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Author Archives: Joe
Monsters Not Playing Nicely
In this week’s edition of IT CAME FROM THE SKETCHBOOK I’m featuring some of my couch doodles of monsters doing what they do when they get together which is not getting along. Monsters usually don’t play nicely with one another … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged cartoons, cheap sketchbook, comics, doodle, Frankenstein, horror, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, werewolf
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Chasing the Cool Kids
Back in the 1970s Marvel Comics was trying to chase an audience beyond the typical comic reader which was comprised chiefly of seven to twelve year old boys. Somebody thought a rock album based on their most popular character would … Continue reading
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Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1973, Cartoon, comic, comic book, comics, Creem, humor, magazine, Marvel, Spider-man, USA
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Queen of Hearts
A card Tina Garceau made in Adobe Illustrator for her Mother back in 2004.
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Posted in Drawer Cards, Illustration
Tagged card, Drawer Card, heart, Mother's Day, Playing card, Tina Garceau
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South Philadelphia in the ’40s.
Family friend Aunt Francis with my Mom in South Philadelphia back in the ’40s.
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Posted in Blast from the Past, Looking South, Philadelphia
Tagged 1940s, Mother's Day, Philadelphia, South Philadelphia
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Still 10¢
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan published by Dell in 1960 when comics were still 10¢. WOW! The 20th century’s greatest hero for ten pennies! I think that if comics were that price, I would have been warehousing the things. Of course … Continue reading
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The Creatures That Haunt My Sketchbooks
I continue hacking away at the cheap sketchbook made for the shelves of Philadelphia-based discounter Five Below. I am forging ahead trying to put this crappy little pad out of my misery. If I were sensible, I would just put … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1970s, baseball, comics, doodle, Dr. Shock, horror, horror movies, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, schlock horror movies, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, WPHL
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