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Tag Archives: horror
Hacking Away at a Cheap Sketchbook
I continue to throw graphite at the unwilling little sketchbook of which I have written about lately. I’ve had no evidence of anything close to supernatural brilliance bubbling up from the pad’s cheap little pages, but I continue to make … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monsters, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
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In Space No One Can Hear Geeks Scream
Pictured above is a Nostromo patch that was attached to a hat similar to what Harry Dean Stanton wore in Alien (1979). If you’ve never seen Alien which is hard to believe, the movie is about a crew of seven … Continue reading
Posted in Collecting, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1979, Alien, embroidery, geek cred, horror, insignia, monster, patch, starship
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Arrivederci Sketchbook
Out of This World Sketch Pad October 17, 2022 – March 26, 2023 I have put to rest what is probably the last of the novelty sketchpads distributed by the Horizon Group USA to Target stores. At least it was … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, comic, doodle, horror, Illustration, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, monster, novelty, sketch pad, sketchbook, USA
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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

