These two eye-popping covers are by Australian nudie comic artist Keith Chatto - nice, huh?

Labels: Australia, color, comics

Friggin' Wheaties, huh?

Labels: advertising, adverts, baseball, color, comics, food

Purchased for one Scottish Pound in the Guardbridge Hotel charity book sale around 1990.



Every color plate from this wee edition of The Observer's Guide to Liverworts and Mosses. Reprint 1964

Labels: color, nature, science, Scotland

Bill from Frankenstein Comics gave me this copy "because it was missing a page" Original 10 cent copy. Yow.

Embiggen via click

Labels: 50's, color, comics

What does this confounded gizmo do?

Labels: aging, color, sci-fi

Little Iodine - daughter of Henry Tremblechin from They'll Do It Every Time by Jimmy Hatlo.
16 pages' worth. More "Little" tomorrow.......

as usual- link at pic


........and here's a long-overdue wallpaper:

Labels: action, awesome, cartoon, color, comics, friggin, fun, funny

These images come from a book with the same name as this post. I bought it at a flea market or some place and owing to my parental guilt for being on the road, went over it in great detail with my tiny son. We got to see the world that is gone, yet familiar. He understood, and all my children understand.

The book is by Berta and Elmer Hadler (who knew?- a Wikipedia link.) and published by MacMillan in 1941, dedicated to Gayle. This apparently was their schtick, being Caldecott winners.

The activities happening in a small town (not unlike mine) are described with illustrations containing a plethora of visual features as accompaniment.

It's another world.

Another World, I say.

Link @ Picture

if you want these pictures, get in touch.

Labels: animals, author, baby, bananas, bread man, chair, classic, color, eggs, furniture, Ham, kids, liberal, picture, squirrel, story, style, time, USA, why

Picture it: You're 8, you've got the flu, and your lying there, with only this beaten up coverless comic within reach. The content is dreary, like Ozzie & Harriet only with animals, but you read on, because it's all you're capable of.

Out of your haze an alternate reality arises, gels, and becomes real. The ape dad is your Dad, the little bear is your pal, Kenny, and the little girl is either your sister or Judy from up the street. You're now walking around in the comic, they are talking to you.

You exist there.

You've escaped. It's all an illusion. Hold on to that.

Labels: 50's, animals, color, comics, monkey

Tom and Jerry:
Protagonist/Antagonist
Worker/Establishment
Beatle/Stone
Bowie/Jagger
Me/Jerks
fehrui/renhjiq


Picture is a link to a charming story told in Bigpanelovision

Labels: 50's, action, book, cartoon, cat, classic, color, comics, culture, fun, funny, genius, greatness, history, humor, illustration, magazine, MGM, mouse

For my sweet little poopy doopy bo-boopy Mrs. Lex10

from the GlyphJockey collection (all pix except one are links to bigger views of same image):

What the F@$%k? I Greet you?!?!?!? I greet you?!?!


No- I'll give YOU gobs of love!


Yeah ........ don't!


Aren't these cherries?


Hearty!




Ngogn Ngogn Ngogn


This infuriated my son at age 4:










Walkin' turtle


3D standup

Labels: cards, color, greetings, holiday, love, valentines

One year today. My sincere gratitude.



217 posts or .59 posts per day.

I've got two differing sets of stats so I'll be approximate, but in no way am I rounding up.
Looky:
greater than 3 Million Hits
greater than 1 Hundred Thousand Visits
greater than 15 Thousand Unique Visitors

Approximate percentages of people who favorited the site went from less than 10% to greater than 40% (mirroring the volume growth)- thanks, favoriters! Ctrl+D is your friend!

Top referrers (in no particular order):
RYP at Twilightzone
COOP!'s Positive Ape Index
Those Rascals at PCL Link Dump bringers of gourmet everything.
Mr. Bali Hai at Eye of the Goof
The BoingBoingers
Mr. X from the much hunted Xtabay's World
The Compelling Visual Library that is Martin Klasch
Schmutzie - 2nd best damn blog in Canada
PK's Bibliodyssey
the above is purely stats based so if I love ya but you're not listed - feel it.

Some posts:
1st post (skip it, actually)
Smashed Nokia
The King Cake Baby
The Heritage Village Map
Bend me, Shape Me
My Mexican Lobby Card
Forbidden 1984
Matts & Zippy
Architecture & Ornament
Early Warhol
Peeni Walli
How to Drown
Lex10 in L.A.
Birds of NZ
Decals
Mark Ryden Vids
Sparky Watts
Pompeiiopticon
Saucy Accupressure
How to Draw a Circle
Who is Lex10?
Yard Haiku
Robot Theatre - Royale With Cheese
Revisiting the Greatest Nancy Panel Ever Drawn
Alan Vega
Origami QTVR
Crispy Masks
Joseph Laux Wallpaper
Bowie on Extras
Nancy 1
Uncle Wiggily
205 Serial Killer Names
Man Eats Dogs
Magic Wand
Through The Viewfinder
Sad Thanksgiving Cards
Champagne Muzzles
Chard
Nancy 2
La Virgen de Xtabay
Ali Baba
Xmas Robot Theatre Message
Katamari Earrings
WET Magazine


and let's not forget items from Today's Sunbeam - yes, that's actually the name and yes- it's a real daily newspaper:
Hog Maws
Windowless Shopping
Procto-advice
She's cheap - but she can act

Labels: anniversary, art, color, cool, fun, funny, glyphjockey, gratitude, history, hits, January 5th, music, New Year's Day, posts, referrers, stats, thanksgiving, Today's Sunbeam, visitors, visits

Here's the house - this is kinda light (no pun intended) compared to recent years. 1024x768 image at picture link.

Labels: chez lex10, Christmas, cold, color, house centipede, lights, picture, xmas

Here's what I want to say about this:

I live near a flea market called Cowtown (Previous posts here, here and here) which also hosts from May-Sept the only regular rodeo in NJ, complete with PETA protesters, a Grand Parade, and 12-pack drinkin' divorcee' dads.

Anyway, Cowtown is a flea market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. On Saturdays, it's less of an antique/collectable venue and more of a crap/knockoff sale. There are a lot of Korean and Chinese vendors, but the most interesting are the Andean vendors. I say Andean because they can be from multiple locations in S.A., but they inevitably sell really rustic knitted gear, and handicrafts from that region (like pan pipes and bracelets that say stuff like "Quito"). On spring days Andean musicians will play, and the atmosphere becomes really prosaic, with catfish frying across from tacos mojados and boxes upon boxes of items that look like they came from a parallel universe.

Well, as it turns out, many of these vendors sell, by virtue of a common language to the Mexican members of the community, providing them with stuff they want, often emblazoned with the Virgin of Guadalupe - a potent symbol of Mexican faith & pride.

It was this juxtaposition of Andeans selling la Virgen on (sometimes really plush two-ply) blankets alongside their native designs that made me put this video together. Music is Yma Sumac's (herself a Peruvian) Voice of The Xtabay- a Yucatan legend. The stuff juxtaposes itself - no?

Enjoy.



UPDATE: English language bonus track below:
Kinda bogus, but go for it....

Labels: blanket, central america, color, espanol, flea market, glyphjockey, mexico, music, south america, spanish, statuette, virgin mary, xtabay, yma sumac