More Tales of Decluttering: Comic Book Covers I liked - Aliens Xenogenesis

As I catalog my comic book collection to sale in my decluttering effort, I stop to enjoy comics I mainly picked for the cover art. This mini-series of an Aliens story is one example.

More to come.

Tales of Decluttering ; Trip to the comic shop & Starstruck

I went to the comic book shop for first time in ages for bags and backing boards, and couldn't resist this Starstruck comic just for the cover. I have original version from Dark Horse Comic. It seems new panels were added to the IDW version. There probably a trade paper book collection of this, I may have to hunt down. I've had my eye on the Starstruck Artist edition, also.

Dark Horse Present - A Dragonfly Flipz book Tribute

Here's a Dragonfly Flipz Book tribute to the Dark Horse Comic's re-launch of the "Dark Horse Comics Presents", their anthology comic book.  The original "DHP" series was a true favorite of mine in it's heyday at the height of the independent black and comic craze.  DHP introduce many creator owned properties like Steve Rude's Nexus, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Paul Chadwick'S Concrete, Fran Miller's Sin City and "300".  I glad they're bring it back.

To celebrate, I've put together this video of Dragonfly Flipz Books based on properties published by Dark Horse.  Some, like the Concrete Comix Flipz™ book have been posted before,  But the Sin City Cinema Flipz™ and Lone Wolf and Cub 2100 Comix Flipz™ are being shown for the first time.  Of course, there is a back story to all these flip books, but let's just said they're still just concept demos, not for sale, and leave it at that.

Enjoy.

 

Concrete Motion Comic and Goofy Gold Record Spot

The lazy, hazy, days of summer are over, so it time to post more stuff on youtube and my blog. First up, some old fun videos I find while moving some boxes around the basement.
Concrete Motion Comic


The Concrete Comic book / Video Adaptation (as I called it back then) is something I put together on my old Amiga computer. I figured I'd better dump it to digital file before the tape goes bad.
I pitched this to Paul Chadwick (who has copy of it on VHS) and Dark Horse long before they got into movies. I also used it for one of my Dragonfly Flipz books. I'd like to update and finish it, someday.


Goofy Gold is a old cheesy, novelty record spot I worked on back in the 1970's. Remember 8-Tracks cassettes!! It is funky, but still fun. Basically, I was just created animated scenes, site gags and lame jokes, to match the song clips. These were totally low, low, budget. But, they made tons of money for the record producer, not me. Leave a comment if you remember seeing this, or remember any of the songs.

In both them you see why I never sell myself as a true "animator", but they were fun making. I got other record spots to put up that are just as cheesy. they're good for laugh.

Enjoy

Paul Chadwick's Concrete - Comix Flipz Book

Here's my Dragonfly Comix Flip Book adaptation of a Paul Chadwick's "Concrete" story, "Watching a Sunset". Paul is one of my favorite comic book creators, really deserving of wider recognition. Concrete is Paul's best known work in a long and very creative career. There was talk of a Concrete live action movie at one time, I hope the success of recent comic book-based features jump-starts that project again.

The Dragonfly Concrete Comix Flipz book is adapted from animation I did many moons ago. The original comic story can be seen at the end of the flip book. The original animation is stored on tape somewhere. I'll have to find it and post it sometime. The Concrete Comix Flipz book project, as a licensed product from Dark Horse Comics, got sided track somehow, but I hope to get it on track this year (with the fans help). Leave comments here, and at Paul's blog site (link at right) and the Dark Horse sites, if you want to see this finished.

This project has a long storied history that I'll relate in a future post. For now just enjoy it.