There’s going to be a lot of talk in the coming weeks about the Golden Age of Space. Here’s a contribution of mine from the summer of 2017. (From left to right, the author, Wayne, Marcus) When I was in about the first grade, we would make “spatter paintings,” where one places a leaf or some other object on a blank piece of construction paper and runs a toothbrush dipped in tempera paint across a screen above the paper. The intent, if not always the result, was to produce a uniformly speckled background around a blank silhouette of the leaf, or whatever. I am willing to bet, that of all my classmates, I am the only one who went on to do it professionally. (See Panel 1)