Xmas Damage

Meanwhile, across the Pond...

welcome to The Frantic Damage (1979/90)

Xmas Covered (part the Blue)

Somebody up there decided Xmas and Blue Monday should be on the same day. So we continue with Xmas Blue Covers -

It gets worse from here.
Proceed with caution. (Management takes no responsibility for things which cannot be unseen)

Somehow, they managed to combine all things hentai in a single Xmas cover...

covers from a terrible place

It's a Blue Xmas Monday!

We're implementing something new today. It's a concern that those who don't care for more explicit material cannot easily know how far to scroll down so as to skip past the undesired content. So, we'll be adding Jump Breaks to posts with more graphic content. It is a day of giving, after all.

So, with that warning, we offer this X(XX)mas tale-

Future Gaming?

I'm a fairly big gamer.

Started with the 3 basic little paper-bound booklets for Dungeons & Dragons (with a side of Chainmail) back in the mid-late 70s, and kept going into the computer era with gusto. I used homegrown Basic software  to generate populations and auxiliary materials for moderating my campaigns after building my first computer back in 1980. I got involved in created computer games later in the decade - back when we only had 4 colours with which to work.

My relationship with games has continued to the present day, where half my retired life is spent gaming.

And yet...

I have to admit some small concerns over the new Virtual Pac-Man game...

b&w original by ??? from Gasm #2 (1977)

You'd think that comic magazines would be better at crediting comic artists by '77, wouldn't you?

People Come Up To Me, Concerned...

And then there was

I suppose some explanations are in order.
Let me go see what i can find...

page from Little Emo In Slumberland (2011)

In The Days Before Photoshop...

My peripatetic mind won't go where i want it to currently, and refuses to focus to write more than a sentence or two at a time. So we sidestep for today's edition of

Back in 1967, if one wanted to alter photographs it took time, patience, blades, airbrush and skill.
And yet, somehow, this happened anyway...

Those 10 images & limericks actually comprise about 85% of the book. It really did take a lot of effort to create this sort of thing without the wonders of modern photo/art software. No wonder i went all digital in the art almost 25 years ago.

This odd post comes from

words & pics by Mel Norman and Arthur Benwood for Treasure Chests (1967)