It is. Thank you!

thank you!!

I edited it just now, since my rant at the end has nothing to do with the series. lol I hadn’t heard of this until today either. I was looking up the history of comics. He originally did paintings, of this subject, but the got lost in a fire. He also did another series, A Rake’s Progress, which I found first, and it’s what led me to this one.

Unfortunately, I think the world is gonna last plenty long. Things will get worse, but we ain’t goin’ anywhere. There’s lots worse stuff we get to do before it all goes away! lol

Thanks for looking at it! Lemmy’s still relatively small, and that’s exactly why I’m excited. I’m working on Lemmy-only content like this because I want the place to develop its own culture and vibe, with original stuff people can’t get anywhere else. Less recycled political outrage w endless arguing, and more creative signal. Meh, that’s sorta my goal anyway.

Artwork by the great Warren Kremer, an American comics cartoonist best known for creating the Harvey Comics characters Richie Rich, Hot Stuff the Little Devil, and Stumbo the Giant.

Kremer was born in the Bronx in 1921. He trained at the School of Industrial Arts and started out doing work tied to pulps and print services before comics fully grabbed him.

This piece was used for The Beyond, but the interior story it went with had actually been recycled from Challenge of the Unknown. Both were short-lived pre-code horror lines. The comics biz back then did whatever it could to squeeze out a profit. Art and stories moved around, got repackaged, and found new life under different covers.

He went on to have a long run at Harvey Comics. He worked there for decades and, for a lot of readers, his line basically became “the Harvey look.” He helped shape the faces and bodies of the characters that lived on those covers, especially the kid-friendly world that made Harvey famous.

After Harvey’s classic period ended, Kremer kept drawing. He even did work for Marvel’s kid-focused Star Comics line in the 1980s.

Awww, thank you. That really hit me in a good way.

I did get a little discouraged for a minute. I didn’t want to keep wrestling with the AI conspiracy crowd. It’s kinda like trying to have a quiet conversation while somebody bangs pots in your ear.

But the truth is, when I write a story and illustrate it, it feels like it arrived in my brain for a reason. Like it tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Put me out in the world. I can’t do it on my own!” So I put it out there.

Your comments definitely made me smile.

Thank you! It’s mostly for the inevitable, “This is all ai slop!!” comments that I’m sure I’ll get every single time I post something. lol

Workflow on my most recent one: https://reddthat.com/post/58650560

Really great artwork by Lou Cameron. A style that rises above most work from that time period, the 1950s.

Great cover from Fawcett Publications. Back when pulp art was at it’s peak. The art inside the comic doesn’t really match the cover, but this would have been such a fun time to be in the comics biz. No respect. No money. Hey! Kinda like me posting my stuff on Lemmy right now now haha

It’s my work. I’ve made my living as a writer/author for over 25 years. thx

Hey all, I’m experimenting with the form for this, and is my first post of my Lemmy-only comic series release. I want to tell the whole stories in one post so ya don’t have to keep clicking into separate messages to see each panel.

For this one, you get the cover, my intro text, then five panels, one after another in the main body of the post. It works on desktop and it worked on my phone through the website, but I don’t know how it looks on apps like Pie, Voyager, etc.

I kept thinking making people click through five posts just to read five pages was bullshit. I want to see how far I can stretch comics on Lemmy. So I crammed it all in one shot. Tell me if it actually works on your end or if it falls apart. Thanks.

I don’t think there are any current ones. These are all older.

Same!

This actually happened in some timelines out there. We’re just getting conflicting reports because of the messy signals.

You get me. You really get me! ❤️

I feel really sorry for the XEDOS timeline where Windows started out POSIX-based.

I’m not familiar with those, so here I go, tabs are opening all over now…

❤️

Just standin’ up against tha chads!

I’m not scared of him at all. I have special soda can piercing slingshot ammo. Plus my armour is made out of tuna fish tins, so I sleep very well.

I do feel bad for lying about this story. So here’s the truth: They weren’t Windows 95 mini-CD’s. That’s ridiculous. The reality is that they were TempleOS mini-CD’s, but I didn’t want to besmirch the reputation of such a fine operating system. Windows 95 doesn’t perform well in the cold weather, so no one would want them anyway. TempleOS is a cold-weather performing powerhouse though.