Halo halo

Age doesn’t matter, backgrounds don’t matter, nothing matters. You have four teammates, they can be anybody, and you either know how to click with them or you don’t. 

— Bill Simmons

heavy traffic, not one collision

COMIX:  Kevin Huizenga
PHOTOGRAPHS:  my mother-in-law

(Source: books.gather.com)

romance comix are th best kind of comix; Afrodisiac’s th most romantic hero of them all

dickstringcheese:

Afrodisiac covers by Jim Rugg

(Source: rah-flores)

all I needed to know about bodies I learned from looking @ lines on paper

Michelangelo?  … The guy is just like glorifying the male body. It’s all about writhing, muscular male bodies. And even the women, they have male bodies with tits pasted on. The guy’s not into women, you can tell. He’s not into feminine at all. He’s not interested in the round, elliptical charms of the female form. No, he’s interested in the lumpy, muscular male body. And the whole Chapel is nothing but that. And I couldn’t find… there wasn’t much of a humanistic element, it’s just so mannered. And Pete pointed out, as I was talking to him about it, he said, “It’s all about the expression of romantic, religious ideas. It’s not about real human beings.” So for me, there’s no subtle humanity about the expressions or what’s going on. It’s a very deeply Italian thing. A lot of that Renaissance art is like that to me. I prefer the Flemish and German stuff of that period, you know, it’s got much more to do with real life and real human beings.

                — R. Crumb

DRAWINGS:
01.  Xaime
02.  John Buscema
03.  Jonny Negron
04.  R. Crumb
05.  Jim Rugg
06.  Richard Corben
07.  Michael Deforge
08.  Eleanor Davis
09.  Jesse Moynihan
10.  John K

Take the spider, which generates a different silk for different purposes: building a web, creating trailing routes, capturing their prey, wrapping their eggs. Oxman believes that in a way, spiders are like a multi-material 3-D printer. “One cannot separate the spider web’s form from the way in which it originated,” she says. “Nature doesn’t divide between the architect, the engineer and the construction worker…”

— “The woman who wants to ‘print’ buildings”, CNN, 4 Dec 2012

COMIX:
1.  James Stokoe
2.  Martin Thierry

The fact of the matter, make no mistake, is that I am on the side of the perplexed and mystified. Most comics today are visually unintelligible except to a few.

It could well be that you are one of the few, that you feel that comics publishers should not be pandering to the general public and that comic books are just how you like them, with their forty plus years of stylistic inbreeding and complicated continuity. Perhaps you are a kid and, like me, you think kids owe it to themselves to keep loads of stuff secret from their parents, and the secret language of comics is a part of that. Great. Comic book publishers love you. However, with the shrinkage of the market for comics, these same publishers are trying hard to get back that general readership they lost a long time ago.

— Eddie Campbell, “Campbell’s Rules of Comprehension”, The Comics Journal, 20 Feb 2013

PHOTOGRAPHS:  New Orleans Arena, 20 March 2013

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

                — Max Planck, The Philosophy of Physics (1936)

DRAWINGS: 
1. Russ Heath
2. Uno Moralez
3. Dave Gibbons

There can be no more ego-free task than to determine the relative physical strengths of Marvel’s strongest heroes and sort them into a taxonomy for the benefit of humankind

script:  Mark Gruenwald
drawing:  Bob Layton