Day & Night Clip

Pixar's new short that will be playing in front of Toy Story 3.

Expect to see Teddy Newton's "Day & Night" in theaters on June 17th 2010!

Armstrong Favorites

Rolf Armstrong is a favorite golden age magazine artist, and my overall favorites of his work are his College Humor covers. The portraits of women are certainly vintage, but the colors, compositions and moods are timeless.

The delicate tracery of the veil in the first one here, with the delicate shadow is subtly amazing considering the pastel medium he's using.














Above and below, reworking the cover for a calendar.


HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

It's a beautiful day here in the Los Angeles area! Leslie and I want to wish everyone a terrific holiday!

Imagine

We need to move on to other material, but we WILL come back to StarHawks at some point soon to have a run of continuity. Until then, imagine how this particular double-sized daily looked on a page with The Born Loser, Nancy, Marmaduke, etc.


Confident Style

This Micronauts cover by Gil Kane was produced within the year that StarHawks went into a publishers' blackhole in 1981. You can certainly see that Kane carried on the confident style that he firmly established on the comic strip run. You can also certainly see the influence Farah Fawcett had on women's hair styles.

And I'm certainly not saying that Kane didn't have a confident style prior to StarHawks. It just became even more excellent.

The Saviours

StarHawks seemed to be a turning point in style for Gil Kane, spilling over into his comic book work—energizing it for years to come.

Interestingly, these couple of pages, looking like StarHawks material, are from a story in Time Warp #2, a DC comic book that published just about the time StarHawks first published—meaning he worked on them simultaneously.


HANNA-BARBERA TV STARS, TV MEN & TV PALS ORIGINAL ART...SPECIAL OFFER!

Here's a special offer for the above HANNA-BARBERA TV STARS original art in-color! I'm offering the 18x24 color original art piece for $249.99...or a 14x17 color original art re-creation for $149.99! Both pieces are markers, brush, pen & ink on art board. FREE shipping within the U.S.! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net today. See more special offers below!
Also...here's a special offer for my 11x14 HANNA-BARBERA TV MEN original art (above), and my 11x14 HANNA-BARBERA TV PALS original art (below)! The TV MEN piece is brush, pen & ink with colored pencils on yellow art board...now only $74.99! The TV PALS piece is brush, pen & ink on art board...only $74.99! FREE shipping within the U.S.! Buy any two original art pieces together and take off $15! Buy all three and take off $25! E-mail me at powsley@flash.net.

Rescued...but then lost again

I'm trying to come up with individual panels to marvel at, but so far the full layouts are so interesting the way they are.


STOOGES VOL. 8 DVD SET AVAILABLE JUNE 1!

While we wait until Tuesday's release of THE THREE STOOGES Collection Volume 8 1955-1959 (featuring SHEMP and JOE BESSER), let's enjoy this 1960 STOOGES Dell comic cover from my collection!

Goldilocks Is Through With Bears....Now She's Hunting Zombies

Source: Comic Book Divas (Press Release)(Myspace)
Written By: Jeff Hughes
Photos: Scarlet Salem / Bianca Barnett / Tara Cardinal / Comic Book Divas / Facebook

When we were children we all read the classic storybook stories of Red Riding Hood, The Three Blind Mice, Jack and Jill, the Gingerbread Man and many other stories that taught many of us valuable lessons in life.

What if that world did not exist because of a unknown zombie virus that spread like wildfire throughout the storybook world and turned this lovable characters into brain loving flesh eating monsters!?

Welcome to StoryBook World 2012 one of many story book worlds in the storybook universe, but this storybook has been devastated by that unknown zombie virus, turning many storybook residents into flesh eating monsters.

Who can save them?!, Who can stop this madness?!, Who can kick major zombie butt plus have the fashion sense and look really hot doing it?!

That’s when you call GOLDILOCKS!!!!

“Goldilocks In Zombie Land” tells the story of Goldilocks and her band of zombie hunting friends “Bo Peep”, “The Woodsman”, and Jack “From The Bean Stalk) as they fight, hack, slash, and shoot their way through a horde of fairy tale zombies in order to reach Castle Tower the last safe haven in StoryBook 2012 and the home of “Queen Rapunzel”.

The queen has summoned Goldilocks to discuss a mission to rid their world of this very un-storybook behavior, problem will this turn into a suicide mission before their is another Happily Ever After?

“Goldilocks In Zombie Land” will be a 16 page web comic, with pages coming out monthly that will be packed with zombies and zombie killing action in every page, with art by Jason Dube of Scattered Comics Studios bringing reader’s all the zombie mayhem.

As always Comic Book Divas is very honored to feature some of the most talented and beautiful women in the entertainment industry to help bring the story to life and bring the reader even more into the story.


Goldilocks will be portrayed by the very talented and beautiful Scarlet Salem; don’t expect to see our version of Goldilocks in any storybook petticoat and hair ribbons; she will be chewing bubble gum and kicking zombie butt,

Scarlet Salem is a model and actress from Minnesota. She began modeling in 2007 working steadily in print, fashion, and various websites.

Her life long love of the horror genre led to her auditioning for an independent horror film called ‘Pajama Party Massacre’. She got the role and loved the experience so much that she sought out other film work.

To date she has worked on over two dozen projects with titles such as: ‘Terror Overload’, ‘Killer Biker Chicks’, Resist Evil Trilogy’, ‘Strip Club Slasher’, and ‘Camp Kill’.

In 2010 Scarlet will be working on ‘Hallow Point’, her first large scale project. The film, being shot in New Orleans, stars a whole slew of genre legends.

http://scarletsalem.net/

Dai Green will be portraying StoryBook 2012’s “Queen Rapunzel”; from the start reader’s will know that Goldilocks and Rapunzel have a past but their is mutual respect between the two; reader’s will also discover that she is a lot more than your average ruler, she is more than willing to get into the zombie fight herself.

Dai Green is the Managing Editor of “HorrorNews.net“, she also runs the column called Horror Talk with Dai and is also co-host of the infamous Podcast From Hell” with my lovely co-host John Torrani and The Gash with the equally as beautiful Rebekah The Jew and Nita Burson.

Dai Green has worked on quite a few scripts that you will see coming up soon as well as a few projects that will have me in front of the camera. She is a horror enthusiast and promote the genre as much as humanly possible!

Bianca Barnett will be portraying Bo Peep, our version of Bo Peep doesn’t give a flock about sheep anymore, she wants to hunt down and destroy these munchers for eating her sheep; payback will come fast and furious as she uses her hook staff.

Bianca Barnett first slashed her way into the heart of horror with her fearless performance as the horribly mutated villainess, Pig Bitch, in 2009’s “Albino Farm“. Next, she portrayed Marlena, a drug-addled model who moonlighted as an organ theif in Ramzi Abed’s mind-bending thriller, “In a Spiral State“. Bianca made her film debut in Abed’s “The Devil’s Muse“, playing dual roles as naïve Rose, who moved to Hollywood with hopes of stardom, and the mutilated corpse of the mysterious Black Dahlia.

Currently, Bianca has five projects she is working on in 2010, including a cameo in Michael Colburn’s gruesome “The Toy Box”; a femme fatale in the neo noir “Kissing Jake”; and as the action heroine, Toy London, in “Vengeance Wears a Skirt”.

http://biancabarnett.com/

Joe Knetter will be portraying the Woodsman, he has swung his axe many times to cut down trees and maybe a wolf or two in the pages of a fairy tale, but now he is chopping down zombies left and right.

Joe Knetter will be the first featured male role in the pages of a Comic Book Divas comic book and web comic.

Joe Knetter has written and acted in many independent horror films with such titles as: Pajama Party Massacre, Doomed to Consume, Rottentail, Moonlighting, Terror Overload, Meatings, Killer Weekend and Hallow Pointe.

He enjoys horror and looks forward to working in all aspects of the genre.

Joe has also written for Cryptic magazine and Dread Central, have been mentioned in many magazines and newspapers, The History channel, MTV2, Rob Zombie’s weekly radio show as well as numerous sites all over the internet.

Tara Cardinal will be portraying Jacqueline Bean; her husband Jack (Jack And The Beanstalk fame) was killed when he was torn apart by a horde of zombies when the outbreak first began. Now she is on a mission of revenge.

Tara Cardinal is a actress, scream queen and producer, Tara Cardinal is one of the top scream queens in the horror genres today, she has been cast in several popular horror movies including “Delivery” in which she has featured billing in the movie.

Tara Cardinal is also known for her work in the horror classics “Ding Dong Dead”, “Tromeo And Juliet”; in addition to these movie roles Tara is also the creator, writer, director, producer, and plays the lead role in the upcoming film “Red Reaper”

In addition to her movie career Tara Cardinal can be found being featured in modeling shoots for magazines and websites that include http://fangoria.com/ ; she is also co-host with Devanny Pinn of the Scream Queens Uncut video show where they interview guests in the horror industry.

Tara is also known for her charity events that help those in dire need like the “Bleed For A Cause” Blood Drive For Haiti that raised blood and clothing for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Tara Cardinal can also be seen in the upcoming web comic series entitled “A Life Behind The Mask” where she portrays “Amazonia” the series is written and created by Jeff Hughes and drawn by Dennis Willman.

www.taracardinalactress.com/

Asaa Hope will be portraying Dingy evil pixie version of a certain Disney pixie; she once was a beautiful pixie that people would stop and marvel at her flying skills, until the day she was bitten and infected by (Not going to tell you it would spoil the surprise) and now people are ducking and running for cover!

Asaa is new to the movie and horror industry but has already began making her mark in such movies as 2001 Maniacs Field of Screams which is a sequel to 2005’s 2001 Maniacs, that is a remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1964 Classic 2000 Maniacs.

Asaa will also be featured in the upcoming Gore Magazine (Issue #57) that will be on newsstands June 8th,

In addition to the cast “Goldilocks In Zombie Land” will also have special cameo zombie killers and zombies that will appear through the web comic, so look carefully you may know or be related to a zombie hunter or a zombie.

Richard Diaz – Zombie
Brian Shirley – Zombie
Cari Morbid – Mrs. Muffet Zombie
Richard Anderson – Zombie
Deneen Melody Zombie Killer
Kelsey Zukowski – Zombie
Reyna Young – Zombie Killer
Brandon Slagale – Zombie Killer
Erik A. Williams – Zombie
Kaylee Williams – Zombie
Damien Colletti
Melina Beeston – Zombie
Erik Levy – Zombie
Kayla Perkins – Zombie
Sandy Bergeron – Zombie
Marshall Johnson – Zombie Killer

“Goldilocks In Zombie Land” is in production but will be making it’s way to the Internet very soon, so be sure to watch for sneak peeks of art work, and news on Comic Book Divas, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

“Goldilocks In Zombie Land”
Created and Written by Jeff Hughes
Art by Jason Dube Colorist Norman Wong
Publisher Comic Book Divas

See Also: The Women Who Spend Their Lives Behind The Mask / Scarlet Bloody Scarlet / New Poster Art And Website Info For 'Strip Club Slasher' / Scarlet Salem Is Your Campfire Girl! / Bad Girls Burn In Hell - The Perils Of Filming A Horror Film In Rural America / Tales From Scarlet's Sanctuary - THE HALF-LIFE HORROR FROM HELL / Scarlet Salem Is A Graveyard Cowgirl / Scarlet Salem & H Morgen Go Psycho / Scarlet Salem In A Haunting Tribute To Vampira / Scarlet Salem Heats Up The Autumn Air With New Photos And A New Website! / Sexy Scarlet Salem Poses In A Cemetary For 'Women In Horror' / Hot & Sexy Photos From Jason Stephenson's 'Strip Club Slasher' / New Behind The Scenes Photos Of Scarlet Salem From The Movie 'Strip Club Slasher' / "Stripper Wanted!" For Strip Club Slasher Movie / A Crazed Scarlet Salem - Lizzy Borden Has Nothing On You / Horrifying New Photos Of Scarlet Salem By H Morgan / Scarlet Salem - Gothic Never Looked So Sexy / More Hot and Sexy Photos Of Scarlet Salem / David Byron Takes A Look At Modern Femme Fatales In Queens Of Scream: The New Blood / Strip Club Slasher Poster, Casting and Photos Of Scarlet Salem / A Different Kind Of 4th Of July Fireworks - Killer Biker Chicks / The Many Looks Of Scarlet Salem - Blond Or Redhead? / Heat Up Your Memorial Day Weekend With A Little Scarlet Salem / Terror Overload - Tales From Satan's Truck Stop Premiere Info And Pics / There Is Some True Grind House Being Made In Minnesota

A Real Sweetheart: Christine Nguyen!

Photo courtesy of Christine Nguyen.

A Real Sweetheart: Christine Nguyen!

by Armand Vaquer

A funny thing happened the other night.

I was about an hour and a half away from going off-duty in my "parachute" job as a security patrol officer when I stopped at the guard shack at one of the gated communities I patrol in Malibu.

Inside, the guard had on television the Poorman's Bikini Beach show. The show was about ten minutes away from ending and they played a teaser (just before a commercial break) of their hotline segment with a panel of three bikini-clad lovelies who would answer callers' questions. One of them was very familiar to me, but I wasn't sure as the teaser whisked by.

After the commercial break, segment came on and one of the panelists was Christine Nguyen! Hot damn! (Ahem.) It truly is a small world.

I told the guard of Christine and he was very impressed with her. He hadn't heard of her before, and he comes from a show-biz family (his uncle was comedian Billy Gilbert from the Hal Roach Laurel & Hardy comedies (see "The Music Box" or "County Hospital") and his mother acted in many Gene Autry westerns) He also has acted and is a card-carrying SAG member. I sent Christine a text message telling her that we just saw her on the show.

Minutes later (around midnight) she text her thanks. Tom, the guard I was with, speculated that she may have been up watching too.

The next day, I followed up by telling Christine the circumstances on how we happened to see her on the show. I won't post what she said in our exchanges (at one point she did say I made her "blush"), but Christine is one real sweet lady! (I knew this before, as she was the first to send me a condolence message the morning of my mother's passing.)

It is Christine's natural sweetness and humor that comes through in her acting and model work. One cannot avoid being drawn to her. That shouldn't be too difficult to understand: she's an Aquarius! Christine and I both were born on February 4.

Besides being a fan, it is an honor for me to also be a friend of Christine Nguyen. She's a real sweetheart!

SHARKTOPUS! And GIANT SQUID!, Yet More Terrors From The Deep

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Undead Backbrain / JoBlo / Avery Guerra

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us!

Looking forward to taking the little wife and kids out of town? Possibly to the beach? Let the little ones splash in the water while you and the misses soak up some sun and sand.

Maybe you should think twice?

There are some nasty.....okay, down right horrible things lurking out there in that water. Things not yet discovered by science.

Come on, there's thousands of miles of ocean out there. Most of it unexplored. It would stand to reason that if there are monsters on this globe, then, most likely, they would be out in the ocean right?

The same ocean that your kids are swimming in...........

Have I ruined your vacation yet?

"Honey, we're going camping!"

You know, there could be things like Bigfoot, or werewolves, out in the forest?

Anyway...I've gotten off track.

It looks like the monster movie biz has moved on from Bigfoot films to all of those potential horrors waiting out there in the vast oceans.

Earlier this year, legendary B-movie maker, Roger Corman, unleashed his "Dinoshark" on the viewers of the Sy Fy Channel and now he is ready to do it again.

This time around it will be, 'Sharktopus!', a half-shark half-octopus, thingy, that will undoubtedly snack on Eric Roberts and the rest of the film's cast.

Plot:

Sharktopus is about a research scientist (Roberts) and his talented daughter who develop a secret military weapon, a hybrid shark/octopus that can be controlled by electrical implants. But when the controls break down, the monster goes on a killing rampage at the resort beaches of Mexico.

The first official image from the film (above) has just been released. The image doesn't show the monster, well not enough of the monster to explain how Corman was able to blend a shark and an octopus together, just a tentacle rapped around a blood-soaked bikini girl.

It's the kind of stuff that we have seen an awful lot of lately.

Speaking of things with tentacles that are waiting just off shore to tear us limb from limb, animator, Maxwell Perry, is presently working on, "Giant Squid!", a feature that draws inspiration from "Moby Dick" and "Godzilla" movies.

Perry explained to Avery Guerra how it was natural for him to combine his passion for art with his passion for monsters:

“I’m an artist who has always loved monster movies and genre cinema,” Perry said. “Over the past several years, I found myself gradually moving past traditional drawing and painting towards using video and animation in my work. I realized that what I really liked was narrative storytelling and that unique combination of image and story that only comes with animation.”

"The plot centers around a teenage girl, Elise, whose boyfriend is abducted by a monster squid. Perry continued. "Elise then tracks the squid down with the help of a marine biologist and an Ahab-like squid poacher named Cappy. Mayhem ensues. "

"Conceptually, one of the underlying aims of my animations is to draw attention to the amount of creativity that goes into making a low- to no-budget independent work by creating them on a minuscule scale. I try to poke fun at and embrace common horror movie tropes simultaneously."

"Giant Squid is not meant for young kids, but my hope is that if you’re the type of person that enjoys a good laugh during an especially gory horror film, you’ll find the humor in my work."

Here are some storyboards and clips from "Giant Squid!":



Zam!

Spaceships and heroes. Pretty girls and robots.

Every day you could count on some measure of one of those.


THE MUNSTERS HOUSE

1313 Mockingbird Lane...home of THE MUNSTERS! The "house" sits on Colonial Street on the Universal Studios back lot. The above photo is from a few years ago.



This is the way the "house" appears today. It can be seen on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

Space Opera

Look at this gorgeous gorgeous end panel. The architecture is stunning, and yet this is but one panel of one daily of hundreds. Kane knew that an opportunity of two tiers of comic page space should not go to waste with talking heads. Kane's work over the years helped to reboot space opera to its finest.


The Women Who Spend Their Lives Behind The Mask

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Jeff Hughes / Dennis Willman

Just about everyone has a secret fantasy to be a superhero. As children we dream of being Batman or one of the Fantastic Four. For some of us, those dreams never go away.

Now, Jeff Hughes, owner and writer of Comic Book Divas, along with artist Dennis Willman, are making that dream come true for a lucky group of young actresses and models.

Okay....no, these two comic book guys aren't turning these ladies into real superheroes, they aren't locking them in a room full of strontium 90 until they turn into mutants or anything like that. What they are doing is using their likenesses to model their characters after.

And I have to say, the results are stunning.

For Hughes and Willman's latest creation, "A Life Behind The Mask", the duo has collected some of the loveliest faces in the modeling industry, plus independent cinema genre, to create an amazing collection of heroes, villains and Anti Heroes.

The idea for using 'real-life' models and actresses came to Hughes and Jason Dube, of Scattered Comics Studios, while they were working on another comic entitled, "Scorpion Warrior". After putting out some feelers to find out if anyone would be interested in having their likeness used for a comic book character, Hughes and Dube were overwhelmed by requests by Models, Actresses, Wrestlers, and even NFL Cheerleaders.

Needless to say, the idea was a hit that lead to the founding of Comic Book Divas and new comic series based on real women.

For their latest project the two comic makers wanted to take a page out of Alan Moore's "Watchmen", and look at the lives these characters live from day to day.

Writer Jeff Hughes explains, "'A Life Behind The Mask' (is) a comedic look at the lives of Super Heroes and Super Villains in everyday life and everyday situations and how they react.

'A Life Behind The Mask' will put an amusing spin o events and situations that we have all been through at one time or another; and we hope to make reader's think 'I have been there' or 'I wish I could do that!'

The idea popped in my head while I was watching a super hero movie and the thought came across 'Who fixes this guys costume' or 'If he went into a convince store would anyone pay attention?'

Joining Hughes on "A Life Behind The Mask" is the 'rookie' comic book artist, Dennis Willman, who, from these images, looks like a seasoned artist that has been doing this for years.

Hughes adds, "Artist Dennis Willman has done the character designs and is now paneling the first page of the series that will feature "Amazonia" portrayed by actress and scream queen Tara Cardinal; this will be Dennis Willman's first full comic book project, but as you can see on FaceBook people are very excited about his art work and ready for the project to begin."

"The women featured in "A Life Behind The Mask" were all very gracious and generous to Dennis and I to feature their likeness as the characters; just about all the women selected their characters they wanted to portray, it was a thrill to see Dennis 's work and the women's selections come to life it was if that their personalities matched up to exactly what Dennis had in mind."

One of the actresses that Willman and Hughes selected for "A Life Behind The Mask" is veteran 'scream queen' Rachel Grubb, who has been a life-long comic book fan.

The stunning actress/model quips, "I grew up as a comic book fan for sure! As a child, I admired Batman and looked up to him as a father figure. I loved to read superhero comics as a kid, but Batman was my favorite. I was interested in just about anything Batman related, no matter how silly."

Luckily for Grubb, her character, Jolly, is kinda like The Joker mixed with Harley Quinn. Two of her all-time favorite comic book characters.

Here are the rest of the ladies that make up the cast of "A Life Behind The Mask":

She-Goblin Portrayed by Claire Fluff Ryan (Villain) – She is a woman with two obsessions Halloween and candy, she will literally still candy from a baby at Halloween.

Blackbird Portrayed by Deneen Melody (Hero) She is dark-winged avenger; she is mysterious, the ultimate crime fighter and VERY intense, it is rumored that she injected her justice on a man that disobeyed the "10 items or less" rule at the market.

Gunslinger Portrayed by Devanny Pinn (Anti Hero) is a woman on a mission of revenge, and that includes that guy that just bought the last box of cupcakes!

Maddylne Scientist Portrayed by Raelynn Blaha (Villain) –All Maddylnn wanted to be was a mad scientist; she enjoyed making things go boom, and turning the family dog into different critters with her formulas. Her favorite movie was Doctor Jeykle and Mr. Hyde.

Lady Weeds Portrayed by Kitsie Duncan (Villain) – Loves gardening but things don't always come up roses for her, she is more successful growing dandy-lions. Her mortal enemy is the gardener and the woman that works at the nursery

Gale Force Portrayed by Kaci Hansen (Hero) is a woman that can control the weather or is it her moods control the weather? In any even if she is having a bad day you may want to stay away from that thunder cloud hovering over her.

Kit-Kat Portrayed by Kaylee Williams - Is a villain turned hero who has a passion for all things "Cats" with a equal obsession with milk, her downfall as a criminal was because she was fascinated by rapidly moving yarn.

Mrs. Marvelous Portrayed by Michelle Shields ( (Hero) Faster than a speeding.... more powerful than a...... you get the idea; she has fame, glory, and some awesome fans, but she is in a need of a break!

Jolly Portrayed by Rachel Grubb (Villain) Is the clown that enjoys the fact that she can scare you and your kids at parties and the circus.

Luna Portrayed by Kara Cagle (Ant-Hero) - A wolf trapped in a woman's body and the inability to keep from changing no matter the time of the day.

PDQ Portrayed by Sara Barrnett - Is the fastest moving woman in the world, but there is one problem she is never on time to meetings or appointments.

Amazonia Portrayed by Tara Cardinal (Hero) - Is a warrior that can not be matched by any man or beast, she can lift a car over her head while kick major bad guy ass.. she is a "Wonder Of A Woman". She must do battle with one of the most formidable villain groups in all the world..her family!

Miss. Greene Portrayed by Victoria Floro (Anti-Hero) She gets envious of anything she sees and can obtain at that moment, the more envious she becomes the bigger and greener she becomes. Watch out when she throws a tantrum!

Miss Attraction Portrayed by Victoria Paege (Villain) She has the power to attract all forms of metal (Paper clips, staples, nails!) so you may want to duck when she is around.

To follow the adventures of "A Life Behind The Mask" and the other "Comic Book Divas" please visit: http://comicbookdivas.com/

Credits:

"A Life Behind The Mask"
Written and Created by Jeff Hughes
Some Stories Also Written by Don Smith
Character Design and Art by Dennis Willman
Comic Book Divas Publisher