Atomic Age Cinema and Amelia

panel from Amelia Part 3. Amelia is an Atomic Age Cinema fan. Probably was a regular during the live show days.

Atomic Age Cinema

A flyer for an AAC show from long ago.

HorrorHound and sketchbook

I checked out the latest issue of HorrorHound
and found an article about horror hosting.

The article mentions Atomic Age Cinema and shows a picture of them.
The folks from AAC are also emceeing a Vampira retrospective in Indianapolis this March. So if you're in the area check that out. I wish I could.

Here's a couple sketches I've done recently.

Dr. Calimari (drawn on an airplane)


fat fisman. (drawn in an airport)

There are more over HERE on my flickr page.

Atomic Age Cinema in New England

Last Thursday...

Atomic Age Cinema invaded The Main Street Museum in White River Junction. A night of beat poetry and history was interupted be two ghouls.

Dr. Creap, The dead beat, and Daisy Dead, the vegan zombie.
Here's Proffessor Peter Money before the show,

Here he is after...


For a complete play by play go to Steve Bissette's blog

Thursday Night

Steve does a good job talking about me and Atomic Age Cinema on his MyRant Blog
it's to promo this thursdays Monsters & Beat double feature, He talks about my Atomic Age Cinema days,

If you're in the Upper Valley, and want to see some good old fashion horror hosting, come to the Main Street Museum for some damn fine beats and monsters, with a real life beat poet, Peter Money, and more!

Atomic Age Send Off!!

The atomic age logo, and underneath the atomic age wall

So since I left Bloomington, the home of Atomic Age Cinema I haven't done the best job of keeping in contact with the featured creatures.
But I still hear occasionally what's going on, mostly thanks to Captain Kosmos. The Cinemat, which is the weekly venue space for AAC has been closing down for awhile now. the captain informed me that the matinee show yesterday was their second to last.
For those of you who might not know, before coming to Vermont to study cartooning I was involved in AAC, a weekly live horror hosted movie show. There was a midnight show, playing mostly horror movies, with free prizes and strange events, then there was the kid show,



Now I'm going to violate one of the big rules of hosting shows like this, I'm going to break the illusion, and just admit outright that I was The Kick, the original Kick that is,
yep, that's me, you could never tell under the mask

Now the kids show was never the success that the midnight show, as you can guess their wasn't a lot of audience overlap (Kids at 3, live surgery and boobies at midnight!). But, we had a small and very loyal audience. If it wasn't for those few kids the show wouldn't have kept going, but there are three kids in particular who made every saturday worthwhile.
At the kids show we mostly played old movie serials like Flash Gordon and Captain Marvel, and old cartoons like Betty Boop and Flip the Frog.

When I left Bloomington the kids show was taken over, first by a new Kick, my protege so to speak, ignore the small audience
Then by Captain Kosmos, both of whom I want to thank, especially CK for keeping me involved.

At the midnight show I'd host often as The Kick, and occasionally play different creatures. One thing I want people to really understand is how much work went into this every week, this is just one free gift from one week, a new gift was made every single week,


Now I don't know what the future of the midnight show or the kids show will be, but I know it's hard to keep AAC down. In a way they've already moved on to bigger and better things, like The Dark Carnival Film Fest

But I hope they find a new live venue soon, even after I left it was good to know it was there, doing it's part to keep Indiana weird.
So in conclusion, I want to say good luck to David Pruett, Arthur Cullipher, Kirk Hasting, David Underwood, and every one else who has come and gone from Atomic Age,

This is the Kick saying, be seeing you!

movies and videos

I go to see horror movies when they come out to theaters near me.
A lot of the time they're very bad. I love horror movies, and will always go to a horror movie, but man, it's so frustrating when I pay good money for bad movie.
One movie that I saw in theaters and was actually BETTER than I expected was The Uninvited (despite it having a terribly generic name that didn't really apply to the movie at all). A couple days later I drew this in my sketchbook,

So anyway, I'm a fan.

What else am I watching and looking at?
A lot, but I wont go into all of it, i saw Fear(s) of the Dark, and it was awesome, I saw older movies. But what about movies and videos made by friends and people I know?

I don't know what's going on with Atomic Age Cinema these days, The Cinemat has closed down, so I don't know if they're still doing weekly shows or not, but The Baron and the Doctor were at Horror Hound promoting Dark Carnival.


My friend, Mike Poley, is doing sketch comedy in Orlando Florida, I watch it on YouTube.

Also, I have two more pages to go on Chapter 7 of Amelia. Then I'll start showing samples of it up here. My plan is to have the book ready to go for MoCCA.

Atomic Age Week 4!

Better later in the week than never!



Check back tomorrow, I'm gonna post something new.

Atomic Age Week 3!

Make your own wax museum, Vincent Price style.
This week's Atomic Age Cinema give away was made by Colleen Jankovic.
Somewhere is a photo of the House of Wax audience all wearing their mustaches, but I don't know where.
I often miss my Atomic Age Cinema days.

Atomic Age week 2!

The tiny face candel (just add fire!) was made by Dave Pruett.

Also,

what am I hiding?
....
my face!

Stroll down Memory Street

a couple things.

I finally uploaded my pictures from A.P.E., I only took a few before my camera died, check out the table,


you can see the rest here.

Also, I took some pictures of gifts from Atomic Age Cinema, my old stomping grounds. I'm going to post one a week for a while. They were put together mostly by my friend, John Landis. Here's the first one,

we gave this out with Atom Age Vampire
It's an atomic fireball and glow in the dark teeth.
On the back it reads:
Make Anyone do Anything
You mentally command with your mind alone!
Silently command, control, dominate any one. Say nothing, watch even perfect strangers do what you wish willingly and cheerfully. Absolutely uncanny! Awe inspiring details revealed in SUCCESP Manual Review Folio. Send only $3

Atomic Age Cinema

here's a picture from the last time The Kick was at Atomic Age Cinema. I was working on a 3 panel comic for today, but I took a break from it and when I came back i realized how ugly it was.