Some folks think he’s spooky. They’re wrong. Read about “the sad clown with the golden voice” HERE. * * * * * * * * * Illustration Friday suggested the word “spooky” in 2010. Here are the three (that’s right… three!) illustrations I posted ten years ago. Spooky (part 1) Spooky (part 2) Spooky (part …
Now, don’t close your eyes and don’t try to hide or a silly spook may sit by your side. * * * * * * * * * Illustration Friday suggested the word “spooky” in 2010. Here are the three (that’s right… three!) illustrations I posted ten years ago. Spooky (part 1) Spooky (part 2) …
Greg Guidry liked to sing gospel and play piano. As a teenager, he formed a band with future Doobie Brothers keyboardist/vocalist Michael McDonald. In 1977, with his friend and collaborator Rich Lang, Greg drove from his native St. Louis to New York City to pursue a career in the music industry. The pair wrote and …
No use for you to cry I’ll see you by and by ‘Cause I’m walkin’ to New Orleans
It’s already Week 4 in Inktober and the new film version of Stephen King’s It is still going strong in theaters. I, however, am partial to the schlocky ABC-TV mini-series from 1990. The always delightful Tim Curry brought Pennywise the Dancing Clown to life and, single-handedly brought back coulrophobia.
A while ago, I belonged and contributed to another illustration blog called Sugar Frosted Goodness. I had a sort-of “love-hate” relationship with the guy that ran the blog. He reprimanded me once for an illustration I did that he considered to “cross the line.” I always believed that nothing “crossed the line” as far as …
A one-time cartoonist, Martin Landau abandoned his artistic career to pursue acting. He worked with the great Lee Strasberg at the prestigious Actors Studio, along with his friend Steve McQueen. He met and became close friends with fellow actor James Dean. Martin made his first major big-screen appearance alongside James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller …
Week Three of Inktober brings us the great Bette Davis in her 1962 tour-de-force as Baby Jane Hudson in the Gothic horror classic Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
“She’s livin’ in sin with a safety pin.” Nancy Spungen came into this world with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and her life only got worse. As a child, she constantly cried and threw tantrums until she was out of control. She was prescribed a liquid barbiturate, but it did nothing to suppress …
With her mother working two jobs and her father tending to the home, Leona Gage was on her own. At 13, Leona met 24-year old US Air Force airman Gene Ennis. The two were married and Leona gave birth to their first child at 14. Ennis shipped out for duty and never responded to Leona’s …
