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Author Archives: Joe
School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher
The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween … Continue reading
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Posted in Illustration, News, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, 1974, Affinity Designer, Cartoon, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, school, school days, substitute, USA, vector
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Building a Robot
…with Affinity Designer. I started to work on this mechanical man to shake the rust from my vector graphic cartooning skills. Of late, I have been spending more time with pencils and paper than I have been with the Affinity … Continue reading
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Posted in Illustration
Tagged Affinity, Affinity Designer, desktop, desktop publishing, graphics, Illustration, Joe Williams, robot, vector
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Fuxi Sketchbook • 09-01-2023 to 01-02-2024
I thought this cheap, Chinese-made sketchbook could possibly be the next Sketchbook from Heaven, but not quite. The size, shape and country of manufacture were the same as my favorite sketchbooks, but it wasn’t quite as magical as those earlier … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, Fuxi, Illustration, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
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Caturday
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You Can’t Keep a Good Vampire Down
Although the TV series ended in 1971, vampire Barnabas Collins continued to haunt the comic book racks of newsstands and convenience stores well into the 1970s. The comic above was published by Gold Key in 1974 — 50 years ago! … Continue reading
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1974, Barnabas Collins, comic book, comics, Dark Shadows, Gold Key, horror, vintage, werewolf
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Turning the Page on 2023
Happy New Year! I finished 2023 sitting on the couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling away in small, cheap sketchbooks, and I have resolved to do the same thing in 2024!
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, Illustration, Joe Williams, science fiction, Sketch, sketchbook, space, spaceman
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As Seen on Youtube
How the produce vendors keep warm in the Italian Market. This is a different angle of the same burning barrel featured in this amusing Yuletide video.
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Posted in Italian Market, Looking South
Tagged barrel, burning barrel, fire, Italian Market, Philadelphia, South Philadelphia, warmth
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