Showing posts with label Last Gasp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Last Gasp. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2024

Monday Madness SLOW DEATH "Antarctica!"

The first Earth Day was in 1970...as was the first issue of this environmentally-themed comic!

In 2020, this 50th Anniversary final issue came out featuring a mix of new and classic tales!
This is the cover-featured new story about...
Writer/artist William Stout has worked on movie/tv storyboards and production design, illustrated comic books, album covers, and movie posters.
In 1989, Stout traveled to Antarctica and Patagonia.
His experiences there eventually resulted in a one-man show Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales — The Wildlife of Antarctica.
In 1991 Stout received a grant from the National Science Foundation to participate in their Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
For three months during the 1992-1993 austral summer, Stout was based at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station.
He made several dives beneath the ice, climbed the active volcano Mount Erebus, camped in the dry valleys, and produced over one hundred painted studies as he carefully observed Antarctica's wildlife.
Talk about "practice what you preach"!
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Monday, August 1, 2022

Monday Maternity Madness WIMMEN'S COMIX "TeenAge Abortion"

Odd how the situation in this story from 1972 is equally likely to happen in 2022!
Thank you, Repug Supreme Court justices!
Note: MAY be NSFW due to mature topics, but there is NO NUDITY in the tale!
Written and illustrated by Lora Fountain, this story from Last Gasp's Wimmen's Comix #1 (1972) shows what it was like in the dark pre-Roe V Wade days...and now, unfortunately, in the post-Roe V Wade days.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Reading Room BRAIN FANTASY "Drooms Day"

Most current comics fans think of 1960s-70s underground comics as just pornography and weird humor...
...when, due to the Comics Code, they (and b/w newstand magazines) presented some rather daring and sophisticated sf/fantasy storytelling!
Despite the "to be continued..." caption at the end, there were, sadly, no further chapters to this never-reprinted story from Last Gasp's Brain Fantasy #1 (1972).
Editor/Writer/Artist Rick Shubb, despite being comic book-influenced, did very few comic stories.
He did do concert posters for various bands in the 1960s-70s as seen HERE, but has gained fame as the as the inventor of the Shubb Capo, a very popular guitar/banjo accessory.
Shubb also invented the lever-operated banjo fifth string capo, the compensated banjo bridge, and holds several other U.S. and international patents on musical instrument accessories and improvements.
He's also a noted and influential 5-string banjo player and teacher.
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