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#53 2012-12-09 00:39:12
Wrong thread, never mind.
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#54 2012-12-09 07:05:16
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#55 2012-12-09 11:11:31
What a lovely tree.
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#56 2012-12-09 12:11:18
Think I posted this on previous holiday threads, but the advice is sound...
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#57 2012-12-09 16:45:43
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#59 2012-12-10 08:47:38
Thanks George. I haven't checked the weather report, is Bad Brains back together today? And what are they playing? Reggae, ska or maybe Scandanavian folk songs at 78 RPM?
I'm stocked up for visiting the relatives
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#60 2012-12-10 09:13:06
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Thanks George. I haven't checked the weather report, is Bad Brains back together today? And what are they playing? Reggae, ska or maybe Scandanavian folk songs at 78 RPM?
I'm stocked up for visiting the relatives
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhance … 5901-1.jpg
How in the fuck did you get in my grandma's house to take her picture?
And, next time you are there, tell her I need my bong back.
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#62 2012-12-10 17:02:42
Bigcat wrote:
How in the fuck did you get in my grandma's house to take her picture?
And, next time you are there, tell her I need my bong back.
Ill be in PA over New Years. If someone at a bar uses the word "Ecumenical" you will know it's me.
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#63 2012-12-10 17:34:58
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Bigcat wrote:
How in the fuck did you get in my grandma's house to take her picture?
And, next time you are there, tell her I need my bong back.Ill be in PA over New Years. If someone at a bar uses the word "Ecumenical" you will know it's me.
Where at?
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#64 2012-12-10 17:44:01
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#66 2012-12-10 22:27:51
Bigcat wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Bigcat wrote:
How in the fuck did you get in my grandma's house to take her picture?
And, next time you are there, tell her I need my bong back.Ill be in PA over New Years. If someone at a bar uses the word "Ecumenical" you will know it's me.
Where at?
Somerset County.
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#67 2012-12-11 22:01:06
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#70 2012-12-12 15:48:29
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#71 2012-12-12 16:04:24
Well played Woggah, well played.
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#72 2012-12-12 18:05:59
Roger_That wrote:
An early Pale banner, wasn't it?
Yuletide Debauched
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#74 2012-12-12 22:59:48
sic wrote:
http://trapezezplaygrond.tumblr.com/post/14531772807/put-it-on-and-click
Dude really?
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#75 2012-12-13 09:15:29
Here is some help for last minute shoppers.
I think I'm going to try this one. The "paint your own pottery" place a friend runs just got in some Greco-Roman molds, but I don't remember if they go that low.
And this guy! Fuck this guy...
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#76 2012-12-13 12:55:25
Meanwhile in Brighton, someone surely got the sack....
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#77 2012-12-13 13:12:55
Dmtdust wrote:
Meanwhile in Brighton, someone surely got the sack....
Heh, duly forwarded to my wife. I imagine based on the comments section that it is bogus, but knowing Brighton, it is still VERY appropriate.
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#78 2012-12-14 00:33:07
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#79 2012-12-14 06:06:38
Choad, please wish Frank a happy holiday and let him know how much I appreciate his work.
I'd just googled a bit, and I'd had no idea he was behind Red Sonja. And a serial in Heavy Metal! I wish I could remember "Lann", I know I've read it as I subscribed to HM from about 81 through 88.
Oh, and a cat for George...
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#80 2012-12-14 08:58:19
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Choad, please wish Frank a happy holiday and let him know how much I appreciate his work.
I'd just googled a bit, and I'd had no idea he was behind Red Sonja. And a serial in Heavy Metal! I wish I could remember "Lann", I know I've read it as I subscribed to HM from about 81 through 88.
Frank has had an interesting career for a guy who, by his own reckoning, began drawing porn 72 years ago. Start with his name; Benjamin Franklin Thorne. I've always known him as Ben or Benny.
If you were a Flash Gordon fan in the late 40s, that was Frank. Perry Mason, which my well have started as comic strip, in the 50s, Mad Men in the 60s and I don't know when all Sonia, Marvel and Playboy happened along. He taped a never aired sketch for SNL's first season based on hillbilly inbreds who called themselves the beltless clan. A complete accounting would take forever. I know Ben boasts a couple High Times covers, probably their only contributor ever who's never smoked weed.
Ben's rubbed elbows with all the cartooner greats, but the best story I heard him tell was about touring the Sistine Chapel with the artist drawing Popeye at the time, and both their wives. One of the Vatican guards stopped his friend's wife to examine her Popeye lapel pin because he and fellow guards were huge fans, all but oblivious to the greatest cartoon ever created floating above their heads. You know the word cartoon is Italian, right? That's what Michelangelo drew up there, before inking it in plaster alfresco.
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#81 2012-12-14 21:12:49
choad wrote:
https://cruelery.com/img/redsonja-frankthorne.jpg[/url]
I'm having difficulty figuring out just how she's holding that sword.
Pic unrelated.
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#82 2012-12-14 21:50:03
sigmoid freud wrote:
I'm having difficulty figuring out just how she's holding that sword.
I'm still not sure how to reconcile Frank and weapons of any description. He kept a huge collection for drawing purposes until the net produced images for everything, but I seriously doubt he's ever fired a gun. I know he happily gave away his great granddad's civil war battle rattle. I got none of this super hero stuff as a kid and confess I don't get it all. My own theory is Frank would draw anything that allowed him to focus on tits.
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#83 2012-12-15 11:46:38
choad wrote:
sigmoid freud wrote:
I'm having difficulty figuring out just how she's holding that sword.
I'm still not sure how to reconcile Frank and weapons of any description. He kept a huge collection for drawing purposes until the net produced images for everything, but I seriously doubt he's ever fired a gun. I know he happily gave away his great granddad's civil war battle rattle. I got none of this super hero stuff as a kid and confess I don't get it all. My own theory is Frank would draw anything that allowed him to focus on tits.
Amen to that!
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#84 2012-12-15 12:29:31
Frazetta = my kryptonite. Always a weakness.
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#85 2012-12-15 12:43:57
whosasailorthen wrote:
Frazetta = my kryptonite. Always a weakness.
You want to learn more about the renaissance sweatshops these guys inhabited, start here.
Production methods
Like many cartoonists, Capp made extensive use of assistants (notably Andy Amato, Harvey Curtis, Walter Johnson and Frank Frazetta). During the extended peak of the strip, the workload grew to include advertising, merchandising, promotional work, public service comics and other specialty work—in addition to the regular six dailies and one Sunday strip per week. From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads. The characters also sold chainsaws, underwear, ties, detergent, candy, soft drinks—including a licensed version of Capp's moonshine creation, Kickapoo Joy Juice—and General Electric and Procter & Gamble products, all requiring special artwork.
No matter how much help he had, Capp insisted on drawing and inking the characters' faces and hands—especially of Abner and Daisy Mae—himself, and his distinctive touch is often discernible. "He had the touch," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008. "He knew how to take an otherwise ordinary drawing and really make it pop. I'll never knock his talent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capp
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#86 2012-12-15 14:48:11
This thread has lost its way.
Can anyone guess what I got in my stocking last year?
Here's a clue.
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#87 2012-12-15 14:59:21
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#88 2012-12-15 15:20:55
Xmas and Back-to-School in One Great Gift!
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#89 2012-12-15 15:51:29
This one just kinda jumped off the page and attached itself to me.
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#90 2012-12-15 15:56:14
I'm dreaming of a black & white xmas.
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#91 2012-12-15 16:05:26
Last but not least, Merry Xmas from the Johnsons!
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#92 2012-12-15 16:13:02
Color is nice, too. Playboy Playmate, 1955.
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#93 2012-12-15 16:16:51
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#94 2012-12-15 16:19:18
whosasailorthen wrote:
Sailor - you shaved your 'stache!
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#95 2012-12-15 16:19:19
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#96 2012-12-15 16:20:00
WilberCuntLicker wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
Sailor - you shaved your 'stache!
And somehow gone from blond to brown as well.
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#97 2012-12-15 16:20:57
Vargas is always nice.
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#98 2012-12-16 10:10:36
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#99 2012-12-16 23:32:38
whosasailorthen wrote:
At my age? Would, hell yeah. I ain't no college kid either and she looks like she would be lots of fun to be around, humpidy hump or no.
See what kind of fantasies you'll have to look forward to? Merry Christmas, kids.
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#100 2012-12-17 21:53:33
Damn, I almost forgot this. Wouldn't be Christmastime without the bestest Christmas music video ever made :
Watch it, those of you with short memories.
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