If folks enjoy these books, I'll keep 'em coming. It's like continuing the MEDIA GUIDE pages in the back of TYRANT® back in the 1990s, whetting my appetite to do more, for sure.
On the mend, but it's pretty traumatic & it's going to take time to heal from this.
Available internationally on amazon; U.S. purchase is a click away at www.amazon.com/Bissettes-TY...
PALEO POP!™ VOLUME 2 is now available to you all! Link in the top of comments, below; 140+ handsomely-illustrated pages (including a Bissette Gojira sketch art showcase) on all things dinosaur pop culture (movies, TV, comics, paperbacks, trading cards), companion to VOLUME 1 & highly recommended!
Unplugged completely for a week for mental health refresher. While I was away, U.S. & Israel started a fucking "pre-emptive war" (i.e., unprovoked war, REMEMBER Trump terminated the nuclear treaty his first term) & our beloved son was attacked by a German Shepherd (tore his leg up), damn it.
NOW see where that's landed us & the world.
Landed the gig while in this place, did the work in Grafton, VT (Rick Veitch had his own place, found me a great one-room rental 1860s schoolhouse for me to rent).
A childhood fueled by three U.S. TV stations, three Canadian TV stations, followed by teen years (once I had my driver's license) at the movies two-to-four-times per week, followed by 2 years of college curating a 16mm film program... etc. THEN the VHS era. I'm home-schooled!
Very exciting to see this splash page layout for my forthcoming article in MAQ #14 (Men's Action Quarterly zine), an essential update & companion to my CRYPTID CINEMA book series!
I'm sure it did!
Well, the original issues had ad pages, & I used to carefully design my pencils for the entire issue AROUND those ad pages (determining where I could place double-page spreads). The reprint collections forever struggle with this: the absent ad pages inevitably create clumsy, awkward layout 'gaps.'
Returned home to the very, very sad news of our SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING creative team partner Tatjana Wood has left us, just a few days shy of what would have been a full century of life—she was incredible, full stop. R.I.P. Tatjana.
The kickstarter for the massive S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® collected edition is getting the royal treatment from Jim Rugg, who designed these eye-popping black-light posters for the campaign!
Returned home to find my newest book, PALEO POP!™ VOLUME 2, is now live & available to purchase. Very excited this is now out: 140+ pages, lavishly illustrated, design by Tim Paxton, guest contributors John Harrison, Mark Nelson, Denis St. John!
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He often does this, actually.
Point taken, Phil.
I'd erroneously posted this photo first—which was the LAST incarnation of First Run Video, essentially across Putney Road from the original First Run Video location. This was the final iteration of the shop.
Deleted 1st post (fix photo!); Reel Obscure Podcast:
I actually just dropped an episode on Empire Pictures' much-loved-but-paradoxically-now-forgotten ELIMINATORS and ended-up going off on a tangent about the glory days of video rental stores. It made me realize just how awesome it was back then...
First Run Video, circa 1991–2007 (?) or so; Putney Road, Brattleboro, VT. The building isn't even there any longer (replaced with a dental office/surgery).
I was a shareholder from inception, promo manager 1992-94, joined the staff 1997 or '98, worked up to co-manager-buyer till March 14, 2005.
This was the house Tom Yeates & Sue Balinski, Rick Veitch, John Totleben, and I rented after Tom/Rick/my spring 1978 graduation from the Joe Kubert School in Dover, NJ. This place was a short walk from/to the school, and to/from the local shopping mall & cineplex. We all made a LOT of art & comics!
Before W. Lee Wilder's THE SNOW CREATURE, there was—
—PEKKA JA PÄTKÄ LUMIMIEHEN JÄLJILLÄ, the first-ever Yeti/snow creature movie!
Bored of Peace.
I love it just as it is.
They're baaaaaa-aack!
All wrapped up & nowhere to go.
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Here's lookin' atcha.
Spuds, anyone?
Title page from my pulp collection.
This issue of AMAZING STORIES packed not one, but two, dinocentric stories into its contents!
Got my sheet of Bruce Lee!
Our local P.O. was only shipped two sheets.
Oh, well. Glad I asked for 'em!
Caught in theaters this week; both excellent, recommended.
CRIME 101 was a special pleasure: low-key, character-driven story, perfectly told, unreels like a vintage Don Siegel or Joseph Sargent film, a rare treat amid the usual studio bombast.
