Cartoon scout and beer drinker Chris Ingram provided the content for this post. Crooked Crab Brewing is in Odenton, MD.
These clever labels based on mostly on Marvel movies, but also Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies from the brewery are done by PBS Kids cartoonist David Bishop. The current beers shown here for sale are Crabnarok and Juice Banner, and there's plenty more on their website.
I was visiting in Knoxville and stopped into a Tall Man Toys & Comics, a local shop near the Museum of Art. Putting the toys before comics in their name is accurate, as you can see from these photos, but they had a decent selection of new comics, with a buy 3, get 1 free discount, and the same graphic novel discount too, as well as good-sized back issue collection. The staff was quite nice, even when I left without buying anything, after I asked if they had anything produced locally (no). This is close to the University of Tennessee and the Worlds Fair Park, so I guess those two groups provide their customer base.
The Knoxville Museum of Art had an exhibit by woman artists with a superhero link as seen below. The museum is definitely a local one with no Western old masters, but there was a good glass exhibit, an excellent show by woman artist's and another good one of local artists and their history.
