Friday, October 7, 2011

Teen-Age Dope Slaves at Seduction of the Innocent!!

With the passing of Steve Jobs...
 ...we had to bounce our mention of the newest RetroBlog™, which debuted yesterday and runs every Thursday!
Seduction of the Innocent!!™ runs the stuff your grandparents didn't want your parents to see, starting with the notorious 1950s strip Teen-Age Dope Slaves, and continuing with other wild 1950s-1960s stuff!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011)

You're reading this on an iPad, iPhone, iTouch, laptop, or desktop pc...
The very FIRST Mac. Check out macgeek.org for MORE!
...or another PC device that adapted a Mac-type user interface.
So directly or indirectly, you should thank Steve Jobs, the Henry Ford of personal computers.

I've used Macs since 1988 (System 7) for both business and graphics (and still have a Power Mac 7100 and a WallStreet G3 PowerBook to run System 7/8/9 software they never updated).
Here's the "1984" commercial that introduced Macs to the mass-market...

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!