Radio Dormouse
@radiodormouse
Artist, storyteller & media critic. I explore the fringes of comics, horror, and animation. Currently archiving an unpublished book on the history of Spümcø.
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I've called John K's later work 'Picassoid' & though some hate on it I find it inventive.
This is definitely the most naked any Disney Princess ever got, right? Toon Twitter would lose their minds at a scene like this today
Captain America first faced the Red Skull in Captain America Comics #1, by writer Ed Herron and artists Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. Simon & Kirby’s partnership is legendary, while Herron had few Marvel credits before passing in 1966—but he’s remembered for Cap’s most iconic villain.
A BG design from #SUPERMAN Animated, one of my earlier ones.
This makes a drawing better! Focus on the gesture to tell the story of the post, not on the details. youtube.com/shorts/oTB0GUu…
Arcade issue six from 1960— a homemade and previously unpublished work by a teenage Robert Crumb. A full book is in the works, featuring over 50 early pieces: sketchbook covers, illustrated letters and zines. #RCrumb
CHILDREN OF THE STONES (1977): HTV's folk horror masterpiece for children, and one of the cornerstones of the entire genre. Here's the opening moments of episode one, complete with a spooky villager and some frankly orgasmic wailing...
Peak Spümcø energy: Jimmy gets way too excited in Comic Book No. 3 (1997, Dark Horse). John K. was unhinged in print too. #Throwback
Bernie Wrightson, The Lost Block, 1999. #BernieWrightson
Dan Jurgens introduced The Bat-Man: Second Knight, a noir story set in 1939 with a zero-support-system Bruce, a WWI vet Commissioner Gordon, and a Lois Lane navigating sexism as a journalist. The Scarecrow’s fear tactics are inspired by FDR, and artist Mike Perkins ensures-
Cool panel from The Heap story in Airboy Comics 67. Unknown artist.
#BATMANBEYOND! An example of one of my commission drawings—11x14 on Bristol paper and sold on a recent EVS auction stream, and now winging its way to a happy buyer—THANK YOU! please DM for prices if you’re interested in a piece of nice, clean, frameable original art!
It was fun to work over Kirby pencils and add a BG. Thinking about doing more of this.
Reading Eclipse Monthly #1, with art by Marshall Rogers, Steve Ditko, and I’m really looking forward to reading Doug Wildey’s Rio
I think it looks bad and probably will be bad. I'm glad we got The Day the Earth Blew Up but I don't think we'd be missing anything if Coyote vs. Acme never came out. There's been one good movie to come out of the WB/live action mash-ups, and it was made by Disney in 1988.
I know I'm biased for thinking Coyote vs Acme is dumb & tasteless, but why would any movie exec think this film could be successful when Space Jam 2, which also had a big celeb co-star (& brand recognition), flopped? No one under 25 has grown up with Looney Tunes cartoons
One Battle After Another and Caught Stealing look like the disposable-but-fun movies you’d see in the 90s. But it’s odd they’re the new Paul Thomas Anderson and Darren Aronofsky films. With existing IP dominating culture, are action-comedies the closest they can get to art films?
