"We're not a family. We're a firm."
The Diogenes Club
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Anniversary Song
The Comix Files: Greg Beda
Greg Beda's signature and self-portrait from a 1998 letter, Redwood City, California.
Favorite Movie Quotes: I [Heart] Huckabees
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
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McCleary's helipad
Jerry Johnson, who is listed on the plaque as Chairman, along with his pal Windsor Olson, have a very unique place in the history of the McCleary Bear Festival in perpetuating a hoax that lasted several years and helped the town enormously!
The Comix Files: "Bambi" and Dyslexic
This short 1993 letter from "Bambi" may have actually been Julee Peezlee, the name behind the zine Dyslexic. Here are the fun mail-artish graphics that came with the note.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Devil Wears Prada
Morty Comix # 2692
Morty Comix # 2692 was drawn on a foamboard scrap I had.
While in the waiting room of our local clinic for a friend, there was a brief window of time where I was the only person around. Being the art opportunist that I am, this Morty Comix was placed in the drawer of a little stand.
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That Old Gang of Mine
And speaking of dapper guys, gotta love those "Beau Brummels of Song Land"!
All the names written on this cover suggest it was passed around a lot.
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The Comix Files: Chuck Baldock
"Mikhail Bakunin" [i.e. Chuck Baldock] of Stinkbug Studios in Evansville, Indiana had a nice signoff in this 1997 letter.
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The helium Valentines heart falls back to Earth after a brief flight of fancy and becomes tangled in the thorny stems of reality.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Oh! How She Lied
1923 cover by Albert Wilfred Barbelle, who gave us quite the character study between this couple. Love the way he used the circles in the background to create a feeling of disorientation, along with the cartoon expression lines around the fellow's cranium.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The Comix Files: Hank Arakelian
Hank Arakelian and I corresponded from 1982 to 1997, and talked on the phone several times. In the Newave Comix universe he was unusual in that he had a science background. In fact, in 1985 he earned his Ph. D. in physics from Stevens Institute in New Jersey.
Hank was a solid part of the Newave and created highly original and creative comix. He was a participant in the City Limits Gazette and contributed a great article on the work of Gustave Verbeck. Hank was also the subject of a CLG interview, the original manuscript is included here.
Hank and I had been jamming on a comic for a few years in the 1990s, but it never saw print. Unfortunately, when he dropped out of sight from the comix network, our jam art went with him.
I'm sure he had his reasons for vanishing, but since Hank is apparently not interested in promoting his artistic work, I'll take on the task of reminding comix historians of this unique artist.
Here are the graphic snippets from our correspondence:
Hank was a solid part of the Newave and created highly original and creative comix. He was a participant in the City Limits Gazette and contributed a great article on the work of Gustave Verbeck. Hank was also the subject of a CLG interview, the original manuscript is included here.
Hank and I had been jamming on a comic for a few years in the 1990s, but it never saw print. Unfortunately, when he dropped out of sight from the comix network, our jam art went with him.
I'm sure he had his reasons for vanishing, but since Hank is apparently not interested in promoting his artistic work, I'll take on the task of reminding comix historians of this unique artist.
Here are the graphic snippets from our correspondence:
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