This quiz was rather short, having been pulled prematurely from the data dump. I like the concept, so there'll likely be another at a later date.
For today, however, you'd probably like answers, eh?
Well, to avoid spoilers for those reading in reverse chronological order, i'm placing them after the break below.
10 February 2018
09 February 2018
FF&G - Wherezit 01
Preparations for being able to work again progressing nicely, but slowly enough that it's somehow Friday again! How did this happen? So caught up in hardware/software issues, i don't even need the excuse to wimp out on Friday Night Fights this week. But i can raid one of the data dumps for a quick edition of
We've played Whozit a few times here in the past. This time let's tweak that to focus on a sometimes unsung star of the stories - the cities in which they take place. This will just be a short selection today - Seven Cities for you to name the source. Naming the cities is good, but not necessarily possible in every case. Most are directly adapted from comic books, but not all. However, they fit into the mold and may have since appeared in comic form.
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6______________________
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Okay - off to start the final round of data shuffling, and then time to start clearing system space and setting up for work. Cross those extraneous digits and we'll be back in the morning with quiz answers and word clutter on progress here.
We've played Whozit a few times here in the past. This time let's tweak that to focus on a sometimes unsung star of the stories - the cities in which they take place. This will just be a short selection today - Seven Cities for you to name the source. Naming the cities is good, but not necessarily possible in every case. Most are directly adapted from comic books, but not all. However, they fit into the mold and may have since appeared in comic form.
Wherezit?
1______________________
2______________________
3______________________
4______________________
5______________________
6______________________
7______________________
Okay - off to start the final round of data shuffling, and then time to start clearing system space and setting up for work. Cross those extraneous digits and we'll be back in the morning with quiz answers and word clutter on progress here.
08 February 2018
Upgrade In Progress
Computer systems here a tied up for another day or so. It takes an insanely long time to mirror a couple of Terabytes to two external drives before the clearing begins. But, if all goes well, i'll be able to upgrade the software and get back into some artwork this weekend.
Meanwhile - a quick promotional blurb:
The latest edition of Jack Kirby Collector (#73) is out!
Oddly enough, 73 is one of my primary use numbers. I have several of them, not just 3. There is 27 (3 to the 3rd power), and then 73 (the balancing percentile to 27). You'll find these numbers embedded throughout my artwork, though often in unseen ways.
But why would one of my primary numbers trigger an "Oddly enough"? This is the first time anything from me appears in the magazine. Remember the King Kirby 100 Challenge crossword puzzle from the KK100 celebration in August? It gets a nice 2 page spread in this issue. And they were even kind enough to observe my personal obsessions and give me the #3 slot in the table of contents. (Thanks, John!)
The issue looks terrific, but i can't really tell you much about it - because i just found it in my mail and i'm savoring it. I haven't seen a new edition of JKC in a few years, and i'm stretching this one out as much as i can. But, to let you know what's in it, here's a primary excerpt from the issue details on the TwoMorrows website:
"In it, we cover Kirby’s best (and worst) short spurts on his wildest concepts: ANIMATION IDEAS, DINGBATS, JUSTICE INC., MANHUNTER, ATLAS, THE PRISONER, and more! There’s also an interview with MIKE ROYER on his work with Jack and elsewhere, a rare Kirby interview, MARK EVANIER and our other regular columnists, panels from the 2017 Kirby Centennial celebration, pencil art galleries, and some one-shot surprises!"
One surprise for me was that they managed to find a few Valley Girl comic strips i hadn't seen to accompany their piece on Kirby & Zappa, including the full interview with Ahmed from which my KK100 piece on the topic was excerpted. Definitely a cool surprise - but there always is when a new issue is released.
And, of course, here's a link to the book on TwoMorrows.com.
I'll be back soon with more posts after the computers are freed up for use. Hopefully early tomorrow.
Meanwhile - a quick promotional blurb:
The latest edition of Jack Kirby Collector (#73) is out!
Oddly enough, 73 is one of my primary use numbers. I have several of them, not just 3. There is 27 (3 to the 3rd power), and then 73 (the balancing percentile to 27). You'll find these numbers embedded throughout my artwork, though often in unseen ways.
But why would one of my primary numbers trigger an "Oddly enough"? This is the first time anything from me appears in the magazine. Remember the King Kirby 100 Challenge crossword puzzle from the KK100 celebration in August? It gets a nice 2 page spread in this issue. And they were even kind enough to observe my personal obsessions and give me the #3 slot in the table of contents. (Thanks, John!)
The issue looks terrific, but i can't really tell you much about it - because i just found it in my mail and i'm savoring it. I haven't seen a new edition of JKC in a few years, and i'm stretching this one out as much as i can. But, to let you know what's in it, here's a primary excerpt from the issue details on the TwoMorrows website:
"In it, we cover Kirby’s best (and worst) short spurts on his wildest concepts: ANIMATION IDEAS, DINGBATS, JUSTICE INC., MANHUNTER, ATLAS, THE PRISONER, and more! There’s also an interview with MIKE ROYER on his work with Jack and elsewhere, a rare Kirby interview, MARK EVANIER and our other regular columnists, panels from the 2017 Kirby Centennial celebration, pencil art galleries, and some one-shot surprises!"
One surprise for me was that they managed to find a few Valley Girl comic strips i hadn't seen to accompany their piece on Kirby & Zappa, including the full interview with Ahmed from which my KK100 piece on the topic was excerpted. Definitely a cool surprise - but there always is when a new issue is released.
And, of course, here's a link to the book on TwoMorrows.com.
I'll be back soon with more posts after the computers are freed up for use. Hopefully early tomorrow.
cover from Jack Kirby Collector #73 (2018)
06 February 2018
Meanwhile, Orbiting Rao...
Krypton is coming to Syfy (not to be in anyway confused or associated with SciFi, of course) and expectations are mixed among those with any intent to view the program. Personally, i just wanted to remind us all what we should be looking forward to seeing...
It should be very entertaining to find out how they handle Vathlo Island, eh?
Of course, there's absolutely no reason for this show to exist if they don't have Kryptonian Thought-Beasts -
Bonus fun - what happened next...
It should be very entertaining to find out how they handle Vathlo Island, eh?
Of course, there's absolutely no reason for this show to exist if they don't have Kryptonian Thought-Beasts -
Bonus fun - what happened next...
Maps from Superman Annual #1 (1972), ...From Krypton To Earth from Batman Annual 68 (UK)(1968)
05 February 2018
Frankly Blue
Finally back. #1 son and i spent much of the day with systems ripped apart trying to figure where the problem in the new system has been hiding with partial success. While no new system yet, i may be able to return to my artwork by week end. We shall see...
Meanwhile, back at our regularly scheduled
...as one might have inferred from the earlier post, we're featuring Frank Cho today.
Cho's love of the female form is no secret, of course. In addition to his many works in the superhero genre for Marvel, he's well known for his scantily clad Jungle Girl comic, are rather more clad Liberty Meadows.
Here, of course, Jungle Girl tends more toward unclad...
Don't be fooled by his lovely delineations - Frank Cho isn't limited to his line work for comics...
If there's one thing Frank has taught me, it's that girls in the jungle have a lot of troubles with animals...
...but, truth to tell, it seems Farm Girls don't have it easy, either -
Um... yeah.
I think we better leave it here and mosey right along.
Expect tomorrow to be late - it's been an exhausting day.
Meanwhile, back at our regularly scheduled
...as one might have inferred from the earlier post, we're featuring Frank Cho today.
Cho's love of the female form is no secret, of course. In addition to his many works in the superhero genre for Marvel, he's well known for his scantily clad Jungle Girl comic, are rather more clad Liberty Meadows.
Here, of course, Jungle Girl tends more toward unclad...
NOTE: Following the restructure of this site, the images for this post
have been moved to our back room for adult content.
The text remains for context and perhaps to entice you to go look.
Don't be fooled by his lovely delineations - Frank Cho isn't limited to his line work for comics...
If there's one thing Frank has taught me, it's that girls in the jungle have a lot of troubles with animals...
...but, truth to tell, it seems Farm Girls don't have it easy, either -
Um... yeah.
I think we better leave it here and mosey right along.
Expect tomorrow to be late - it's been an exhausting day.
all art by Frank Cho
Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 06
Oops, again. Posted this to the queue after midnight, and set it for the following day - Tuesday instead of today. Corrective measures taken.
This week's painting from Gil Elvgren is 1951's Some Cute Tricks.
This week's painting from Gil Elvgren is 1951's Some Cute Tricks.
Blue Monday Cho Down
Hey! You know what today is, right?
It's time for a Bl-
Oh.
All right. We'll be late today, it seems.
Be back this evening...
It's time for a Bl-
NOTE: This lovely image by Frank Cho contains nudity
and has been moved to our back room for adult content.
Oh.
All right. We'll be late today, it seems.
Be back this evening...
04 February 2018
Sunday Super-Catinee
We jump back six decades to 1958 for adventures of Super-Cat from issue #s 3 and 4 of his eponymous comic book. We do this because, rather damn oddly, Super-Cat did not appear inside of Super-Cat #s 1&2, only on the covers, and so made his first appearance in issue 3 of his own title.
Only the four issues appeared, and the credits are lost to the ages. But the convergence of Odd and 3 make it a natural for this blog, no?
And, yes - I feel bad about that terrible pun title. But i'm weak, and could not resist the obvious, no matter how super-catastrophic it might be.
Only the four issues appeared, and the credits are lost to the ages. But the convergence of Odd and 3 make it a natural for this blog, no?
And, yes - I feel bad about that terrible pun title. But i'm weak, and could not resist the obvious, no matter how super-catastrophic it might be.
pages from Super-Cat #s 3 & 4 (1958)
Sunday Morning Funnies, Once Again
My brain is foggy, and i'm too knackered to go look, but it seems like it's been a fair bit since we had a nice, simple, Sunday Morning Funnies. Regular readers (and irregular readers perusing these pages on a persistent basis) know i've been holed up in my cave mentally of late. I feel like getting out and stretching, so let's get our funnies today from abroad - we'll ease in with a strip from England, then head on over to Poland, and down to India.
But - Fear Not! Comics pulled from non-English books are wordless, and one is even kind enough to have an English language title. Probably not just to make it easy for me, but that's what we'll be pretending here.
We begin in England with the first comic from the first issue of The Beano, published 80 years ago in 1938 and the artist seems lost to time, at least on this side of the Atlantic -
From Poland, we have bits by Marek Raczkowski from Komiks 97...
...and January Misiak from Komiks 99 -
And, from India, a few comics from the back of Bruce Lee's Escapade In Kalahari courtesy of Shehab and Prakash -
We'll be back at midday with a couple short comic adventures for a 1958 Super Matinee.
You have no idea how hard i'm working to resist the soon-to-be-obvious pun.
But - Fear Not! Comics pulled from non-English books are wordless, and one is even kind enough to have an English language title. Probably not just to make it easy for me, but that's what we'll be pretending here.
We begin in England with the first comic from the first issue of The Beano, published 80 years ago in 1938 and the artist seems lost to time, at least on this side of the Atlantic -
From Poland, we have bits by Marek Raczkowski from Komiks 97...
...and January Misiak from Komiks 99 -
And, from India, a few comics from the back of Bruce Lee's Escapade In Kalahari courtesy of Shehab and Prakash -
We'll be back at midday with a couple short comic adventures for a 1958 Super Matinee.
You have no idea how hard i'm working to resist the soon-to-be-obvious pun.
The Beano #1, Komiks 97, Komiks 99, and Indrahal Comics v.21#31 (1938, 1997, 1998, 1984)
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