Manga artist Junko Mizuno is finally offering up a fine selection of illustrated contraceptives and lubricants for your erotic pleasure, featuring cute creeps like Kondo-Chan, “a girl with a strong passion and curiosity for condoms.” Link courtesy of An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla, who has a couple of sample trading cards from the collection on display.

Y’know, for a second I thought maybe our niche could be “sleazy Journalista!”, but then I realized that Dirk already has that covered.

A little Herriman makes everything better.

From the contents page of Don Marquis’ the lives and times of archy and mehitabel.

I’m supposed to be in sunny Malaysia right now, but as fate would have it, I have to stick around in a Beijing Hotel for 24 hours. Ahhh….Air China. I forgave you….then you sent my bags to Jakarta on top of that.

Ah well, at least I have the internet!

Mini-comic artist J.B. shares one of his earlier works, an artistic interpretation of a letter that actually saw print in a Punisher comic. Names may have been altered to protect the socially maladjusted.

Found via Robin Bougie, who is still Not Safe For Work.

In a year as full of metal as 2008, Turisas managed to make a very deep impression on me. The video shown above gives me shivers every time.

We’ll march till we fall!

Archie Comics doesn’t want you to know the truth, but there’s a shit ton of violence in the earlier stories. In the ominously titled Dark Victory, Archie and Reggie decide to curbstomp their scrawny pal Jughead by pretending to reenact a famous comic book ad.

What they don’t realize is that Jughead has an entirely different comic book ad in mind.

Gary’s back to living one day in the future, so he’s probably already hungover.

Happy Birthday, bro!

I couldn’t believe my eyes upon finding out that my old college pal had put up an old movie we made for school (and kicks). Truly a feast for the hearts of all! I’ll have to beg and plead for any other gems that may be lying around…

The Montreal Mirror has posted an interview with Rose City artist Karl Kerschl. Via Journalista.

Sean T. Spent yesterday afternoon going through The Horror Roundtable archives, and I found myself doing the same.

Gary’s birthday comes early; Comic Book Legends Revealed calls I Was Ben “nifty”.

Great Caesar’s Post and The Fortress of Fortitude are two great comic blogs that linked to I Was Ben despite all our best efforts to alienate everyone.

Teresa of In Sequence is posting again after taking a short sabbatical to watch Naziploitation smut. I especially like her take on physical intimacy in recent issues of Wonder Woman.

Nun-Chaku Training (in tears).

Robin Bougie eulogizes the VCR. Be warned, though the previous link is safe for work, the majority of his posts are DELIGHTFULLY NOT!

Also courtesy of Robin Bougie, Boobs The Blog, a site dedicated to teen sex comedies of the 70s and 80s. They know the score on Up The Creek, my second favourite entry in the sub-genre, so I trust their opinions implicitly.

Image from the comic strip Gentle Beau by Helene Lacelle.

An amusement park is always fun to visit on a hot summer POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD. When you get there, you can rent a SAND MUMMY and go for a swim. And there are lots of BRUTAL things to eat. You can start off with a hot dog on BATTLE AXE with mustard, relish, and BLUE CAVEMEN on it. Then you can have a buttered ear of GIANT BAT with a nice FUTURISTIC slice of watermelon and a big bottle of cold TRICERATOPS BLOOD. When you are full, it’s time to go on the roller coaster, which should settle your QUEST. Other amusement park rides are the Dodge-Em which has little HANG GLIDERS, that you drive and run into other ROCK BALLADS, and the Merry-Go-Round where you can sit on a big LOINCLOTH and try to grab the gold AMULET as you ride past.