Wednesday, October 5, 2011

YouTube Wednesday: John Carpenter's Creepy Cinema Influences

Director John Carpenter is the Guest Programmer on Turner Classic Movies tonight...
...presenting movies that influenced him as a filmmaker, including...

The Thing from Another World (1951)
IT! the Terror from Beyond Space!

and Curse of Frankenstein!
Watch them all, uncut and uninterrupted, on TCM tonight!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Crime & Punishment: the newest RetroBlog™

In the pop culture criminal justice system...
...crime does NOT pay!
EVER!
And starting today, we'll prove it on a weekly basis with our newest RetroBlog™, beginning, appropriately, on the 80th Anniversary of the debut of the greatest comic strip policeman of all...Dick Tracy!
Click on the art to enlarge
We'll be presenting never-reprinted tales of Sherlock Holmes, Mr. District Attorney, GangBusters, Ken Shannon, Mr. Risk, Johnny Danger, and many others.
Plus video clips, rare poster art and other oddities worthy of inclusion in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard!
Visit it!
Bookmark it!
Be there every week!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Seduction of the Innocent!! One-stop Halloween shopping!!!

Ah, Halloween...
One of our favorite times of the year here at Atomic Kommie Comics™!
And what better time to promote the ghoulish goodies of Seduction of the Innocent™ including Halloween-wear t-shirts, mugs and reusable trick-or-treat tote bags?
SEE: the moody moonlit graveyard of the full-color Italian poster for the original Night of the Living Dead!
SEE: the kitchy graphics of the rarely-seen Astro Zombies poster (believe it or not, the film was PG)!
SEE: the koolest ghoul of all...Vincent Price, on the classic poster for the original House on Haunted Hill?
And let's not forget
The Green Slime!
Last Man on Earth AND Omega Man!
The ORIGINAL Demon Barber of Fleet Street!
I Married a Monster from Outer Space!
The ORIGINAL Little Shop of Horrors!
Occhio de Uccide!
They Came from Beyond Space!
AND (You knew we had to have this one)  
Plan 9 from Outer Space!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Gerry Anderson Data Files App!

If you're a fan of Gerry Anderson's various tv series (like me)...
...you owe it to yourself to check out this FREE app for iPhone/iPad/iTouch!
Yeah, it's in Japanese, but the graphics are incredible!
And, did I mention it's FREE???

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Design of the Week--The Nerdist SpaceMan Redux

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...it's the return of the most interesting visual on the set of the new BBC-TV series The Nerdist.
Like it's counterpart on the wall of Sheldon and Leonard's apartment in The Big Bang Theory (Click HERE for that art), it's based on a classic cover from the Golden Age of Comics.
This image is from Ace Comics' Space Action #2, published in 1952, almost 60 years ago!
And here's the really weird thing...it has nothing to do with any of the stories in the comic!
Yes, it's the old "this scene on the cover does not occur on the inside" trick!
As to who the artist is, there's speculation it's either Lou Cameron or Matt Fox, both of whom had considerable sci-fi experience.

Choose from iPod and iPad cases, t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and other goodies by clicking HERE!