One of the most tasteful opportunistic paperback covers & titles in my home library.

One of my favorite 'unknown paperback' reads; great cover art, too, but it's a wild novel, with a terrific backstory about the author's identity (and political career)...

The only recent graphic novel cover art I ever did (wraparound cover) that actually won some sort of award.

PALEO POP!™ VOL 1 out & available (link top of comments) (VOL 2 just proofed for early Jan 2026). 1st volume features FOUR of my favorite MONSTER! articles on dino movies & pop culture: THE GIANT BEHEMOTH, GODZILLA Vs MEGALON, 'bad' dino movies, Windsor McCay, etc., lavishly illustrated, Tim Paxton!

Two essential early film home library texts, purchased from the Little Professor bookshop in Burlington, VT when I was a teenager. Still have 'em, still love 'em.

I've got a couple of these; anyone ever want to get rid of any volume of any year (especially the 1960s), I'm your huckleberry!

Earliest US horror film 'histories,' both vintage paperbacks, both in my collection/library.

My only two digital book 'publications.'

Revisiting some favorite Henry S. horror stories. Still blown away by two set in my home state (Vermont)—well, one of 'em is sort of (a remote Lake Champlain island)... recommended winter chill reading!

One of the surprises earlier this year was seeing this pencil original art again after so many decades. Slightly water-damaged (but scannable), my original pencils for the TYRANT® #4 cover art, which I inked on vellum overlay. Thanks to Diana Schutz for holding on to this & for the return!

My favorite Jack Davis one-sheet movie posters: this one, and HORROR HOTEL!

This fucking year cannot end quickly enough. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...

Scan from my oddball Texarkana postcard collection.

Also: writing about Etrigan, after having finished/delivered over 7000+ words to friend author (for their newest book, coming out in June 2026). Seeing out 2025 as best I can, with new work in the works!

Working all weekend on the PALEO POP!™ VOL. 2 PDF proof that book designer/author/genre film historian/vet zinester Tim Paxton delivered late last night. We'll have Vol. 2 out early next month (Jan. 2026)!

Memories of growing up & working in our family store in Colbyville, VT (until Mom & Dad sold the home & store in 1976 to move to Florida). It was "Kilkenny's Market" for a while afterwards with the 1st new owners, then a Chinese restaurant (which it still may be). Anyhow, Happy BOXING DAY!

BOXING DAY music.

Resigned to living in Potterville, but never gonna go along with this relentless horseshit.

Working off-and-on all this week (including today, BOXING DAY) on the S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® project, crowdfunder to come in January!

Scanning vintage kaiju VHS BOXes on BOXING DAY.

BOX(office)ing Day!

Please, let this be the LAST Christmas blighted by Kristi Noem.

Work continues on the S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT® project for Lighthouse's January-February 2026 crowdfunder. The art edition (scanned from the originals) is looking handsome as can be, and the companion "Complete" edition is absolutely massive—everything, and I mean just about everything, is in it!

Crunching on deadlines: delivered two gigs before the weekend, about to deliver a third later today—then five (!) more before the coming weekend. "Holiday" season, my ass, but having Danny & Amrit visiting has been a fantastic treat & Xmas dinner with beloved friends on Xmas day promises another...

A surprising number of outdoor inflatable Bumbles are in various VT & NH neighborhoods around us. This was the first one I saw during our first real snowstorm of the season, and son Danny tells me the same home owner added Rudolph to the lawn display since I snapped this photo...

We revisited the 1964 RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER last night as a family. So, a Bissette Bumble gallery for all seasons, particularly this season! __ Artwork ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette

She grudgingly tolerated screening GREMLINS last night. But this? Marj put her foot down and simply said "no way." Guess I'm on my own revisiting this "Joseph E. Levine presents" masterpiece...

No! NOOOOOOOOOOO! Anything but THIS!

Really? THIS is what it takes to admit the current President & his so-called "party" RUINED this Christmas? Not the police state? Not brutal human trafficking (i.e. "detainments," "deportations")? Not destroying democracy & dismantling our entire nation? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

No, I don't care if it's almost Christmas—no, NO! You can't MAKE me!

Loving this era of rare zine collections. Via online sources (Trauma Team Media) & via xlnt brick-and-mortar graphic novels shops, 2025 has been revelatory. Four more recent favorite purchases, particularly SUBHUMAN (collection missing only #2) and Joe Brainard's C COMICS (highly recommended!).

Our son Danny turned 40 this week; buying Danny's latest album (available as digital file or on vinyl, which sports a bit of stylized label art by me, his Dad) would be one hell of a birthday treat for him, folks! It's at: thecaseofthemissingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spread...

Yahoo email has served me well since I first got on a computer, but 2025 is the year Yahoo seems intent upon losing me forever. This latest "development" as of yesterday—what, I'll have to PAY to email MYSELF notes/photos from my cel phone?—really pisses me off. Fuck You, Yahoo+

We're in the American Dark Age, folks, about to get a lot darker in 2026. Given all the untraceable disappearances, the human trafficking the GOP condones & nurtures, it's impossible to calculate 2025's ICE body count. Those we are learning of include: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Taking HUGE steps this month on my long-lost 'baby' S.R. BISSETTE'S TYRANT®—info, announcements to come in January 2026.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our son Danny—born 40 years ago today! Home birth, I caught Danny in my own hands, & the world instantly became a better place. Much, much love, son, forever & ever more...

Getting a leg up on the afternoon.

All the Weird and Wonderful Characters of Make-Believe!

In my daily quest to do something that won't possibly hurt anyone, I finished repairing the kitchen floor grout yesterday.

The writing was on the wall back in 1976, as this documentary proved—and it only took, what, half-a-century to take over our entire country? Back in '76, who would have believed it would be the so-called "conservatives" in the Republican Party who would embrace & spread this like the plague it is.

Man, I LOOOOOVE this book! Highest recommendation, and all-new material, cover-to-cover, from Robin Bougie (not a reprint of earlier zine work).

R.I.P. the late, great Bob Burns; died on Monday, peacefully, age 90. Bob was the first & ultimate Monster Kid. (Thanks to David J. Schow for letting me know.)

Well, it's about that time of the season...

My 'secret life' in comics: during my 15 years of teaching at the Center for Cartoon Studies, I often collaborated with students (and sometimes alumni) on projects never seen outside of the CCS circles. My inks, pencils by Carl Meff (presently hard at work on a project FALLING AWAKE); ©SRB & Meff

I originally penciled the first image (left) as the cover art for '1963 Book Two,' NO ONE ESCAPES...THE FURY™, but that was shot down (and relegated to interior pinup page status). So I worked up pencils for what became the cover to THE FURY™ (at right), and all was briefly right with the world.

Still looking?

Quit mumbling!

CRYPTID CINEMA™ TRIVIA: The first Swamp Thing predated the comic book character by about three years & was played by Sleepy LaBeef.

Well, that's that.

Pencils by Neal Adams, final painting by Richard Corben, for a phantastic philm that I loved at first sight & still love today.