Written by a caffeine addict with a Reader's Digest vocabulary. Original post content © by Alex D. Olson
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I posted a PDF of Black Mass that you can read in your browser or download. It’s 208 pages of comics I created between 2008 and 2010.
I published it as a book in October 2012. Physical copies are available here.
Where's a Phoenix Down when you need one.
Rx
OK, so he looks kind of gruff here. But watch this:
"I can't believe it, I'm singin' with Johnny Cash!"
I love this guy. And I love growing up with his poetry and then finding out he did really funny cartoon travelogues for Playboy back in the day. 70s!
(Edit: Added a direct link to the video above because I'm a little late to the party on Tumblr's dashboard video quirks.)
Only in the 70’s would it be cool to let this guy write children’s books.
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And upon seeing this I will spend the rest of my life collapsing into hysterical giggles at any appearance of Michael Bay's toitles.
Upon seeing the design, the first thought that came to mind was how terrifying it was. The second thought was that he had some serious dick sucking lips.
"Sandbox fight" ... Wait, but cats use sandboxes to ... Oh gross.
I think I’m about done with the D’s, not because there aren’t more good ones in the D section but because it’s getting hard to remember which ones I’ve done already.
Here’s the world’s most melodramatic sandbox fight.
The TRS-80s are coming! They'll be unstoppable with their 16k of RAM! Keep watching the skies!
The Computers Are Coming! [Uptade 1980]; 666-1984.
A Publication of: The Southwest Radio Church P. O. Box 1144, Oklahoma City, OK, 73101.
The team finally got into the studio and we started living with the mice. Of course they were quiet but sometimes they were a little bit invasive.
The Studio was called ”La Maison des Canaux”. If ever you come to…
Linking to the segment of This American Life about the husband-and-wife comedy team who got their big break on Ed Sullivan ... the same night as the Beatles' American debut ... and had to go on right before the Beatles' encore performance.
Hey, it's the anniversary of their debut, too!
True story: I was working the pledge drive for a PBS station (because I'm a viewer, like you) during the local art auction last year and had to field calls from old women demanding to know why the Hell (direct quote) Lawrence Welk wasn't on. Because it was something they waited all week for. My takeaway from this was a new appreciation for "hope I die before I get old."
On the other hand, if Welk had been the star of a Hanna-Barbara mystery show, I would watch the crap out of it just for the accent.
Via Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon
Lawrence Welk comics. Let me repeat that: Lawrence. Welk. Comics.
I would pay Canadian prices for a coffee table book of these illustrations.
Rob Fuck’n Ford
Farewell Astrodome. You will be remembered for hosting a kickass social-satirizing, "Bullitt"-parodying, Shelley Duvall-introducing, existential modern-Icarus-mythologizing Robert Altman film. At least that's what I'll remember it for. They held sports events there, right?
I miss this magazine so much.
VG&CE November 89’ - Software That Will Give You Nightmares!
Now I love this game more than ever.
Ice Hockey - Famicom Disk System (1988, Nintendo)
I decided to break the law to provide a necessary medical service because women were dying at the hands of butchers and incompetent quacks, and there was no one there to help them. The law was barbarous, cruel and unjust. I had been in a concentration camp, and I knew what suffering was. If I can ease suffering, I feel perfectly justified in doing so.
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian doctor who was arrested four times for performing abortions, but whose arrests eventually led to the 1988 Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the country. He died this week at the age of 90. His obituary can be found in the NY Times. (via nailure)
Not that home ownership is all that alluring these days anyway. The dark secret of real estate is that every house is the Amityville Horror. Or even worse, it's the Money Pit and you're married to Shelley Long.
Having just played through Mass Effect 1, I understand this with a vengeance.
Running in any game that has stamina
Sadly, yes.
Get it?
Reminds me I ought to try Blood Bowl one of these days.
reblog if you were super disappointed to discover that fantasy football didn’t involve wizards
I wish I had this hedgehog's moves.
A hedgehog dancing to Lily Allen’s “Fuck You.” I did it in like 10 minutes, don’t judge me.
This may be the greatest four sequential panels of any comic I've ever seen. I want to have it blown up and framed, and then I will take the time each day to look upon it and cackle with delight that such joys exist.
From "Seeing Eye," UNCANNY TALES no. 22, July 1954. Writer unknown, art by C.A. Winter. Reproduced in The Horror! The Horror! : Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!, ed. Jim Trombetta.
I just realized that Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters ...
... both look a fair amount like Alex Sector from M.A.S.K.
Hm. Adam's beard is closer, but Jamie wouldn't have to shave his head. I doubt either of them could pull off the accent, though.