Derf Backderf

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Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.

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Fascist tears are the BEST tears!

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

Oh, Dieu merci, France!

When Sal Buscema took his time, which was about once a year, he could draw a really sweet splash page. This is one of my favorites. Defenders #5, 1973. One of the best drawings of Val. Lots of detail (for Sal), nice perspective.

Sunday morning beach walk in Cleveland. Yes, Cleveland.

Hope everyone enjoyed their last Independence Day.

Someone buy this Spain page for me. $4000 on ebay.

So for reasons known only to the corner office types, Officemax closed its nice, well-stocked store near me. The only option left is a shitty Officemax 5 miles further in a failing strip mall. Dirty, broken floor tiles, understaffed, poorly stocked. WTF? I take it Officemax is on its last legs?

Johnny Craig self portrait.

I've been lamenting this for awhile. I just abandoned Meta, because of the blitzkrieg AI scraping of art it unleashed last month. Facebook was very useful for selling books, so it's not a "so what?" A lot of comics folk were there. Twitter is finished. Insta is Meta. So now what?

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

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#OTD 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. "Actual Size" by Ed Ruscha (1962)

Pee Wee Herman's way cool LA pad is for sale. Only $5M. Just look at this midcentury-mod deliciousness. With a view from the pool of the Hollywood sign!

Pee-wee's Hollywood Hills playhouse is up for sale for $5 million after actor Paul Reubens' deathwww.businessinsider.com Paul Reubens bought the Hollywood Hills home for $415,000 with his earnings from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure." The estate is listed at $4.995 million.

Tina Louise, the last surviving cast member of Gilligan's Island, is 90 years old. Man.

1933 Vanity Fair cover. Drawn by Paolo Garretto.

Jesus Fucking Christ. NYT runs THIS on Independence Day, during the most pivotal election year since the Civil War. This is obscene.

Opinion | Why I Don’t Votewww.nytimes.com If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

One of the great wrongs of comics history. Jerry Siegel at his mail clerk job in 1975. He made $7000 a year. Warner Bros., owner of DC Comics, was about to make the first Superman blockbuster film, the most expensive ever. It made $300M. Jerry hadn't gotten a cent off Supes since... 1948!

Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, 61, at his clerking job in Los Angeles, 1975

Superman "flying" around in downtown Cleveland today!

Blech. Stalled today at the drawing board. Someone give me a slap.

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Here’s where we’re at: Supreme Court justices have interpreted current law and precedent to say explicitly and literally that a president can murder his political opponent and he can never be prosecuted for it.

"It'll be bloodless if you lefties give us everything we want, capice?" says the hairless fascist wonk who won't get anywhere near the street barricades.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

On a related note to my last post, guess what's on Kanopy now?... the documentary on Jeffrey Catherine Jones! Been wanting to see this for awhile. It has extensive interviews with the mysterious Jones, and lots of top creators discussing the impact of JCJ's art: Gaiman, Moebius (!), McKean, Pope

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Republicans: here is our plan which we will carefully execute over the next forty years until we have gained control of SCOTUS Dems: If we can't pass it next week under the current Congress it's not worth mentioning

Omigod! Outside of the usual Stan Lee horseshit, this article is INCREDIBLE!

The Secret Life of Steve Ditko: Spider-Man Co-Creator’s Family Opens Upwww.rollingstone.com He helped create the web-slinging hero in his own image — but who was the man behind the mask?

This was posted on a Jeffrey Catherine Jones page. Red Circle Sorcery #7 from 1974. The art is credited to Bruce Jones, who was a writer not an artist, mostly for Warren. The truth? It was drawn by (then) Jeff Jones, Bernie Wrightson and Mike Kaluta! They all shared a studio. Holy cats!

Who knocked Sgt. Pepper out of the #1 Billboard spot? Bobby Gentry! "The Ode to Billie Joe"spent A MONTH at #1! Completely forgotten now. She had 11 Top 100 hits. Then she quit the biz in 1982 and hasn't been seen since. She was a real hottie, too. Yeah, had insomnia tonight. Can you tell?

Bobbie Gentry "He Made A Woman Out Of Me & Up On Cripple Creek" on The Ed Sullivan Showwww.youtube.com Bobbie Gentry "He Made A Woman Out Of Me & Up On Cripple Creek" on The Ed Sullivan Show, December 27, 1970. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://um...

What are four comics you don’t only like, you draw inspiration from.

What are four comics you don’t only like, you draw inspiration from

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Keeping myself centered by thinking about Hulk skanking to the heavy heavy monster sound of Madness.

I roll with the punches, so I survive Try to rock 'cause it keeps the crowd alive I'm not ballin', I'm just callin' But I'm past the days of yes-y'allin' Clear the way for the Prophets of Rage!

Prophets of Rage - Prophets Of Rage (Official Video)www.youtube.com YouTube video by ProphetsOfRageVEVO

Spike talking me off the ledge.

I dunno, I guess y'all didn't sit through "Eyes On The Prize" every February in Social Studies for every year of middle school? Maybe you should find it and watch it. You will not find "They shot our leader, we should give up, it's hopeless now."