Pinkey's Special

An older whore gets booked, and the booking menu for the oldest of whorehouses.

Churchsigns 1

From Steve & Pam Paulson's book...


...Church Signs Across America.

The Terrors Of Tinytown

Vintage postcards from one of the most extensive pulp/magazine/comic book cover sites online.







http://www.coverbrowser.com/

The Widowmaker

Old Halloween costume.

I was in character; a hitwoman, thus the seriousness.


Though, I also pose this way at weddings, sooo...


...and in an old paper mask I found yesterday while packing.

Because, apparently, I'm exactly the sort of gay who'd have Erte masks falling from the woodwork...

...lordy.

Mrs. Pruneface And The One Hundred And Ninety-Nine

I never really got into Dick Tracy as a child.
The back story/mythology was a bit intimidating, I don't like crime drama, and - to be honest - I thought it was a bit old timey.
But I always loved the character design, so imagine my delight when I ran across this!
200 Dick Tracy characters, from 1931 - 1977, compiled by Matt Masterson for the exhibit catalog of a 1978 Chester Gould retrospective at the Museum of Cartoon Art.

Satana, The Devil's Daughter 1

I've already pulled over a thousand comics for my sidewalk sale this Saturday, but the purge-athon is still running.
I was trying to figure out why I'd kept a crumbling issue of Marvel Premiere # 27 featuring Satana, The Devil's Daughter (whom I love, but the story and art is truly awful), when I ran across the answer in a four page back-up/solicitation for an ongoing series.





Which, though uncredited, I'm pretty sure is by John Romita Sr.

Young Chickens In Love

Michael Alig and Clara The Carefree Chicken...


...before the former took over the laters coop.

A Clown Car, Conversely: Les Mysteres De New-York

Oh, those Parisians and their romantic ideas about New York; I wish the brigands and bandits were this smartly dressed...


Final fate: my July 18th Super Sidewalk Sale!