J'adore Caza.
the works by Caza, from the English translations in Heavy Metal #s 37 & 83 (1980, 1984)
26 June 2018
Pas De Repos Paisible Pour Marcel
Pauvre Marcel, si fatigué qu'il entrevoit au-delà des illusions de sa réalité...
J'adore Caza.
J'adore Caza.
Perhaps Not Too Abysmal
I'm feeling visual...
art by Jim Evans, George Metzger, Darrel Anderson, Pete Von Sholly & Tim Kummero, Marks, Steve Leialoha, Unknown, John Peterson, Kirk Kennedy, Bruce Van Alten, George Parsons, Dave Geiser, Diane Noomin, Jim Cheff, and Jim Cherry for ... stuff (lotsa)
Maybe Mouse-In-The-Moon Marigolds?
Some of you may remember 30 years back when Mighty Mouse was taken down by a flower.
It was 1988 when deranged pretend Christians headed by the American Taliban of the time attacked our poor mouse.
Let's set the scene - Mighty Mouse's girlfriend has been kidnapped. In the struggle, the flowers gifted to her by Mighty Mouse are trampled. When he arrives on the scene to find her taken, he looks down heartbroken at the crushed roses and picks up the fragments. Smelling the trampled gift of his love while stricken with grief, he steels his resolve to rescue her from the evil fiends.
So completely removed from human experience and devoid of emotions like Love, these twisted sociopaths saw that sequence as drug use - Mighty Mouse snorting cocaine to get his powers. It's almost impossible to understand how deeply broken such pathetic creatures must be, but that doesn't make them less loud. Corporate lizards flicked their tails & tongues, cried "Yes, Massa Talibamerican!" and killed the mouse.
(Oddly enough, that prolapse on the rectum of American society was named Don, too.)
We seem to have discovered Mighty Mouse's secret weakness.
That wasn't the first time he was threatened by a flower. Sixty years ago in 1958...
Every 30 years. He's due for another flower show...
It was 1988 when deranged pretend Christians headed by the American Taliban of the time attacked our poor mouse.
Let's set the scene - Mighty Mouse's girlfriend has been kidnapped. In the struggle, the flowers gifted to her by Mighty Mouse are trampled. When he arrives on the scene to find her taken, he looks down heartbroken at the crushed roses and picks up the fragments. Smelling the trampled gift of his love while stricken with grief, he steels his resolve to rescue her from the evil fiends.
So completely removed from human experience and devoid of emotions like Love, these twisted sociopaths saw that sequence as drug use - Mighty Mouse snorting cocaine to get his powers. It's almost impossible to understand how deeply broken such pathetic creatures must be, but that doesn't make them less loud. Corporate lizards flicked their tails & tongues, cried "Yes, Massa Talibamerican!" and killed the mouse.
(Oddly enough, that prolapse on the rectum of American society was named Don, too.)
We seem to have discovered Mighty Mouse's secret weakness.
That wasn't the first time he was threatened by a flower. Sixty years ago in 1958...
Every 30 years. He's due for another flower show...
pages by unknown artist from Mighty Mouse # 166 (1966), reprinted from Mighty Mouse # 79 (1958)
A Detour On The Road To Wakanda
Back in February and March we looked for a bit at the Road To Wakanda and the Days Before The Panther Ruled and several posts on the long journey made by many heroes for the Black Panther to rule the media world.
And then there were those odd detours that don't get talked about...
Can the Anthracite Jaguar be far behind...?
And then there were those odd detours that don't get talked about...
Can the Anthracite Jaguar be far behind...?
page art by Arthur Peddy for Jungle Comics # 10 (1940)
We Knew Him Well
As regulars know, it's often difficult for me to direct my kitten herd of a mind toward my desired destination. I'm giving up, and just letting it go where it wants for a bit. So queue up The Rolling Stones' classic Sympathy For The Devil to play while you enjoy the pages below, and let's see where the day takes us, eh?
(Really - It's much more enjoyable if you take the trouble to read along with the song)
From Tan Don't Burn, August, 1979 -
Oh.
To clear up a minor bit of confusion...
(Really - It's much more enjoyable if you take the trouble to read along with the song)
From Tan Don't Burn, August, 1979 -
Oh.
To clear up a minor bit of confusion...
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| Tan, Don't Burn by Mantxo Algora |
page art by Gene Day & Bill Payne, cover by Mantxo Algora, for August Heavy Metal (1979)
25 June 2018
Elvgren Extra Eleven
I'm in the mood for some more Gil Elvgren artwork today. But that can be a bit tricky...
Some may have noted that on occasion the Blue Monday Calendar arrives a tad late.
One might think that i'd prep those well in advance to avoid the problem. After all, a typical post often requires more artwork prepared than would be necessary for a seasonal quarter worth of weekly calendar pages.
I'm one of those folks who prefers not to look ahead at the calendar pages, and so each week gets prepped as the previous week ends. That makes today's post a little tricky. After a minimal glance at the thumbnail collection on the back of the old calendar we're using for this year's BMC, i hopefully avoided any of the paintings yet to come this year. Looking closer would have been self-defeating, so we'll just have to hope that those autonomic sorting functions in my brain are still tolerably up to par.
If there are any duplications, they're probably coming in the next week or so, just to laugh. We'll find out.
Meanwhile...
Some may have noted that on occasion the Blue Monday Calendar arrives a tad late.
One might think that i'd prep those well in advance to avoid the problem. After all, a typical post often requires more artwork prepared than would be necessary for a seasonal quarter worth of weekly calendar pages.
I'm one of those folks who prefers not to look ahead at the calendar pages, and so each week gets prepped as the previous week ends. That makes today's post a little tricky. After a minimal glance at the thumbnail collection on the back of the old calendar we're using for this year's BMC, i hopefully avoided any of the paintings yet to come this year. Looking closer would have been self-defeating, so we'll just have to hope that those autonomic sorting functions in my brain are still tolerably up to par.
If there are any duplications, they're probably coming in the next week or so, just to laugh. We'll find out.
Meanwhile...
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| A Spicy Yarn |
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| Cooling Off |
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| Hold Everything |
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| Just For You |
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| Look Out Below |
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| Oh, No You Don't |
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| Sharp Curves |
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| Something New |
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| Thar She Blows |
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| The Right Number |
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| Thinking Of You |
all art by Gil Elvgren, dates unknown
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