Tag: Winston-Salem

Local “Comic Book Reading Room”

Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag?  I sure didn’t.  I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table.  My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me …

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Ssalefish Illustration – Finished (Pretty Much)

Here’s a completed illustration I did for my local comics shop, Ssalefish Comics & Toys.  I did a rough version of this image on the endpapers of a copy of Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean that I gave the owner, Bret, a while back.  He liked the illustration and wanted a more polished version–and …

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Happy Independence Day!

I’ve been sticking pretty tightly to all comics-related posts of late, but given that it’s the 4th of July, I’ll let that slide:  Happy Independence Day, all! We spent the morning of this fourth of July at our neighborhood “parade,” which might be more accurately described as, “flag- and crepe paper-encrusted kids, dogs and bikes …

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Have a Very E.C. Christmas!

Here’s an invite I just completed for the annual holiday get-together of our local Winston-Salem comics group, The Camel City Cartoonists’ Guild & Social Club.  I’ve already parodied this particular E.C. cover a few years ago for a Heroes Con panel on E.C./Mad Magazine, but hey, it’s a classic! …and this, of course, is the …

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No, THIS Is The Way To Improve SPX

Every year after SPX,  alt-comix’s venerable gathering in Bethesda, there are usually a few folks who blog about ways to improve the show.  This year’s most circulated post is from Susie Cagle.  I’ve even dabbled in the SPX critique/suggestion game myself.  Usually folks who discuss possible changes to SPX do so drawing on and citing …

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