“I’ve met Norman Fox & the Rob Roys, and I can tell you that Barrack Obama is no Norman Fox.” –Senator Lloyd Benson, 2006.
If you want some Aggravation, click on the image and then we’ll have an Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘Retro’
Frank Frazetta 1928-2010
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 111 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, Open thread at May 10th, 2010 - 11:04 pm
By MARYCLAIRE DALE (AP)
PHILADELPHIA — Pioneering fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died Monday in a Fort Myers, Fla., hospital, a manager said. He was 82.
Frazetta had been out to dinner with his daughters Sunday but suffered a stroke at his Boca Grande home later that night and was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital, manager Rob Pistella said. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed the death, as did his daughter Heidi Frazetta Grabin.
“He’s going to be remembered as the most renowned fantasy illustrator of the 20th Century,” Pistella said.
Frazetta created covers and illustrations for more than 150 books and comic books, along with album covers, movie posters and original paintings. His illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, Vampirella and other characters influenced many later artists.
Frazetta had many imitators, but there was only one Frazetta.
The image above was one of my favorites in the 1970s, but my girlfriend wasn’t impressed when I projected it and copied it onto my dorm room wall with magic marker, so I broke up with her. I was like that back then. With that in mind, let’s have an Overnight Open Thread.
Nancy
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 190 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor at April 6th, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy was probably the first counter-culture icon, influencing many a future pothead with it’s blatantly surreal visions. This comic strip, featuring the ubiquitous girl with spiky comma-shaped hair and period eyes, was wildly successful despite having no humor whatsoever.
Cartoonist Scott McCloud appreciated Nancy so much that he created a card game appropriately entitled Five Card Nancy:
1. Making the Deck
Find a reprint book of Nancy comic strips. Photocopy a good portion of the book onto white card-stock (with permission of course), and cut up the copies so that you end up with lots of small rectangles of paper, each containing only one Nancy panel. They should all be the same height. It’s a good idea to make a few extra “transition” panels (like a wordless panel of Nancy walking, Nancy smiling, Nancy in silent contemplation, etc…)
The Complete Rules of Play can be found here, and it appears that to really appreciate the game you should be smoking something illicit, or at least drinking heavily.
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