Tom Feister's Happytown

Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker talk Hulu show | Inside TV | EW.com

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:23:41 -0400

Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker talk Hulu show | Inside TV | EW.com:

I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been unable to talk about what I’ve been working on. I hope this helps to explain my absence. I’ve been having a great time working my ass off with some fantastically talented people at Bento Box Atlanta.

tytempleton: Debatable Bun Toons! YAY!

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:29:06 -0400

tytempleton:

Debatable Bun Toons! YAY!

Zatanna, by Steve Rude NO ONE does it better than The Dude.

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:47:19 -0400

Zatanna, by Steve Rude

NO ONE does it better than The Dude.

patloika: pkpow: devil-sensei: there’s no...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:39:08 -0400

patloika:

pkpow:

devil-sensei:

there’s no way

MIAAAAAA

Amazing!

Jim Steranko’s cover to the Marvel Comics Index to the...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:56:28 -0400

Jim Steranko’s cover to the Marvel Comics Index to the Fantastic Four.

Steranko is the man that people are referring to when they say someone is “The Man.”

Home sweet home. (Taken with Instagram at studio)

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:29:40 -0400

Home sweet home. (Taken with Instagram at studio)

why editors?

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:18:12 -0400

duss005:

my very good friend as well as drawing and writing partner, Derek Fridolfs, wrote a great blog about editors and the recent departure of one of my favorite editors, Ben Abernathy, from DC. Ben was there at the very start of my career and i’d not have gotten where i am today without his undying support.

Derek writes a great blog about why we need editors in comics, and why everyone loves Ben :D

- http://dfridolfs.blogspot.com/

Ben Abernathy was my editor on Ex-Machina and several other projects. He was a joy yo work with and I look forward to the day my phone rings and he’s on the other line with our next project.

Comics this good deserve better than to be stuck in the 50 cent...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:07:13 -0400

Comics this good deserve better than to be stuck in the 50 cent bin. Rescue great comics when you see them and share them with people who might appreciate the stories.

alexsegura: See Breaking Bad’s Official New Season 5 Poster...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:22:12 -0400

alexsegura:

See Breaking Bad’s Official New Season 5 Poster (via @Vulture)

I must find this poster.

I’m going stream of consciousness for a minute. Deal with...

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:03:00 -0400

I’m going stream of consciousness for a minute. Deal with it.

Here’s how I remember it: I’m in 7th grade Science class. Mr. Kemp usually lets us goof off for the last 10-15 minutes of class if we’re done with our work. Dave Baldinger, sometimes friend, constant troublemaker, has a new cassette tape. He tells me about these guys called the Beastie Boys. Dave says they are really funny and I have to listen them. Dave tells me to give him my walkman and cues it up to one song in particular, “Fight For Your Right To Party.” I figure he was right about how good Gensis’ Invisible Touch album was, so I’ll give it a listen.

Dave pulls the tape case out of his backpack like he’s doing something covert.

The tape has a Parental Advisory sticker on it. It’s the first one I’ve seen. The media at the time had painted a picture that music with that label was actually dangerous. There were stories of kids that killed themselves or had been driven to murder by they music they listened to. That sticker was in place to protect my developing brain from evil music.

Of course I want to hear it right now. I have my yellow waterproof Sony Walkman in my backpack. Dave hands me back my walkman and I put on the headphones and press play. I hear nothing. At first there’s the crackle of the way a tape sounds when there’s no music. I’m not sure how loud the walkman is so I turn the sound up thinking I might have the sound down, plus I think turning up music is just reflex to a teen-age boy.

BOOM!

There’s a loud as fuck guitar chord in my hears and a guy Screams “KICK IT!” and I’m berated with an awesome guitar riff. My brain is thumping.

Instantly, I love this.

I’ve heard rap before, but it never connected with me in any major way. My next door neighbor would occasionally play Run DMC for me when I was at his house trying to make out with his sister.

This was something different. This has connected.

A few days later I get my Mom to take me to the mall where I buy my own copy of License to Ill. I love nearly every song on it.

The best part is it’s funny. It’s really funny. Best of all to a teenage boy: It’s dirty funny.

It’s something you hide from your parents, and therefore immediately made more irresistible.

I literally wore the print off the sides of the tape. You couldn’t even read the song titles.

In time I moved on. The Beasties Boys became like the Fat Boys, or Weird Al. They were a joke band. A musical comedy act. Funny, but not real music. The Beastie Boys disappeared from my world.

I was not a bright child.

1994: I’m in college and I hear a song in someone’s apartment. It doesn’t sound like anything else. It’s loud. It’s aggressive, and it grabs you by the balls from the start. It was Sabotage. He tells me it’s the Beastie Boys. Huh? The funny guys? Rappers aren’t supposed to play instruments. They thrash like a punk band. Then he says I really need to see the video.

Boom.

My buddy copies the tape for me. This isn’t funny anymore. IT is, but it’s not a gag album. It’s real and these guys are not fucking around. A week or two later I see the video for “Sabotage.” It has this patina of 70’s cops shows and adventure shows I foggily remember from my childhood. It awakens an interest in a style of that era, and looking back at culture in a different way. It lands perfectly in the time of me becoming aware of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. The Beastie Boys were on the crest of a cultural wave during one of the most formative years of my adult life. They influenced fashion, art, music, music video. It was more than just music, it was a lifestyle. I had every issue of Grand Royal I could find. I was always seeing stuff I never knew existed.

They never left my my world again.

Thank you, Adam Yauch.

kirbymuseum: The Avengers has already grossed over 200 million...

Tue, 01 May 2012 21:26:11 -0400

kirbymuseum:

The Avengers has already grossed over 200 million dollars overseas, and is on track to make an insane amount of money when it opens in the US this weekend. When you go see it, why not take a portion of your ticket price and help us open a pop-up Jack Kirby gallery in the neighborhood where he was born?

You can read our detailed appeal for funding here.

We’ve got plenty of original Jack artwork to hang on the walls, not to mention other artifacts from Jack’s life. The more money we raise now, the more we can do, and the longer we’ll be able to keep the doors open! We’d like to be more than just a gallery, though. We’ll have lectures from comics pros, host or sponsor art lessons for kids, and work with other local NYC historical organizations to educate folks about what it was like growing up in Jack’s neighborhood during the depression.

We’ve been fundraising for the gallery since September, but we haven’t yet reached our goal. We’ve got a few announcements to make in the coming months that should help us get there, and with any luck, and if folks help us get the word out, we’ll be open by the end of the year. Every little bit helps, and if you can’t donate, please help us spread the word!

By the way, how cool is this Jack self-portrait? My reliable sources tell me it was inked by Mike Royer and colored by Tom Ziuko! I believe this version of it appeared in the Jack Kirby Collector around 1997…

Wow.

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:33:46 -0400

Wow.

laughterkey: YES

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:11:34 -0500

laughterkey:

YES

Like millions of kids, STAR WARS lit my imagination on fire and...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:21:47 -0500

Like millions of kids, STAR WARS lit my imagination on fire and set me on the course I’ve been on for the rest of my life. How do you possibly express enough gratitude to someone that’s been such a powerful force in your life. RIP Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. May the force be with you.

"You know if Winnie the Pooh were real he would eat all his friends except the Tiger, but that would..."

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:12:00 -0500

““You know if Winnie the Pooh were real he would eat all his friends except the Tiger, but that would be a cool fight.””

- -Jack Feister, age 8, unemployed

http://jackfeister.tumblr.com/

Artgantuan: Con Sketches and Sean Murphy

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:22:02 -0500

Artgantuan: Con Sketches and Sean Murphy:

artgantuan:

Sean Murphy recently posted about his decision to discontinue using licensed characters in prints, sketchbooks, or convention sketches/commissions. Most people into comics have heard about Marvel successfully countersuing Gary Friedrich and getting $17000 out of a man without those kinds of…

I had a great time hanging with Bunny and Jason last week. Go...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:03:54 -0500

I had a great time hanging with Bunny and Jason last week. Go pour yourself a drink and find a comfy chair while you listen along…

meltingdolls:

Tom Feister was really fun to interview. We’re going to knock Joelanta’s socks off this year.

Episode 65: Illustrator, Animator and Comic Book Artist Tom Feister
Bunny and Jason welcome comic book artist Tom Feister. Topics include theories on Breaking Bad, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Tom’s influences, Bonkers gum, and comics. Everyone answers a question about space.

For the record, Sam was at home screaming “POINTS OF ARTICULATION” when no one could think of the phrase.

Imperial Trouble podcast

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:05:13 -0500

Imperial Trouble podcast:

Last week I sat down in a small pub in Atlanta with Jason Mallory and Bunny McIntosh of the Imperial Trouble podcast to talk about TV, comics, toys, movies, soft-core porn, and the advertising history of Bonkers bubble gum.

alexsegura: Drive by Ken Taylor (via fuckyeahmovieposters)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:29:48 -0500

alexsegura:

Drive by Ken Taylor (via fuckyeahmovieposters)

I finally saw this movie a few nights ago. As soon as it ended I...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:28 -0500

I finally saw this movie a few nights ago. As soon as it ended I watched it again. Needless to say, I really enjoyed it.

I love this poster design. I wish Hollywood would take more chances with their poster design. It boggles my mind that with the talented artists that Marvel and DC have at their disposal, the posters for the comics based films tend to be rather lackluster, homogenized photoshop collages. Imagine a first rate Avengers movie poster by someone like Leinil Yu, or an Iron Man film poster actually featuring the art of Adi Granov? The only recent exception I can think of were the Nolan Batman posters for the Dark Knight. They were brilliant, as was the whole marketing plan of that film.

theroblevin:

Fan-made “Drive” poster. Pretty sweet.

Chris Dibari found this, but I’ve no idea where or who did this.