PRIMITIVE SCREWHEADS

Cat

Back when we got our first color copier at work people would turn up looking for a random personal copy. Mostly it was boring stuff but occasionally someone would bring something fun to look at. I can't remember who brought this in, it was several years ago, but it's one of my favorite cat pictures. It's been up on the wall of our shop for all that time and it hasn't faded. When we reorganized the space I took it down and moved it. I scanned it with all the other stuff I've been scanning.

Christmas 2076

 

Back in 1976 I asked Tim Boxell to draw some illustrations for my Christmas card. He came through with 4 small drawings that I had printed offset. I put them in a folder and mailed it out as a Christmas card.

The idea was post-apocalypse Christmas in the wastelands. A free copy of the original card to the first person who can guess the inspiration for the illustrations. Thanks to Tim I had an nice unusual Christmas card that year. These illusrations are scanned from the original drawings.

Hope your Christmas is fine and the New Year isn't like this one.

Phantasm II

Back when I posted an album on this blog, Facebook and Flickr about the party with the Phantasm II movie promo standup and the pictures we took of everyone who stuck their head through the hole.

Going through some boxes I found the cut out head of Angus Scrimm. He played the Tall Man. He was great in the role. I scanned it in for no good reason.

Cheerios Spoonbridge and Cherry Box

Here's one of the things that I saved. I did like the Claus Oldenberg Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture at the Walker Art Museum. It was dedicated 1988 and this Cheerios Box is from the 10th Anniversary. I don't know how I got it. I think I ate the cereal. I like Cheerios.

Satyr Pursuing Nymph Le Faguays ca 1920

Found in a box of clippings. Nice, huh.

Zap Comics Article

A clipping from the Star Tribune 2/21/99 about Zap Comix. More stuff I'm scanning.

Kitchen Sink Comix Poster

An old poster I have. It's by Pete Poplaski who worked for Kitchen Sink. Not sure what he does now.

Internet K-Hole

One picture can't do the Internet K-Hole justice. You really have to experience it to get what's going on. It's a blog that moved to Tumbler. They mostly post pictures of people, most of which are from the 70's and 80's. You see a lot of feathered hair. There's occasionally some nudity, mostly of the female variety but it's not very often. I find it fascinating. It's not going to appeal to everyone but I laugh a lot when I go there.

Horror Stickers

Back when I worked for a small company that sold candy and small wares to stores in little Manitoba towns I got a bunch of these stickers for really cheap. I was always interested in having stickers, especially cheap ones, to put in my fanzines. Someday the goal is to gather all the zines and scan them. Not sure where to post them yet. If you want to see more Horror Stickers you can see the album of them on Flickr.

Aeron Alfrey, who runs the interesting art blog Monster Brains, had run a batch of these back in 2010. Recently he had posted a few other monster stickers. The same day I saw his post was the same day I uploaded these stickers to Facebook and Flickr. I sent him a link and he asked if I could scan them in at 600 dpi, I've been using 400 dpi, and I said sure. I have sent them off to him today and they should pop up on his blog at some point.

Monster Brains has a great assortment of art by different artists covering over a century. Here's some great stuff by German-Austrian artist Karl Alexander Wilke that is from the turn of last century. You might not like everything but just keep going, there's always something new on the next page. You can also catch the art on Flickr.

All Our Own Work 1986

I think this was something created to hand out at Christmas time. Karen Trego and I were into stamping back then. We bought some stamps and eventually started carving our own. Neither of us are any good at drawing but we managed to make a few good stamps. Karen set the type courtesy of the Star Tribune. I drew the lines for the stamps title page. That's why they are sort of jittery. You can see the whole booklet on Flicker by clicking that link.