Make no mistake: our collective fates are in the hands of insane, narcissist warmongering religious zealots & the greediest, most malicious con-artist of the 21st century & a former political party that decided "fuck it, organized crime is the way to go, we'll take over EVERYTHING."

My annual Easter weekend double-feature. I do this ALMOST every year, since back in 1971 or '72 my buddy Alan Finn threatened to beat me senseless & take the car & leave me behind after we saw I DRINK YOUR BLOOD at the drive-in & he was so ripshit no way we'd stay for the co-feature.

Holy Saturday post: Just wrapping up a rewrite of my loooong essay for the SWAMP THING #88 Rick Veitch resurrection. What I'd really like to do is include this one-panel classic, but I know DC Legal wouldn't go for it.

Now reading, highly recommended; Lyle Blackburn always delivers, and timely design (publishers just this past month announced the demise of the standard paperback format—the format Lyle lovingly uses here!). Get it while you can! monstrobizarro.com/products/ter...

Digging up more files, some artwork for the COMPLETE EDITION TYRANT®, more surprises in store this final week of the Kickstarter. We have one more live online event planned, too, with some prizes unique to that evening marathon. Will share more daily! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

GOP House insists on gov't bankrolling Trump's personal goon squad (aka ICE) before they'll do ANYTHING. Clearly, the GOP truly believes they now own everything, including all of us, our friend, families, neighbors, children, grandchildren, heirs, etc.

From 1986, my ode to Tom DeHaven's FREAKS AMOUR.

An American President, telling Americans, point blank, "We can't invest in America" while he & his punk-ass brood fleece America & Americans every fucking single second of every goddamned stinkin' minute of every shitass day.

Sketch I did for Evans Lee some time ago.

The great Jeff Danziger, saying it all (as he usually does).

That time Facebook punished me for posting a movie ad that was in family newspapers in the 1960s-70s for an entire decade & a classic Andy Warhol movie ad from THE NY TIMES.

Oh, see, NOW he tells us "We can't invest in America..." Any voter's remorse yet, Trumpsters?

Penultimate page of one of my SGT ROCK back-up story art gigs, this one from a script by Bill Kelley.

March 23, 1992, Duquesne University.

Oh, the 1990s adventures in self-publishing...

Just finished reading both Scarfolk volumes. We're all living in Scarfolk now, y'know?

NEW WORK: Now available on amazon, 'round the world! MAQ #14 featuring my latest Cryptid Cinema™ offering, a lengthy article on recent Bigfoot media (movies & comics) & an exclusive conversation with Steve Niles on his collaboration with Rob Zombie, Richard Corben on the graphic novel BIGFOOT!

Painting the live-podcast-event winner's ceramic T. rex tomorrow; will post pix, once I've got a few to share. The Kickstarter continues, and we'll be doing one more live event before it's over! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

From article: "Byron Noem is said to have told models he loved 'huge, huge ridiculous boobs'..." Ya, we know. In fact, Trump supporters/allies clearly love "boobs," and thus far have proved themselves, in all cases, to be utter & complete boobs themselves.

It's April 1st. Nope, no foolin' around for me today. I ain't posting nuthin' else today, just these, from 1977.

I'm sorry, truly I am. I think I'm finally hallucinating at a level that allows me to actually post delusional crazy shit as apparently materialized, visible-to-you "actual headline from the news" impossible shit. Time for melatonin and beddy-bye-bye methinks.

Shout out to all trans & LGBTQ loved ones— —you're loved, you're the best, much love to you & yours.

More podcasting this week about the TYRANT® Kickstarter, while prepping for VT Cartoonist Laureate ceremonies next week—& hammering away on freelance gigs. No rest for this dinosaur! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Caught these in theater(s) locally over past 2 weeks. Had fun with EPIC (pseudo-concert/doc vintage Elvis) & SCREAM 7 (by-the-numbers); enjoyed the latter 2 but they're the same fucking flick (THEY WILL KILL YOU is more inventive/imaginative, but WTF?)—white sisters/black sisters vs rich Satanists.

Caught three horror movies new to me this week, 2 in theater, 1 on disc; my favorite remains 2021's TARDY TERROR aka HORROR HIGH (DVD title), made by the Dubiski AVP Classes of 2020 and 2021. Who needs STRANGER THINGS when you can enjoy teen horror by truly inspired teenagers? dubiski.gpisd.org

NH's CONCORD MONITOR on my upcoming VT Cartoonist Laureate honor. 3 corrections: I DIDN'T co-create SWAMP THING; NH wasn't "home to the TMNT"; the VT cartoonists book I'm planning won't be a graphic novel, it'll be a non-fiction text (with illos). www.concordmonitor.com/2026/03/30/v...

Together, these offer over 260 fully-illustrated pages on PALEO POP!™ culture—dino movies, comics, trading cards, TV, etc.—and we're just getting started! Volumes 1 & 2 available on amazon everywhere, just about; design by Tim Paxton, articles by SRB, John Harrison, Mark Nelson, art Denis St. John!

Given GOP's bullshit, Supine Court's Chiles v. Salazar decision (Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion claim to protect Americans’ “inalienable right to think and speak freely” rejecting state "effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech") is beyond hypocrisy. The SCOTUS betrayal continues.

NEW WORK: I did deliver—and DC Comics accepted—two text essays for the forthcoming new (late 2026) DEMON OMNIBUS collections.

We're NEVER gonna know. Here's hoping enough is eventually revealed/known to pull this whole cabal down to its fetid, sexually abusive, criminally insidious, human-trafficking roots. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I think—THINK—it was Bob Heer who emailed me this graphic from two of my past comics zine interviews.

Hands up!

To date, I have only done two, count 'em, two Kindle/digital books. ...and this one. www.amazon.com/Wonders-Mill...

To date, I have only ever done two Kindle/digital books. This one... www.amazon.com/Horrors-Cult...

I've never, ever had a night like this one before...

R.I.P. Sam Kieth, one of the best of our generation.

Revisiting.

NEW WORK: I'm in the forthcoming issue of MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY & I'm psyched to be in such fine cryptid company...

Last night's live TYRANT® podcast with 150+ folks who've already kicked in was a remarkable conversation and experience. Prizes were given 'live,' questions asked, questions answered, & we'll be doing it again soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

NEW WORK: Excited about my new cryptid cinema article seeing print in the forthcoming issue of MAQ #14!

Untrained, masked, openly hostile, power-crazed, homicidal armed pro-Trump violent zealot goons in voting sites—what the fuck ISN'T there to "be afraid of"? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Clocked the film yesterday: THIS image, about 47 minutes into X THE UNKNOWN, drove my beloved wife Marj out of the movie theater in terror when she was 9 years old. Respect! She bravely stuck with it through a boy suffering radiation burns, dying, & radiation lab tech's hand swelling & face melt.

Define "unnecessary."

Jim Woodring's SMOKEY THE BEAR comic book, a favorite I keep along with the classic Morris 'Mo' Gullub Dell SMOKEY comic book from the 1950s.

My first-ever ad for TYRANT® (left) was published in the 6-issue '1963' series (Image Comics, 1993). I was goofing on the ad (right) I'd seen time & time again in various Silver Age comics as a kid. Almost nobody recalled the 'Grog Grows Own Tail' ad, so my spoof fell flatter than a runny cow flop.

Phone message from our son Danny during his cross-country drive amid the pandemic, April 2020. BTW, the ONLY state during his COVID-pandemic drive that had signs at the border stating pandemic restrictions? Vermont. Our home state.

From 1848, the Great Sea Serpent.

My newest book, designed by Tim Paxton, now available (as is VOLUME 1) on Amazon everywhere on Earth!

Laugh, and Balok laughs with you.

BACK ISSUE #166 has a new interview with amigo Rick Veitch. The Year of Veitch continues to gain momentum!