Bryan Baugh

My comic book series WULF & BATSY! The Adventures of a Ferocious Werewolf and a Cute Female Vampire as they wander the earth, looking for a place to call Home. 🐺🦇🩸 Where to get it: Website: bryanbaugh.net/wulf-and-batsy/ Print editions: cryptlogic.bigcartel.com Digital: globalcomix.com/c/wulf-and-bat… Wulf & Batsy on YouTube: @bryanbaughart7677" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@bryanbaughart…

@AlexvrbX I am definitely a weird person who does indie comics.😜 But I at least try to be polite to everyone.

Indie comics is full of weird people. I've run into multiple people who I don't interact with, and they have me blocked. Sometimes people I've bought books from. Blockchains, I assume, but even so it's like what the heck. There's a lot of catty behavior, plotting against each other and generally worrying way too much about group identity and allyship. It's the kind of crap we used to associate with SJWs. Be an individual and treat others as individuals. There's still a few bright spots here and there but increasingly I find myself pushed away from all of it.

New Spider-Man trailer looks great! Nice surprise seeing The Punisher and VERY cool to see them finally following up on The Scorpion (teased all the way back in Spider-Man Homecoming). Yeah, the MCU has had its ups and downs, but when it works, it really works, and I've enjoyed all the Tom Holland Spider-Man films. This will be a great movie to take my kid to see this summer. She likes Spidey. youtu.be/8TZMtslA3UY?si…

Godzilla vs Megalon is my second favorite (after Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 1974). But it’s a very, very close second. It’s the only Showa era G-film I saw in the theater (I forget the exact year but it was definitely in the early 1980s as a Saturday matinee screening at our local small town movie theater). Plus it seemed to be the one that got replayed most often on Saturday afternoon television, because I feel like I saw it on TV, 8 zillion times growing up.

My personal favorite of the Godzilla films, and the first movie I ever saw in the cinema.

Don’t get me wrong. Much as I appreciate the more realistic, impressive Heisei and Millennium eras… The 1970s, late-Showa era, will always be my favorite version of Godzilla. The version that was shown most often on TV when I was a kid. The version that made me love the character in the first place.😁

This guy sums up my feelings and response to modern mainstream Marvel & DC comics to a tee. Especially his last sentence. I still love those characters and still occasionally feel the urge to visit them - but when I need that fix, I am perfectly content to dig into my back issue collection and reread the good old stuff. That’s where the “real” stories about the “real” versions of those characters are to be found. I only differ with his statement on one point: I haven’t given up on ALL comics. There’s LOTS of new & exciting stuff being produced in the indie comics scene these days. You just have to find them.

T-BIRD & THROTTLE is now available in Russia! crowdrepublic.ru/projects/10729…

One of my favorites!

Although this album came out when I was in junior high school I never really listened to it until years later when I had a girlfriend who was super into it. That was a long time ago and I don’t listen to it very often anymore. But when I do, I still love the first 3 songs in a row which instantly transport me right back to memories of that time. That’s usually as much bittersweet nostalgia as I can take before I have to turn it off.

Black Celebration by Depeche Mode was released on this day in 1986, 40 years ago. What’s your favorite song or songs on the album?

OPEN for Original Art Commissions! Two Characters of Your Choice! (No Extra Charge if I decide to add more!) Sizes start at 9"x12" - send an email or private message to discuss your idea and/or if you'd like to upgrade to a larger size!

it got pretty pricey towards the end, but i finally completed my childhood dream of owning a copy of every Godzilla movie in HD and up, no less Gamera and Mothra live on my kaiju shelf too

@oHLeiqANE8fT9Ck You got the title wrong.🙄 This is from the movie NIGHTBREED by Clive Barker. EXISTENZ was a totally different movie directed by Cronenberg many years later.

映画監督が役者をする作品の中でも、1999年公開『ミディアン』で、殺人鬼フィリップ・デッカーを演じたデヴィッド・クローネンバーグは超一級品の狂気…

3 of my childhood heroes. Stephen King, Tom Savini, and George Romero with Creepshow (1982) props. If I'm not mistaken this photo appeared in an issue of Cinemafantastique magazine (I've got it around here somewhere). One of the cool things about being a kid in the 1980s was, not only were we growing up with prime George Lucas and Steven Speilberg, but also many different masters of Horror, who were also in their prime. When I was 10, Creepshow was as big a deal to me, and occupied as much of my imagination and fantasy life, as Star Wars or Raiders (heck, it still does).

Yep. I read your "wall of text" (haha) and... agree with you again. As for inking techniques and the effectiveness of knowing how to use areas of black and silhouettes... I attempted to explain and demonstrate that in a video on my YouTube channel, reviewing an (one of my favorite) issue of The Haunt of Fear, as a perfect example of that. Here's the Link... if interested. youtu.be/50QN1iMGG5Q?si…

That's a great reply and worth a lot more than two cents! A lot of current comic book art—with some very noteworthy exceptions that prove the rule (you can tell they studied & know their stuff) doesn't appeal to me, either. Often poorly drawn and told, over-rendered, too crude looking, and always...demon-gore-infested in subject matter. Too many beginners are stuck in a fan/amateur mentality where they enthusiastically try to take shortcuts & jump to the final result, copying the surface of their youthful favorites...hoping for a flashy, impressive piece. Fine, we all did it, but if you want to develop, that has to be the first phase of a growth process, not a one-and-done. The surface approach often falls short because they skip what they think of as the boring stuff—solid perspective, drawing from life, and learning all manner of not-so-obvious abstract underpinnings of art. Example: silhouetting. Few have even heard of the concept, let alone use it! Or BUY A DAMN SKULL MODEL and LEARN IT, instead of constantly drawing super warped heads. Digital self-publishing and societal media mob-groups and "likes" (with valid direct criticism most often descending into nasty online bash fights) mean that many indie people simply aren't up to scratch. They haven't held themselves to the old and higher standards. There is no one to do any grading. They've never heard "back to the old drawing board". Internet-puffed egos block realization. If Noel Sickles could redo illustrations several times before being satisfied and sending them to the publisher, isn't that mindset worth copying? Wait, sorry 'bout that, no one has heard of Noel Sickles, let alone studied his art. Everybody knows better...who needs that guy from some long-ago time? Older mainstream companies had many flaws, but the good side of "gatekeeping" and editors was that standards were maintained. Yes, they deteriorated steadily. But IMHO most indie artists self-publishing today would have been turned away from companies in yesteryear...and told to go practice and learn more. Not ready for publication. It happened to me! It happened to many beginners back in the "old days". That's how you got good, or good enough, by learning to jump and shoot far better before being allowed onto the court. But now, artists prematurely self-publish and self-crowdfund and self-everything...self-delude. It's just the way it is. Yes. I carp this way because I hope a few will catch on and dig deeper. Most don't want to hear it. Surely they think I'm a big meanie...but maybe not because "bro haha don't post a wall of text, won't read". Vast knowledge and endless examples of fantastic work are at the fingertips these days, on the internet—but ingesting such takes time and application. Instead, people [mis]use such a great tool, an amazing portal to resources, mostly for stupid fights or for "promoting" their work that few will buy because it just isn't good enough, but no one has told them that, and they won't admit it. The mind reels, and the body shudders...

YOUNG COMIC ARTISTS: a perfect example of the power of different light angles. Same form in each case, but different lighting creates vastly different moods. Take note—it’s not all about slathering endless ink all over everywhere trying to copy the surface look of your favorite 90s comics-artist hero guy. Awareness of so-called “spotting blacks” and placement of thicks and thins in the right areas has its place, but knowledge like this is vital. ALL the old masters of comics knew this stuff, as did great film-makers.

@torsodapop Horror Nerd Chiming In: If I'm not mistaken, this scene is from "The Whip and the Body" by Mario Bava.

you always loved violence

@Gryph911 This video is like a perfect reenactment of the kind of energy spinning around my place every Saturday morning while me and the kid are just chilling on the couch watching TV.

PSA for the guys. If you’ve never seen this it’s a real thing I have literally seen this happen live and in action.

@StaterJm One of my childhood favorites.

The elite don't want you to know that you can watch my review of 'Saturday the 14th' on Saturday the 14th. m.youtube.com/watch?v=70Ywl6…

My guest variant cover illustration, for the 2026 ZOMBIE TRAMP and DEAD AT 17 crossover comic book, by Dan Mendoza and Josh Howard. ORIGINAL ART now for sale at my website store. cryptlogic.bigcartel.com/product/2026-z…

A few new ORIGINAL ART pieces added to my WEBSITE STORE... LINK BELOW!

@larrykingundead EVERY Post-Claremont take on X-Men feels jarringly out-of-character to me.

Ah, the Vertigo-ification of X-Men. I liked it at the time, but rereading it all, it stinks. Everyone is out of character and the art is all over place due to terrible editorial calls. You can hear more here: youtube.com/watch?v=Dwosff…