Welcome out of the machine. You’re reading BCKOMIX, an esoteric, eclectic, idiosyncratic rummage through comics, art, and culture. It’s like a dollar dive bin for my brain. This space will evolve as I write, mutating along with whatever I’m reading or working on.
Subscribe if you like:
✅ Zipatones
✅ Benday dots
✅ The Process
✅ The pulp roots of comics
✅ Cartoons that are cartoony
✅ The ancient art of cartooning
✅ Jazz, lounge, and tiki torches
✅ Outlaw, outsider, lowbrow, bizarro art
✅ Rambling thoughts on art’s future and past
✅ Weird manga and wild international comics
✅ Wallace Wood, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, etc.
✅ Classic pinup and Girlie cartoons (boomer hentai)
✅ Cultural commentary interlaced with strange personal thoughts
Who the hell are you?
A rambler. Deep southerner. Humid. Gen X-ial, between analog and digital. Grizzled. Grew up in a trailer park. Started out loving and wanting to make comics. Took advice to be practical from old guys with racks on their trucks. Went to a small state school for art, concentration in graphic design. Worked in a corrugated shed using Adobe Illustrator to design big bass decals. Burnt out. Worked a series of retail and custodial jobs. Recovering from pushing a mop. Slowly getting back into drawing. Prefer to be an anon, a man of mystery, hiding in the shadows.
I have a Xitter account where I mostly post vintage comics, because as you can see my thoughts are meandering and rarely pithy.
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