You spend a year+ sculpting, prototyping, tooling, testing, painting, re-painting, experimenting with cloth goods... and all that time later you're shooting digitally-enhanced promo shots WITH THE SWORD FUCKING BACKWARDS IN HIS HANDS WHAT THE HONEST FUCK??? lol, like why is it so hard with katana...

This was a good page.

Frankenstein in vintage Mexican comics

We're looking to verify credits for the upcoming general release Blu-ray of The Dagger of Kamui. Do you have the 1980s VHS version of the movie called "Revenge of the Ninja Warrior?" It was a recut dub of Kamui. If so, please get in touch.

Beastmaster poster art by Noriyoshi Ohrai

Good lord I adore this stupid MOTUxStrangerThings crossover figure... literally Metal As Fuck, way too well executed for what it is. I bought this for parts but now I don't have the heart to take it apart.

So I have this 3+ foot tall bootleg/generic ninja doll from the 80s. No manufacturer took credit, just Made in Taiwan. Box cribbed artwork of a bestselling Sho Kosugi poster and an Asian World of Martial Arts catalog. Superb trash!

The Japanese poster for THE FOG ffffuuuuuuuuucked...

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters — Season 2 Official Teaser | Apple TV www.youtube.com/watc... OMG OMG OMG!

Movie now has horny voyeuristic ghosts doing topless scenes, and damn right this is getting five stars on @letterboxd.social

#NowWatching (in my never-ending and pointless quest to be a Godfrey Ho completionist): DIAMOND NINJA FORCE (1986-ish)

If you see this, skeet an archer.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about ray guns! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's a sneak peek, featuring Paul E. Stinson, William S. Shields, Gray Morrow, and Davis Meltzer.

Saturday mood

Hey, it's ME! Less than a month now before this superb book launches on Kickstarter, with significant first-day discounts and all sorts of perks, never mind 300+ pages of unique lucha Libra and Mexican monster amazingness. Honored to have been involved.

Just in case anybody else needs an Emotional Support Unicorn today, Lupe's got you.

Over on the great @frazettagirls.bsky.social website, they are offering a very cool #Conan figure. Conan The Barbarian 5.5" Retro Action Figure ( #Frazetta Girls Exclusive www.frazettagirls.com/products/con...

Well done Media OCD for including the old English dub on the upcoming loaded Blu of DAGGER OF KAMUI! Can't wait to review this... www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Film & TV get the credit but for the 1960s Japanese ninja craze, an era before VHS or cable TV reruns, movies and shows come and go and can't be seen again. In reality it was BOOKS, whose pages were endlessly pondered by fanatics, that made mass fandom academic. vintageninja.net/ink-paper-an...

Everything is terrible, so have some awesome ninjas riding kites. Hope it helps...

I don’t really understand the efforts of inventors or cutting edge scientists or world class athletes because I know nothing they can possibly accomplish will feel more rewarding than what I feel successfully biting thru an onion ring without pulling the whole onion out of the batter.

RIP to a true Hollywood original, Johnny Legend.

We have lost Johnny Legend... insane wrestling promoter, rockabilly performer, filmmaker, and tireless champion of Mexican genre cinema. He was the first guy telling Americans it was OK to dig Mexican horror and lucha libre. His were the shoulders zine guys like me stood on in the 90s. (1/2)

Was going to post this with me being Conan and the demons being my to-do list, but in reality Conan is the desire to just sit on my couch binging Severance and the demons are 'side gig' 'laundry' 'dishes' and 'not being a lazy slob'

This...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Y’know how you can be of 2 minds, but it’s actually 3, cuz one of your arms is a dragon and should totally get along with your snake head cuz they’re both green & scaly but they don’t, and you’re just a referee in a dysfunctional situation when all you want to be is a simple tan reptilian barbarian?

LOVE this film, reviewed it a whopping 15 years ago now... oy... vintageninja.net/martial-and-...

Images from films starring Yukari Oshima - BOTD in 1963 Outlaw Brothers (1990) Dreaming the Reality (1991) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) Angel Terminators 2 (1992)

Been working on a big new feature on VintageNinja. Lots of aging paper involved. Stay tuned shinobi-files...

Santo versus the Vampire Women. 1962 Lucha Libre versus voluptuous vamp in glorious rubber bat gothic. Wonderfully wild. The world needs more Santo. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #mexicanhorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #santo #horrorfam

Still the greatest Christmas moment in comic book history...

Happy Holidays all, and here's to a better year in 2026...

Shirato Sanpei cover illos from the groundbreaking GARO magazine featuring his KAMUI GAIDEN ninja hero. GARO was an arthouse antho akin to Heavy Metal but based on societal philosophies and political movements — perfect vehicle for an allegorical rebel ninja on the run…

Yo Los Angeles! LA Taco is not only the best reporting on where the most amazing food in town is hiding, they have been way out in front of everyone with their reporting on ICE and CBP thugs. This is the kind of independent, local, media we all need to support. I'm proud to be a member.

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a winter coat…

Alexander A. Schomburg was a Puerto Rican born commercial and comic-book artist, whose career lasted over 70 years. Stan Lee considered him to be the best cover artist in the Golden Age of comics.

My action figure Christmas game is strong this year…

Things you can find on my website. 1. Pins and stickers 2.FREE downloads 🎁🐕🐈 doggiedrawings.net

Original 1975 GOYOKIBA manga, aka Hanzo the Razor. Here he ninjas-up with yakuza rival Kenshiro. Written by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf & Cub) Art by Take Kanda.

Kaji Meiko 1974

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) "Ha ha ha ha ha! Behold, they fight with tree branches!"

This is worthy of The Louvre…

RIP Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa. I like to imagine he's eating sushi off some naked chicks with Brandon Lee in action movie heaven.

This was my all time favorite film moment as a kid, totally burned into my psyche...

Santo vs Evil Brain. 1961. Santo's movie debut, a thrilling fusion of mad scientist and Lucha Libre lunacy shot in Cuba on the brink of revolution. Legend. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #santo #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

I don’t know why, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.