She Blinded Me with Art!

check out this link BLIND ART for a cool switcheroo on the Japanese blindbox toy idea. The idea is a ton of different cheap toys are packaged in little boxes, you see all the different toys on the box, but don't know what you are getting until you buy - so you buy a bunch, hope for the best, and then trade off doubles or ones you don't want for ones you do. Well Future Plastik in England has taken the idea and filled their blindboxes with original artwork by some well known artists. And for about $20 US (with shipping!) you can get a great original like this one from Hammo:



Go get some!

Process

a little look at my development in three quick pics!

First though, the brief: A gig-flyer for my friends' band showcase in RI : www.75orless.com Presents that would feature three local bands (including my brother's and friend Slick's and Jay's band, Six Star General) PLUS a nod to their friend Greta's Birthday Bash that they would be celebrating that night. Oh, and I had to get in the fact that Six Star General would also be releasing their new full length CD.

So, I was provide with that info and this photo of Greta:



Since I didn't want to just punch the photo in a corner of the poster like a sore thumb, I went with the idea of using it as the basis of the poster, so I went to work illo-ing it. Hence:



Finally, I put it together with some text, used a Roy Lichtenstein-inspired color palette, some Benday dots, and voila:



For the poster, I added some detail work to the illo, like the "lightning star" that I created for 6Star's logo and some finishing work on the bottom of the jacket and sleeve, to give a more geometric look (that's sort of hidden by the band names, but it is there, trust me!).

So, if you're in the RI this weekend, stop by Houlihans in EP on the Waterfront -- listen to some hardhitting rock from three great local acts and drink a beer and a shot with Greta. Plus get the new cd from 6Star, artwork for which I also did and will post in a day or so - it will be available for sale on www.75orlessrecords.com all!

Trip-tastic?

above is a three part poster series I did for 75orless.com for there concert series here in the motherland, Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. The right side of the poster is for this saturday's show - if you're in the Prov area, head down to Houlihans Tavern for cold beers and some hard rocking guitars.

Be a Hero! Not a Zero!

Summer Job?

SIX FLAGS NEW ENGLAND LOOKING FOR JUSTICE LEAGUE MEMBERS
Press Release



Six Flags New England is looking for the best to take center stage with them as they bring an all new line up of entertainment! Now is your chance to be part of the excitement as the JUSTICE LEAGUE joins the park's expanding shows experience!

The park is now working on the largest entertainment expansion in the park's history and actively seeking performers immediately for the 2006 Season including character actors, superheroes, stunt performers, and character escorts to help staff and support the new interactive HALL OF JUSTICE attraction and BATMAN THRILL SPECTACULAR stunt show. Roles include BATMAN, GREEN LANTERN (Hal Jordan and John Stewart), WONDER WOMAN, THE FLASH (Wally West), & ROBIN (Tim Drake & Dick Grayson)

The park is holding open call auditions at the Six Flags Human Resource Center, located 1756 Main St. Agawam, MA 01001 on Tuesday March 28th from 4:30-7:30PM. Applicants can save time by applying online beforehand and checking the latest updates and complete audition schedule at ww.sixflags.com/newengland. Superhero applicants must meet DC Comics character requirements along with Six Flags standards for role consideration.

Superheros must be physically fit and heights range from 5'7"-6'4". Must be at least 16 years old to apply. Must be at least 18 for stunt roles Stunt roles require strong motorbike skills. All roles require close interaction with Guests and co-workers. Six Flags supports and enforces a drug free working environment. Candidates MUST be Energetic, Enthusiastic, and Team focused.

NEED MORE AUDITION INFO?
Contact the Six Flags New England Entertainment Department at (413)786-9300, x3320 OR send us an e-mail at sfneshow@sftp.com

Tetsujin Coop

click the title for a nice link to a video interview with one of my fave artists, Coop, about his obsessive Japanese toy collecting. Lots of megs, but worth the DL.

night!

And Bingo is his Name-O!

Here's a link to my new favorite game:
http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/bingo.html

a work in progress

this is a flyer for an upcoming children's theatre production - this will be used for b/w mailers and then I will expand it for a full color poster with the playwrites' names and the actors, and so forth. This is about the 4th or 5th poster I have done for this Providence, RI-based group, the Manton Ave. Project. Click the title above for a link to their site!

The Greatest Commercial Ever??

Maybe not, but I still love it. Click on the title for a link and then on the right side of your screen click on the "Watch Mexican Pac Man Video"! Totally Rad!

And Another Great Cartoonist Doing John K!

Bill Wray is still the King: no Wray, no John K; no John K, no Gendy Tartakovsky; no Gendy, NO FUN!

Finally, Powdered ToastMan has Found a Home!

The master cartoonist, and creator of Ren & Stimpy has got his own blog - click the title for a link to John Kricfalusi's new All Kinds of Stuff blog!

Fantastic! Filled with Shaven Yak Hair!

Welcome to the Darkseid!

poster for my brother's and friend's band - this weekend in E.P., R.I.

Publication! At Last! . . . Still no pay . . .

Just thought I would let you all know that a design I submitted to the great Bran-man website was selected as one of the top 75 of the site's first year and has been included in their self-publised "yearbook." The book includes a page dedicated to my design along with a small bit of info/propaganda about me, the designer. Click the title above for a link to the Bran-man shop website with some details on the book and a link to where you can purchase it from Lulu.com - it's a bit steep at $34.95, but there are some really great designs in the book (mine is by far the least of those!) and it makes a really interesting coffee-table book.

Anyway, here is the cover - astute readers will be able to locate my submission on the cover, since before I posted it on the Bran-man site, it debuted right here in the House of Terror!

The Jungle, The Liquor and the General!

A poster for my friend's and brother's band's upcoming show with one of my all time favorite local bands, the Jungle Dogs - A band that I first saw at the old Living Room in Providence back when I was about 15! Amazing that they are back together, playing with my bro's band and that I got to do the poster for the show - the J-Dogs, along with Husker Du and the Minutemen, were the bands that got me into listening to what I listen to today and are a huge influence on the graphics that I do and the work the my friends and I have put into 75orless Records.

Seeing them again this weekend in Newport is going to be pretty mindblowing! If you can, get there.

It's Arrived!

The 75orless Records website is up and running with our first two releases ready to be purchased/pre-ordered. If you like limited edition art and kick-ass indy music, click on the title above now for a direct link to the site. The design of both the Staggering Statistics EP and the A Passing Feeling EP were done by yours truly (the Passing Feeling features original art by me, while the Stag Stats cover features the artwork of Cinncinatti's Alan Sauer).

Both of these EPs are hand made, the Passing Feeling is hand silk-screened in a limited edition of 250, while the Stag Stats is printed with a raised printing technique with a limited number of pressing hand silk-screened or foil-stamped. The Stag Stats is an edition of 750.

Keep watching this space and the 75orless Records site for future releases, limited edition pressings and rare boxed sets.

Coming Soon . . .

Nuns with Guns!

That's right, it's finally happened: My favorite cover artist (besides Jack Kirby and Neal Adams)- Brian Bolland - has drawn one of my all time favorite characters, Jonah Hex! Revel in the horror and the beauty!

Thursday's FREE COMIC!!

before I forget, I missed this one yesterday: Robert Kirkman's Battle Pope! I have to admit, I haven't read this, but Kirkman is the writer behind two critical and commercial mega-successes: the zombie love letter, the Walking Dead and the teen-angst ridden, superhero stomp Invincible. I have read both of those, and based on my love for those books, I have no problem recommending Kirkman's other pieces, unread.

Thanks again to Newsarama and Image comics for making all these books available for the week! Hope some you have taken my advice, 15 minutes, and made yourselves into comics fans!

More FREE Comics!

Continuing Newsarama's/Image's free comics on the web week, we here at Terrorcentral give you the Luna Brother's Girls! How can anyone resist that cover. Click the title for the link to the whole issue and if you like it, the The Brothers Luna are currently doing the artwork for the Brian Bendis-penned Spider-Woman: Origin from Marvel. Check 'em out.

'Nuff said!

Free Comics!! THE SEQUEL!

yet another free comic in the week long event from Image and Newsarama = get you pointies-a-clicking on that title above and experience Fear Agent #1!

Free Comics!!

If I can't get you bastards to buy comics, maybe you can at least read some for free. And one of this quality might make you actually search out more. Click the title for a link to Warren Ellis' and Ben Templesmith's Fell issue #1.



See the cover here <

Truly a great example of the medium and if you like this, the issues only sell for a $1.99 - cheap in this age of inflated comic pricing. Plus, each issue is self contained, so it doesn't matter if you read them in order, every issue, or just the ones you want. Perfect for the comic-newbie out there.

Well, what are you waiting for, man, click on over and be in awe!

Surf-and-Find

Click the title for a peek at the cover of an upcoming book from DC/Vertigo - love this guy's artwork, so check out it his site as well. Plus this is written by Brian K. (Y The Last Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ex Machina, Runaways) Vaughn.

Yes, comics are good.

New Year, New Art

Here are two recent projects - ones done, ones in progress . . . Possibly a new look coming to the blog site soon. Maybe.

Strength!

The teaser trailer was great, but it had so much of the old Supes, I couldn't figure if there was enough on its own. It still hadn't convinced me of Routh either. But as the poster on Aint it Cool News stated (where this image came from via Premiere mag), this is where I am seeing Superman for the first time instead of Brandon Routh in a Superman costume. This is the first image that makes me a believer - June, 2006 can't come soon enough!

The Hills Really ARE Alive with the Sound of Music!

Check out this site - either one of the craziest internet loons ever, or a mad genius of artistic performance/collage/found art.

You Decide!

(Me, I think he Mikko Jack is beyond the last horizon - admittedly I didn't read the whole thing, but that's because my brain began to melt about 1/10 of the way through!)

Click the title for a link to the insanity!

The Next Show

Click the title for a link to 75 or Less and more info

That's Right, Bub!

click the title for a link to the trailer for X3 - wasn't overjoyed with Brett Ratner as the pick to replace Singer as director, but damn this trailer looks good - May '06 is looking HOT!

Are You Getting Enough Bran in Your Diet?

My first attempt at the recently blogged Bran-Man from Drawn!

He is the one and only . . . Lugnut

click the title for a link

BLAM!

Click the title for a link to a Frank Miller interview over at Suicide Girls. Its been up a while, but I haven't been there in ages, so it was new to me. Maybe it'll be new to you too, bub.

Recent work

the most recent poster I did for the guys over at www.75orless.com: promoting and sponsoring good music for free - what could be better!

GBV Forever

click the title for a link to a cool Flickr pool of Guided By Voices t-shirts - if you have one, add it to the archive today!

Drink one to the band, then listen to one of their many many many many albums. The kings of indy rock!

The Greatest Paintbrush the World has Ever Known

Click on the title for a link to an amazing new tool for graphic designers or anyone who loves art . . . the I/O Brush! Make sure to watch the video, it's amazing and the music rocks too!

Thanks to Drawn! for the link and heads up!

Oh yeah, and that image??

Stephen King + Marvel Comics + The Dark Tower = Ryan in Geek Heaven!

Sgt. Rock + Joe Kubert = AMAZING

Had to post this preview page and cover from Kubert's latest Rock GN: Sgt. Rock: The Prophecy - get it from DC in January! It ain't ever easy in Easy!

Six more days to Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

My favorite holiday is right around the corner . . . BOO! Click the title for a link to a cool site about horrible pop culture or cut and paste the various links below to more mayhem and murderous fun . . .

http://allhalloween.blogspot.com/

http://www.horror.com/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000844IT/103-9180272-
4279048?v=glance

http://www.wescraven.com/

http://www.stephenking.com/

That should keep you busy!

Happy Haunting!

After another long delay between posts, here's a view at the front of an invite I did for a Halloween party my wife and I are having.
More in a day or two

My New Favorite Blog

Click the title for a link to the latest in a long line of must-see blogs I visit at least bi-weekly!

Canadian Artist Paul Rivoche is probably best known for his work on the seminal indie comic Mister X. He has a heavy hand with the inks that gives a great depth. And the sci-fi monster rockets and space stuff he draws is just plain killer.

Rocket on over there and don't forget to check out his companion blog, The Scientific Artist - cool stuff!

UPDATED!

Click the previous title for a link to the online museum and click this title for a link to a truly excellent Kirby blog.

'Nuff Said!

The King Gets His Day!

The Jack Kirby Museum has finally made its debut. Albeit, an online museum only at this point, but future plans call for educational seminars, traveling tours of Kirby's works, and I hope an eventual home. No one deserves it more. Comics remain one of the few truly American artforms and Kirby was more of a pioneer and gave more to the field than nearly any other creator in the form's 100+ year history.

A true American original, spend some time on the site, get to know the man and his work, and then stop wasting time. Get to a comic store or even Barnes & Nobles or Borders and buy some Kirby classics. A great resource is Marvel's Essentials collections - usually containing about 20 comics, reprinted in black & white for under 15 bucks. Can't be beat. Do yourself a favor and check out the Fantastic Four first!

A Ware Forecast

Here's a page from C. Ware's brilliant, moving, and sometimes, inscrutable "Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth". If you like the artwork and the madness behind in, be sure to get the NYTimes this Sunday for the first of a new serialized gn as described in the article below.

Be-Ware the Art Attack!

from the NYTimes:

'N.Y. Times Magazine' Debuting Comics in September

By E&P Staff

Published: September 06, 2005 12:26 PM ET

CHICAGO The Good Gray Lady has got the giggles.

One hundred and ten years after “The Yellow Kid” made its first appearance in the old New York World, The New York Times is publishing its first comic strip.

The Times announced Tuesday that it is turning over 10 pages of The New York Times magazine to a new section called “The Funny Pages.”

Each Sunday beginning Sept. 18, the magazine will run "The Strip," a serialized, full-color and full-page comic strip that will feature one self-contained story. The strips will be created by what the Times announcement calls “stars of the graphic novel,” with each running about six months. The first strip will be by alternative newspaper star Chris Ware, author of the graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth." His first Times strip “tells the story of a young girl and her adventures in her apartment house,” the magazine said.

The new section will also include the Times Magazine's first foray into fiction with “The Sunday Serial.” The 14-week installments of an original work will kick off with a story by Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of "Get Shorty" and other novels. His serial will be followed by one from Patricia Cornwell.

A new column, "True Life Tales," will feature pieces of “the best young humor writers who tell hilariously true stories about everyday family life and societal trends.”

Times Magazine Editor Gerald Marzorati said the section is intended to give “our youngest readers a go-to destination when the paper arrives.”

"The Funny Pages is our own take on the traditional Sunday paper funny pages," he said in a statement. "We wanted a place in our pages for genre fiction--mysteries, detective stories, and the like--which is having a particularly vibrant moment in popular culture just now. And we wanted to make a place for the work of those creating narrative comics and graphic novels, a great new art form.”

"The Funny Pages" will also be available on NYTimes.com.

9/11+ 4

Four years gone. My thoughts with the families and friends of the thousands lost. My anger to Bush and his cronies. Still no Osama - "dead or alive." But a hell of a lot more American patriots dead in Iraq for no reason and with no foreseeable end in sight. Yeah, this guy is a great President.

9/11 - Never forget . . .

New favorite website

Browse or build your own, I challenge you not to be addicted to this site. Click the title and view thousands or just mine at id # 15560 in the gallery.

Have fun.

Oh, one more thing . . .

THE FOUNTAIN HC
Written by Darren Aronofsky
Adapted by Kent Williams
Art and cover by Williams
Darren Aronofsky proved himself a filmmaker to watch with his provocative debut, Pi. His follow-up, Requiem for a Dream, continued the accolades, receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. His latest accomplishment, however, comes straight to comics in the form of The Fountain, a gorgeously painted, oversized original graphic novel about the timeless truths of life, love and death.
Working with acclaimed painter Kent Williams (Blood: A Tale, Havok & Wolverine), The Fountain crisscrosses through three distinct time periods: 1535, during an ancient Mayan war; the present day, following one doctor's desperate search for the cure for cancer; and the far future through the vast exotic reaches of space. Interweaving these three periods, The Fountain follows Tomas - warrior, doctor, explorer - as he feverishly tries to beat death and prolong the life of the woman he loves.
A story so grand, one medium couldn't contain it, Aronofsky's feature film version of THE FOUNTAIN will be released by New Regency and Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Tony Award-winning actor Hugh Jackman (X-Men, Van Helsing, The Boy from Oz) and acclaimed actress Rachel Weisz (Constantine, The Mummy, the upcoming The Constant Gardener). But before he did, the filmmaker wanted The Fountain to be realized the unique storytelling power and artistic beauty of the graphic novel. Together, Aronofsky and Williams deliver what might be considered the ultimate director's cut. This deluxe volume also features an afterword by Aronofsky. A softcover edition will be solicited in conjuction with the film's release. Retailers please note: This project is resolicited. All previous orders are cancelled.
Resolicited; on sale November 2 o 8.625" x 11.625" o 176 pg, FC, $39.99 US o MATURE READERS
Edited by Karen Berger

Busy Busy Busy

Finally almost unpacked. New baby and new house leave no time for blog. Many graphic projects rolling about, hopefully an announcement or two soon. Must bolt. Pick up the new Stooges re-release coming out tomorrow! Iggy's back and remastered!

Crisis Revisited . . .

This fall DC Comics is launching a massive new cross-over that will effect the entire line of books. Called Infinite Crisis the plotlines of the stories have been seeded throughout the company's books for the last 2 years, officially kicked off with Identity Crisis, and have gone into full blown assault this summer with a ton of minis and tie-ins.

Anyway, I am really looking forward to this crazy event, and since it is coming at the same time as the 20th Anniversary of the first ever company-wide crossover -- 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths -- it's only appropriate that Terror Central provides a preview image of the alternative cover to this October's Infinite Crisis #1 by none other than original Crisis art-chitect, George Perez!

Behold . . .

Back, News and Sadness

Terror Central is back online after the move to a new top secret location! More posts soon.

Below find a poster I did for the great Joel R.L. Phelps who'll be making a quick stop in the Biggest Little for a show! Amazing!

Check out the show this weekend at Houlihans in E.P. Bittersweet after the recent passing of Silkworm drummer Micheal Dahlquist. He was a great drummer, and from all accounts a great human. Let him have a restful eternity with the best kit in Heaven!

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Invasion of the Freaks or the New Look of Six Star General??

ComiCon International started yesterday and tons of great photos, comics and movie news and more are all over the web. Click on the title above for a link to Comic Book Resources for more . . .

Not much posting until August - Terror central has a new baby in the mix and we are moving to a new highly secure location at the end of July. So sporadic until then, but keep checking in for weekly updates and interesting tidbits!

Argghhhh!!

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Swords, Masks, and Posters for All!!

vicious, veritas, violent, vociferous . . .

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and one for Tsui Hark's forthcoming "Seven Swords" - if you don't know Tsui Hark, google him and then get back to me after you see some of his movies . . . ass-kicking is all I can say

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poster night - two from the forth coming "V for Vendetta" and even though the creator of the comic Alan Moore doesn't seem to be on board, the posters are dead on. . .

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Superman and Spiderwoman together?? Never happen - two different universes!!

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Indian Madness!!

From BoingBoing:

Bollywood album cover gallery

A collection of rare Bollywood LP cover art from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. We've blogged this before in a Web Zen edition, but you can never have enough of this sort of weirdness. I don't know what "Dariya-Dil" means, but it looks infringalicious!

Update:: Reader Ashfaq Talajawala says, "Dariya-Dil means big-hearted or generous. Literally, Dariya means a river (signifying big) and dil means heart."

Click the title of this post for a link to all the insanity!

They really are already HERE!

Click the title for a link to an online comics adaptation of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds. It is pretty impressive and will end up being about 120 pages total. The perfect way to gear up for the movie next weekend.

It's on Dark Horse Comics' site, home of classics like Sin City, Concrete, and Hellboy!

Get there now.

One final thought - saw Batman Begins yesterday and absolutely loved it. Finally, DC is back in the movie game! Watch out Spidey, there's a Bat in the Belfry . . .

A cowardly, superstitious lot

Tonight, Batman Begins begins. I will see it tomorrow and post comments on the weekend. Can't wait - always has been my fav mainstream superhero and while I can enjoy certain parts of Burton's Batman, this looks like the first real Batman movie.

Click the title to a link to a great Batman comic site.

I say Manga, you say Anime!

The world of Japanese manga and anime can be a difficult one to navigate. Manga are comics -- usually black and white, in a digest format -- that sell like hotcakes in Japan to everyone from schoolgirls to salarymen. In the U.S., the format has become popular mostly with the schoolgirls and boys under 17. But there is a wealth of material out there, almost none of it in the superhero genre. Just the opposite of the vast majority of domestic comics. Anime on the other hand is the collective name for Japanese animation movies that are often based on manga or sprout manga after success in theaters. While anime has been available in the U.S. for a couple of decades now (the oldest hit and most popular being Akira, more recent examples being Myazaki'sPrincess Mononoke or Howl's Moving Castle), but the real popularity boost to anime came from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim slot.

And, with that, the point of this post . . .

Click the title above for a link to a great article on a manga/anime that I really enjoy: GTO or Great Teacher Onizuka. This is a fantastic manga (there about 27 250-page volumes that sell at most major book retailers for about 10 bucks a volume) and, while I haven't seen it, a superior episodic anime show. This is one that Cartoon Network should be adding to their programming schedule.

In the meantime, we will have to be happy with 67 episodes of uncut Dragonball Z!!

Ah-so, indeed.

Imagine the Army Riding these . . .

The General returns (maybe) at the Blackstone in the wayout, suburbs known as Cumberland.

that is one cool piece of machinery. Too bad they don't make it in adult sizes . . .

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Make Yourself Feel Better site

Click the title above to link to a fascinating, addicting, terrifying, entertaining, and sometimes, downright disturbing website.
Postsecret.blogspot.com is a collection of cobbled together, home-made postcards that share unidentified individuals secrets - some are dark and dismal, some are light and funny.
I can't stop reading them.
And you won't be able to either.
Have a great weekend.

City of Freaks

David Lapham, indie comix hero and author/artist of the amazing "Murder Me Dead" and "Stray Bullets", is currently writing and laying out a 12-issue run of Detective Comcis. It hasn't been this good since Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams were on the title in the late 60s/early 70s. If you aren't reading this story, entitled "City of Crime", you should be. . . here's the latest cover ::

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Jonah Hex

The baddest ass of all Western comics is coming back this fall from the kick-ass writing team of Jimmy Palmiotto and Justin Gray. And man, Luke Ross's pencils just look killer. That is a one sweet page of comic goodness.

check it out . . .

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Supergirl = Be'atch!

Great Neal Adams cover, but man, what a bitch!

Click on the title above for a link to the all time master of Superman as a Dick covers and interior art. I love comics, no doubt, but that is some funny shit.

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more Super for your Pooper

hit the title to link to the trailer for Disney's Sky High a new action family movie about a high school for the kids of superheroes. Looks kick ass, and fun. The way comics can sometimes be. Hmmm . . .

READ MORE COMICS, you zombies!

22 Hours and Counting . . .

The season finales this week of 24, Lost, The Contender, and Alias. My ass is glued to the couch like never before. I will probably post a review of Revenge of the Sith soon, but I may see it again first. In short - I liked it. A lot. Probably better than Jedi . . . but I'm not sure yet, until I see it again. One thing, in Sith annoying droids replace the cloying Ewoks of Jedi.

But, I liked it. Some great stuff in it, and I think the overall best thing about it, was that it makes Episodes 1 and 2 better. And that's saying a lot.

Finally, click the title for the ultimate site on Lost speculation!

Jack's back, and there's only 120 minutes until Zero Hour.

The Latest for the General

. . . after a rockin' show in the Boro of Attle, the General is back in the Little Big state for a performance with local degenerates, Mustache Ride.

this saturday - be there . . .

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No time for love, Dr. Jones

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Latest Addition. More Turtle Power . . .

for a supposedly great band, that my brother's band is opening for.

this saturday - attleboro, where the wolves come out . . .

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Ebay Marketing for Comics 101

While searching for a comic that seems to be sold out everywhere I look (Batman #639 for those who are interested in the minute details of my life), I came across an interesting listing.

Click the link embedded in the title of this entry for the absolutely easiest way to get comic geeks (or Star Wars-, computer-, D&D-, or any other kind of geek) to browse your ebay listings.

Lordy, some people will do anything for a little green in the pocket.

Too funny, man. Too funny.

New Must Scan

So click the title to be 'ported over to my new favorite daily haunt. The people at Drawn have an uncanny ability to link to/feature artists that I instantly fall in love with. Enjoy it and I hope that it can inspire you to better art.

Night!

Designer? Well, maker at least . . .

Click on the title above for a link to Gig Poster.com and a look at my new designer space there. GP's a great site for concert posters/flyers, the criteria for posting being that it has to be for a band and the show had to have happened. So I have two posters I did up there now, and one in the approval cue. Other than that, I hope to be adding more as I get them done. The idea is that bands will be looking around the site, see my work and hopefully I will get some work out of it.

Anyway, much appeciated if you all would hop on over and check the site out, especially my poster page.

'evening!

Glue Eater

Looking through my email, I came across my monthly newsletter from Matador Records and this interesting item about the upcoming Stephen Malkmus album. So, I repost it here for your viewing information and generally to spread the "fuck you's" to Paste Magazine.

Read on . . .



As we count down the days until the release of
SM's ridiculously great 3rd album, 'Face The
Truth', we call your attention to the following free
instore performance:

Seattle
May 24th at 7PM
Sonic Boom Ballard
2209 NW Market St.

You can hear Stephen performing live on KEXP
(http://www.kexp.org) at noon (PDT) on May 24.

Download the new Stephen Malkmus e-card and do
with it as you will:

http:/www.matadorrecords.com/stephen_malkmus/face_e_card/index.html

Finally, we'd like to offer a shout-out (ie.
"fuck you") to the cowards and thought-cops at the Ad
Dept at Paste Magazine who have deemed our
proposed advertisement for 'Face The Truth' to be
beyond the bounds of "good taste." God forbid that
anything might challenge the sensibilities of
Paste's Yep Roc-loving, Starbucks-guzzling, Wes
Anderson-worshipping readership. Seriously, if there's
anything we or SM have done that is a poor fit
with Paste's Ad Dept's narrow worldview, that is
the highest compliment we've been paid since the
last time Spin refused to run one of our ads.

The ad in question can be viewed here:

http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/news/sm_paste_ad.jpg

Commie muthafuckas!

Album Cover - Big Breakthrough Imminent!

The album cover for the new EP "Shrimp Has a Death Wish" by Six Star General is below. Click on the title above for a link to their site. They play Tinker's Nest in Warren, RI this Saturday. Fun-for-all . . .

The band wanted the logo on the EP - because of the shape of the logo and the standard size of cd cases, I had to work around a lot of blank space. Using the ep title and the band name seemed to be the way to fill the space, but if they were too big, they would have been competing w/ the logo. Enter the compass-y design. Not overly thrilled with the front, but I am pretty happy with the inside info insert - I think using the lightning star was a good tie-in to the cover, but didn't make it too overused. I always loved the RKO Radio-Pictures logo that played before King Kong and bunch of other classic horror movies, so I swiped it for the insert. Simple fonts kept it from looking like they were FONTS. I hope. Anyway, about a week's worth of work, not counting the logo design that was done months ago and just touched up recently. I think it still needs one more thing touched, but I'll get to that later.

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Design Meltdown

working hard on a handful of projects, so short post tonight - FX's The Shield has been as good if not better than any of the last three seasons. If you're not watching Macky and Shane, you should be, scumbag.

24 also better this season than last, but there just seems to be something bigger around every corner. I miss the idea from Season One where there was a single threat and Jack had one day to stop it. Now there's a new threat each hour and its just a juggling match to see how he can leap to the next hurdle. Still intense though and better written than 99% of the dreck on the rest of the major networks.

Finally, if you aren't aware or already reading them, head over to www.hardcasecrime.com -- a new mini-publisher specializing in crime fiction with a pulp slant. Featuring new writers, some of the biggest names in fiction (like Donald Westlake, Robert Bloch and Stephen King), and reprinting long out-of-print classics, this is the publisher everyone should have in their radar. Personal favorite so far: Kiss Her Goodbye by Allan Guthrie - the best thing to come out of Scotland since Sean Connery.

Over and out.

Logo Time

So here's the latest logo for my bro's band - remixed, cleaned up and improved for the future.

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Here's a little sampling of some of that Bama/Bantam magic . . .

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Man of Bronze v. Hordes of Diabolical Midgets!!

For a few years now I have been tracking down and collecting the somewhat rare and mostly pretty cheap 1960s paperback re-issues of the classic Doc Savage pulps from the 30s. Re-presented in pocket-sized paperback novel form wrapped in the gorgeous art of James Bama, these are the ultimate in action-adventure tough guy pulp fiction. This past week, at one of Providence's best kept secrets -- Cellar Stories -- I found a new batch of these tough-to-find gems in absolutely minty condition.

Sure, The Shadow is more popular and more well known than Doc Savage. And, right, you're thinking Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow showed you enough of those silly "pulps" to last a bitter lifetime. But the Savage novels are the real deal my friend. And just to tantalize you with a taste of the freaky uber-action that happens in every one of the 161 novels:

The Menace of the Deadly Dwarf: Cadwiller Olden was only three feet tall, but he was the most dangerous man on Earth. With his legion of brutal giants, and control of REPEL -- a massive, devastating energy force -- the murderous midget began an all-out assault against the defenseless bastions of the free nations. As the entire world huddles in fear, DOC SAVAGE battles against the bizarre doll criminal, and the unleashed fury of his deadly tool of destruction, REPEL!

That's from the cover description to "The Deadly Dwarf", number 28 in the series. With a lead-in like that, and other titles like: The Gold Ogre, The Thousand-Headed Man, The Spook Legion, and The Evil Gnome, how can you resist?

You can't, my friend.

You surely can't.

Click the title at the top of this post for a link to the best Doc Savage resource on the web.

Another 45 minutes work, and . . .

we're done . . .

. . .and the final product, signed sealed and delivered.

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Current Project 1 of 4!!!!

I'll put something up from the others in a day or so when I get them more in line. read on . . .


. . . also, check out http://www.super7magazine.com/ - they have a killer magazine (new issue out now) and I have been haunting the site a lot more lately. It's not just about Japanese toys, but great art, music and more. Go now, Gaijin!

here's a project that should be complete in the next day or so. All original art, by hand with photoshop. The inspiration was a Wheaties cereal box. This is for my brother's band, a fundraiser they are playing for a local pub's softball team. Just need to figure out the layout of the rest of the text . . .

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The Fountain

click the link for instant transport to another article about Darren Aronofsky's upcoming flick "The Fountain." This movie just sounds sick and this article was written by a guy who had an exclusive set visit. I have been reading a lot about this movie and I can't wait for it to come out.

If you haven't seen Pi or Requim for a Dream go rent them NOW!

Anyway, I haven't even read this article yet, but now that I am linked to it, I will be able to come back to it later.

Night-night. . .

Hate!

Click on the word "hate" above for a link to a nice little interview with Peter Bagge, creator of the indy comic Hate - then, continue through the interviews section of Suicide Girls for an interview with director Darren Aronofsky (Requirum for a Dream) - his new flick The Fountain sounds like it is going to be superfantastic. That is all.
GO!

Boxcar Graveyard

this is a little work-in-progress, I'm not sure for what yet. I have a few things in the works and now that I have Photoshop and Illo back up and running, I am going to try and get on these projects a little more. Also, I think a biggish announcement in about a week or two. Stay tuned . . .

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Hi-powered Action!

I'm back online, in the mix, working the magic, gleaming the cube - the new computer has arrived and I'm finally able to get into the blog again. Have a bunch of cool stuff to share in the next few weeks, so stay tuned and stop by towards the end of teh weekend for the first of it. In the meantime, I have to fix up the new machine, get all the nodes right and read the patterns. Terror-central will be busy in the next few weeks, so drop me a line whenever you can.

Oh, and one last thing before the weekend: SEE SIN CITY!!

BLAM!

Computer Inactive

Coming from Long Island: The computer at terror central has been down for about 2 weeks now. just ordered a new Dell to sink my cashflow into. should be back on line and reporting in on a semi-daily basis again by next weekend. in the meantime, go see "Sin City" this weekend, no matter what you think is good for you. See it, you bastard, or I'll send Marv over to your place!

thought I would post a few covers from the original run of V. These are classics by artist David Lloyd. Enjoy . . . this is from Warrior #11 . . .

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and from Warrior #19 . . .

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Vehement Victorian Vengeance

click the title above to be linked to the official movie website for the classic Alan Moore and David Lloyd comic: V for Vendetta.

one of the most subversive comic works by Moore and groundbreaking in many ways, V is the story of a not too-distant future in London where fascism rules and freedom is non-existent. one man, however, is ready to rock the boat and blowing up Parliment is only the beginning.

one of the most striking innovations of the series was Moore's total non-use of thought captions. long the standard crutch for writers to give readers the "inside view" of their characters, the trend of abolishing thought captions is common now. But in the early 80s when Moore/Lloyd started V at the English anthology, Warrior, it was innovative, daring, and I would imagine, a serious writer's challenge. hell, I can't write a six page script without at least a page or two of internal exposition by my hero!

anyway, Joel Silver and the Wachowski Bros. are behind this one, so I would hope that they don't fuck it up. unfortunately, Moore's previously brilliant work has been slaughtered and shat upon on the silver screen (see, or rather don't see, the movies From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or the abominable Swamp Thing movies from the 80s!)

england prevails.

Friday Night Work Out

This is a work in progress that I am working on, probably for a poster for my brother's band. Anyway, I started with a color paletter - I wanted blues and browns. Then I hunted for a while online and found this owl image. Once I got the owl how I wanted him, I took a cue from the color of the eyes and made the "x-ray eyes" effect. I will probably use the sights for the info for the band and whatnot. Or I may change that . . . who knows? But the owl is in. I think he is just right. more later. . .

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