Ken Plume

THE SUICIDE SQUAD

BLACK WIDOW

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Have you checked out Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) yet? Great doc…

I envy you, and weep for my knowledge.

Image of Donovan about to drink from the false grail as Ilsa looks on in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

Warner Bros. has been a poisoned chalice for every company that’s acquired it in the past 30 years, and I fully expect it to continue to be so for any fools foolish enough to think themselves immune to its curse.

Photo of my Disney "Big Fig" statue of Scrooge McDuck

One of my favorite pieces in my collection. This remains the best Scrooge collectible Disney has ever released, lovingly based off of Carl Barks’ definitive OG design.

Photo of my secondhand copy of Sherwood Schwartz’s book INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: FROM CREATION TO SYNDICATION

Photo of a bookplate pasted inside the front cover of my secondhand copy of INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND… “FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROSS A. BURMAN ROSS DIED OF AIDS ON JANUARY 15, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 41. ROSS WAS A GREAT GUY WITH AN AVID INTEREST IN THE ARTS, HOLLYWOOD, FASHION AND COSTUME, AS WELL AS THE KOOKY, STRANGE, DARK AND CAMP NATURE OF PEOPLE. HE REGALED HIS FRIENDS WITH FASCINATING FACTS AND IT IS THE HOPE THAT THROUGH THE DONATION OF THESE BOOKS, THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE PASSED ON FOR MANY OTHERS TO ENJOY.

All secondhand books have histories. Sometimes you find out their stories, and those stories can bring even the most innocuous book an incredible emotional weight.

Randomizing your playlist shoves music in front of you that you haven’t heard for ages. Case in point, this solo version of her “Happy Song” that the brill Kate Micucci submitted to my old song competition way back in 2009.

Enjoy...

Panel from the wonderful SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN, by Matt Fraction & Steve Lieber, of Superman and Jimmy: JIMMY OLSEN: It's okay. I knew. SUPERMAN: You knew? JIMMY OLSEN: I knew.

He knew.

Cover of MARVEL FANFARE #45, art by John Byrne, depicting numerous Marvel Comics characters queuing up to get their photo taken by a photographer

I always dug this cover as such a fun concept execution for an all pin-up issue...

Digging around some hard drives and found this blast from the past... (@pftompkins.bsky.social @caissie.bsky.social)

Every few years we used to get another attempt at an awkwardly-executed IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD kitchen sink cast film (shout-out to my own guilty favorite of the genre, 1941), and we're long overdue for another overstuffed mess...

BTS image from THE BATMAN of Robert Pattinson in full-Batman costume riding a motorcycle

“No, I made it myself. The bat symbol is the gun that killed my parents and the suit is made from the clothes my parents died in and the helmet was the popcorn bucket from the movie we saw before they died. My parents are dead. They died.”

Vintage photo of Margot Kidder & Carrie Fisher at a party

Lois and Leia and the night of a thousand anecdotes...

Vintage photo of Walt Disney sitting at an animation table, pencil in hand which is resting on artwork of Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willy, posed looking at the artwork as if he just drew it

“Walt, the drawing is ready for you to sit down at...”

From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...

Vintage coloring page of a scruffy Ronald McDonald, who is dribbling a basketball as wide-eyed hamburger plants look on

I’m here for scruffy, middle-aged Ronald McDonald and his Lovecraftian LandBurgers.

Photo of Luke Skywalker with a half-bandaged face from an EMPIRE STRIKES BACK deleted scene

“Softly, deftly, the Force shall caress you...

Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you...”

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social was the best Phantom Menace...

This is not investment advice, but fyi: my studio has FIVE copies of the multiple Eisner-winning Jimmy Olsen hardcover in stock, signed by me and a bunch of the people depicted on the cover, with a Jimmy sketch, too! helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...

About 3 feet

Photo of my secondhand copy of Sherwood Schwartz’s book INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: FROM CREATION TO SYNDICATION

Photo of a bookplate pasted inside the front cover of my secondhand copy of INSIDE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND… “FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROSS A. BURMAN ROSS DIED OF AIDS ON JANUARY 15, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 41. ROSS WAS A GREAT GUY WITH AN AVID INTEREST IN THE ARTS, HOLLYWOOD, FASHION AND COSTUME, AS WELL AS THE KOOKY, STRANGE, DARK AND CAMP NATURE OF PEOPLE. HE REGALED HIS FRIENDS WITH FASCINATING FACTS AND IT IS THE HOPE THAT THROUGH THE DONATION OF THESE BOOKS, THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE PASSED ON FOR MANY OTHERS TO ENJOY.

All secondhand books have histories. Sometimes you find out their stories, and those stories can bring even the most innocuous book an incredible emotional weight.

Photo of my Disney "Big Fig" statue of Scrooge McDuck

One of my favorite pieces in my collection. This remains the best Scrooge collectible Disney has ever released, lovingly based off of Carl Barks’ definitive OG design.

Photo of Luke Skywalker with a half-bandaged face from an EMPIRE STRIKES BACK deleted scene

“Softly, deftly, the Force shall caress you...

Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you...”

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social was the best Phantom Menace...

Photo of a THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O'BRIEN magnet

I’m glad I decided to order this magnet in the 5 seconds it was available from the NBC store...

Vintage photo of Walt Disney sitting at an animation table, pencil in hand which is resting on artwork of Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willy, posed looking at the artwork as if he just drew it

“Walt, the drawing is ready for you to sit down at...”

Vintage photo of Margot Kidder & Carrie Fisher at a party

Lois and Leia and the night of a thousand anecdotes...

Panel from SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN evocative of Charles Schulz's PEANUTS with a young Julian Olsen standing behind an advice boot similar to Lucy's with a sign that says "Investment Advice $1.00 (US) - The Advisor Is In", and he is being yelled at by his sister Janie Olsen as Jimmy Olsen runs around obliviously chasing a butterfly... JANIE OLSEN: UGH! Julian Olsen, wealth is an obscenity and late-stage capitalism has made victims of the entire world! You want you should end up in a guillotine?!"

Another timeless panel from @mattfraction.bsky.social & @stevelieberart.bsky.social's SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN...

Randomizing your playlist shoves music in front of you that you haven’t heard for ages. Case in point, this solo version of her “Happy Song” that the brill Kate Micucci submitted to my old song competition way back in 2009.

Enjoy...

BTS image from THE BATMAN of Robert Pattinson in full-Batman costume riding a motorcycle

“No, I made it myself. The bat symbol is the gun that killed my parents and the suit is made from the clothes my parents died in and the helmet was the popcorn bucket from the movie we saw before they died. My parents are dead. They died.”