This is Evolution...A Bored Game,by 8025glome.I found it on
DeviantArt.
It just blooows me away.
I can't remember where I first saw this,but I just love
this retro-style pseudo-board game artwork.
The interior of the above album.
This was in the arcade at my local airport in the 70's.
I always loved playing it.
From one of my favorite pinball machines.
And,one from one of my favorite boardgames.
A detail from a 1970's ad which read,"Four ways to get someone
in the music industry to listen to your song"
Incidentally,the woman who chose to use exhibitionism to get her
shoeless foot in the door is none other than Suzanne Somers.
This image tattooed itself in my kiddie brain from the moment I
first saw it in the Johnson-Smith catalog.
One of several April Fools' covers created by
Norman Rockwell for
The Saturday Evening Post.
The jackalope...a staple of that underappreciated art form
of this past century...the postcard.
A still-frame from a scopitone...a mid-20th-century forerunner of the music video.
This one's from the one for "I Cried For You",by Sonny King.
And for those of you out there who are wondering,in the actual video,they cut
away just before the underpants go down.
This is,of course,that historic day in 1961,when
Roger Ramjet visited the White House.
Yet another advertisement from my childhood.
The little-seen first attempt of Disney's
Pirates Of The Caribbean ride.
The even-lesser-seen second attempt.
The caption explains.
Ah,winter in Transylvania!!!
From the World Of Illusions,a tourist attraction in Gatlinburg,Tennessee,which
may or may not still exist.Apparently,the display changes from this...
...to this.
Yes,the often-mentioned scenario of the Man of Steel using his
legendary powers for voyeurism depicted!
In any case,it inspired me to create this...
Isn't it amazing how,to this day,we think Lady Godiva was some kind
of perfectly-proportioned beauty...when you really don't even have to
be a expert historian to know that that probably wasn't true?
Man,some of those old postcards were really weird.
Ah,the joys of altering golden age comics!
This is part of one of the sets built for the movie Gangs Of New York,
at Cinecitta Studios in Rome.
Kong looks upset about something.
Remember Freakies,the kids' cereal from the 70's?
I was never able to get the entire set.
Back when you could order monsters by mail.
What you normally see when you ride,and...
...what you'd be able to see if you worked there.
And now,as a public service to all those who ever wanted to create their own
Abbey Road parody,in which your favorite cartoon characters are
substituted for the Fab Four...download away!!!
The U.S.A.,not to scale.
Unfortunately,I don't know the artist...but it's
one heck of a depiction of the Trojan Horse.
Again,don't know the artist...but it's called
The Roses Of Heliogabalus.
Back when train travel was sunny and perfect.
Uhm...I think he knows you're there.
Lucky for you he's not 3-dimensional.
Okay,I just had to put this here once I found out about it...my love for Wacky Packages,
especially those of the 70's,led me to discover this unpublished one,with art by none other
than Norm Saunders,the guy who did just about all of the original ones!This was his reaction
to the news that Marilyn Chambers,the face on the Ivory Snow box in the early 70's,became
a bona-fide porn actress,starring in such films as Behind The Green Door.Imagine finding
this one next to the stick of gum,sandwiched between Quacker Oats and Gadzooka!
Once I saw this,I just had to put it here...this is from Ed "Big Daddy"
Roth's Facebook page.
Imagine being taken to your burial in this.
In the 1970s,Hostess ran a series of ads for their snack products in
both DC and Marvel comics,usually a comic in which one of their
trademark heroes manages to defeat a villain / get out of a precarious
situation by offering someone a Twinkie,or a Fruit Pie,or a Cupcake
etc. etc. Like many aspects of pop culture,these ads are still being
parodied today...in fact,I did one,involving Rorschach from Watchmen
and Hostess Fruit Pies (you can find it on my Superheroes page).
Anyway,the above spoof comes from the pages of CRAZY magazine,
a MAD wannabe published by Marvel in the 70's.
And while we're on the subject of humor magazines...in 1980,
whoever was running MAD magazine at the time was talked into
lending their name,as well as the image of Alfred E Neuman,to the
movie Up The Academy;apparently,they were promised it would do
for them what Animal House did for National Lampoon.
It didn't...of course,the fact that Animal House was based on material
from the actual magazine,whereas Up The Academy was not,being little
more than a low-rent imitation,might've had something to do with it.
Anyway,long story short...Academy disappeared quickly from theaters,
MAD sued the filmmakers for whatever...and this appeared in the pages
of MAD,presumably an acknowledgment of their incredibly bad judgment.
Just felt putting these here.
