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Jim Henson’s “Return to the Labyrinth” by Jake T. Forbes, art by Chris Lie.
Book # 3 of 4 in the Return to the Labyrinth series. Toby the stolen infant brother of Sarah from the original story has now become heir to Jareth the goblin king’s throne and he’s trying to learn to [...]
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Like a lot of other artists, I’m a sucker for a good pin-up. My favorite pin-up artist is Art Frahm. Most popular for his work in the 50’s he gets a lot of criticism for his lack of realistic backrounds and his Mannequin-like female faces, but I respect the guy for being [...]
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Back on May 1st I did a post on Art Instruction Schools and the “art test”. I thought I’d post some additional art tests I’ve discovered in various old magazines.
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I’m always digging through old mags keeping an eye out for ridiculous silly ads. Here’s a fine assortment of finds from the last few years.
I think my kids would love this. I love how in the corner it reads, “A dramatization posed by professional models”.
This is an ad for “Kelp-A-Malt” no joke. [...]
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I haven’t been working on any big art projects lately but I’m usually doodling one thing or another so I thought I’d share some of the little stuff.
I was messing around with a lot of 80s characters and drawing up these little sketches to put in an 80sville type of small town [...]
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Once again my favorite artist Tom Bunk mailed me some of the trash from the garbage can in his studio. After picking out the used band-aids and earwax coated Q-tips. I thought I’d share the good stuff.
He mailed the sketches he did for this recent self-portrait
Here’s a great sketch for the “Garbage [...]
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In my quest to document and share the Topps trading cards of the 80’s I begin 1981 with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Giant Full Color Photocards series. I guess you could categorize these as sports cards but I’m not sure if cheer leading is technically a sport. I just figured since I [...]
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D.A.R.Y.L. 1985
Found this at the thrift store and haven’t seen it since I was a kid. I got out the VCR and watched this with my daughter Sam until she fell asleep. She’s 10, just like the actor (Barret Oliver) who plays Daryl in the movie. She told me she thinks he’s [...]
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I thought I’d share a couple of recent designs/logos I’ve done. The first was for a 80s themes coffee shop in Chicago called the Wormhole. It’s got a time travel theme and they bought a delorean so they wanted a Doc Brown looking worm flying in the delorean through a wormhole.
I also [...]
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I’m always reading a paperback or magazine of some sort so I thought I’d share what I’m paging through from time to time. Here is the book I’m currently reading:
Mysterious Fires and Lights by Vincent H. Gaddis 1967
I’m on page 78 of 236. The Flying Saucer Mystery, Animated UFOs, Lightning Legerdemain, Fire [...]
