A SCOTT PILGRIM HALLOWEEN

This year, my sons decided the design of our Jack-o’-lantern should have a “Scott Pilgrim” theme, so we made it look like Stephen Stills — the character drawn by Bryan Lee O’Malley, NOT the singer/songwriter from Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON

With John Lennon showing up in so many 70th-birthday tributes, I was reminded of this comic of mine from 2008 — adapted from a taped conversation that I’d first heard on “The Lost Lennon Tapes” radio series:

Special thanks to Elliot Mintz and Yoko Ono

READING THE SIGNS

Tired of extremism at both ends of the political spectrum?

Maybe these signs were meant for you:

(An added complication: You can’t go straight.)