June Icon Assortment

I've hit a stride with my icons; out of the thirty-eight in this selection that were entered in icontests, roughly half of them placed. The award banners are now on display in my trophy case. Including some previously unreleased extras, there are a total of 53 icons here: 40 classics and 13 X-Men. Enjoy!

ExpandClassics: 9 Grace Kelly, 6 Humphrey Bogart, 4 Gary Cooper, 4 Olivia De Havilland, 4 My Man Godfrey, 3 James Cagney, 2 Cary Grant, 2 Barry Fitzgerald, 2 Anna May Wong, 1 Fredric March, 1 Danny Kaye, 1 Pat O'Brien, 1 Audrey Hepburn )

ExpandX-Men: 7 Wolverine, 2 Beast, 1 Cyclops, 1 Magneto, 1 Storm, 1 Angel )

I've only done a handful of icons so far this month, but I can tell you already that my next assortment will include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the subjects of a current icontest challenge. Wish me luck with them! *g*

Cagney wallpapers du jour

In spite of its name, Irish Attitude is a roundabout tribute to 9/11. Rebroadcasts of the actual news programs from five years ago put me in one of my aggressively patriotic moods, and since I didn't have any appropriate images from Yankee Doodle Dandy, I decided to do a cocky military piece. Hence my favorite irascible American-Irish, giving a fine graphic representation of my feelings toward U.N. whining. (That marvelous still alone is reason to be glad Cagney made The Fighting 69th.)

Lean On Me is a Footlight Parade Nan/Chester shipper piece, but I'm not really satisfied with it. To me it looks a bit too much like the site of a raspberry jelly war.