DC Comics.
1970’s horror comic art is truly in a class by itself, isn’t it? Even the printing and coloring has its own distinctive look.
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Eric Robert Nolan published by The Piker Press!
I’m honored today to see The Piker Press publish my time-travel horror story, “Shine Now, Fiercely, Forever.” It’s a cautionary tale about two married scientists whose newly invented time machine delivers them to both a hellish end and an endless hell. (Seriously, people, use your time machines carefully.)
I am quite grateful to Editor Sand Pilarski for graciously allowing me to join The Piker Press’ wonderful creative community. It really is a wonderful weekly online journal of arts, sciences, fiction and non-fiction, and I encourage you to visit the site.
If you’d like to find my story, it is on the cover of The Piker Press right here.
Enjoy!
Mr. President, please stop smocking the covfefe.
The first step is admitting that you have a literacy problem.
So, the moral of the story is … “Dont tweeet while smocking teh hard stuf?”
It’s so weird having a president that consistently resembles the former character in those old “Goofus and Gallant” comic strips.
Oh god, I probably just dated myself with that reference.
Thus begins my illustrious career as an abstract filmmaker.
Pretty avant-garde, no? I’m calling it “Snowfall.” Bring on the accolades. (You know how I always want ’em.)
I’m … actually not sure that I could fully define “avant-garde” if you put me on the spot without Google. It’s a lot like “postmodernism” that way.
Anyway, this was the winter’s first snowfall here in Roanoke today, just two weeks ahead of Christmas 2018. Look at the size of those flakes. They are so big that you can actually hear them striking the ground. I’m serious! Play the video with the sound on!
Christmas card, Kent Rockwell, 1928
Color wood engraving, designed by Rockwell for the Friends of Lentheric.
“Wolf in a Winter Landscape,” Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov
Oil on canvas. Early 20th Century (?) There also appear to be several very similar paintings with this same composition, all of them attributed to Kolesnikov … which is also often spelled “Kolesnikoff.”
“Exercice de Style,” Stepan Kolesnikov
Early 20th Century?
Throwback Thursday: “Movie Monsters From Outer Space,” 1983
This was another book during my grade-school days that really fed my excitement about monsters — Jerry A. Young’s 1983 children’s book, “Movie Monsters From Outer Space.” (Why does the author’s name sound so much like a pseudonym to me?)
I’m sure it’s obscure by now. If memory serves, this was another title I ordered from those classroom bulletins put out by Scholastic Book Clubs. (I was in the third grade, I think.) It gave kids a brief, fun run-down of a bunch of space-based baddies — those are the Cylons from the original “Battlestar Galactica” (1978) on the cover.
It featured a bunch of older B-movies too. I remember really wanting to see “Forbidden Planet” (1956) after seeing a picture of its monster there.
I also seem to remember reading about Ridley Scott’s original “Alien” (1979), although I suppose that I could be recalling another book. (It would be odd if Scott’s masterpiece were described here, because it was … kinda not for kids.)
