Tag Archives: 1980s

Altered States

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Joe_Williams

This was a drawing I did back in the late 1980s in the cursed Sketchbook from Hell. I created it as a belated birthday card for a girl I was pursuing who dodged my advances. Belated birthday cards featuring a … Continue reading →

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Killing the Sketchbook from Hell

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Joe_Williams

A sketch I did with my favorite indigo blue pencil while sitting at the Ridgeway pool in South Philadelphia this summer. This was the first satisfying sketch I did in the dreaded Sketchbook from Hell!

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TRS-80 SAVES Metropolis!!!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Ricky Rotten sent me an article celebrating the 35th anniversary of Radio Shack’s personal home computer the TRS-80 also less-than-affectionately known as the TRaSh-80.

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Information Tsunami

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Joe_Williams

This was an illustration I did for The Jewish Exponent back in the 80s. It was for an article on the incredible surge in the amount of printed information. It went on to detail the trials and tribulations of researchers … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of Philadelphia’s Past – Bellevue Health Baths

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Joe_Williams

A couple years ago I was wandering around what’s known as Center City in Philadelphia when I took this picture. This sign is on the corner of Sansom and Juniper between 13th and Broad. I’ve been up and down this … Continue reading →

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17,000,000 Commodore 64 Users Can’t Be Wrong

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Joe_Williams

  The best-selling personal computer model of all time.  It was cheaper, faster and better than the Apple computers out at the time. Why these guys aren’t ruling the world is beyond me. Today, I continue my exploration of the … Continue reading →

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The Lost Art of the Mix Tape – Moak Enna Minnie

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Joe_Williams

As I wrote before, Tina and I have been doing some either very late or very early Spring cleaning, and, in the process, came upon a bunch of old audio cassettes. This was the way we listened to music before … Continue reading →

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The Lost Art of the Mix Tape – Confuse Yo Neighbors

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Joe_Williams

While I was doing some much needed de-cluttering, I came across a cache of audio cassettes. Most of them were pre-recorded detritus from the remainder bins of long lost chain record stores, but among them were the real treasures – … Continue reading →

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Swamp Things

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Joe_Williams

Before I start this entry, head over to CO2 Comics’ Blog NOW and read Gerry Giovinco’s history of DUCKWORK. He fills in some of the enormous gaps left by my own meager history of PCA’s semi-official student paper. His entry … Continue reading →

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Mommy Dearest II: The Revenge

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Joe_Williams

While I was looking for sketches for my abandoned opus Gomer Pyle Goes to Viet Nam, I found this sketch for another possible DUCKWORK strip. This was either going to be Mommy Dearest II: The Revenge or Joan Crawford Has … Continue reading →

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Down In Space It’s Always 1982

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Joe_Williams

1982 and the my second semester arrived at PCA after a lengthy winter break. The second semester wasn’t as bad as the first. It was still the Foundation program that all freshmen had to go through, but it wasn’t as … Continue reading →

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Naked Lady Falling Down The Stairs

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Joe_Williams

DUCKWORK No. 5 came out in November of 1981, and I think this was the last issue of the year. Mid-terms were coming up and everybody was going to be way too busy to squeeze out another issue before winter … Continue reading →

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Does Head Cheese Taste The Same Coming Up?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Joe_Williams

DUCKWORK No. 4 – October 1981 If I hadn’t done so earlier, this was the issue that convinced me to venture up to the 13th Floor and drop in on the DUCKWORK offices. Gerry’s cartoon of a vomiting duck placed … Continue reading →

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EIGHTIES – We’re Living in the Eighties!

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Joe_Williams

Having read Gerry Giovinco’s fascinating posts about the origin and early days of Comico, I started to wonder when it was that I first hooked up with Gerry, Bill Cucinotta and the rest of the gang who were on the … Continue reading →

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