Derf Backderf
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Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
Much is made of Karloff only playing the Frankenstein monster 3 times, but Bela Legosi only played Dracula TWICE, in the original 1931 masterpiece, and in 1948, 17 years later, in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
It was Legosi's final hit film.
It was Legosi's final hit film.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Much is made of Karloff only playing the Frankenstein monster 3 times, but Bela Legosi only played Dracula TWICE, in the original 1931 masterpiece, and in 1948, 17 years later, in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
It was Legosi's final hit film.
It was Legosi's final hit film.
It's been a Mekons kind of day.
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's been a Mekons kind of day.
Frank Frazetta painting in his yard. Just as we all imagined it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Frank Frazetta painting in his yard. Just as we all imagined it.
Post you from a different era.
Working on a cartoon for the Ohio State Lantern, 1981.
Working on a cartoon for the Ohio State Lantern, 1981.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Post you from a different era.
Working on a cartoon for the Ohio State Lantern, 1981.
Working on a cartoon for the Ohio State Lantern, 1981.
Oh, just a fan reading My Friend Dahmer in the nude.
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Oh, just a fan reading My Friend Dahmer in the nude.
The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
I have a couple early Supe strips. This one from May 1940 is obviously Shuster art.
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have a couple early Supe strips. This one from May 1940 is obviously Shuster art.
There was a FOURTH Stooge! Fred Sanborn, on the right. After the film, he left the group, to concentrate on his xylophone act.
Bad call.
Bad call.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There was a FOURTH Stooge! Fred Sanborn, on the right. After the film, he left the group, to concentrate on his xylophone act.
Bad call.
Bad call.
Moe and Larry later reconciled with Healy, but Shemp wouldn't and quit to become a character actor in film. He was replaced by younger brother Jerry "Babe" Howard... aka Curly.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Moe and Larry later reconciled with Healy, but Shemp wouldn't and quit to become a character actor in film. He was replaced by younger brother Jerry "Babe" Howard... aka Curly.
Yes, it's another insomnia night, if you haven't guessed.
Healy was a Vaudeville star, which is where he invented the Stooges. After this film, the Stooges quit the act, tireed of Healy's drunken rages and skinflint ways & returned to Vaudeville as the Three Lost Soles.
Healy sued, but lost.
Healy was a Vaudeville star, which is where he invented the Stooges. After this film, the Stooges quit the act, tireed of Healy's drunken rages and skinflint ways & returned to Vaudeville as the Three Lost Soles.
Healy sued, but lost.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Yes, it's another insomnia night, if you haven't guessed.
Healy was a Vaudeville star, which is where he invented the Stooges. After this film, the Stooges quit the act, tireed of Healy's drunken rages and skinflint ways & returned to Vaudeville as the Three Lost Soles.
Healy sued, but lost.
Healy was a Vaudeville star, which is where he invented the Stooges. After this film, the Stooges quit the act, tireed of Healy's drunken rages and skinflint ways & returned to Vaudeville as the Three Lost Soles.
Healy sued, but lost.
SOUP TO NUTS is on Tubi!
Written by cartoonist great Rube Goldberg. Fantastic period piece from 1930. Great footage of LA.
And it's notable for being the 1st appearance of the Three Stooges! At the time they were sidekicks to the infamous comedian Ted Healy. Note it's Shemp at the beginning.
Written by cartoonist great Rube Goldberg. Fantastic period piece from 1930. Great footage of LA.
And it's notable for being the 1st appearance of the Three Stooges! At the time they were sidekicks to the infamous comedian Ted Healy. Note it's Shemp at the beginning.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
SOUP TO NUTS is on Tubi!
Written by cartoonist great Rube Goldberg. Fantastic period piece from 1930. Great footage of LA.
And it's notable for being the 1st appearance of the Three Stooges! At the time they were sidekicks to the infamous comedian Ted Healy. Note it's Shemp at the beginning.
Written by cartoonist great Rube Goldberg. Fantastic period piece from 1930. Great footage of LA.
And it's notable for being the 1st appearance of the Three Stooges! At the time they were sidekicks to the infamous comedian Ted Healy. Note it's Shemp at the beginning.
Neal Adams. As good as it gets.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Neal Adams. As good as it gets.
In honor of Dick Cheney.
From 2004.
From 2004.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In honor of Dick Cheney.
From 2004.
From 2004.
Dick Cheney in his "undisclosed location" during the early years of the War on Terror, directing the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2003.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dick Cheney in his "undisclosed location" during the early years of the War on Terror, directing the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2003.
In honor of Dick Cheney.
From 2007.
From 2007.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In honor of Dick Cheney.
From 2007.
From 2007.
In honor of Dick Cheney.
The infamous quail incident. While quail hunting with GOP bigshots, Cheney accidentally shot lawyer 78-year-old lawyer
Harry Whittington in the face.
Cheney never apologized, public or privately.
I thought up this cartoon in a flash of inspiration & burst out laughing.
The infamous quail incident. While quail hunting with GOP bigshots, Cheney accidentally shot lawyer 78-year-old lawyer
Harry Whittington in the face.
Cheney never apologized, public or privately.
I thought up this cartoon in a flash of inspiration & burst out laughing.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In honor of Dick Cheney.
The infamous quail incident. While quail hunting with GOP bigshots, Cheney accidentally shot lawyer 78-year-old lawyer
Harry Whittington in the face.
Cheney never apologized, public or privately.
I thought up this cartoon in a flash of inspiration & burst out laughing.
The infamous quail incident. While quail hunting with GOP bigshots, Cheney accidentally shot lawyer 78-year-old lawyer
Harry Whittington in the face.
Cheney never apologized, public or privately.
I thought up this cartoon in a flash of inspiration & burst out laughing.
Maybe I'm Amazed.
Paul, Linda, and friend. Early 1970s, just after the Beatles break up.
Paul, Linda, and friend. Early 1970s, just after the Beatles break up.
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Maybe I'm Amazed.
Paul, Linda, and friend. Early 1970s, just after the Beatles break up.
Paul, Linda, and friend. Early 1970s, just after the Beatles break up.
Even the cable tv remotes were paneled!
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Even the cable tv remotes were paneled!
Blue and brown. Lots of wood paneling. Even the cars! Everyone thinks it looked like Miami Vice. Hell, I lived in Miami in the 1980s and it didn't look that that!
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Blue and brown. Lots of wood paneling. Even the cars! Everyone thinks it looked like Miami Vice. Hell, I lived in Miami in the 1980s and it didn't look that that!
Reading comprehension not high on Elmo Musk's list of priorities.
The "hard men of Gondor." Weakened and corrupt, obsessed with past glories and barely able to function as a nation. A couple Hobbits had to save their collective asses.
The "hard men of Gondor." Weakened and corrupt, obsessed with past glories and barely able to function as a nation. A couple Hobbits had to save their collective asses.
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reading comprehension not high on Elmo Musk's list of priorities.
The "hard men of Gondor." Weakened and corrupt, obsessed with past glories and barely able to function as a nation. A couple Hobbits had to save their collective asses.
The "hard men of Gondor." Weakened and corrupt, obsessed with past glories and barely able to function as a nation. A couple Hobbits had to save their collective asses.
It's a great book! I'd put it on my Ten Best of the Bronze Age. Steve Gerber at his peak. Howard was his masterwork. Gorgeous Frank Brunner art. His career was so short people forget how good he was.
Set in Cleveland, at out Burning River low point. gerbder never set foot here, but we loved it.
Set in Cleveland, at out Burning River low point. gerbder never set foot here, but we loved it.
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It's a great book! I'd put it on my Ten Best of the Bronze Age. Steve Gerber at his peak. Howard was his masterwork. Gorgeous Frank Brunner art. His career was so short people forget how good he was.
Set in Cleveland, at out Burning River low point. gerbder never set foot here, but we loved it.
Set in Cleveland, at out Burning River low point. gerbder never set foot here, but we loved it.