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lynniceberg · 2 months
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Winter wolf howls by Wolf Conservation Center
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Bloody Joe
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With Handala.
Ceasefire now.
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Adam Driver Centaur likes runs on the beach, the majesty and strength of horses, the courage to express your contradictions, and Burberry cologne.
Adam Driver Centaur dislikes comic conventions, emotional games, and the smell of wet hay.
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lynniceberg · 3 months
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I love Marvel’s Micronauts! I’m talking about the comic written by Bill Mantlo with art by Michael Golden that started in 1979. I had one of the toys (Pharoid) and I followed the comic for all of its original run, but it’s really issues 1-12, drawn by Golden, that remain dear to my nostalgic heart. I recently picked up a few of those old issues – some of the last of Golden’s run on the series - and a couple after he left. I was reminded how much I love his artwork. And how disappointed I was with the artwork on the series after he left.
I’m one of those comic collectors who lost his old presumably now valuable comic collection under unfortunate/careless circumstances. Every once in a while I find a random old issue of Micronauts at a comic shop for a reasonable price and pick it up hoping to relive the excitement of my first collection. I recently bought issues 10, 12, 13, and 14 - specifically because they all feature Michael Golden covers.
Golden co-created the Micronauts world with writer Bill Mantlo, who came up with many of the ideas when his son got some of the Mego Micronauts toys as Christmas presents. I think Mantlo’s writing on Micronauts is top-notch for its time in comic history. Mantlo was always creative and weird in a particularly Mavel way and I was an appreciator of some of his other oddball creations and writing while ignorant they were created by the same guy. I’m talking about Rom: Space Knight which I also collected in its entirety, and Rocket Raccoon, who eventually became part of that little movie series Guardians of the Galaxy.
It was the art of Micronauts that excited me the most, though, and after picking up this series I would always remember Golden’s style and name. I’d seek him out believing his work always elevated the stories. He designed the Micronauts world with Mantlo and while it’s clearly influenced by Star Wars, as are the toys, Golden’s art is so gorgeous, detailed, and dynamic that it really pulls one into the story. And so when I saw these Golden covers a couple of weeks ago I held them fondly in my hands excited to relive the thrill of Golden’s art.
I share these covers and some of the pages to show that the art really holds up! Issue 10 is part one of the climax of the big conflict between the Micronauts and the evil Baron Karza. Golden and Mantlo pack the issue with several plot threads that tie the main story together. Look at how Mantlo and Golden switch threads sometimes from one panel to the next (pages 22-23), building the tension to its bloody conclusion. The action is relentless and they don’t romanticize or shy away from the brutality of revolution and war (pages 11 and 22 -27). An exciting precursor to Golden’s work on The Nam, a great war comic.
The issues I picked up were in sealed bags so I didn’t know they included issues Golden didn’t draw. When I opened issue 13 I was reminded of my long ago aesthetic disappointment discovering it wasn’t Golden’s art inside. Golden drew many of the covers even after he stopped being the artist for the series. I include the first pages of issues 13 and 14 to show the contrast with Golden’s artwork. The art becomes simple, cursory, and, frankly, unexciting. It’s surprising to me that the lay outs are actually done by Howard Chaykin who is still another of my favorite comic artists. The art became so stylistically bland after Golden left and Chaykin’s lay-outs don’t hint at his own greatness.
If you enjoy looking at this art as much as me you will be happy to know Marvel is putting out a reprint collection of the series in 2024. You may also be interested in the Comic Kayfabe podcast about the Micronauts issue #1 and Micronauts Artist Edition. Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg and guest Tom Scioli really appreciate the Golden’s art but Piskor and Rugg often scoff at the Micronauts concept and story. Scioli defends the story as well as I could, though.
A story about the upcoming reprint is at this link:
The ComicsKayfabe Micronauts #1 episode is at this link:
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And the Comics Kayfabe of the Micronauts Artist Edition at this link:
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lynniceberg · 3 months
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Piasa Dragon
Piasa Dragon likes walks in the forest, swims in the river, limestone caves, and philosophical discussions.
Piasa Dragon dislikes judgy people, bullies, and most "cides," especially pesticides and genocides.
The Piasa is considered a beast from Native American mythology and described as winged with talons, antlers, a human face with long fangs, a beard, and a tail long enough to wrap around it's body ending in a fish tail.
Joliet Marquette is the first European to record the Piasa from seeing a large indigenous painting of it on the limestone bluffs above the Mississippi north of what was the indigenous city of Cahokia near what is now Alton, Illinois.
The Piasa recently came out of hiding after hundreds of years to "set the record straight."
The Piasa scoffed at an 1836 paper by Professor John Russell. In the report Russell wrote that "Piasa" is a Illini word that means "Bird That Devours Men." And that the Piasa was said to have developed a taste for human flesh after eating the dead on a battlefield. "Russell wasn't even there!" the Piasa growled.
"I mean, I thought I was doing the humans a favor by disposing of their dead. There were a lot of them and I didn't want them to stink up the place. You'd think you'd be more concerned with how they died than what happened to them after." The Piasa says it does not prefer to eat humans but will if provoked.
It added that the word "Piasa" is actually an affectionate term of the Illini that can be loosely translated to mean "wise weirdo." "Another thing," the Piasa griped, "Do I look like a bird? No! I'm a dragon. And don't mix me up with my cousin, Mishipeshu, who you've called a 'water panther.' We're very different and, frankly, we're both tired of the comparison. Just don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia"
When asked why it's never revealed itself to Europeans before it replied, "I meant to get around to it but you all were busy with genociding and it seemed you weren't very open to differences. Then your whole Civil War happened and I just thought I'd lay low again until you wiped each other out. That hasn't happen yet and, I don't know... I'm just so tired of the BS."
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lynniceberg · 4 months
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Here's my Haunted House zine - in digital format.
Shout-out to at Betty's Books and artist Allison Morris Lesch for hosting the zine workshop!
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lynniceberg · 5 months
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Here are a couple portraits of me that people did for creating portraits of them at Artica this year. Thank you to Nikki and Phil, the Love Fool!
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lynniceberg · 5 months
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From my comic Damned Nation! Happy Halloween!
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Happy Halloween!
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Throwback 1976: Man-Bat!
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I wonder if they meant the grab of this cover to be “What the hell is going on here?”   Even in a comic book sense, it doesn’t add up.
The story and villain are even worse. The villain is a guy who has optic nerves in his fingers so he has ten eyes!  Ten because his actual eyes don’t work.  He’s working for a crazy “civil liberties” group who think there’s a “bat people” conspiracy.  I can’t describe why the villain’s powers fails my comic book suspension of disbelief but it does with flying stupidity.  See for yourself.
I can say that the evil civil liberties group sounds like preposterous propaganda from today’s congress.  In other words, doubly dumb.
I included page 6 because it’s kind of a retelling of Man-Bat’s origin and I’m amused that there’s a hospital that is prepared to treat She-Bat’s condition.
I had a fascination with comic characters that start their name with “man” instead of the other way around.  Like Man-Bat, Man-Thing, Man-Wolf.  If I could talk to a therapist about this I might actually go to one.
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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SLICE - the St. Louis Indy Comics Expo is this weekend! I can't wait!
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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Some images from my "Upcycled Portraits" booth at Artica this weekend in St. Louis. A fun time had by all!
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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Artica St. Louis is this weekend! And I'm excited!
I'll be in some corner over there doing "Upcycled Portraits." That's basically doing portraits of people on cardboard boxes, old posters and drum skins, etc. Artica's version of carnival caricatures.
Commerce free fun!
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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Inktober has begun!
No pressure, though.
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John Coltrane
Birthday card for a 17-year-old jazz enthusiast.
A 17-year-old I offended with last year's birthday card to him. I think he liked this one but he didn't tell me that, he just didn't express his disgust like he did last year. Mission accomplished?
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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Birthday card for a young jazz musician.
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lynniceberg · 6 months
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The Ten Directions entry in the 48 Hour Film Project in St. Louis, MO August 2023. We were given the genre of "social media influencer" and our requirements were a character named Vance or Vanna Rashter, a toiletry kit as a prop, and the line "If you don't know, just say so." And, of course, to create the film in 48 hours. Produced by Dan Krumm Directed and edited by Lynn Berg Written by Jack Elias with Freddie Ardonne, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Karen Elias, Jason Green, Dan Krumm, and Chris Raglin See the other credits in the movie.
Thanks for watching!
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