Albert King #bluesmusic 🎶'I'll Play The Blues For You'

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It kills me how actually decent and incredibly talented people who contribute so much to society and their communities struggle to find work, while the worst people to ever breathe who demonstrate incompetence several times daily, remain gainfully employed. some at the highest levels of government

Dark history behind 'Sea Monkeys' that became one of the most popular toys of the 90s There is a dark history behind the creator of the famous Sea Monkeys that we all loved as kids, and it might ruin your childhood.

Not to be a buzzkill, but it's fascinating comics history.

Sea monkeys were "invented" by Harold von Braunhut, who also invented X-ray Specs. He funded much of the Silver Age w/ his ads.

He was also a Nazi and a top leader of the Aryan Nation! Weapons supplier to the KKK, too. Major scumbag.

Thank you! Just acrylic paint. The ends and top are below. It’s turning into a slow-motion painting hobby. Kind of fun but I feel bad when I put the boxes back under the stairs, in the closet or up in the attic.

Thank you! Just acrylic paint. The ends and top are below. It’s turning into a slow-motion painting hobby. Kind of fun but I feel bad when I put the boxes back under the stairs, in the closet or up in the attic.

This is a picture of the side of my Bat-Man comics short box. I’ve painted a loose swipe of one of Brian Bolland’s panels from “The Killing Joke.” It’s one of the panels of the rain falling on the ground with a beam of light reflecting off of the surface. On the lid is a bust of Batman with the bat-signal in the sky behind him. Hopefully it looks like the signal is the source of the beam of light in the puddle.

This is a picture of the other side of my Bat-Man comics short box. It’s based on one of the interior panels of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns. I put that iconic lighting bolt from the cover in the sky behind him.

Finished painting my Batman comics box. It’s been almost done for two months and tonight I broke the procrastination barrier. I was so satisfied that I started a Spider-Man box; it should go faster because I have a few simple designs in mind and I’m not going fuss so much this time.

This is a picture of the side of my Bat-Man comics short box. I’ve painted a loose swipe of one of Brian Bolland’s panels from “The Killing Joke.” It’s one of the panels of the rain falling on the ground with a beam of light reflecting off of the surface. On the lid is a bust of Batman with the bat-signal in the sky behind him. Hopefully it looks like the signal is the source of the beam of light in the puddle.

This is a picture of the other side of my Bat-Man comics short box. It’s based on one of the interior panels of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns. I put that iconic lighting bolt from the cover in the sky behind him.

Finished painting my Batman comics box. It’s been almost done for two months and tonight I broke the procrastination barrier. I was so satisfied that I started a Spider-Man box; it should go faster because I have a few simple designs in mind and I’m not going fuss so much this time.

The U.S. Has Killed 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. Has Murdered 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.

51 attacks and counting. All of them chronicled @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Guards Beat Up Immigrants Detained at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ After They Complained About Losing Phone Access, Lawyer Claims An attorney for an immigrants’ rights firm representing detainees at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center alleged in a court filing that inmates reported that guards severely beat detainees, ...

Shoutout to @people.com, which covered horrific abuses at the Everglades camp that the administration refers to as "Alligator Alcatraz," citing several folks (including me) who call it a concentration camp.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

A black and white got of Jerry and Joe doing their best Superman pose circa 1978.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. #SupermanDay

$1 Pick up

Good morning from The Umbo; hilltop location of several underage drinking sessions attended by someone who looks a lot like me, but much much younger. There will be no drinking here today, but only because I forgot to bring water. I’m dyin’ up here.

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.

The entire GOP are corrupt traitors who have betrayed America

Wassily Kandinsky (1929)

I really cannot stress enough how few 17th century books exist in any kind of paper format in the marketplace.

You can get sloppily OCRd editions of Margaret Cavendish's works, if they don't get deleted or just plain go out of print because politics or money, but NO, NOT EVERYTHING IS BEING SAVED.

Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?

🎨 David Hockney

Debbie Harry, her eyes closed, her lips open in a smile, looking as if she’s in her own happy world rather than performing for anyone’s expectations.

Debbie Harry, with Blondie at the Glasgow Apollo, Scotland, the 22nd May 1977, by the great Jill Furmanovsky.

Joe Kubert, “Success or Else!,” HOLLYWOOD CONFESSIONS #2 (December 1949), pp. 1-8. Story pages 1-4 (of 8). Post 1 (of 2). Kubert was 23 years old when he wrote and drew this story.

a group of women sit at a table with the view written on the front Alt: a group of women sit at a table with the view written on the front

I've got about two weeks left to pitch panels for the San Diego Comic-Con! Are you an artist, publisher, writer, world famous celebrity or comics creator who's planning to attend and would be up for a panel? Let me know!

again.

“NATO wasn't there when we needed them.”

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11? Because NATO invoked
Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

A black and white photo of him at his drawing table.

Four covers by Grandenetti: one from G.I. Combat, two from Our Army at War, and one from Prez.

Today is the birthday of artist Jerry Grandenetti (April 15, 1926-Feb. 19, 2010). Most remembered for his work on Will Eisner's the Spirit and DC's war titles, and for cocreating Prez.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

Cover of the completely made-up Science-Fiction digest-size magazine “Interesting Sci-Fi” The magazine that DARES to look ahead! This is the January 1947 issue of that never published publication featuring “A brand new visionary science fiction adventure by the highly acclaimed western author Bosco Helmut. The cover painting most likely illustrates that story. Also included is part two of “The Matadors of Venus” by Ernesto J. Cupps. No doubt a classic science serial novel that never was.

Found this old (2005-ish) digital painting on a Flickr account I forgot about. I made a few faux Sci-Fi digest covers back then because that’s what I want to do for a living when I grow up!
I even wrote short stories to go with them, but those might be on old ZIP disks, and therefore lost to time.

Cover of the completely made-up Science-Fiction digest-size magazine “Interesting Sci-Fi” The magazine that DARES to look ahead! This is the January 1947 issue of that never published publication featuring “A brand new visionary science fiction adventure by the highly acclaimed western author Bosco Helmut. The cover painting most likely illustrates that story. Also included is part two of “The Matadors of Venus” by Ernesto J. Cupps. No doubt a classic science serial novel that never was.

Found this old (2005-ish) digital painting on a Flickr account I forgot about. I made a few faux Sci-Fi digest covers back then because that’s what I want to do for a living when I grow up!
I even wrote short stories to go with them, but those might be on old ZIP disks, and therefore lost to time.

On the job. Not going to redo all that just for one freaking annoying typo, which is what I often do. Dangit!

Sunday front illo about how the lack of some of the basic needs and services can hinder the engine of innovation that is the Silicon Valley.

Tax.The. California. Rich.

The integration of drone technology into law enforcement. Yikes.

A few recent in the job illustrations, dragged out into the daylight for #portfolioday