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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Lost Art of the Mix Tape – Confuse Yo Neighbors
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
Posted in Curious Clutter, Mix Tape
Tagged 1980s, audio, Brian Bubonic, cassette, mix tapes
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Swamp Things
Before you read 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
Mommy Dearest II: The Revenge
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
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, Cartoon, cartoons, DUCKWORK, horror, humor, Joan Crawford, Joe Williams
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Down In Space It’s Always 1982
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
Posted in Blast from the Past
Tagged 1980s, Andrew Maltz, Anna Miyaji, Bill Cucinotta, Cartoon, cartoons, DUCKWORK, EC Comics, Gerry Giovinco, horror, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, John Rondeau, maasacre, Matt Wagner, Nickie Boston, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, Tina Garceau, William Bryan
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Naked Lady Falling Down The Stairs
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
Posted in Blast from the Past
Tagged 1980s, Bill Cucinotta, cartoons, DUCKWORK, Gerry Giovinco, humor, Matt Wagner, PCA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art
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Does Head Cheese Taste The Same Coming Up?
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
EIGHTIES – We’re Living in the Eighties!
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
Posted in Blast from the Past
Tagged 1980s, art school, Bill Cucinotta, CO2 Comics, Comico, DUCKWORK, Gerry Giovinco, humor, Joe Williams, Matt Wagner, PCA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art
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