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A word on art, bullying and inkers being tracers
“Oh, DJ,?” you may ask. “What do you do when you aren’t lamenting the sorry state of pro wrestling, bitching about comic books, promising us Transformers photos you never take and the like?” Well, mostly, I draw, at least as much as my old hands let me. I drew a LOT as a kid. I…
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If you like Giorgio, you’ll LOVE Primo
Sorry, I’ve been a little quiet the past couple of orbits about the sun. I’m actually on a few days’ holiday, so I have been purposefully trying to lay low. However, the world of La Zona Muerta, your favorite lukewarm takes-based blog, never stops. Just today, no fooling, I received an email from a bot…
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A duckotomy and the power of negativity
This is very much me at my get off my lawn, yelling at clouds old man-est, so if that isn’t for you, skip to the end for a relatively amusing drawing where matter and anti matter seemingly collide on the page for your amusement. “To the terminally online members of Comics Twitter – you’re aware…
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ALFolutionary
I had intended, many, many moons ago, before I discovered THAT OTHER PEOPLE ALSO HAD THE INTERNET, to write a blog about funny comics in my preposterously Brobdingnagian collection. God help me, I even went out and bought ringers for said collection; New Kids on the Block comics, a comic about Billy Ray Cyrus (!),…
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Dracula contra Dracula
If you are an old, like me, you may be familiar with this handsome gentleman; a little bit Jack Palance, a little bit Dr. Doom and a lot cool: Remember when Amy Grant sued Marvel for using her face? Hopefully Palance never saw this book on the racks But have you ever seen this dude…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: All I wanted was a Pepsi
Welcome to the first installment of “I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down;” yet another example of an old dork ranting out into the ether. Despite this column title, I am not particularly a Boomtown Rats booster and the idea of Bob Geldof bossing around his contemporaries to aid in his attempts at feeding…
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It Makes Me Wanna Cry
Ah, everyone’s favorite android Avenger, the Vision. I hate how complicated they made him look in the movies, and just recently, within the last year, they’ve brought him back to a more classic look in the comics. Thank goodness. Anyway, this is my obvious trace job homage of the famous last page where we find…
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“Those goddamn HIPPIES! Where’s my shotgun? I’ll KILL the sons of bitches!”
I spent a fair part of my Sunday evening laboring over the following: Help me, my hands no longer work… Yeah, I know there’s a modern Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon and I suppose it’s worked on by people that love the Bros. but nnnnnyeah. I only care about the comic, ably created by Gilbert…
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Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)
Some weeks, the words flow off of my keyboard and the drawings flow outta my pen… but this is not one of those weeks. I’ve taken a couple of stabs at drawing and talking a little about Kamen Rider Decade (for no real reason I can easily articulate, my favorite Rider), and man, he’s tough…