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Good lord, this.

Reading Cerebus as it was coming out. I mean, there was no way to know how Sim’s life would proceed (apparently decline, actually, IMO) and how the story of Cerebus would play out.

But once the run was over and all was known to then choose to read it… 🤢

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😂

(via #1547; In which That’s No Moon – Wondermark)

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What a fucking Catch-22 the funniest business is.

Minimal money for creators, often not enough for health insurance premiums, and what would really help — knowledgeable, affordable managers and agents — are too few and too expensive. So the cycle of a shitty living income-wise keeps on, well, cycling. Oh, and no money for an IRA. The hope is winning the IP lottery and the odds of that happening…

I think the real answer other working ~60 hours and seven days a week for a couple of decades is to marry well which, you know, is fucked up.

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Uhhh... the term “the thirld world” was prominent in whatchamacall the general discourse which I refuse believe is not completely unrelated to the use of the term “fourth world”. And I’s bet Kirby knew about it.

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Just for the record, this imbecilic art is starting to get is little triggering (no pun).

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Do you dare step inside??

(via Tune into Your Own Brain Waves with Steve Parker's Suspended Constellations of Salvaged Brass — Colossal)

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Now for something different yet adjacent: (Some??) Flags of the Undiscovered Planets by César Manrique.

Some background: https://wikioo.org/paintings.php?titlepainting=Flags+of+the+Undiscovered+Planets+2&artistname=C%C3%A9sar+Manrique

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🤞🏻 to make it there!!

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(via The Fabuleous Fifties: Fumetti Classico)

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(via Pop Culture Safari!: Comic Book Art: Captain America #101 Page by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores)

There’s just something about this page...

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Apropos that last post, this is the image that set me offing the rabbit hole.

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Looking for one thing that may be related, found this.

A cheap ass movie that started two careers, IMO opinion also was the basis for Alien (the original).

Also a reminder of a time when this kind of cheap stuff by school kids could even be made. And, better, where there were places to see movies in the proper way; there was such a place and that’s where and how I saw this. (Some things just need the big screen and I’m not talking about 96″ flat screens.)

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(via The 2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame | Muddy Colors)

#inspirations

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In case there are any artists and/or people interested in the AI BS (nearly all of it is BS including the hype) here.

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What put the gold into the Golden Age.

(via Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West: Basil Woverton's POWERHOUSE PEPPER and the Cracked Concrete Construction Co. (1942))

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(via New series: U.S. v. Comics – Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)

History lesson!

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(via Atomic Kommie Comics: Space...Hero? Saturdays WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "Jumpin' Jupiter 'In Space No One Can Hear You Laugh' ")

Wolverton!

Fun fact: His son is an editorial cartoonist of, let’s say, the proper political POV.