In 1968, The Beatles began recording their ninth studio album, a self-titled release, more commonly known as “The White Album.” Tension was heavy and tempers were high during the sessions, as the four band members were experiencing creative growing pains. Feeling claustrophobic between a controlling Paul McCartney and a passive-aggressive John Lennon, usually easy-going drummer …
Here we are at week two of the Inktober challenge, and my second entry in the “monster” theme – Dracula. #inktober
An artist named Jake Parker started this challenge called “Inktober.” The challenge is to do 31 ink drawings – one per day – for the entire month of October. Or, if you’re not as ambitious (or lazy, like me) you can do one per week. I chose that route. So, every week in October, I …
In 1936, Charlie Chaplin made his last silent film, Modern Times. It featured the star battling against progress. * * * * * * In 2011, the Illustration Friday word was “silent.” Here is my illustration from then.
I wish all the stupid people would shut up!
“Sorry, fellas… we ain’t lookin’ for any novelty acts right now.”
Nineteen-year old Brigitte Helm couldn’t have imagined what she signed on for. With lofty aspirations of starring on the big screen, the Berlin teen joined a cast of thousands on director Fritz Lang’s vision of a dystopian future, Metropolis. She was subjected to Lang’s attempt at presenting gritty realism and, in 1927, without the aid of …
Recently, I had a Twitter conversation with my internet buddy, Philadelphia singer-songwriter-holder of a Guinness Book World Record* Adam Brodsky. Evidently, folksinger Loudon Wainwright III is featured in a current commercial for retail giant Walmart and Adam didn’t like it one bit. In typical “Josh Pincus” fashion, I smart-assed him. Our exchange went like this (including “two …
Long before Jeff Dunham, even long before Paul Winchell, there was Edgar Bergen. Bergen started off as a ventriloquist in vaudeville. He was offered an appearance on Rudy Vallee’s radio program. Bergen proved himself so popular, he was given his own radio show, The Chase and Sanborn Hour (sponsored by the then-famous coffee company), in 1937. Bergen and his …
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
