new things to like

Humanbeing Lawnmower #2
by Avi Spivak www.avispivak.com

it's cool, a lot of inspired tributes to comix, punk & music culture, and more.
excellent art, great contributions by true fans, and comix!@!!!

buy it!!!

2009 is a good year

lots of fun stuff planned ahead in 2009. big show featuring ASHLEY WOOD's art coming soon.
and many special show's and mini shows with the likes of Gary Panter, Thomas Ott, Tim Lane, Peter Kuper, and surprises.
stay posted!

i like jack kirby

i lied. i LOVE jack kirby's art. from a pure art perspective mainly the 70's stuff. 4th world, later marvel, etc... outer space ships, shiny metallic objects, those crazy faces!!!! nobody drew a zoftig woman better!!! and jack knew how to draw them. while jack's legend and impact on modern comix is the stuff of well beaten horses...the true scope of jack's genius may never be understood.

Blab! art show.....beach art museum

kudos to a great show and a super cool catalogue featuring art from Blab! from the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art which featured several fine pieces from our collection! info at
http://www.k-state.edu/bma/exhib/index.html

try to get the catalogue...it rocks!

ashley wood NEWS

shhhhhh. there's gonna be a big online show of ASHLEY WOOD art at my gallery sometime in January. on view by appointment only.
with many important pieces from the recent 48 MORE NUDES book. gorgeous oil paintings and pen & ink to die for. plus some recent projects like Hellspawn, and World War Robot.

cheers,
scott

jerry lewis holocaust film. uh huh?

in 1972 Jerry Lewis finished a french/swedish holocaust film called Tears of the Clown. He played the part of the clown who had displeased Hitler and found himself on the fast track to Auschwitz. This bum ticket was on a train filled with children also en route to the big A.
The clown tries to amuse and distract this terrified group of children who're going straight to the gas chambers.

Sounds like a good idea for a film right? To the french it did...many things sound good to the French and one of those inexplicable things is Mr. Louis himself.

Now before you tangle yourself in the absurdity of this true farce, keep in mind the film was never released. Wise me thinks. So the French are smarter than they look? Apparantly so.

The American cottage industry of ridiculing the French love affair with Mr. Lewis, doesn't even need this little stinky brown nugget of info. But it gets you wondering what might have been? If only....

Fast forward to 1997 and a certain lovable Italian comedian wins an Oscar for best actor in Life is Beautiful. hmmmm? A film where a comedian tries to use his physical brand of humor to distract and ultimately save the life of his son in a Nazi death camp.

One movie destined to be ridiculed...the other destined for international success and Academy award fame.

toth

micah brought in the 1st toth zorro comic. a nice dell 10 center. the smell of old comix, coupled with an artist who was WAY to good for this book (but obviously loved the character) made my day.
the color was aweful...but part of the experience. the whole time i carefully flipped thru the book i kept imagining the originals.