by John | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani from the story “Honeymoon Continued” in First Kiss #24, Jan. 1962. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Middle-aged woman is talking to a younger woman. The younger woman is drinking from a teacup.
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN: Y-You’re sleeping with my son?
YOUNGER WOMAN: I’m not sure! Can you describe him?
1962 Art: Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Middle-aged woman is talking to a younger woman. The younger woman is drinking from a teacup.
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN: Y-You’re sleeping with my son?
YOUNGER WOMAN: I’m not sure! Can you describe him?
1962 Art: Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani Color: Allen Freeman
24.3.2.3
by John | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Inks by Dick Giordano from the story “Heartbreaker” in FIRST KISS #12, 1960. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Here’s a story synopsis of the original art’s story “Heartbreaker” via the good folks at ComicBookPlus.com:
Jill is the “campus queen,” who flirts with boys and breaks their hearts. She becomes interested in new student Ron and thinks she’s found true love at last. However, Ron says he’s taking someone else to the prom, and now Jill has “learned my lesson…the hard way!”
Original Vintage Art & Text
Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A man is driving a car and a woman is beside him in the passenger seat. The car is a convertible or a jalopy.
WOMAN: Hurry! We’ve got to elope…before one of us changes her mind!
1960 Inks: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
Pedal to the Metal: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man is driving a car and a woman is beside him in the passenger seat. The car is a convertible or a jalopy.
WOMAN: Hurry! We’ve got to elope...before one of us changes her mind!
1960 Inks: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
Pedal to the Metal: John Lustig
12.3.5.2Tall
by John | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta from the story “Rich Girl, Poor Guy” in Brides in Love #14, 1959.Published by Charlton. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man and woman kissing.
WOMAN (thinking): all the lies and faked orgasms were worth it for…true love!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta
Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
True Humor: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman kissing.
WOMAN (thinking): all the lies and faked orgasms were worth it for…true love!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta
Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
True Humor: John Lustig
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by John | Nov 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy Veteran’s Day!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella. If you’ve missed any episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
Transcript:
BANNER LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
PANEL 1:
SCENE: Abby Amour has her hand over her face and doesn’t feel well.
CAPTION: Abby is heading to the hospital…after eating some bad eggplant.
SOUND AFFECT: URPPP!
PANEL 2:
SCENE: Colonel Bluster is smoking a pipe and is lost in thought.
COL. BLUSTER thinks: Lt. Amour must have enjoyed our dinner. She sent me an eggplant emoji. I’ll invite her to that new Mexican place. Ah, there’s a taco emoji.
(We see a taco in his thought balloon.)
CAPTION: Alas, neither Abby nor Colonel Bluster…have even a basic grasp…of emoji slang.
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Lettering & Image Massage: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptBANNER LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
PANEL 1:
SCENE: Abby Amour has her hand over her face and doesn't feel well.
CAPTION: Abby is heading to the hospital...after eating some bad eggplant.
SOUND AFFECT: URPPP!
PANEL 2:
SCENE: Colonel Bluster is smoking a pipe and is lost in thought.
COL. BLUSTER thinks: Lt. Amour must have enjoyed our dinner. She sent me an eggplant emoji. I’ll invite her to that new Mexican place. Ah, there’s a taco emoji.
(We see a taco in his thought balloon.)
CAPTION: Alas, neither Abby nor Colonel Bluster...have even a basic grasp...of emoji slang.
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Lettering & Image Massage: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella
Personal Love 24_6 16_3_Woman
by John | Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Creation of an Image
You might think that creating images through artificial intelligence would be easy. And often it is. But, in many cases, you have to modify the image in Photoshop (or a similar software program) to get what you want.
Why? Because A.I. usually adds something unexpected and unwanted to the art. In the first image below the biggest surprise was that the woman’s breast was bare. So, I had to cover her up—plus remove some wilder bits of her hair. (Or is that a tentacle in the lower left of the image below?)
By the way, the woman’s nudity wasn’t something I requested in my image prompts. The MidJourney’s A.I. did that on its own—even though Midjourney has a policy against nude images. In fact, you can’t even use “sexy” as one of your MidJourney word prompts!
This was the image I started with when I created my “succubus.” Then I modified it—using elements from the images below.
Via Midjourney, I created many versions of this woman. MidJourney kept surprising me by making the woman naked—often with a malformed, bared breast. The elements of this image that I used for Last Kiss were the red eyes and the black streaks down her face.
Strange things sometimes show up in images created by A.I. Here we get some sort of spike in the woman’s eye. Why? I have no idea. But I did like the woman’s top and so I used that in the Last Kiss version. And that was the final element I needed for my image.
Transcript:
SCENE: We see a fierce woman with wild hair. She’s gorgeous—except that she he has blood-red eyes and a black substance leaking from her eyes.
SUCCUBUS: I’m a succubus! During sex, I feast on the life forces of my victims ’til they crumble…to dust! But… other than that…I’m a fun date!
Art: A.I. & J.L Dangerous Dialogue: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: We see a fierce woman with wild hair. She's gorgeous---except that she he has blood-red eyes and a black substance leaking from her eyes.
SUCCUBUS: I’m a succubus! During sex, I feast on the life forces of my victims ’til they crumble...to dust! But... other than that...I’m a fun date!
Art: A.I. & J.L Dangerous Dialogue: John Lustig
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