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Much of the material here is at least a generation old and therefore sometimes has racist and sexist standards we wouldn't conform to today. I try, but can't always do a line-item veto. Remember, if something has stereotypes it's posted in spite of them and not because of them. You're not wrong to be offended, think of it like a friend you like hanging out with 95% of the time but once in a while they embarrass you. My own attitude is to move forward.
Many of the images I posted between 2011-2013 were disappeared by the image bank I was using then but I still have most of the scans and am bringing them back slowly. Be patient.
Diana Prince - The New Wonder Woman Volume Three!
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Diana Prince's adventures continue in this third volume of the series,
collecting up a wide array of stories written and drawn (mostly) by Mike
Sekowsky ...
"Man-Made Monster"
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Time for a fun little madcap experiment in monster cuteness from the
December 1946 issue of *George Pal's Puppetoons #7*. Here we find jittery *Jim
Dandy...
TRENTON’S ANCIENT STREET SIGNS
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Forgotten New York -
My visits to New Jersey have been sporadic. For 30 years, on occasion, I
have spent a lot of time in Hoboken and even worked there ...
Favorite Things
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“Here we see my uncle and grandparents, in a photo taken by my mom. My
grandpa (the one with the 3-foot long pointy shirt collar) is happily
showing us a...
BACK at the CHICKEN SHACK on WFDU.fm HD2!
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*We got the music covered!*
*Back at the Chicken Shack *
*with host Ken Struck *
*on WFDU.fm HD2 internet radio*
*Wednesday from 8 -10pm est**Remotely...
Creature Feature
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Sunday Al Williamson Surprise.
Another fantasy story (this time from World of Suspense #7), which is
probably inked by Ralph Mayo as well. Interesting t...
Marvel Mystery Comics #82 - 1st Namora
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Marvel Mystery Comics #82
*Marvel Mystery Comics v1 #82, 1947 *- The undersea kingdom is attacked and
plundered by mobsters from the surface world. The onl...
A Rampage of Demons!
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Ahhh, the life of a comic book artist! It's all fun and games (and rockin'
redheads) until your boss spoils it with those darn pesky deadlines! So
yeah, ...
Why I Am Not a Painter
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Degas painted a portrait of Manet’s wife—Manet slashed it with a razor.
Rauschenberg erased a de Kooning. Ruskin burned Goya’s engravings. “He
smells of ...
2 One Day Events TOMORROW!!
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17 Wednesday ONE DAY EVENTS: Books/Libraries and Insurance
Ads/PSAs for books and/or libraries; or ads that contain someone reading a
book, carrying books,...
Words and phrases I detest
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I’m suffering from severe sleep deprivation again, and it’s aggravated
because after a night or two, the anxiety that causes insomnia is worsened
by the fe...
The Garden As of Mid-August
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It's been a dry and hot summer, which has been good for some (tomatoes) and
bad for others (people).
Above: the zinnias make the hummingbirds very hap...
There's Something Familiar About That Dog
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There are many people who are quite expert at watching animation and
recognising the artist. I am not one of them. But even Mr. Magoo could see
that Chuck ...
When To Give Up
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Let's say you come up with this idea for a project. Some story that you
become very passionate about telling because you haven't seen anything
quite like i...
Acting Class
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Nick Drnaso's Acting Class weighs in at 268 pages. That's nearly double the
number of 2016's Beverly, a book whose back cover blurb said Drnaso had
"adva...
LOU GROUCH
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*LOU GRANT*
CBS 1977-1982
*LOU GROUCH*
MAD #205, March 1979
w: Tom Koch
a: Angelo Torres
Spinoff of *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* but unlike the others this ...
Songs of 1964
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By Mark Ehmcke
1. Keep Searchin' - Del Shannon
2. The Crusher - The Novas
3. Don't Bring Me Down - The Pretty Things
4. C'mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman
...
RefPack047: A Peek At The Featured Downloads
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People who aren’t members of Animation Resources don’t understand how
comprehensive our Reference Packs are. Over the next couple of weeks, we
will be po...
Jeffret Tambor Encore
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“Hey now!” GGGACP celebrates the 30th anniversary of the premiere of HBO’s
“The Larry Sanders Show” (August 15, 1992) with this encore of a 2019
conversati...
1952, The Year Al Capp Took Over the Boob Tube
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In the 1940s Al Capp started making the rounds of the radio talk shows, and
he also became a popular guest on early TV. Intrigued by the new
technology, ...
Where Frames of Reference Splinter
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Which Gets To Be The Highest Art?
That 1975 summer out at USC had us part of the time in a History of Cinema
class with instructor John Schultheiss, ...
Stop! (1970)
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Years before he made the strange vampire saga *Ganja & Hess* (1973),
multihyphenate Bill Gunn wrote and directed this arty meditation on
identi...
Baltimore Comic-con 2022 brings Brooklyn
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I'll be sharing a table with writers/artists, Jeffrey Burandt, Sean Von
Gorman, and Whitney Matheson at my favorite comix show of the year,
Baltimore Com...
Booksteve Film Festival Canceled
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The 2022 Booksteve Film Festival has been canceled for the remainder of the
year. Why? Well, back in January, I watched an average of a movie a day.
The...
Beyond the Pale
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This is the regular dispatch from Bizarro Studios North, where I have been
writing and drawing the Monday through Saturday Bizarro comics since 2018.
My pa...
Three more Top Shelf titles in development for TV!
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[image: Cover art for RIVERS, BALLAD FOR SOPHIE, and THE DELICACY]This week
our colleagues at IDW Entertainment announced five new TV development deals,
...
NEW BLOG SITE
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Hello, This is to announce that as of today, this is no longer the site of
the active Tom the Dancing Bug Blog. The Blog has moved to
https://tomdbug.wpcom...
About our book POLLEN IN PRINT: 1955-1959
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Artist Samson Pollen created hundreds of classic illustrations for the
men’s adventure magazines (MAMs, for short) published in the 1950s, 1960s
and 197o...
When Is a Self-Swipe Not a Swipe?
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Cover painter Allen Anderson's comic book work was mostly for Ziff-Davis's
comics, but even though Fiction House didn't use paintings for their comics
co...
FTM 640: THE FRIGHTENERS
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Patrick and Adam Riske report back from Flashback Weekend 2022 and talk
about Peter Jackson's major studio debut.
Download this episode here. ( MB)
Lis...
WHAT ART CAN DO, part 1
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Maxfield Parrish's landscape of a still winter night gives us a feeling of
tranquility.
As you look at this picture, you're on a planet spinning at 1,0...
Molesworth redux
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Interview here with my old friend & fellow Searle enthusiast lei Meyer who
has done the Searle-esque illustrations for a new Molesworth book!
Stanley Armstrong –
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Stanley Armstrong, Slim Jim, May 5, 1923IN MEMORY OF 'ARMI'Editor &
Publisher, August 20, 1949To The Editor: I am going to ask a special favor
that you ca...
Whatever Happened to Simon?
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Born in Manchester on 28 July 1935, Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, known
professionally as Simon Dee, was a British disc jockey and television
personality, m...
Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion
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On September 15, 1885, twenty-five years after his capture in Sudan, Jumbo
the elephant tragically died when struck by a freight train. Ross Bullen
takes u...
Bad Kingdom (1972)
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In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility
off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people -
the en...
New Ditko - TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER #36
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Now available from the usual sources is TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER
#36, the latest in the revolving anthology series by SD Publishing and
their Fam...
Black Scat Review 25
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The 25th issue of Black Scat Review is now out and ready for you to read!
This one is subtitled “Lewd, Nude, and Rude,” and contains three of my
contributi...
NEW COMMISSION!
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*Hanna-Barbera's BLUE FALCON and DYNOMUTT. An 11x14 commission based on HB
promotional art. Thanks, Chris! To get on my commission list, email me at
pows...
Dan Gordon's SuperKatt!
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Good afternoon, Kids! So nice to visit with you all again!
*Dan Gordon* remains a favorite cartoonist of mine, so it’s always a good
day when I can share ...
The truth about Markovia
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I guess this message is well past it’s sell-by date, but just to make a
point, I’d like to present to you : Markovia has been doing all right, even
without...
In Stores Now: The Con Artists by Luke Healy ‘14
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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) alum Lukey Healy ‘14, released his
third graphic novel, THE CON ARTISTS, on June 7 with Drawn and Quarterly.
A note...
The Bolles sightings continue!
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Round two of recent Bolles sightings. This one during a recent visit to
Providence, Rhode Island. While there I perused the aisles of a terrific
local...
Shannon Stirnweis, Part 4: Paperback Cover Art
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*My conversation with Shannon Stirnweis continues...* ~ *Leif Peng*
*Leif Peng:* I'm guessing around this time in the mid-1960s you started to
do paperback...
Lulu Book Three
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The third and final (for now) volume of Drawn + Quarterly's full-color
hardcover *Little Lulu* books has been out for a bit. I'm sad that the
series has ...
31 Days Of CCS, #39: Luke Healy
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There's no question that Luke Healy is one of the most interesting of the
CCS grads, as he seems to have managed the depiction of interpersonal
awkwardne...
Whatever Happened to Adam?
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Dear Ones,
I'm sorry for the abrupt conclusion to this blog. 10 years of blogging is
a long time, and I thought I could keep it going after the hiatus,...
The Big Issue (uk)
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A complete redesigned @bigissueuk done by ace @mrwilley , editor
paulmcnamee and @mrmneil . photo Paul Logan (vendor of The Big Issue at
Liverpool St, Lo...
You Know Me, Al: filling in the gaps
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We’re giving the You Know Me, Al archive a refresh! We’ve filled the gaps
in the beginning of the run: the first seven weeks of the strip are now
complete ...
New York Comic Con?!
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Next weekend, Angela Fanche and I will be at New York Comic Con with our
own booth in the Artist’s Alley. I’ll have all my books and Angela has a
fantastic...
Purple Mayonnaisery
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I am excited to have this display of my work included in Paul Nudd's
Purple Mayonnaisery group show at Western Exhibitions in Chicago. It
features sele...
Zinda Blake, Mermaid Blackhawk
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Kevin Ahearn shared this with me and now I'm sharing it with you. It's a
continuation of his wildly entertaining interpretation of the Lady
Blackhawk s...
What a ride... the end of Cinema Sewer
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So here I am at the end of a significant era of my life. Basically the
entirety of my adult life, to this point. When Cinema Sewer started, it was
24 years...
Still Truckin'/Sad Sack in "The Grudge"
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Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove is just checking in to reassure
everyone that he (and DotGK) are alive and well--just buuuuuussssaaayy!
Writing/le...
Journey Into Mystery #4
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*Halloween Post-A-Day 2020, Day 31*
*Journey Into Mystery #4*
* A brief trio of tales kicked off by an HPL story*
*Editor – Roy Thomas*
*June...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2020
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Hopefully, this Halloween video will bring some joyful nostalgia. Putting
this together was very therapeutic for me, so for anyone who might be
struggli...
An Interview with Jack Blanchard - Part Four
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*Jack Blanchard: We worked with a lot of comedians over the years. I have
always been a comedy fan. When I had my group the Dawn Breakers we worked a
lot...
New Portraits of Underground Cartoonist Icons
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"Underground cartoonists are all a bunch of
baptist ministers in Popeye suits"
-Charles Bukowski
I'm working on a series of illustrations that will event...
It is only a matter of time
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On September 12th of 2011, the *New York Times* published an article by Dr.
Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic
aspects ...
The End 2010-2020
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Ten years and 3100 posts later, we're done. And on a Friday the 13th, yet.
I know I said that once before and I was only gone a few months but this
time, I...
So Long, Farewell
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WE SHOOK off the childhood trauma of gym class and ventured early in the
morning to Comic Arts Brooklyn, held at Pratt’s ARC, meaning Athletic and
Recreati...
Cartoon Logic Podcast
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And yet another distraction from this brick and mortar blog… I’ve entered
the world of podcasting with renowned animation director and historian Bob
Jaques...
The Good Works of God and Mankind
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I sometimes like to imagine God filling in the colorless canvas of a new
Earth with the products of His imagination. It must have been a labor of
Love. Act...
The ABCs of Dating
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*Sponsored by Orbit #TimeToShine*
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*Orbit makes dating as easy as learning your ...
Summer Reading Stack July 20 2019
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As usual, I am behind on posting about some of the books I have been
reading. While the podcasts are not running very frequently, I am still
reading and re...
New Titles in the Shop!
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Hi! Fresh of the heels of the MoCCA Fest, Paper Rocket Minicomics has some
new titles for you! Carlito by Carlo Quispe! Things Go Wrong #2 by
Jason Bra...
That's all, folks!
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My posts have gotten thinner over the years. I'm aware of that. I've been
hopeful for a long time, that I can remain active with blogging and sharing
furth...
Addams Family Holiday: Redux
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In addition to being a bon vivant, ladykiller, and sports car enthusiast,
cartoonist Charles Addams was also a thief. He stole from himself.
This cart...
Cratedigger’s Lung - catch it
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Don’t miss the debut of “The Cratedigger’s Lung Adventue Hour,” tomorrow,
Nov. 30 at 7pm, EST.
*A one-hour exploration of excavations from the farthest re...
CSotD Part MMMXC -- A New Beginning
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Adjust your bookmark, because the blog is moving in order to become a
feature on The Daily Cartoonist, a site newly re-energized with the
addition of DD De...
New Books and Comics: May 18, 2018
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Comics highlights this week: Barrier #3 — the stellar new series by Brian
K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (don’t forget pick up issue one and two before
they ...
Adventures in Drawing! Class in Gainesville
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ADVENTURES IN DRAWING Learn to draw from life and the imagination
through fun, creative projects and regular sketching practice. We’ll
explore a variety ...
Kudos MoonPie
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Had to come back from the dead to share this hysterical twitter thread with
you. It's between the maker of MoonPies and a woman who doesn't like them.
inflight
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BIG HALF-PRICE CHRISTMAS DEAL! i recently unearthed this piece, perfect for
that special someone who just seems to have everything! inflight, 2017
graphite...
Adventuring Pups (1948)
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Three beagle pups run away from their farm home and get lost in woods. They
experience several adventures in the forest before finding their way home
again...
How To Replace a Riding Mower Battery
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Riding mower batteries ought to be maintained when fully charged and
replaced when dead and you need all the right materials when you are about
to replac...
TOONSEUM FUNDRAISER
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Rick Meyerowitz hand-signed original "The Mona Gorilla" Poster A donation
of $200 gets you this rare 1971 poster of The National Lampoon’s most
famous...
Get Thee to the Library
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I’m thinking of getting a driver’s license. That’s not to say I’ve never
driven a car, but only a few times in questionable circumstances under the
intense...
Hang Loose
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Poster for the short film Hang Loose, directed by Sammy Harkham & Patrick
Brice, and Starring Kyle Field of Little Wings. 4 color silkscreen print on
110lb...
As We Head into 2017 - An End-of-Year Update
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2016... oh what a crazy year you've been. While it will no doubt go down as
a year full of tragedy and turmoil in the world, on a personal level, 2016
has...
And So the Year Finally Comes to an End
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After nearly 6 years of celebrating my favorite year, it's time--now 50
years on-- to leave it in the past...at least for now. Check BOOKSTEVE'S
LIBRARY ...
old time religion A Postcard Home from Bible Camp
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Apparently, the old time religion Covenant Point Bible Camp has been in
business for 90 years. I am hoping they will add this to the celebration!
Covena...
In the shop....
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These are all just sitting in the shop. Waiting for you.
*Awake and Dreaming* by Harve and Margot Zemach (1970).
*Brian Wildsmith's ABC* (1962).
*Cindy's S...
Thank you for a Decade of Cute!
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Dearest Cute Overload Peeps, It’s hard to believe that Cute Overload has
chronicled and celebrated over ten years of the most anerable,
prosh, sweetest ani...
442.
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*“I’ll rip those bastards a new one, and then I’ll rip a new one in that,
and then I’ll rip a new one in that, ad infinitum.”*
(From the first page of ...
Vintage Teen Dance Party & Disco
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Vintage photos of 1950's and 1960's teen-age dance parties and college-age
night clubs complete with discotheques and go-go girls dancing inside of
cages a...
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SAM HENDERSON has been doing comics, illustration and writing popular among people aware of their existence since his birth, though he wasn't paid for it until 1991. In addition to his own series,The Magic Whistle, clients have included Nickelodeon, New York Press, DC Comics, Heavy Metal, New York Observer,and ...um... Screw. He was a storyboard director for SpongeBob Squarepants in 2001.
See what books are currently available, links to my own work and other web presences, or contact me by writing magicwhistle.henderson@gmail.com. Currently at work on graphic memoir titled Hail Seizure.
Portrait by Jess Rullifson.
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