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Tag Archives: horror
Confessions of a Sofa Sketcher
I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling my graphite grotesques into the night. Some of them are good. Some of them stink. Some of them I do in pen and ink.
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, doodle, drawing, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monsters, scribble, Sketch, sketchbook, sofa, USA
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Carnival of Souls in COLOR!
I recently did an article about my thoughts on the once controversial subject of colorizing old black and white films. I never knew what all the fuss was about because it wasn’t like the original was destroyed in favor of … Continue reading
Sketchbook • Gruesome Graphite Grotesques
I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling graphite grotesques into the night. Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comics, doodle, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Before Video Cassettes
A lot of members of the generation that begat the baby boomers were sold on movie cameras in order to capture those babies’ first steps or opening presents Christmas morning or the vacation to the beach. And if Mom and … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 8mm, Eerie, fil, horror, magazine, movies, Super 8, Warren Publishing
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory
…doodling vampires, werewolves and bimbos in a cheap sketchbook while watching trash on television… Continue reading
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
When Werewolves Attack…
…fight like hell!
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, comic, comic book, comics, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, pencil, Sketchbook from Heaven, werewolf, Willceau
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More Monsters in a Cheap Sketchbook
I’ve been drawing monsters in front of the TV set for as long as I can remember, and it seems the trend continues as of late as I finish my evenings watching trash television and doodling in a cheap sketchbook.
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comics, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook
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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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