Friday, July 30, 2010

Your Favorite Comic Titles

Alley Oop had the best dinosaur and jungle drawings.

No one can forget Catman.

Felix and the bulb-noses - a kid favorite.
Henry was once beloved by millions. The "Funniest Living American". He doesn't have a mouth. Is he Popeye's bastard son?
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Smokey Stover must be the wackiest comic ever. A big influence on Clampett.

I love this Oswald drawing!

Comics are for everybody

Walt Kelly Snow White

Don't you wish you were Spiderman?

Dick treasures all American cultures as I do.

Ukrainian Ranger Mating Urges

Yes, every spring the Rangers come out of hibernation to spread their pheromones around the Urals.
The garish males perform spectacular displays to impress the blander female of the species.
Ranger Horst goes all out, puffing his breast, spreading his feathers and finally extending his perfume bladder which emits a pungent odor - offensive to we civilized folk, but quite pleasant to female Rangers of the Steppes.

It is Kaspar's job to keep the population down by thwarting nature's most powerful urges.

Even marking your territory becomes a challenge in the primeval forest of Ruthenia

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Who wants to see THE HE HOG MOVIE?

I pitched it. They laughed. We'll see...
PROFESSOR MOLE AND HIS EVIL INSECT BMF THREATEN ARMAGEDDON!
THE BRAIN THAT PUNISHED A PLANET
This is Professor Mole's brain. It is packed with dangerous ideas. Moles grow on it in front of our very eyes. They devour his thoughts causing his scalp to tingle with a burning urgency too intense for our puny imaginations to contemplate.
This is Professor Mole, hapless human host of the itching pulsating brain.
The Professor is quiveringly deranged but not technically evil. He just has a burning brain that hungers to tamper with God's laws.
Professor Mole is so hideous that he is shunned by society and must conduct his awesome experiments in a hidden basement laboratory. The basement is putrid with dank mold and creeping things of a lower order.

MIKEY MANTID
Mikey is a praying mantis who lives in the basement of the same tenement building as professor mole. The professor discovers him one day hovering in the dank shadows. To Mole's surprise, Mikey is not afraid of the professor's deeply ugly countenance. The professor befriends Mikey and feeds him.

Mikey is professor mole's only friend. Unlike his kindly master, Mikey is truly evil. Mole, blinded by his love for Mikey, unwittingly commits unspeakable atrocities on mankind in order to please his voracious segmented buddy.


ask about FEEDING TIME if you dare...

The danger of Professor Mole's Doomsday machine is so great that He Hog enlists the aid of the fantastic otherworldly
BOTTLED CITY OF HUMAN WOMEN!



Beautiful sculpts by Hryma!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Look What's Coming





Actual good prints
Uncropped!
No DVNR
No Line Thinning
No Grain Removal

Just the films as they were meant to be seen

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

I'll Be At the Flagstaff Film Festival

Join me at the Flagstaff Film Festival in Arizona, Saturday August 14th!!!
A brand new independent film festival.


JOHN K. PRESENTS A KIDDIE MATINEE shows from 1:00 - 2:30 PM at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona.

I suggested this event because I remembered that when I was a kid, they used to have Saturday matinees with old cartoons, comedy shorts and dinosaur movies. I figured that a lot of modern kids don't get to see this kind of stuff - especially all in one showing, so this is good old fashioned family entertainment - with lots of explosions, frying pans over the head and slapstick wackiness! Parents will love it too!

Afterwards stick around for a meet and greet, and get a caricature ($10 for kids; $20 for adults).


Saturday Evening 7:00: JOHN K. RETROSPECTIVE a more adult-oriented program at 7:00 PM also at the Orpheum Theater. Lots of rare Spumco cartoons and crazy stuff.

After the show concludes there will be another chance to get a caricature, and chat with me about the films. Kali will be there too so make her draw for you.
There will also be a FREE outdoor show Sunday night with fun and cartoons and mingling with the filmmakers and Hoi Polloi.

Tickets available online! It's $10 per show. Although you can buy a pass for the full week of film and shows for $99.
Go see the Grand Canyon while you're there, it's very close by!
Visit something even more HISTORIC -Flintstone Village!
Flintstones Bedrock City
Address:
Grand Canyon Hwy, Valle, AZ
Directions:
On the west side of US 180 just north of its junction with Hwy 64.
Hours:
Daily 6 am-sunset (summer), 7 am-sunset (winter) (Call to verify)
Phone:
928-635-2600
FLINTSTONE VILLAGE AZ

I like this Harvey artist too

This is the other Harvey artist that draws the characters in a really appealing style.




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