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Artist Profile: Tony DeZuniga, co-creator of Jonah Hex

Musashi — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:11:58 +0000

This weekend’s release of the Jonah Hex film prompted me to consider the man who helped create the character, Filipino comic-book artist Tony DeZuniga. Unbeknownst to many American comic book fans, Filipinos have had a huge influence on mainstream comics – Ernie Chan, Alex Niño, Carlo Pagulayan, Whilce Portacio, Nesto Redonodo, Romeo Tanghal, and Lenil Yu are all names that are likely familiar to comic book readers, but I imagine few were aware of their cultural background.

I’ve been meaning to write a full overview of Filipino comic book artists (and still might someday), but for now here’s a gallery of Mr. DeZuniga’s work.

William S. Burroughs’ manriki-gusari

Musashi — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:32:45 +0000

Manriki-gusari – a traditional ninja weapon – once owned by late Beat author William S. Burroughs. Photographed by Peter Ross. The rest of the set can be seen here. (via Boing Boing)

Under pressure…

Musashi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:03:17 +0000

This is what mountains look like when they’re about to get all explode-y.

(Full size version at the Nasa Earth Observatory)

Fallout 4 screenshots! Oh wait, those are just photos of China…

Musashi — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:14:27 +0000

In case you were wondering if China was in fact a polluted shithole, here’s a whole gallery to help you make your travel plans that much easier. Good fucking Christ, is it just me or does this look like the latest Red Faction game?

Gen Con Indy 2009 photo gallery

Musashi — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:24:16 +0000

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ComicCon cosplay gallery

Mazinga — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:43:18 +0000

Here’s a swell gallery of cosplay from the 2009 ComicCon.

(via MeFi)

Bad Ass animated .gif of the day

Musashi — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:36:40 +0000

Kim Jong-Il’s clone appears more gaunt than usual…

Musashi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:45:01 +0000

Somebody needs to be plugged into their protein pod-feed, stat...

Who you gonna call??? My son’s Ghostbusters cosplay

Musashi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:55:17 +0000

I’ve been meaning to get off my lazy ass and post these for a couple weeks now. My son is a rabid Ghostbusters fan. I picked up the Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II DVD combo about 18-months ago and for whatever reason he promptly sat through the original film about twice a week for six months straight. He hums the incidental music to himself when occupied with other things and knows the name of every character, major and minor. Seriously – it’s scary.

So when Halloween time approached this year, when asked what he wanted to be for Halloween, his response was: Peter Venkman! Of course, being me – I procrastinated until October 29th before hacking out his costume in desperation over the course of two days. I fabricated a proton pack and proton accelerator out of spare shipping material lying around the office and computer cables from home and accented it with vinyl graphics I produced at work. I made the night vision goggles out of swimming goggles and two small sections of PVC pipe. Elbow and kneepads were purchased at Wal-Mart and the shirt, shoes, and pants came out my son’s wardrobe (tan utility jumpsuits for four-year-olds apparently aren’t a regularly stocked item at most department stores, so we had to make do).

The whole think took about 1-1/2 days to assemble from first tinge of panic to the last coat of paint.

More pics after the jump…

At the Halloween parade in our town:

My son and my father, at the same parade: