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Tag Archives: humor
It Came From the Save-A-Lot
Here’s another example of that urban phenomena known as Truck Mascots. Truck Mascots are usually discarded toys or stuffed animals that truckers rescue from a sad and sorry fate in a landfill and lash them to the grill of their … Continue reading
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Posted in Truck Mascots
Tagged humor, monster, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, photography, toy, truck, truck mascot, Washington Avenue
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BJ – Like BJ Thomas, Right?
As I wrote last week, we had cable television in Southern New Jersey in the late 1970s so we did not have to suffer the garbage that the broadcast networks were airing in lieu of genuine entertainment. We were probably … Continue reading
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Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1980, ad, BJ, BJ and the Bear, crime, gangster, humor, Illustration, March 22 1980, NBC, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Saturday, television, vintage
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Anthropomorphic Water Fowl and 16mm Celluloid
Wait…WHAT?!
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 16mm, 1956, comic, comic book, comics, Disney, Heart Throbs, home movies, humor, Illustration, vintage
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Chicks Dig Locksmiths
Am I the only one getting a Ted Bundy vibe from the fellow featured in this ad?
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1977, comic, comic book, comics, humor, locksmith, Marvel, Omega the Unknown, Superman, Ted Bundy, vintage
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The Lone Star State – an Inch at a Time
Back before you could name your very own star supposedly all official-like, you could own a Mini-ranch measuring one inch square in the great state of Texas. For two bucks you would get a legal deed to your real estate … Continue reading
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Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged cartoons, comic book, comics, Guardians of the Galaxy, humor, inch, Marvel Comics, ranch, Star Wars, Texas, What I Miss About Comics
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Whoops – Wrong Arrow!
This was my Valentine to Tina. The art was going to be inked and colored in, but my schedule and I decided that the sketch looked pretty nifty so we went with that.
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Posted in Drawer Cards, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged arrow, Cupid, humor, pencil, romance, Sketch, sketchbook, Valentine's Day, whoops
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Altered States
This was a drawing I did back in the late 1980s in the cursed Sketchbook from Hell. I created it as a belated birthday card for a girl I was pursuing who dodged my advances. Belated birthday cards featuring a … Continue reading
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Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 1980s, Altered States, Cartoon, cartoons, chimp, comic, comics, devolution, Drawer Cards, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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