by John | Dec 8, 2022 | 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. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella. If you’ve missed some episodes, no problem. You can catch them here:
Transcript:
SCENE: Abby and Johnny are in a Jeep.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
JOHNNY: You sure you wanna go to the base hospital, Lt.?
JOHNNY: I’ve got medicinal tequila in my barracks.
ABBY: I’d rather take my chances…
ABBY: …with the food poisoning!
CAPTION: To be continued…
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Abby and Johnny are in a Jeep.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
JOHNNY: You sure you wanna go to the base hospital, Lt.?
JOHNNY: I’ve got medicinal tequila in my barracks.
ABBY: I’d rather take my chances...
ABBY: ...with the food poisoning!
CAPTION: To be continued...
1953 Art: Frank Frazetta Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve gotten a very positive response to today’s image. And some questions. So here’s a little info on how it was created:
Without any idea of how I’d use it, I created the basic image as an experiment using the AI program MidJourney. My prompt was “Photo of a beautiful woman on the edge of the world. In a photo by sherry akrami.”
(The resulting image wasn’t an actual Akrami photo, but was done in the style of Akrami’s black & white, fantasy photos.)
I then created several different versions of the “photo.” Here are just four of them:
Then I picked the one I liked best and started enhancing it. (By that time I had an idea for the text to go with the image.)
Then I ran the black and white image through a second AI program called PixBim Color Surprise (new to me) which colored the image. Then I fired up Luminar Neo (also new to me) which among other things has an AI function which allowed me to swap out the rather dull sky for a much more colorful one—with a single click of a button.
And then I put the image into Photoshop where I significantly enhanced the image’s colors.
Then I placed the image into Illustrator and lettered it.
All in all, it was a lot of steps—some with new tools—but, oh boy, did I have fun!
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman standing on the edge of a cliff, looking over a colorful, fantasy world.
CAPTION: Reading books opened a new world for her! And now…she was ready…to rule it!
2022 Art: A.I. Magic Book Lover: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman standing on the edge of a cliff, looking over a colorful, fantasy world.
CAPTION: Reading books opened a new world for her! And now...she was ready...to rule it!
2022 Art: A.I. Magic Book Lover: John Lustig
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by John | Dec 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
My thanks to my brother-in-law Rich Hernandez for helping me come up with today’s gag. (I knew my sister marrying you was a great idea!)
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “To Stella with Love” in FIRST KISS #3, 1958. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A crying woman lies on a couch, hugging a cushion.
WOMAN (thinking): I really miss my third…or was it my fifth husband? Gosh! What was his name? I really need to write these things down!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writers of Things Down: John Lustig & Rich Hernandez
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A crying woman lies on a couch, hugging a cushion.
WOMAN (thinking): I really miss my third…or was it my fifth husband? Gosh! What was his name? I really need to write these things down!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writers of Things Down: John Lustig & Rich Hernandez
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by John | Dec 1, 2022 | 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. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Here’s a scan of Frazetta’s original line art.
The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella. If you’ve missed any episodes, no problem. You can catch here:
Transcript:
SCENE: Johnny Sacko is driving Abby to the hospital in his Jeep.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
JOHNNY SACHO: You sure you wanna go to the base hospital, Lt.?
JOHNNY SACHO: I’ve got medicinal tequila in my barracks.
ABBY: I’d rather take my chances…
ABBY: …with the food poisoning!
CAPTION: To be continued…
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Johnny Sacko is driving Abby to the hospital in his Jeep.
LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour
JOHNNY SACHO: You sure you wanna go to the base hospital, Lt.?
JOHNNY SACHO: I’ve got medicinal tequila in my barracks.
ABBY: I’d rather take my chances...
ABBY: ...with the food poisoning!
CAPTION: To be continued...
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by John | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani from the story “Honeymoon Continued” in First Kiss #24, Jan. 1962. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Middle-aged woman is talking to a younger woman. The younger woman is drinking from a teacup.
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN: Y-You’re sleeping with my son?
YOUNGER WOMAN: I’m not sure! Can you describe him?
1962 Art: Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Middle-aged woman is talking to a younger woman. The younger woman is drinking from a teacup.
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN: Y-You’re sleeping with my son?
YOUNGER WOMAN: I’m not sure! Can you describe him?
1962 Art: Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani Color: Allen Freeman
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