Aquaman for the win!

Everytime I see a 70's photo of the Superheroes Ski Show at Sea World, I want to add a word balloon. I finally scratched that itch.

Animated Merry Christmas, Old Comics Edition

Just goofing around. Happy Holidays!

Art taken form Comic Cavalcade #13, 1945.

DIRTNAP Graphic Novel now on Amazon!

I originally offered my DIRTNAP GN on IndyPlanet, but many of you told me the shipping cost stopped you from buying it. I love the cover texture and the glossy inside pages produced at IndyPlanet, but I wanted to also offer the same story with lower shipping.

It's now available on Amazon. CLICK HERE. The preview pages at Amazon are harshly pixelated. (Don't know why. The book's not that way.) You can see better sample pages by clicking here.

 

I will continue to offer DIRTNAP on Comixology as a five-part series. Two more issues to go! (Please note-- Comixology is owned by Amazon. In the very near future Comixology will be folded in with their Kindle Books platform. I may need to wait for that to happen before I can upload the last two issues. Dagnabbit.)

1966 DC Comics FOLDEES! Part 1

In 1966, Topps made "Comic Book Foldees." They came with gum and three-panel cards that could be folded to produce ridiculous characters. I recently scoured the internet and found images of all 44 of 'em!

My goal is to now animate them all! They'll just so dang fun! This post kicks off with the first ten--

More to come (when I have the time)...

Send Help!

 Hey look! It's a cartoon I have in the brand new SEND HELP Book! 208 pages! 123 cartoonists! I just read it and it's great fun fill of funny stuff! "Cartoons to help us feel isolated... TOGETHER!" You can get it at many locations. Click here.

Wonder Woman Art for Charity

I posted a color version of this art previously, but the art is now up for bidding! I drew this for the National Cartoonists Society Art Auction. Proceeds go to St. Jude’s Children Hospital.

You can bid on it here.

Or view the entire 170 piece auction here.

This is a bit of a rarity for me. I switched to 100% digital art several years ago, but this is on actual bristol board with actual India ink! (I had to search my basement to find art supplies, and drew on my kitchen table.) 😊

EDIT: The auction is over. Thanks for your generosity! $1800!
 

Batman Toys from the 1966 Sears Wish Book Catalog!

I recently stumbled across the Wish Book Web site, and for barely any reason at all, I decided to look at the Batman product from 1966. I was very young in '66 and just discovering superheroes. I lived in the deep country and the Sears Catalog was about the only way I could see lots of toys. 

But enough about me. Let's look at stuff!

If this doesn't feel authentically Batman to you, the ukulele drives it home.

"Holy Slots" sounds dirty, but this car was actually made for race tracks!

"Just use the master pump to force air through the 30-ft. tube-track." I think "Remote-control" meant something different than it does today.

Zooom!

Instead of focusing on Batman costumes, I included the whole page here. Look! A Captain America costume!! In 1966!!! That's unexpected.

It looks like the image coming from the "Projection Gun" is based on the art on the "Bat Cave Hideaway." Did you decide to add this at the last minute, Sears?

A lot of the boy toys were some type of gun in 1966.

But, if you did't have a gun, you could at least learn how to hit! I actually had the Yogi Bear Bop Bag when I was a kid. He now looks so defenseless to me. With Batman, you could pretend you were helping him tighten his stomach muscles!

I also had the Captain Action figure. It was possibly my favorite toy as kid. I had the Batman costume to put on him, but I desperately wanted the Aquaman costume. Never got it. (But, my sweet mother did crochet a tiny orange shirt for me to put on him.)

I think these are merely walkie-talkies disguised as phones. Well played, Remco Toys!

Marx made a phone too, but Batman doesn't want you to talk. Just listen to him and keep your mouth shut.

Oh! And puppets!

Sears mentions "it's easy to order by phone" more than once. So futuristic.

Oops. Look at the time. I better wrap it up!