by John | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new tale of comic terror (and indigestion) from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Pencils by Mike Sekowsky from the story “Date with Scandal” Pencils in Intimate Love #28, Aug. 1954. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man and woman with blood on their faces.
CAPTION: Sure, at first, “eating the rich” sounded like a fun idea for Jon and Nancy’s monthly date night.
CAPTION: But, to their dismay, greed and privilege leave an awful aftertaste.
CAPTION: Next month, they would go to Olive Garden.
CAPTION: 1954 Art: Mike Sekowsky Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer & Reformed Vegan: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man and woman with blood on their faces.
CAPTION: Sure, at first, “eating the rich” sounded like a fun idea for Jon and Nancy’s monthly date night.
CAPTION: But, to their dismay, greed and privilege leave an awful aftertaste.
CAPTION: Next month, they would go to Olive Garden.
CAPTION: 1954 Art: Mike Sekowsky Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer & Reformed Vegan: Tony Isabella
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by John | Oct 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
From now through the rest of the month, I’m going to be featuring a lot of Halloween and horror humor. So if you’re feeling squeamish, close your eyes!
Today’s Last Kiss photo comic is adapted from a photo by
Dollar Gill on Unsplash.
(Yeah. I added a snow blizzard to the original.)
Transcript:
SCENE: Skull-faced figure with long hair looks out towards us. The creature is wearing an orange, hooded sweatshirt with the hood up. It’s snowing.
SKULLFACE: Hi. I’m Darla. I sat behind you in Home Room. Remember telling me to drop dead? And that you wouldn’t date me ’til Hell froze over? Well… guess what?!!
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Skull-faced figure with long hair looks out towards us. The creature is wearing an orange, hooded sweatshirt with the hood up. It's snowing.
SKULLFACE: Hi. I'm Darla. I sat behind you in Home Room. Remember telling me to drop dead? And that you wouldn't date me 'til Hell froze over? Well... guess what?!!
Adapted from a photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash.
https://unsplash.com/photos/vEoNuyoy9cw
https://unsplash.com/@dollargill
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
https://unsplash.com/@dollargill
by John | Oct 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Diego and Icha on their wedding day.
Last Kiss Artist Marries
I’m thrilled to announce that artist Diego Jourdan Pereira has lost his bachelor status and gotten hitched! He and his sweetie Maritza “Icha” Mardones Castillo were wed last Friday (Oct. 1) in Santiago, Chile where they both live.
The couple met in 2008 at a friend’s birthday party and eventually dated. But that first brush with romance didn’t stick. Years later they re-united and fell in love.
(By then Diego was re-inking and coloring romance art for Last Kiss. And I like to think that all that romance work had something to do with Diego and Icha finding true love.)
In addition to his Last Kiss work, Diego has worked on numerous other comics, coloring books and licensing projects for major publishers such as DC Comics. In the last few years, Diego has also become the author of numerous trivia and puzzle books.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Pencils by Charles Nicholas. (Inks possibly by Jon D’Agostino.) From the story “The End of the Honeymoon” in BRIDES IN LOVE #1, 1956. Click link to read this entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: A groom and bride are close–possibly about to kiss.
GROOM: Just think! We can spend our entire honeymoon in bed…reading comics.
1956 Pencils: Charles Nicholas Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A groom and bride are close--possibly about to kiss.
GROOM: Just think! We can spend our entire honeymoon in bed...reading comics.
1956 Pencils: Charles Nicholas Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Frank Tinsley from SKYMAN #2, 1942. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
WOMAN: I don’t mind if a man is a little short or a little bald! But if he has a little (Censored)…That’s a little too much!
1942 Art: Frank Tinsley Re-creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptWOMAN: I don’t mind if a man is a little short or a little bald! But if he has a little (Censored)...That’s a little too much!
1942 Art: Frank Tinsley Re-creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Oct 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Because of Covid, Oktoberfest wasn’t held this year in Germany. But that didn’t stop Gorgo in this tale of Monster Love from Tony Isabella.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Bill Montes and Ernie Bache from the story “The World Shaker” in Gorgo #19, July 1964. Charlton Comics. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
PANEL #1: Gorgo is standing tall above the jungle, but is leaning unsteadily as if about to fall. There are are stars and special effect images above his head indicating that he’s losing consciousness.
PANEL #2: Gorgo crashes to the ground. A man flees screaming.
CAPTION: it was a familiar tale. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl.
Boy drinks to forget girl.
And, as always, it was the helpless breweries…
…that paid the price for love unrequited.
SOUND EFFECT: KRAASH
MAN: YEEIII!
1964 Art: Bill Montes & Ernie Bache
Writer: Tony Isabella
John Lustig’s Last Kiss
©2021 Last Kiss Inc
↓ TranscriptSCENE:
PANEL #1: Gorgo is standing tall above the jungle, but is leaning unsteadily as if about to fall. There are are stars and special effect images above his head indicating that he's losing consciousness.
PANEL #2: Gorgo crashes to the ground. A man flees screaming.
CAPTION: it was a familiar tale. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl.
Boy drinks to forget girl.
And, as always, it was the helpless breweries...
...that paid the price for love unrequited.
SOUND EFFECT: KRAASH
MAN: YEEIII!
1964 Art: Bill Montes & Ernie Bache
Writer: Tony Isabella
John Lustig’s Last Kiss
©2021 Last Kiss Inc
