Morning

I'd prefer to have the new bluray but running across the complete series dvd's for 75 bucks less then them is good enough for now. Too bad they never released the theme song as a single.  This show was fantastic and its great watching them again in the morning and Dixie was cute.

sketchbook

Class of 1984

I was tempted to do better photos of this but that would take to long so these are just bike phone shots with phone pics from the new bluray ( which looks way better then here) hadn't seen it in awhile and it was shot where I live and I love punk stuff so..I also took a pic of a close up not here thinking it was the arts club I painted in a few years ago but in fact it was the building next door.

Lost Notebook

I'm not that interested in modern Disney stuff( last 40 years or so) but I love most things to do with the golden age. And I have lots of books on it but would happily buy any new book depending on what it is like say.. a art of Dumbo book or complete storyboards of 101 Dalmatians or art of Ken Anderson or Bill Peet book.  Anyway I heard this book on recently recovered notes and photos of this old Disney special effects guy was a beut and wasn't sure if I kneaded it.  I held off until I came across it today used and it is really something, absolutely gorgeous.

Miss Lucifer

Sketchbook

Young Folks

MOrbids- Much earlier

Sketchbook

Morbids-Asmodeus pg 5

sketchbook

Scrambled Eggs

and Everly Time..

Morning Coffee

Since I find going to the gym boring, to get there by 9:30 I spur myself on by going to the thrift store close to it when it opens and have managed to find some good stuff.  Tho I prefer Hoppers paintings much more to his illustration work, the storytelling of his commercial work is evident in his paintings tho more subdued. Hefti, who wrote the sixties Batman theme, looking Bruce Waynish and most of the tracks here are good soundtracks for the Batusi. Good fun for 4 bucks.

Random Sketch

Ended up dozing through most of the day and catching up on some sleep.

Tura

It was Tura Satana's birthday the other day and a friend sent me this from the days when we did a road trip to Chiller Con  to see the Faster Pussycat Kill Kill ladies since it was one of the first time Haji, Tura and Lori were together in a very long time. A very exciting day about 13 years ago.

My signed poster is still a treasured item and i generally don't take photos like this but I'm sure glad I did and I still wear the jacket they touched, sigh. 

Morning

Other things I'm flipping through this morning.  I have a wedding invitation to work on today which I"m  procrastinating on, its something I would normally not take on, but the bride is a writer who grew up in Cape Cod and
saw Gorey walking around town as young girl so I can't say no to that kind of pedigree:-). Also I know the groom who does music for cartoons.

Tumble

The other day I got into a rather nasty bike malfunction and accident and luckily escaped any serious injury, just banged up and bloody elbows and the helmet saved my noggin. I got the bike repaired and celebrated with a very long bike ride and picking up some stuff ( I have a cider after the bike ride is over  kids)  One being this amazing new book on artist Bill Campbell which I had no idea was  out. Incredible and packed with images.  Also came across this image which appears to be the reference photo from one of my favorite fifties posters. I'd never seen this before so I have no idea if its commonly known. Beautiful photo too!

Vampire Follies

sketchbook..I'm not sure if thats blood or cake frosting.

Morbids

Sketchbook

Morbids-Creepy Crawlies

sketchbook

Morbids

sketchbook

Sletchbook-Morbids

Asmodeus

Ghostcat

I've got a couple of studio things that I'm super happy with recently..one being a vintage dental cabinet and another being this fold up table thing.. I'm assuming it was used for sermons/lettrers but its a pretty great portable sketch table as well as being terrific for reading large tomes like Tim Lucas'
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK in comfort. This Ghostcat was for  Margaret from the great Houston based string quartet Two Star Symphony