Ten Years of Blogging...

Today marks the ten year anniversary of this blog.

My very first post, on October 5, 2006, was about the 1973 G.I. Joe yeti.  So I decided to make things come full circle for the close of this blog.

It's been fun! So long, everybody. 

Jodorowsky's Yeti

Today's a big day in Chile  - the day the people declared independence from Spain in 1810.

Let's honor a famous Chilean  - Alejandro Jodorowsky - he of the never-produced Dune film among many other things.

Of relevancy to this blog, he wrote a comic series, with art by Georges Bess, called White Lama - a story set in 19th C. Tibet.

A yeti plays a prominent role:

Besides the lack of a nose and a more gray-alien look, this yeti depiction is also notable for his long "heavy metal" haircut - appropriate for the time it was published (late 80's originally) and, no doubt, to the readership's aesthetic sensibilities.

This is also an example of The Reluctant Monster trope, and the above pic should look pretty familiar:

Sleepy Yeti 9

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[Hug Week] Hugs Not Drugs

Yeti appears in an anti-smoking ad.

[Hug Week] Kids Cartoon: Johnny Test

Johnny Test (2005-2008) had this hugging yeti.

Worthy of note, the child rides the yeti down the mountainside.

[Hug Week] He Loves Me

Alfonso Cervantes

Christophe Alves

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He Loves Me (Jesus)

Jeff Bertrand

He Loves Me Not (Conan)

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He Loves Me (Holding hands)

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He Loves Me Not (Facing off)

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Oddity

He Loves Me (Comics)

From Master of Kung Fu : Bleeding Black # 1 (Feb 1990)

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John Byrne commission 2011

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From "Don't help Me" Ghostly Tales # 77 (Dec 1969)

He Loves Me Not (Comics)

Books of Doom # 4 (Apr 2006)

As part of the origin story of Victor Von Doom (Doctor Doom), he visits Tibet to learn some monks' mystic secrets (naturally). It's common knowledge that if one goes to Tibet looking for mystic monks, one will fight a yeti, and Von Doom is no exception.

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Dark Horse Presents #24 (May 2013)

Hunter Quaid, a drunken, misanthropic, time-traveling detective from the forties vs. giant yeti