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Tag Archives: cheap
Done With Another Discount Sketchbook
I finished off the HQ Fine Stroke Sketch Draw that I picked up from Philadelphia based discounter Five Below. The price was right, and I liked the pad’s size of 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches as well as the wire … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged cheap, comic, comics, discount, doodle, drawing, Five Below, Illustration, Joe Williams, scratch pad, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, sketchbook from hell, USA
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There may be OPPORTUNITY • What I Miss About Comics
I was never a fan of poetry so I can’t imagine soliciting the amateur efforts of scribes across the continental United States and Canada. Somebody at the mail drop was going to have to read these submissions whether they were … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Trash or Treasure, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1974, cheap, damsel in distress, horror, macabre, Marvel Comis, music, poems, sex, vampire
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Second Thoughts on a Cheap Sketchbook…
I may get my $3.25 worth out of the terrible little sketchbook from discount chain Five Below after all. I have stubbornly refused to put it aside, and I continue to doodle in it as I sit on the couch … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged cheap, doodle, Five Below, Illustration, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Monsters, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
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Matrimonial Mayhem and Monsters!
I continue to hack away at the Out of This World sketchbook with 2mm read leads and whatever graphite pencils I have at hand, and I accompany my doodling with trash television shows or movies streamed to my Roku box. … Continue reading
Mesmerized by a Cheap Sketchbook
My love affair with a three-dollar sketchbook meant for the juvenile market continues as I find myself doodling in it regularly. I keep it within reach in case inspiration strikes and I have to jot down a note or scribble … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, cheap, comic book, comics, creature, Illustration, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, vampire, werewolf
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Werewolf Interrupted
I’m not yet ready to declare the juvenile sketchbook I wrote about recently as the NEW Sketchbook from Heaven, but I do usually keep it close at hand, and I am busily filling its cheap pages with scribbles. It may … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, cheap, comic, creature, doodle, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Paul Naschy, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, trash, vampire, werewolf, Willceau
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Not a Bad Little Sketchbook
I finished off another inexpensive sketchbook purchased from Target. I’ve had luck with the cheap little sketchbooks they carry so when we see something new on the shelves, we snag it. The paper was all right for dry media but … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, cheap, doodle, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, USA, Willceau
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