Derf Backderf

Overhead shot of the Runaways. L-R: Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Jackie Fox. Joan Jett is off camera right.

The Runaways, 1975.

Colin Clive.

Colin Clive is one of the hammiest actors to ever grace the screen. Truly awful. And apparently such a raging alcoholic, stagehands had to steady him during some scenes.

And yet he delivered one of the most famous lines in cinema history: "She's alive! ALIVE!"

Timeline cleanse.

Yup. This fits. Have Big Balls driving.

Atlanta CDC gunman believed Covid vaccine made him suicidal, official says Shooter, a 30-year-old man who died during violence, fired dozens of rounds into buildings and killed police officer

The guy who opened fire on the CDC office was an antivaxxer loon. Of COURSE it was. These fuckers won everything, thanks to Trump and Bobby Brainworms, and they're STILL raging psychos.

Joe Eszterhas book on the Kent State Massacre.

FYI Joe Eszterhas in 1970 was an ambitious reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He covered the Kent State Massacre that year. He was on campus when the National Guard opened fire! His 1971 book, with colleague Michael Roberts, is the best of the contemporary accounts. I used it as a source.

@mattbors.bsky.social at least they left your sig on it.

Imagine losing a popularity contest to the pedophiles building concentration camps

RFK Jr and Tor Johnson from Plan 9, both with the same expression

separated at birth

Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest Roland Beainy from Lebanon, who opened chain of restaurants in support of president, says charges ‘not true’

Your daily Boo Fucking Hoo.

Robert Crumb returns with TALES OF PARANOIA Fantagraphics will publish the influential and controversial cartoonist's first new work in 23 years this November.

This is a surprise. I thought Crumb had hung it up.

Kraftderf. Fantastisch!

Made by a colleague, who obviously has too much time on his hands. Re-imagining my 1985 newsroom portrait.

Remember also that these series were made in the lowest depths of the Cold War. 1979 and 1982 respectively. The stuff dramatized in the series was happening RIGHT THEN.

The Gary Oldman film is too truncated. He's a good Smiley, but it needed to be a series like Slow Horses.

Smiley's People is excellent, too.

Word is the BBC considered doing The Honorable Schoolboy, but decided it would cost too much to film. It's the weakest of the 3 books IMO, but it would be great to have one more Alec as Smiley series.

Alec Guiness as Smiley.

I never tire of the BBC George Smiley series. Alec Guiness IS George Smiley. Just watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy again (I have the dvd box, but it's free on Youtube). Masterpiece. Perfect cast.

“Farewell, Aquarius. And we thank you.”

RIP.

Naturally, she sued Groucho's kids over his estate, and lost. In the early 1980s, she was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic and spent much of the remainder of her life in & out of mental hospitals.

In 2003, Fleming shot and killed herself in Hollywood, at age 61.

Groucho kisses Erin Fleming. "Our relationship is purely physical," he joked.

Groucho and his controversial final consort, Erin Fleming. She was his secretary, & 50 years younger. She embezzled nearly $500k from him. But she also encouraged him to reemerge, which led to his hit "Evening with Groucho" at Carnegie Hall, and hounded the Academy into giving him a lifetime Oscar.

Yet another chance for Andy Serkis to gobble scenery.

WNBA sex toy incidents started by Crypto meme coin group, more “pranks” planned A spokesman for the cryptocurrency meme coin creators told USA TODAY Sports they launched sex toys at WNBA games as a lighthearted joke.

Crypto Bros. WHAT a surprise!

In a world of Dean Cains, be a Christopher Reeve.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

Tex Avery's wolf!

Red Hot Riding Hood.

Tex Avery's RED HOT RIDING HOOD on right now!

I'm guessing the Kirbys still own those pages. Jack was keeping all his original art by 1976.

So the Treasury, and 7 of the 10 floppies. Be great to get the Treasury back in print... or better yet an Artist Edition!... because it truly is a masterpiece.

These guys really REALLY want you to believe Bluesky is doomed.

Back to Twitter and Meta with you, peasants!

Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing Yup, they're still at it.

PSA:

STOP
USING
SUBSTACK

It's a Nazi bar.

theracket.news/p/substack-s...

Ick.

When I drew this self-portrait I couldn't imagine NOT working at a newspaper. Landing a fulltime cartoonist gig was my dream fulfilled.

Funny how things work out.