My pal Sam Irvin has a rollicking new book out about his adventures behind the scenes with celebrities like Brian De Palma & some Monster Kid icons. Get it before it sells out! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Thanks @nathanielbaconx.bsky.social for spreading the word about my new book CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTÉGÉ! How I Shadowed the Director on THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL & More! Available worldwide on Amazon!

Happy Bald Is Beautiful Day to my BFF Stefano Junior @stefanojunior.bsky.social !

Happy National Bald Is Beautiful Day!

@stefanojunior.bsky.social loves Sam irvin’s new book: CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTEGE! How I Shadowed the Director on THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL & More! By SAM IRVIN Amazon! a.co/d/8zKMP3g

#1 NEW RELEASE in DIRECTION & PRODUCTION on Amazon’s Kindle eBook Best Seller Chart! CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTEGE! How I Shadowed the Director on THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL & More! By SAM IRVIN Amazon! a.co/d/8zKMP3g

HOLY MOLY! In less than 24 hours, my new book is already the #1 NEW RELEASE in DIRECTION & PRODUCTION on Amazon’s Kindle eBook Best Seller Chart! CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTEGE! How I Shadowed the Director on THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL & More! By SAM IRVIN Amazon! a.co/d/8zKMP3g

Kindle eBook! Amazon: a.co/d/cyPU0Yo Hardcover, paperback and Audible audiobook coming soon! CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTEGE! How I Shadowed the Director on THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL & More! By SAM IRVIN Director of ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS

Lazy gray sweats Sunday

Oops!

TBT: 1982. 25. Caught in the act! Of washing my ginger hair. Back in the days when I had ginger hair to wash.

Evolution

Insert joke here

Happy Tuesday!

Happy Hump Day!

It’s National Underwear Day, people! Get with the program!

July 14, 2025! National Nude Day! National Tape Measure Day! National Mac & Cheese Day! National French Fries Day! National Grand Marnier Day! I don’t drink alcohol, but I’m celebrating all the rest! 🤷‍♂️🥴😜🤣🤷‍♂️😘❤️

MY FIRST HORROR CONVENTION APPEARANCE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! COME SEE ME! Son of Monsterpalooza! MONSTERPALOOZA www.monsterpalooza.com/guests With loads of other guests, including TIM CURRY MICHAEL BERRYMAN (The Hills Have Eyes) Thanks to Monsterpalooza’s Eliot Brodsky! Be there or be square!

It’s an innie. In case you were wondering.

My BFF Stefano Junior @stefanojunior.bsky.social , artist and jock, is the latest Samwitch to send a selfie holding his FREE swag loot celebrating CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! To get the freebies, just private message me your mailing address. Book Available Worldwide on Amazon!

Happy Birthday to my BFF Stefano Junior @stefanojunior.bsky.social , artist extraordinaire and inspirational jock!

Winner of 2 Rondo Awards! Best Graphic Novel! Sam Irvin & Dan Gallagher Fan Artist of the Year! Dan Gallagher CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! Worldwide on Amazon!

Feeling blue. The good kind.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d win 2 Rondo Awards for… CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! The Queerdo Superhero Storybook Parody for Grownup Monster Kids! By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher Thanks to everyone who supported our labor-of-love! Amazon: a.co/d/g53sTJZ

Happy 42nd Birthday to Henry Cavill — shown here in fantasy artwork as Tarzan — hand-drawn by my BFF Stefano Junior @stefanojunior.bsky.social , to be hung (no pun intended… well, maybe a little) in my Tarzan bathroom. For commissions: Facebook Instagram @stefanojuniorart www.stefanojunior.com

Happy World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD)! 1990. Age 34. Photo taken by my now-husband Gary Bowers in the backyard garden of our then-home on Dilling Street in Studio City, California, across from the Brady Bunch House. Just out-of-frame to the left was our greenhouse loaded with orchids.

New York. 1982. 25-years-old.

CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! The Queerdo Superhero Storybook Parody for Grownup Monster Kids! By Sam Irvin Illustrations by Dan Gallagher Rondo Award Nomination! Best Graphic Arts Presentation! Paperback, eBook, and Audiobook!Worldwide on Amazon!

RONDO AWARDS Voting Deadline: Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025! www.RondoAwards.com Please consider voting for my storybook parody CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher Nominated for Best Graphic Arts Presentation (Category 22)

www.RondoAward.com For your consideration… Rondo Award Nomination Best Graphic Arts Presentation Category 22 CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher Available Worldwide on Amazon

N’yello

I haven’t had any complaints yet.

Spring has sprung!

Happy Hump Day!

VINCENT PRICE!The brand-new caricature by legendary Disney artist Dave Woodman! Order a print here: www.etsy.com/shop/DaveWoo... Read about my friendship with Vincent Price in I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER! HOW I MET VINCENT PRICE, CHRISTOPHER LEE, PETER CUSHING & MORE! Order here: a.co/d/gW9NnVq

Notice the “Rue Paul Morgue” coffee mug in my storybook parody CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! (Amazon a.co/d/7ICqPTP ). The wink to RuPaul and Edgar Allan Poe’s THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE is just one of a gazillion Easter Eggs in the book! Thanks, Ru, for the fab photo op!

PROPHESY? Our Rondo Award nominated book contains a cartoon drawing of a Rondo Award! Please help us turn this dream into a reality! www.RondoAward.com RONDO AWARD NOMINATION BEST GRAPHIC ARTS PRESENTATION CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher

“My pal Sam Irvin has a swell new Superhero Parody for Grownup Monster Kids!” — Joe Dante, director of GREMLINS and THE HOWLING RONDO AWARD NOMINATION BEST GRAPHIC ARTS PRESENTATION for CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher Vote! www.RondoAward.com

WHOA! Felt that one in Van Nuys! Safe but rattled.

I was a huge fan of MAD Magazine when I was a kid — and SPY VS SPY was one of my favorite regular features, created and drawn by Antonio Prohías.

RONDO AWARD NOMINATION BEST GRAPHIC ARTS PRESENTATION for CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! The Queerdo Superhero Storybook Parody for Grownup Monster Kids By Sam Irvin Illustrated by Dan Gallagher Please vote! www.RondoAward.com Deadline April 20! Available on Amazon!

Congratulations to Bruce Vilanch on his new book IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME: THE WORST TV SHOWS IN HISTORY AND OTHER THINGS I WROTE! Like the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL and THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Order here: a.co/d/aYfNnaK

WORLD BOOK DAY! Amazon: 1.) CAPTAIN SAMOUFLAGE AND THE FRANKENSAM SCAM! 2.) THE EPIC SAGA BEHIND “FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY” 3.) I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER! 4.) ORBGASM a.co/d/02oJjLke 5.) SAM’S TOILET PAPER CAPER! A WHITE GOLD PARODY 6.) KAY THOMPSON: FROM FUNNY FACE TO ELOISE