DOOMED WIZARD DIARIES

When I was a kid, I didn't get to town much. We lived out in the country and trips to town were seldom and usually revolved around buying groceries. I'm not trying to give you the impression that we grew up on Waltons Mountain or Walnut Grove, but most of what we ate, we grew, but trips to town were still needed. My parents were smart. I see parents today dragging their screamin ', mulin ' kids through the grocery stores today and I just shake my head. Dragging your kid along the the grocery store or Walmart and not buying them anything is torture for both parent and child! Why put yourself through that? I'm getting off the point. When I was a kid, circa 1977, if I was lucky enough to get to ride along (With no seat belt on, I might add!) with the Old Man to whatever store he had to go to to buy oil or a box of 12- gauge shells, for a buck, I could buy two comic books, a candy bar and a bottle of pop, usually a bottle of Royal Crown. Of course, he'd ...

I can't say anything too bad about this movie. This one delivers, folks. I read a couple of not-so-forgiving website reviews lambasting it for not having a single original idea, but let's face it, it's a friggin ' vampire movie. Even back in 1968, there was nothing new under the sun in vampire movies, pun intended. "Long life!" toast Italian hotties Diana Lorys (left) & Anita Eckberg as foreshadowing for things to come. At first, Eckberg orders a whiskey but, upon discovering they haven't any, settles for beer. What a woman! The plot goes something like this... Sylvia ( Eckberg ) inherits her family's ancestral home in a remote Italian village. When she arrives to inspect it, she finds it to be full of a handful of Amazon-like vampires, her creepy, metrosexual uncle, who doesn't appear to be any older than she is and one big peeping tom. Sylvia's husband and his friend, whose name isn't really important, attempt to rescue he...

As some of you might know, I'm beginning a comic book project I'm particularly excited about with the Mr. Satyr himself, Mike Indovina . Of course, that doesn't mean I haven't been excited about all the other projects I've worked on, but this one is of special importance to me. Not only have I been promising a very patient Mike that I'd get to this project eventually , but ever since I was twelve years old, all I've ever wanted to do was draw superhero comics and in the almost three years I've been getting my feet wet in the Indy scene, this is the closest I've come to doing a "long underwear" book. So, for the next few months, between working with Mike, working on a handful of paintings, doing more work on Salem, AZ with the Inkslinger hisself and Big 'Fro Brown , I don't exactly know what images I'll be able to post and when, so in the meantime, here's a super sized post. Inspired by a recent post by fellow blog...

"With a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw. And a Gun Street Girl was the cause of it all." --Tom Waits, Gun Street Girl Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once said, " All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun ." As much as it pains me to agree with a cheese eatin' surrender monkey (thank you Groundskeeper Willie), he's right. Apparently the late Warren Zevon had similar sentiments when it came to song lyrics. I think it's maybe some sort of "black widow" fixation, beautiful but deadly. As I've been trying to come up with new themed posts for '07, "girls with guns" seemed to be as good a topic as any. And so, our first entry is the totally yummy Yuko Moriyama in a still from the 1993 Japanese horror flick Zeram ! I highly recommend this movie for more than just Moriyama's role in it, but film critique isn't exactly the point of this entry. Here's a few more to demonstrate what is...

Pass the air freshener because it's time for a big ol' photo dump! Yeah, I know, pretty gross, but I couldn't help it. I'm only leaving this particular post up for a few days, however as it's meant mostly for my contemporaries to see what I'm up to. Posted here are the pencils to Salem, AZ #1, pages 24 to 38 along with the finished cover and a penciled pin-up I did awhile back. Enjoy 'em while ya can.