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Rick Altergott News
What has the brilliant cartoonist Rick Altergott--who created our fabulous site banner--been up to lately?
He's started a new online strip about a young woman's romantic travails. And he's offering free sex advice!
Episode 1 here.
Episode 2 here.
Sex advice here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 15, 2011 -
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Category: Sexuality, Weird Universe, Comics
Strange As It Seems
News of the Weird has several ancestors. One is Strange As It Seems.
Strange as it Seems featured bizarre stories based on cartoons created by John Hix who was a staff artist at the Washington Herald. The comic strip Strange as it Seems was syndicated in American newspapers between 1928 and 1944. Strange as it Seems was comparable to Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Sponsored by Exlax in the 1930s and Palmolive Shave Cream when the show reappeared in 1947-1948.
The brand has recently been revivied, and features a YouTube Channel. Check it out!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 17, 2011 -
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Category: Newspapers, Radio, Weird Studies and Guides, Comics, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
All you need to know here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 01, 2011 -
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Category: Television, Comics, 1970s, Parody
Batwoman/Hippy Vampire
Learn why this film had two titles here. (Scroll down to third entry.)
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 27, 2011 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Comics, 1960s
Jack Kirby Omnibus
If you enjoy old school comics, especially by the master, Jack Kirby, you'll want to purchase the volume depicted at right. It's full of Silver Age weirdness in the unselfconscious manner of the day.Here's my favorite example, from the story titled "I Was Big-Game on Neptune."
An Earthman is kidnapped and finds himself in prison with five other beings, all uniquely bizarre. Pretty hard to mistake one for another, right?
Not according to our hero, who has to label them for ease of identification, with hard-to-distinguish-at-a-distance nametags!
I love the expression on the beaky face of the orange guy. He's thinking, "This guy is dumber than a bag of Saturnian hammers!"
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 24, 2011 -
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Category: Aliens, Stupidity, Comics, 1950s
Kaz Animation
I love the cartoons of Kaz.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 14, 2011 -
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Category: Drugs, Comics, Cartoons
Veronica in Wonderland
I presume that Archie is not hallucinating here, and that Veronica's Alice-like abilities are canonical, part of the Riverdale continuity. And I look forward to her future exploits.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 04, 2011 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Literature, Fantasy, Comics, Teenagers
Tinkle Comic
A most unfortunate choice of names for this Hindu comic.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 17, 2010 -
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Category: Comics, India, Mistranslations
Altergott + Hernandez = Greatness
While we wait for our banner-artist Rick Altergott to finish his concluding installment of RAISIN PIE, we will have to content ourselves with these great covers he did for two Gilbert Hernandez graphic novels. I just finished reading both of them, and they are of course superb.
The third one, due out at the end of this year, seems to lack the distinction of Altergott cover imagery, but will no doubt repay your attentions as well.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 30, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Sexuality, Violence, Weird Universe, Books
More Pepsi
I haven't been able to post much lately, and now that the semester is over it is time to go back home where I won't be able to post at all due to dialup being the only internet connection. I'll try to post at least once more before I leave, but for now here are some great (and confusing) Pepsi ads from some 1940s issues of Popular Science. There are too many to list which issues they came from, so click the picture to go to the original source.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sun May 16, 2010 -
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Category: Humor, Advertising, Comics, 1940s
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