Tag Archives: comix

02/02/2018 · 1:11 pm

In The Beginning

Set the Wayback Machine for 1998. I was at Kinko’s, in the middle of the night, running off copies of Mike The Pod Comix #4 (the blue one).

Those aren’t fonts. I didn’t have a computer. They’re typefaces copied from a book of antique alphabets, then literally cut and pasted. The rest is my own lettering.

The fourth issue was a transitional one. Drop Dead, my “90’s comic book“, concluded in its pages, in lieu of a seventh issue. I reprinted the Liquid Paper Pirates and Squeeky Wheel Gets The Grease strips from FINK, as well as For Whom The Beef Jerks.

Oh, and for the first time ever, I did full frontal, stark raving nudity. (NSFW!!!)

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Tagged as 1988, 1990s, 1996, 1998, 2000s, 2008, 2018, Bad Religion, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, breasts, Cannibal Corpse, comic, comix, Drop Dead, Kinko's, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, music, New Jersey, NSFW, Oingo Boingo, pre 9/11, Savannah, Sordid Hollow, strips, The B-52s, underground, Ween

01/08/2018 · 5:56 pm

How To Profit From The Coming Nuclear Holocaust

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been obsessed with mushroom clouds. Something about their unbridled destructive power, and their strange, haunting beauty.

This and Miracle Mile are as close to “nuke porn” as I can get (my copy of Dr. Strangelove is worn out).

Also; the possibility that you could draw a really good one. It looked super-cool, and everyone at school knew what it was.

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Tagged as 1980s, 1981, Bernie Wrightson, comix, CRAZY magazine, Dr. Strangelove, Garbage Pail Kids, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, John's Arm: Armageddon, Marvel comics, New Jersey, Paul Kirchner, R. Crumb, Ralph Reese, Steve Skeates, Trace Beaulieu, Trina Robbins, Will Elder

12/29/2017 · 4:23 pm

A Year In Review

As an American man raised in the latter half of the 20th century (™Disney Corp.), my reference points all originate from popular movies, rather than real-life experience. When thinking back upon 2017, I an reminded of this classic Bill Murray line, from a film about to turn 30.

I don’t even get paid to do this, and yet I’m forcing myself to, for you. So at least pretend to enjoy it. Like 2017, it’ll be over and done before you know it. Fingers crossed.

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Late To The Party, Site Stuff, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1990s, 2017, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, comix, depression, despair, Internet, Mike the Pod, music, Musical Meddler Squad, political correctness, SJWs, Star Wars, strips, Transformers

12/08/2017 · 12:59 pm

The Catch-22

Would you like to be a cartoonist like me?

You can’t. Sorry. Not even if you paid me to train you. It won’t happen.

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Tagged as 1960s, 1990s, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2017, Bands I Useta Like, Blockbuster, comix, corporate crap, depression, despair, Harvey Kurtzman, Media Play, Mike the Pod, Nick DiPaolo, R. Crumb, Savannah, social media, suicide, Zap

12/05/2017 · 4:40 pm

“An Afternoon On The Playground”

From BIUL #1 (2014).

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Tagged as 2009, 2010s, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, comix, J.P. Kittens, Musical Meddler Squad, Select Your Destiny, underground

10/07/2017 · 7:33 pm

The Orphanage at Dreary Knolls

Ralph Reese is a brilliant illustrator whose art I first discovered in Choose Your Own Adventure books; he was my personal favorite. His work leapt off the page more than the others, owing to his apprenticeship under the great Wally Wood. In my teens, I found reprints of Ralph’s collaboration with Byron Preiss for National Lampoon, “One Year Affair”. I dreamed of being able to draw like Ralph Reese.

When Ralph did a feature in CRAZY magazine, it was a cause for celebration. Because Ralph wasn’t just a master illustrator.

Ralph was also a master of making you crap your pants.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1982, Byron Preiss, Choose Your Own Adventure, comix, CRAZY magazine, Edward Gorey, Joan Jett, Marie Severin, National Lampoon, New Jersey, Ralph Reese, Soul Asylum, Steve Skeates, The Who, Wally Wood

08/01/2017 · 11:24 am

Dead Kennedys

Real political subversion will be hidden from you by the media. When do you see a current celebrity interacting with rioters, or a mob of angry protesters? Never? There you go.

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