Film: Movie Review: Monsters University
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The Golden Age of Pixar may be over—for this reviewer, it ended with *Up*—but
even the studio’s second-tier work is transporting. In *Monsters University...
Not The Superman Review You Were Expecting!
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As it turns out, I have a number of what I have to dub "unpopular
opinions". Over the course of the summer I'll be sharing some of those with
the readers...
It's Not Fun Until Someone Yells "AI-EEEEE!"
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Hey, gang! Did you ever want to be on AMC's *Comic Book Men*? I got a
note from a casting agent that says they're lookin', so if you live in the
NJ area ...
Boy Explorers-Joe Simon/Jack Kirby-1946/1952
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Yesterday I was lamenting on Facebook the scarcity of Simon and Kirby's BOY
EXPLORERS stories, even as as scans! Then I discovered that, in fact, there
A...
Comic Book Short Story in 3D ~Il Maestro
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Grab those 3D specs , kids, and enjoy this eye poppin' tale drawn by Bob
Powell for the 2nd and final issue of ADVENTURES IN 3-D, January 1954
Why gadgets are no longer made of wood
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John Brownlee at *Fast Company:*
There are two reasons. One is practical; the other spiritual, about the way
we look at what technology represents to the ...
You Could’ve Foliaged Me
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Honey? When’s the last time you watered the topiary? It’s looking a little
brown. This is Agnes Carol at a kickball game last weekend. She’s a
labradoodle....
***WF EXTRA***Superman # 76, May/June, 1952
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Here's logic for you. You have a regular, bi-monthly comic book that's been
running for more than a decade featuring Superman and Batman, your
company's ...
Behind The Awkwardness: Tank Tops
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*“This is a portrait of me and my mom take at the local Woolworth’s in the
late 70′s. My mom thought it would be cute to take photos in our tank tops.
I...
Kim Thompson, 56
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Fantagraphics Books co-publisher *Kim Thompson* passed away this morning at
age 56 after a four-month bout with lung cancer. Kim served as editor and
poin...
NAME the STATE — Answer and Winner
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[image: image]
The answer is:
*c) Virginia*
*GREAT ROAD, Jamestown, Virginia.*
The “Great Road” near the “glasshouse” site on Glasshouse ...
Printing Through The Ages
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(1950) Traces the story of printing from ancient times to the present.
Shows early methods using carved wood blocks, transition from printing
pictures to p...
R.I.P. Kim Thompson
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No, in spite of the name and more than a passing resemblance, we weren't
related. Kim Thompson was the driving force behind AMAZING HEROES, the
magazine ...
W is for Wednesday and WHITE KITTIES
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How Kanye Now Pictures Himself
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Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl this weekend, just in time for
Father's Day. Fatherhood must be filling Kanye with even more pride than
usual.
Swamp Thing #23 - non-attributed Nestor Redondo art
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Swamp Thing #23, 1976 - A new masthead heralds a new direction for the
character, but the series ends with this issue. The Swamp Thing's origin is
retold, ...
THIS WEEK'S COMIC
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DID YOU KNOW? FUN FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK CITY! Click here to read on Boing Boing. Click here to read on Daily Kos. (coming) Click here to read on GoComics. (co...
Kim Thompson, RIP
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Kim Thompson passed away this morning. He was an immensely important figure
in comics history. On a personal note, he was very supportive of me and
Tim, an...
Fantagraphics
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The Fantagraphics website looks like it crashed -or slowed to a slug’s
pace, at best -around 4:15 Eastern Time on June 19. People across the
globe checkin...
Artist of the Day: Jason Scheier
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Jason Scheier is a visual development and concept artist at DreamWorks
Animation SKG. Jason creates digital paintings as well as designs concepts
in 3D.
RIP Kim Thompson
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Tweet Photo by Lynn Emmert. Fantagraphics co-founder and industry titan Kim
Thompson has lost his battle with lung cancer. A statement was released
below, ...
This Beard is Getting a Little Bushy
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Tagged: wtf , mindwarp , funny , bushes
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The Star Wars Elevator Prank
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A guy at King's College London can actually use the force. Does he use it
to gain wisdom? To become a super soldier? To hold dominion over humanity?
Nope...
Official Anchorman 2 Trailer
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[image: Official Anchorman 2 Trailer]
Official Anchorman 2 Trailer 1:42
The Official Anchorman 2 Trailer! The legend continues this December. Join
us on F...
The lost world of Fossil Lake
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by Matthew Cobb In high desert of southwestern Wyoming in the USA there is
a deserted town with the apt name of Fossil (pop: 5. Yes, 5). Around 52
million ...
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*Matters of Size*
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
Somehow I never want to like Blondie, but when you look close at them it is
immediately clear how ell made they...
No Handrails? No Problem.
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Submitted by: Unknown
Tagged: toilet plunger , plumber , public transportation , plunger , funny,
bus , g rated , ...
June-ish Links
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- An old signed Jack Kirby badge from San Diego Comic-Con is up for
auction. The description claims it's from 1970, but Michael Hamersky
points ...
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JUST IN: Writer Michael J. Hayde Supplies Some Updates
Some Greenbriar questions answered and new info supplied by noted
writer/historian Michael J. Hayd...
T.I.P.S! 167 – Jeff Manley Barfs
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Cartoonist and competitive eater, Jeff Manley steps up to the “You can’t
drink a gallon of milk in an hour” challenge, and ends up barfing all over
the car...
Video: Corey Wittig's PUBLIC NOTICES by Eric Lidji
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Here's a 13 minute film made by Corey Wittig about Pittsburgh
writer/cartoonist Eric Lidji, who draws a panel titled PUBLIC NOTICES for
the City Paper....
Perversion for Profit (1965)
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Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating
and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against
pornog...
James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51
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James Gandolfini, 51, who swaggered his way to fame as the murderous,
clinically depressed mob boss on HBO's groundbreaking drama "The Sopranos,"
has died ...
Mondo Instro
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Buffalo Bop's STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL series isn't a totally outstanding
collection, but certainly includes some worthwhile rarities. Get all 11
volumes v...
COMIC BOOK WALLPAPER: SUPERMAN
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Superman Annual #1
In honor of Superman's 75th anniversary, I've reassimilated some Superman
comic covers into desktop wallpapers. Click on the image and ...
Ink-Slinger Profiles: Fred Meagher
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Frederick Lawrence “Fred” Meagher was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania on
April 11, 1912, according to obituaries in the *Reno Evening Gazette*(Nevada) an...
About the Rough Mud Run by Sean Adams
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*Thank you for your interest in the Rough Mud Run. Below is a brief
overview of the event.*
What is the Rough Mud Run?
A run, obstacle course, and all-a...
Life and Death: Keiler Roberts and Jason Walz
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*Powdered Milk*, by Keiler Roberts. The thing that sets apart Keiler
Roberts' autobio comics from others is the resonance of her authorial
voice. She's g...
Number 1387: Atomic attack, 1972!
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Just about a week ago I showed a 1946 atomic destruction story by Joe
Simon. You can see it in *Pappy's #1382*.
Now, for today’s radioactive post:
Look...
Metropoli (Spain)
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Last weeks La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish
newspaper El Mundo Ace art direction by Rodrigo Sánchez (@rodrigosansan),
read h...
Date Ideas - Learn Karate and Fight Racism
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What's not to love about this romance comic book text featurette describing
fun and inexpensive things to do with your sweetheart? Not only age
appropria...
Saving You From Filth and Degradation
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You axed for 'em , you got 'em - more re-up requests fulfilled:
*Howard Finster- Night Howard Finster Got Saved*
*Modern Purveyors Of Filth And Degradation...
Woolfolk Records 1950/09
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[image: Whiz 133 Ibis first page]
After a time of selling to just Fawcett and Orbit, William Woolfolk
includes Quality again among his publishers with this...
Sticking to Music
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You know how whenever anyone brings up the topic of US sonic weapons and music torture, someone always says, “What do they do, just turn on WFMU? Hahahahaha....
Dumb Ways to Die
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This public safety TV commercial from Melbourne's Metro Trains is gruesome in the most adorable way possible. You will love it, if you haven't already seen i...
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Here's my contribution to *This Planet Is Doomed*, a collection of Sun Ra's
poetry published by Miriam Linna's Kicks Books in 2011.
*The Shadow Waltz of...
Jess Johnson’s Auto da Fé Book Available Now
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My old friend and Fantagraphics co-worker Jess Johnson has released a
compilation volume of sketchbooks and “Auto da Fé” zines chronicling the
past decade....
Greatest Horror of Them All! / The Fanged Freak
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This was the very first remake / redraw I ever posted at *THOIA*, and as we
tend to do occasionally around here, we drag these old posts out from the
vault...
WARRING WITH TROLLS, part 4
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*"To live is to war with trolls." --Ibsen*
Talented illustrator Austin Briggs painted a NY Giants baseball game for
the April 22, 1950 cover of the Satur...
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...
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 ...
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...
Robert Minor in the New York Call
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[1] John D. Rockefeller stumps the pavement for the
New York Call, July 28, 1915.
“Honesty is a bourgeois virtue.” — Robert Minor
Robert Berkeley “F...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
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...
**COMMISSIONS***
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Here is the first significant commissioned drawing I've made since The
Cartoon Utopia was released
***
I really like doing stuff like this, and encourage ...
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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