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Tag Archives: comics
Big Money!
Miniature Chairman of the Board?
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970, Agent of SHIELD, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, football, Marvel, Nick Fury, SGT. Fury, vintage, WW II
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Anthropomorphic Water Fowl and 16mm Celluloid
Wait…WHAT?!
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 16mm, 1956, comic, comic book, comics, Disney, Heart Throbs, home movies, humor, Illustration, vintage
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Glows in the Dark!
It seems that everything old is new again.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged ABC, ad, comic, comic book, comics, Dark Shadows, DC Comics, Hemlock Grove, Illustration, model kit, monster, soap opera, television, vampire, vintage, werewolf
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Chicks Dig Locksmiths
Am I the only one getting a Ted Bundy vibe from the fellow featured in this ad?
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1977, comic, comic book, comics, humor, locksmith, Marvel, Omega the Unknown, Superman, Ted Bundy, vintage
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The Lone Star State – an Inch at a Time
Back before you could name your very own star supposedly all official-like, you could own a Mini-ranch measuring one inch square in the great state of Texas. For two bucks you would get a legal deed to your real estate … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged cartoons, comic book, comics, Guardians of the Galaxy, humor, inch, Marvel Comics, ranch, Star Wars, Texas, What I Miss About Comics
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Altered States
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
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, Altered States, Cartoon, cartoons, chimp, comic, comics, devolution, Drawer Cards, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Slurpee Cups from the 1970s
These collectible Slurpee cups come from the era of flared jeans, Earth Shoes and leaded gasoline. This is back before the internet, home video, video games and other fabulous electrified time-wasters. All that was available was three broadcast networks and … Continue reading
Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970s, 7-Eleven, comics, DC, fantasy, Marvel, Slurpee, super-heroes
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It Came From The Sketchbook – The Little Black Book
A few weeks ago I decided to give the What I Like About Comics category a rest and blow the dust off of the It Came From The Sketchbook category shaking loose some of the drawings from sketchbooks I’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged analog, art, art supply, Cartoon, cartoons, Charrette, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, commute, hard-bound, humor, Illustration, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Market-Frankford El, Monkey & Bird, pencil, Philadelphia, SEPTA, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Killing the Sketchbook from Hell
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!
Posted in Curious Clutter, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Technique
Tagged 1980s, 1987, 2012, art, Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, drawing, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook
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Analog Computer?
Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1971, ad, analog, analog computer, comic book, comics, Fantastic Four, kit, Marvel, science, vintage
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What I Miss About Comics…Joe Kubert
Sadly, last week marked the passing of a comics giant – Joe Kubert.
TRS-80 SAVES Metropolis!!!
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.
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1980, 1980s, ad, comic book, comics, computer, Radio Shack, Superman, Tandy, TRS-80
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Inspiration for The Ghost Rider?
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Tagged 1970s, comic book, comics, Ghost Rider, Gil Kane, horror, monster, tex Avery, weekend warrior
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Mother’s Day Circa 2002
It was 2002 and Sam Raimi’s take on the wall crawling web-head had just been released smashing box office records and forever raising the bar on what to expect from films about costumed crime fighters. I was fired up about … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Drawer Cards, Holiday
Tagged 2002, comics, holiday, humor, John Romita, Marvel, Mother's Day, Mysterio, Sam Raimi, Spider-man, spoof, The Amazing Spider-Man 66, The Madness of Mother's Day
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