I collect and draw stupid things and you probably want to see them too. Plus someday I hope I get money from you.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Funnyman
What if it wasn't Superman that caught on? What if it was Siegel and Shuster's creation 10 years later? What if that was the one that was a blueprint for a whole industry? Life as you and I know it would be much different.
World's Finest # 56, January/February, 1952
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If I were reading WF back in the day, I'd start to think they were really
just coasting here and I'm not sure they weren't. It was entertaining still
but...
As Seen At Trader EscarJoe’s
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“This little guy was attached to the plastic wrap of a bouquet of flowers
at Trader Joe’s. I got him off the wrapping and he instantly came out of
his shel...
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody-Gil Kane-1953
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Ol' Eli Katz was not yet the smooth Gil Kane we would come to know and love
but he was getting there. Although mostly associated with DC even up to
this ...
instaboner 630 @simplydon1
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simplydon1 I got a chance to meet some concerned Americans that will be
coming to The Ding-Dong Podcast @TheComedyStore at 10:00 pm Related posts:
instabon...
Adventure Time, “Another Five More Short Graybles”
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The title of this week’s episode is a good indicator of how much effort
went into its plot, emphasizing the fact that the writers are doing another
“Gra...
First Stills From Disney’s “Frozen”
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USA Today published an article this afternoon with these five stills from
Frozen, the Disney studio’s adaptatation of The Snow Queen that will open
on Nove...
I am an Idiot.
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I am someone who does a lot of stupid things. I routinely get myself in
hot water by blindly rushing into situations. My best friend said I am
“attracted...
Caterina Valente
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Italian singer Caterina Valente, seen here in a '66 pic, was a frequent
guest on American television during the decade and her music was big with
the eas...
Good Dads Let You Win Sometimes
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Tagged: dads , kids , playing games , hide and seek , g rated , parenting
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c. 1830 : Guardsman Higgins by William Etty
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“Men of the London-based Guards regiments commonly posed for artists as a
means of supplementing their low wages. Strict height regulations were
imposed ...
Comic Book Men Casting!
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Have you seen COMIC BOOK MEN? It's the AMC show that's set at Kevin Smith's
real-life comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. You can find
it ...
Tearin’ It Up
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Raaawwrrrr!! Jeans bad! Hulk Smash!…..Actually, you know what, I’m not
going to go there. For all I know she isn’t bursting out of those jeans,
but rather ...
See and Hear Tiffany Thayer!
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Tiffany Thayer, aka Elmer Ellsworth, founder of the Fortean Society,
publisher of Doubt, writer of memorably sleazy fiction, was in Hollywood
throughout mu...
Advance Review: Liberator #1 from Black Mask Studios
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TweetA highly charged debut is hot off the presses at Black Mask Studios
this Wednesday, with animal rights activists stepping up to the vigilante
plate an...
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A Vaudeville Turn --- Jack Osterman in *Talking It Over* (1929)
Too few of the most influential comedians of early stage and vaudeville
were captured prope...
Kabarett!
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In 1969 Searle published a book of sketches made on location in the
strip-shows and cabarets of the St Pauli district of Hamburg.
The French edition had a ...
Check Out Kat Leyh
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Back at C2E2, I picked up a small book called *Pancakes* from Yeti Press.
It's by Kat Leyh and, despite only being a seven page story, it was one of
the b...
Oslo 6
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Okay, I am done with Oslo. It’s been a week already! Next week we will
resume Siberia. Then July Diary. Then more comics. Then die. Please note:
the book M...
A Little Love for Lewis Parker
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It's really beginning to feel like summer around here. At this time of year
I always start thinking back to my childhood and how much I enjoyed summer
vaca...
COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — The Gumps #3
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The Gumps is another one of those once incredibly well known, loved and
influential comic strips that have almost completely disappeared. Joseph
Patterso...
Robert Minor in the New York Call
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John D. Rockefeller stumps the pavement for the
New York Call, July 28, 1915.
“Honesty is a bourgeois virtue.” — Robert Minor
Robert Berkeley “Fight...
Three Month Event Calendar
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Uh, because it was the weekend I don't do anything besides cross stitch or
work out in the yard it seems and I'm actually sick--some sort of virus? so
I ca...
The Garden As of Mid-June
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Some photos of the perennials and the vegetable garden from this past
weekend.
Here are the raised garden beds, all with new vegetables just starting to...
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Evans Krehbiel
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Evans Llan Krehbiel was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 5, 1914,
Chicago, Illinois, according to *Who’s Who in the Midwest* (1945) and the
Cook County,...
Avengers #100 - Barry Windsor Smith art & cover
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Avengers #100, 1972 - In this milestone issue, all past and present members
of the Avengers converge to battle an imminent invasion. Barry Smith starts
out...
F This Movie! - Man of Steel
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Patrick and Mark Ahn kneel before Zod.
Download this episode here. (32.5 MB)
Email F This Movie! at fthismoviepodcast(at)gmail.com.
Subscribe to F This...
New Scales: Transposes
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Artist Dylan Edwards has broken new and important ground in his Northwest
Press-published book, *Transposes*.In documenting the lives of seven queer
fema...
Space Family Robinson in 3D
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I've been experimenting with the technique of converting old comics to 3D.
For my first attempt I chose this story from Space Family Robinson #1, in
which ...
Number 1386: “...nor iron bars a cage...”
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Even if we accept for fictional purposes that a full-grown man can shrink
himself into doll size and change instantly into a superhero, the idea that
such...
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
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*Happy Father's Day to my Dad, Jim Owsley! I miss you very much! 8^)**Hanna-Barbera's
AUGIE DOGGIE and DOGGIE DADDY! My inking over pencil art by Mike
F...
Things That Go Bump!
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I finally got hold of a copy of *The Thing*, the 2011 movie prequel to *The
Thing* by John Carpenter. Carpenter's 1982 movie starring Kurt Russell
tells ...
Fred Mogubgub would like to blow your mind
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As I've noted many, many times on the Funhouse TV show, the pop culture of
the Sixties is the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving – each
time ...
Lizters
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Album cover by Boris Bucan
žuto, crveno, plavo (yellow, red, blue, 1973) by Dubravko Budić
*Once Upon A Time In Yugoslavia *
via coisas do arco da velh...
Sexy NSA Commercial With Sasha Grey
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[image: Sexy NSA Commercial With Sasha Grey]
Sexy NSA Commercial With Sasha Grey 2:04
The NSA just released a sexy new commercial with Sasha Grey.
Submitte...
To Dad On Father's Day! (PART ONE)
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Haven't posted holiday greeting cards around here in a while, so here's a
small sampling of* Father's Day *coolness from my private collection,
dating from...
Sexploitation : Fragments d'une imagerie amoureuse
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Les affiches polonaises, les affiches italiennes, les affiches de Star Wars,
de Bad Girls, de Bornes Arcades, de Carpenter, de Get Carter, les affiches...
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*Art For Morts Sake*
Sunday Measkin Measures.
Here's a story I was sure I had posted earlier, but I seem to have skiped
it (or not made the label the righ...
Derek's Weekly 45's: Soul Sounds For Sunday (#1)
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To me, nothing says "Sunday vibe" like some easy groovin' soul singles. One of the coolest radio traditions of my lifetime (and one which educated me about m...
A comic book for the blind
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How do you translate an explicitly visual medium for people who can’t see?
You can’t just print a comic with embossed detail – the picture would
become too...
The Head of the Family!
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We interrupt our *Eerie Pub* re-make fest with a *Father's Day* special from
* "The King" Jack Kirby* and the May-June 1954 issue of *Black Magic V4 #6*,
it...
Movies About Girls Podcast Episode 168
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Tonight, it's *TV Shows About Girls* week on the *Movies About Girls* show,
and we're having a groovy shindig with *Sally Field *as *Gidget*!
But that...
Where's the Fire Brigade?
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Wow, hey look kids! A Walt Kelly panorama with Brownies, which I like to
imagine to be in the same whirled as Peter Wheat!
From Four Color Comics #192 — Th...
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Marie Claire
TOMMYKNOCKERS BEAT CLUB – THE RIP-EDITION, VOLUME 2
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Unapproved but unforgotten corpora delicti from the catacombs
[image: Tommyknockers RIP2_frontcover_cropped]
As promised, here‘s Volume 2 of the Un-Lost Tomm...
From the Pages of Giggle Comics - 1949
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Today let’s enjoy a couple of stalwarts from the golden age of kids’
comics, *Dan Gordon* and *Ken Hultgren*. These two were oft contributors
to the pages ...
The Origins Of Rock, Paper, Scissors
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According to this 1945 party planning booklet, the game originated in
China. Called Chinese Gold, the booklet suggests playing in teams for party
fun.
Grow up as good revolutionaries
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In 1955, Argentinean-born Che Guevara met Fidel Castro and quickly joined
his efforts to oust Fulgencio Batista as leader of Cuba — a revolution in
which...
The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra
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It took me a while to track down some albums by this very obscure group,
but it was worth it - The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra is as wonderfully
strang...
The Blossoms of Morality (1806)
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The Blossoms of Morality intended for the amusement and instruction of
young ladies and gentlemen by the editor of The looking-glass for the mind
; with fo...
Party Like It’s 2006
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Three more-or-less animated videos, and one where not much of anything
happens. I played the hell out of these some seven years ago. They were all
part of ...
Cathy Malkasian
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Animator and Cartoonist, Cathy Malkasian was on to talk about her latest
book, Wake Up, Percy Gloom. We also discuss her animation work and other
comics pu...
YUMMY! 1990S ADVERTISING FOOD GIFS
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Don't panic! You didn't fall into a 1990s time warp on the World Wide Web!
I thought it would be fun to put together a gallery of old-timey ad GIFs
found ...
Mary Marvel's Butler, Amateur Sleuth
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In the third Mary Marvel story of her series, "A Telegram to Adventure" *
(Wow* 11, March 10, 1943) the Bromfield butler Jives is introduced (Mary
Batson Br...
The Big Gundown
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If you enjoy authentic "Spaghetti Western" music, check out this double
disc collection titled A GUN, A COFFIN & A GUITAR at the HORSE DRAWN
ZEPPELIN blo...
I’m Not Dead
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Hey everyone, I know it’s been a long time. Sorry I haven’t gotten a chance
to post anything new for a while. I started a new job a few months back and
I’v...
It’s Your Library (1947)
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Dick, sent by his mother to the library, had rather play baseball until he
finds, with the help of a friendly librarian, that it’s not such a bad
place aft...
Maurice Sendak at SOI
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Hot on the heels of the Harvey Kurtzman exhibit, the Society of
Illustrators has another DON'T MISS show.
LINK The Society of Illustrators
Hello Chicago, cut me a piece of CAKE!!
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I'll be at table #1 at CAKE this weekend, with new zines Forecast: Rain
(pictured) & Stun Nuts #9, plus assorted older zines, The Heavy Hand, T
shirts, or...
Rube Goldberg's Cartoon Machine Inventions of 1913
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About 10 months passed between the production of Rube Goldberg's first and
second invention cartoons, from July 17, 1912 (view that cartoon here) to ...
Don't Free Pussy Riot
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Last night I saw Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, and now I’m convinced that Pussy Riot should be in jail, which I think was not the filmmakers’ intent. The video ...
Back from the deadCENTER
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Spent a long weekend in Oklahoma City at the deadCENTER Film Festival where
“Christmas Day” ran twice in a short film program. The festival itself is
well ...
D+Q in Chicago Part 2: CAKE
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Let me just say how excited we are to be participating in this year's
edition of CAKE, which has become one of the more buzzed-about festivals
after only o...
Tally Ho!
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I don't know much about hunting, but I do know that there is a type of hunting dog called a pointer, which was enough to craft this gag:
Dan Piraro's finis...
paying gigs
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More like paying gigabytes — the tiff file for our dvd-cover design here
was HUGE: This is the front cover of Josh Melrod & Tara Wray’s forthcoming
film Ca...
THE LAST .1 PERCENT
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99.9% of our DNA is identical for all human beings. Yet, there is enough
variety left in that remaining 0.1% to make each of us unique.
Your individual ...
2 Fast 2 Furious
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IT’S VEHICULAR WARFARE out there. Secret Acres is making a lightning attack
on Chicago, particularly on the Chicago Alternative (K)omics Expo – and
we’re g...
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Last installment of my *EC Archives* notes.
*Vault Lines*
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*Vault 23*
*The Vault of Horror*23 (February-March 1952) is unique because it features
tw...
A Jazzy Cover Gallery
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Like many teenagers who were heavily into Silver Age Marvel Comics, I was
blown away by the wonderful John Romita Sr. Of course, I was first exposed
to hi...
NO APOLOGIES
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Around this time of year, CCS incoming freshman log on to the school’s
message board. They find roomates and post links to their work. They also
mentally ...
For All The World To See [Updated]
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James spent his sophomore year of high school making "The World," a $700
absurdist science fiction epic. Here it is finally.
You may go on the IMDB and gi...
--Link-- DITKOMANIA #91 Kickstarter
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Rob Imes has a Kickstarter project ending in a few days for the publication
of DITKOMANIA #91, the next issue of his on-going fanzine. If it makes its
fund...
Bijou Game Change
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For the past six years the Bijou Team and Festival Films have worked with distinguished classic film industry pros around the country in seeking a network an...
Upon A Hill
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Tonight I will be at the Irish Arts Center talking about my piece, based on
a Yeats play, that is featured in The Graphic Canon Volume 3. Here is the
piece…
Too Much Information - Part 2
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More current activity in the Florasphere (see Part 1 here):
We're preparing several new fine art prints for release, including a *Mambo
For Cats* giclée (...
Time wasters!
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*Friends with Kids (2011) – BOMB**. *Horrible “romantic comedy” about two
platonic best friends
(Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt) who decide to have a baby...
Making Comics With Your Friends Debrief
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Our HUGE thanks to Pat Aulisio, Box Brown and Josh Bayer for hosting last
weekend’s two day workshop, Making Comics With Your Friends. We had a great
turno...
From 1979: I'll Bet You Can Sing This Jingle
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Today's commercials are just noise. Give me a good jingle anytime and I
will sing it; around the house, as I bathe, as I drive, and most definitely
while...
Going on Hiatus
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SHADES OF GRAY will be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Thanks
for everyone's support over these past few years. The site will remain up
and co...
Going on Hiatus
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HOORAY FOR WALLY WOOD will be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for everyone's support over these past few years. The site will
remain u...
A Life's Dear Dreams... "Up In Smoke"
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'Tis with great sorrow that I return to the bloggnhg scene. This article,
from the local newspaper, tells the story with grea t clarity:
This dreadful nigh...
Happy Star Wars Day!
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36 years ago today many kids my age's lives changed forever when Star Wars
opened. It was delayed a day in Kansas City due to a benefit screening on
open...
"What's Up, Center of the Earth People?"
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The police inspector was yelling at Twain and Einstein again. "You two are
the worst nightclub owners in all of Soho! I'll find something to plant on
you i...
road trip
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Just a quick note to say that starting May 25th, I’ll be on the road for
few weeks. Some pals and I are driving through the south to photograph
abandoned p...
Drawn 2005-2013
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Drawn 2005-2013:
Drawn is dead. Long live Drawn. Thank you, everyone.
johnmartz:
[image: Drawn in 2005]
Drawn in 2005.
2005
Have you heard of these t...
RIPBCGF
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Totally gutted to hear about the discontinuation of Brooklyn Comics &
Graphics Festival. Best damn show. I’ve nothing particularly profound to
say about wh...
Punch Drunk Love
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Here’s a print I drew for a P.T. Anderson collection of posters from Mondo.
Thanks to Aaron Horkey and his curatorial benificence. Red Red, Royal
Blue, Ye...
ABE LINCOLN JUNIOR MY FRIEND*
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*99¢ Dreams* are here!! Sheer brilliance** from our man in Brooklyn. *
Autographed *Sheets On Sale at the *low, low, introductory price of $12.50 (Shipping
...
Jacovitti's "Pa and Ma"
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*Marriage, Jacovitti Style*
Taking my dictionary into my hands, I've made a stab at translating a
couple of later Jacovitti strips.* Pa e Ma *is a concept ...
TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL!
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I’m hanging out in Syracuse, NY right now after an awesome few days in New
York City. I had the pleasure of visiting the MAD Magazine offices and the
First...
COWABUNGA SCHNAUZER
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*Cowabunga Schnauzer*
(Belly Wot Leaflet 2013, Special Large-ish issue)
Marc Bell
Half World Books
10.5” tall x 8” wide, 20 pages (12 in colour)
First prin...
Oom Pah Pah! Today is Tuba Day
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I've been dying to post this cover for Tuba day but missed my cue two years
in a row. No way was I going to let that happen again. You just got
to lo...
Fan Art
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The PRISON PIT Facebook page is a hotbed of awesome fan art. Here are a few
recent favorites people have posted… Amazing Cannibal Fuckface amigurumi,
croch...
T.I.P.S! 161 Brainiacs, feat. Josh Flanagan
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iFanboy’s Josh Flanagan creeps back into The Lair to tell us his tips for
home and car improvement. Alex updates us on an English couple who have
given the...
**COMMISSIONS***
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Here is the first significant commissioned drawing I've made since The
Cartoon Utopia was released
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I really like doing stuff like this, and encourage ...
Asking For Help
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My computer is having issues. Any purchase made through this site at this
time will go toward helping get a replacement. If you don't see anything
you wan...
An Unpublished 1940 Sub-Zero Cover by Jack Cole
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Here's a super-cool rare piece of previously unpublished early superhero
art by Jack Cole that provides a small revelation about his early career.
It's a...
"Stand By Me!"
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Just 'cause everybody needs to see/hear this.
Everybody needs somebody to stand by them. You won't find that somebody
with a new Pope or some invisible g...
Comic Art Con - Not Your Normal Con
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A smaller but excellent convention takes place on March 24th in Secaucus,
NJ. This con happens in the Fall and in the Spring and is strictly comic
art, n...
RL Book 2
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Dear friends,
It's been a few months since posting, or writing.
I've posted a new chapter of my book here:
http://www.tomhart.net/rosalie.html .
If yo...
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Hi gangsters!
One last post before this blog will be removed from the internets.
Hope to see you on the other side on our *fb-page* or elsewhere!
Happy n...
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