Apokalupsis - The first Maltese web online comic book. Genres covered: Catholic Christian, biblical adaptations like St Paul's Shipwreck, silver age style art, pencilling, inking and computer coloured samples.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Comics "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Comics
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Comics "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Comics
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Comics We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Comics
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Comics The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Comics
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Comics "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Comics
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Comics "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Comics
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Comics That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Comics
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Comics I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Comics
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Comics "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Comics
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Comics Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Comics
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Comics Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Comics
