Category Archives: Faint Signals

02/03/2022 · 2:32 pm

Matty Boy Anderson: 5 Fast Facts (Who Wants To Know?)

Matty Boy Anderson at a Trump rally in Atlanta, early 2016. “IDIFTL,” said Anderson, who has received over fifty emails a day from Donald Trump since then.

As a professional cartoonist with underground roots for over three decades, Matthew “Matty Boy” Anderson has been struggling to stay afloat in our current timeline. With censorship openly enforced by government and tech companies, multi-millionaire celebrities endorsing fascism towards their detractors, and “Redditors” eager to surrender freedom for unnecessary conveniences, how can any legitimate artist continue to make a living?

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Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 1991, 2012, 2016, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, censorship, comic, corporate crap, depression, despair, Donald Trump, Facebook, Garbage Pail Kids, Internet, laughter, Mike the Pod, Patreon, Poddism, political correctness, sellouts, social media, Transformers

10/14/2021 · 10:14 pm

I Sees Sus Sauce

I’ve noticed that it’s become de rigueur to over-criticize everything (other than personal politics, mandates, foreign governments, or presidents not named Trump), particularly when it comes to the Sopranos prequel. People are so desperate to appear savvy and informed that they will over-analyze things, thereby nullifying the joy of discovery. You talk yourself into hating, in the futile hopes of besting the haters. You’re afraid to love something that someone else might hate.

To prove my point, I’m going to stick thoughts into your head that will make you hate your favorite things. Let’s start with The Sopranos!

Ready?

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Tagged as 2020s, 2021, David Chase, Disney, Futurama, Goodfellas, hatred, Internet, Marvel, political cartoons, political correctness, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, stereotypes, Stonetoss, The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos, Yosemite Sam

09/11/2021 · 9:11 am

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!”
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

For the past twenty years, I’ve tried to get over it. I’ve tried to make sense of it.

I can’t.

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Tagged as 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 9/11, 9/11/01, China, corporate crap, death, depression, despair, Donald Trump, Family Guy, God, laughter, money, news media, political correctness, religion, social media, South Park, The Simpsons, Twitter

03/25/2021 · 3:25 am

The Thirty Year Niche

This year represents a personal milestone for me, in that I have now been creating and self-publishing my own comics for thirty years.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Magazine Rack, Site Stuff

Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1991, 2021, Anarchy Comics, Art Speigelman, Bad Shape, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Bettie Page, Bob Burden, Bob Fingerman, Bob Sikoryak, breasts, Chris Ware, Dave Stevens, Dennis Worden, Doug Allen, Drop Dead, drugs, Eros Comics, Georgia, Gilbert Shelton, Glenn Head, Greg Irons, Greg Theakston, Julie Doucet, Kaz, Krsytine Kryttre, laughter, Lemmings, Mack White, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, Poddism, R. Crumb, Rand Holmes, S. Clay Wilson, Sam Hurt, Savannah, Savannah Mall, Subgenius Foundation, underground comix, vaginas, VHS, Wayne White

02/01/2021 · 2:01 am

The Pretenders

That’s all folks!

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1994, 2021, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, Chrissie Hynde, comic strips, drugs, James Honeyman-Scott, music, Pete Farndon, The Pretenders

01/28/2021 · 1:28 pm

Boards of Canada

One of my all-time, top-five, desert-island favorite bands is the Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. For over a decade, I listened to their albums while working, for inspiration. I find their music transcendent and beautiful.

I have not listened to them in over five years.

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Tagged as 2015, Bands I Useta Like, Boards of Canada, electronic music, music

12/29/2020 · 12:29 pm

It’s Not A Terrible Life

A hundred years ago, if you didn’t have some source of heat in the winter, you died. That’s not allowed to happen now. If it does, the people responsible are generally punished. Despite what you might have been told, justice is served here about as well as it can be in a polity of over a quarter of a billion people.

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Tagged as 2020, 2020s, depression, despair, existential malaise, Pink Floyd, suicide

10/15/2020 · 10:15 am

The Dickies

Of course I’m gonna provide clips to go with this mediocre comic strip, I mean, what are we doing here?

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Tagged as 1978, 1980s, 1982, 2020, autism, Bands I Useta Like, cable, comic, comic strips, CPO Sharkey, Don Rickles, drugs, Halloween, Jack Klugman, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, marijuana, music, punk rock, Quincy M.E., strips, television, The Dickies, The Odd Couple

10/07/2020 · 7:10 am

Prince Variant, Seller of Collectibles

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Tagged as 2000s, 2008, 2015, Aaron MacGruder, Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Bands I Useta Like, bloggers, Carey Means, Cartoon Network, comic strips, comix, Evan Dorkin, fandom, John's Arm: Armageddon, Prince Variant, The Boondocks

09/01/2020 · 9:01 am

Screamin’ Lederhosen

Where do I even start with Ren & Stimpy? How do I handle the Faustian tale of its fallen creator, John Kricfalusi, without getting overly personal and acrimonious?

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Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1990, 1990s, 1993, 1995, 200 Motels, 2000s, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2012, alcohol, animation, Bands I Useta Like, Beavis & Butthead, Bill Wray, Billy West, Bob Camp, breasts, Buck Owens, Canada, Chris Reccardi, Daws Butler, depression, Flash, Greg Burson, Hanna-Barbera, Jim Smith, John Kricfalusi, King of the Hill, Klasky-Csupo, Liquid Television, Lynne Naylor, Matt Groening, Michael Pataki, Mike Judge, MTV, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Nickelodeon, Prudence Fenton, Ralph Bakshi, Ren & Stimpy, Robert Smigel, rockabilly, Saturday morning cartoons, Saturday Night Live, Scott Huml, sellouts, Spike TV, The Refreshments, Tracey Ullman, Vanessa Coffey, Vincent Waller

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