remember it being funny or memorable in any way, but it ran for years so there was a lot of it — that the internet has almost no record of. I half-expected there to be Grandad And The Lad slash-fiction groups and an online project called Grandad And The Lad Minus The Lad, but the only mentions of the strip I can find are a couple of people talking about how dire it was in a message board thread titled “I HATE NEMI! (rant alert)”.

I also just listened to an early-80s interview with Douglas Adams where he mentions that the original Ford Prefect, Geoffrey McGivern, had suffered a nervous breakdown and gone missing for 18 months, and that all his friends and family were anxious for news of his whereabouts. No mention of that in his Wikipedia entry…

Continuing that theme of the human mystery, I read that legendary cartoonist S. Clay Wilson is on the critical list and unable to recall his own name due to serious head and neck injuries sustained on the trip home from a bar. His friends and medical team have been unable to determine whether he received a vicious beat-down at the hands of a Bay Area biker gang or if he just got so drunk that he fell on his head a lot.

autoposted from stuartwest.com