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The splash panel from and as-yet-unpublished six-page comic story. Brush and ink (Windsor and Newton 7 Series #2 with Speedball Super Black India Ink)Related content
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I just started collecting all the 60's and 70's horror comics. I really wish some great artists could revive it properly.
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Thanks for the comments. If you love the '60s and '70s horror, you'll REALLY dig the '50s stuff that came out before the Comics Code!
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This is much more MY kind of horror too. I love spooky old Victorian houses. Exciting and frightening in a fun way.But it makes me sad to hear you call it 'cheesy'. Campy, traditional, toungue in cheek, okay, I would have to agree with all that. But I guess I just hate the word cheesy, as it sounds really negative I guess. My problem.
I too cannot get into the new Torture-Horror movies like the "SAW" films. That stuff is indeed much too mean-spirited, grizzly, lacking story and gratuitous.
Give me The Old Dark House any day.
BTW, I agree that there is a great deal of similarity between this drawing and my October Manor drawing.
MJB
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Ha, ha! No, man. I love "cheese" (in all senses) and definitely mean it in a good way, of course. I guess "kitschy" would be another way to describe 'em. "Campy" is also good but always makes me think a bit of a drag queen review or something - not that there's anything wrong with that, I hasten to add!
I do like some of the stronger stuff like "Texas Chain Saw Massacre", etc. but, yeah, the new stuff just doesn't do it for me somehow. Trying too hard, maybe?
Anyhow, keep up the good - no, great - work. So just for fun, what would you charge a guy for that drawing, or one similar?
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I guess I have a problem with that word, because the younger folk have usurped it and it has come to mean just "BAD". The little thumb-typers have also bastardized the expression "B-Movie" to mean just a movie that is really bad, or unentertaining. "Oh man! That old black and white FRANKENSTEIN is totally a B-Movie..." That is not at all what the term means...and if I hear some fucking teenager use the word "AWESOME" one more time, to describe something that never was and never will be AWESOME, I'm going to get all Freddy Krueger on his/her ass...now THAT would be awesome.
I'm on the fence with TCSM, I've seen it a few times and I have gotten used to it I guess... but even it is a little too severe for me. The whole mean for the sake of mean, I cannot get into. Now don't get me wrong...I'm all for teenagers getting killed. I support that in any and every way possible.
I'm a Universal/Hammer Films man myself.
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Yes, The James Whale films (the original "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein") are hard to beat, especially the latter. Probably one of the few cases where a sequel was arguably as good or better than the first film, although "Frankenstein" great too, of course. Those movies are, like, awesome . . . SORRY!!! Mind you, I also get a big kick out of the stuff that is probably just plain "bad", cheesy or whatever, like some (not all) Ed Wood stuff, "Robot Monster", etc.
I know exactly what you mean by "mean spirited" too. In fact, that's exactly how I've described the difference between, say, Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" and the "Saw" type stuff. "Dead Alive" actually has way more blood and gore (the most of any movie ever made by some counts) but the whole tone makes if fun (in my slightly sociopathic opinion) while the "Saw" material frankly bores me. It's not that it shocks or disturbs me at all. I may in fact be practically immune to that due to the things I've seen in my life but the whole "Saw/Hostel" school puts me to sleep. Like I said before, I think it has something to do with the feeling they are just STRAINING themselves to be s-o-o-o badass it gets a bit laughable.
Anyhow, just another old guy's opinion, heh, heh.
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Hey! You're talking to the original Old Guy! Ha! No, you are right! The Bride of Frankenstein is AWESOME! And a MUCH better movie than FRANKENSTEIN, as much as I like it.
Very excellent point about Dead Alive...it is creepy, but the humor takes the edge off. But it's not a movie I can watch often, as I do find it disturbing. The pus in the soup ...I have to look away when that happens.
And I could not agree more about cheap old sci-fi and horror! I grew up on it and I just love that stuff! American International! Lippert! Bert Gordon! I'd rather watch that stuff than a lot of mega-budget, CGI-fests that we see today! I have yet to see the last two LOTR films! I would love to do a low budget Paul Blaisdale monster movie! Man, I think you and I have a LOT in common.
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We do have a lot in common. Now I'm wondering which one of us should be the most disturbed by that fact?!
Anyhow, keep up the great work.
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Which one of us is most disturbed by that fact...and which one is just most disturbed?
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Heh. Well, I must admit I do tend to love horror and sci-fi but mostly the older, cheesier varieties. Some of the new, mean-spirited stuff is frankly boring, amongst other things.
I just hope horror fans maintain a complete separation between fiction and real life but I'm starting to wonder about some people!
Anyhow, thanks for all your great comments!
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ha ha - 
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