by John | Mar 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman sitting on deck chairs next to each other as they talk on a cruise.
MAN: You’re so sweet. So innocent! I’ll bet this is your first cruise!
WOMAN: Well, no. not quite. But it’s the first since I got out of prison! I was framed, of course. hat body was already dead when I stabbed it!
Art: 1926 Chesterfield Cigarettes Ad by Adolph Treidler
Innocent Until Proven Guilty: John Lustig
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by John | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color.
Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.
Past episodes of Abby Amour:
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Abby looks at a photo of the Colonel's home as Colonel Bluster looks on.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
ABBY: Colonel Bluster! It was you!
ABBY: I recognize those lovely flowers...
ABBY: ...from this photo on your desk!
COLONEL: The flowers did come from my house.
COLONEL: But I wasn’t who gave them to you.
ABBY (thought): I sense a dramatic pause.
ABBY (thought): I hate dramatic pauses.
CAPTION: To be continued...next Friday!
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Lovable Lettering: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Alex Toth & Mike Peppe from the story “Murder Mansion” in Adventures into Darkness #5, 1957. Published by Charlton.
Curious to see more? Click this link to read the entire vintage comic book for free. This panel is from Page 6 of ComicBookPlus’ presentation of the comic. The story begins on Page 3.
↓ TranscriptWOMAN (with very wide open eyes): Pregnant? But, Doc, I’m almost a virgin! I haven’t even had sex--today!
Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe Restore &Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Almost a Legend: John Lustig
Art by Alex Toth & Mike Peppe from the story "Murder Mansion" in Adventures into Darkness #5, Aug. 1952. Published by Standard Comics.
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by John | Mar 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The original advertising art is basically the same as what you see here—minus the dialogue. So I’m not posting it. — John
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A 1924 woman in a blue dress is talking on the phone while standing at a desk. Out the window beside her we see a 1924 Ford car. Possibly a Model T?
WOMAN: What am I wearing? What a strange phone survey! I’m naked! How about you?
Ad for 1924 Ford Closed Cars Artist: Unknown
Switchboard Operator: John Lustig
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by John | Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Tony Isabella’s script for today’s episode called for Abby to be “looking at lots of flowers” in her hospital room. But no such panel existed in the original, published Frank Frazetta story. So I had to get creative.
For the background, I created a room full of flowers via A.I. using Midjourney. You’d think that’d be be easy. But—sheesh! it took me at least 20 gazillion tries to get something that I thought looked right. And even then, I had to add an image of flowers (taken from a photo) to go over the doorway.
Then I clipped a copy of Abby from art we’d already used. Then I placed Abby’s image in a layer over the background of the flowers–carefully positioning her so that she’d block out parts of the art that didn’t fit the script.
Then I added a tint to the overall image to make everything blend together. And then…voila! Done!
Here’s a raw version of the full A.I. art:
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color.
Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.
Past episodes of Abby Amour:
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.
↓ TranscriptABBY AND THE FLOWERS
IMAGE: Abby is looking at lots of flowers.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
CAPTION: It’s Abby’s last day at the base hospital!
CAPTION: I remember two things from my coma.
CAPTION: There was a man who came to visit every day.
CAPTION: He never gave the nurses his name.
CAPTION: He always brought fresh-cut flowers.
CAPTION: OMG! I think I know who he is!
CAPTION: To be continued next Friday!
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Background Art: A.I. Magic
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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