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May 3, 2009


FFF Results Post #162—Aht

On Friday, CR asked its readers to "Name Five Artistic Enterprises That Exist In Comics And What Comic They Come From." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Twitch City, Love and Rockets
2. It Was A Dark And Stormy Night, Peanuts
3. Snoopy's Rembrandt, Peanuts
4. The Pootan Show, Cromartie High School
5. Unfinished Who Watches The Watchmen Graffiti, Watchmen

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Chris Keels

* "Something Something Oranges Something" movie/ D.R. and Quinch
* George Cecil Hamilton III's "Zygote"/ Hate
* Epps' racial caricature paintings/ Clowes' Gyneology
* J. Jonah Jameson's Pop-Art-as-interpreted-by-Steve-Ditko collection ("Boy, I wish I could draw feet like that!")/ Amazing Spider-Man
* Our Man statue (Ditko again)/ Blue Beetle

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Stergios Botzakis

1. The Painting That Ate Paris, Doom Patrol
2. Billy and the Boingers, Bloom County
3. Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie, Calvin and Hobbes
4. Omniman Comics, Supreme
5. Arkon IV, West Coast Avengers

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Buzz Dixon

1 - Phineas Freak's marijuana high fashion line, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
2 - "The Attack On Pearl Harper" historical re-enactment, Li'l Abner
3 - "Sawdust" comic strip, Dick Tracy
4 - "The Invisible Tribe" comic strip, Dick Tracy
5 - "On This Fat Belly I Do Declare / Ming A Punk Beyond Compare" body art, Flash Gordon

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Andrew Mansell

1. Sawdust-- Dick Tracy
2. Fearless Fosdick-- Li'l Abner
3. Li'l Adam by Al Slapp-- The Spirit
4. Peter Parker's photo of Tony Stark in Invincible Iron Man #7
5. The Painting that Ate Paris-- Doom Patrol

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Sean Kleefeld

1. The sculptures of Alicia Masters, Fantastic Four (multiple issues)
2. The Life Story of the Flash by Iris Allen, The Life Story of the Flash
3. Captain America comics by Steve Rogers, Captain America (multiple issues)
4. "#1 House Rule" by Nightcat, Nightcat #1
5. Devil Dinosaur: The Movie a Sanders Production, Thing #31

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John Vest

1. The Vampire Conspiracy, Tomb Of Dracula #56
2. Len Carson's Starr the Slayer stories, Chamber Of Darkness #4
3. Mr. Tawny's book, Captain Marvel Adventures #126
4. Paul Same's art show, Howard The Duck #4
5. Clay Washburn's pulps, Wordsmith

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Sam Humphries

* The cartoons of Kalo, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
* The Space Ape Eight Show, The Land of Nod Rockabye Book
* Nightwing and Flamebird holofactor show, Superman Annual 11, "For the Man who has Everything"
* Rulers of the Omniverse feature film, Concrete: Fragile Creature
* The Fantastic Four Roast, The Fantastic Four Roast

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Mark Coale

1. The Painting that Ate Paris, Doom Patrol
2. Altered Egos, All-Star Squadron
3. Alicia Masters' statue of the Thing, Fantastic Four
4. Janet Van Dyne's Fashion Line, The Avengers
5. Dagwood Sandwich, Blondie

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Michael Grabowski

* Captain Tomorrow, Hicksville
* Kalo's New Yorker cartoons, It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken
* "Tales of the Black Freighter," Watchmen
* "The Seeing Eye Dogs of Mars," The ACME Novelty Library #19
* The Adventures of Ivan, Reid Fleming, World'sToughest Milkman

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Rick Lowell

1) Alicia Master's sculptures (Fantastic Four)
2) The Archie's Band (Archie comics)
3) Katchoo's paintings (Strangers in Paradise)
4) Rick Jones' music career (Captain Marvel)
5) Shakespeare Theatre Company performs for the Endless (Sandman)

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James C. Langdell

1. BC Comics, 'Mazing Man
2. The Brotherhood of Dada very existence, Doom Patrol
3. The Bulldaggers, Savage Henry
4. The art school Juliet attends, Paris
5. The nameless firms of artisans who create the gigantic anything-you-want for events in Gotham City, Batman

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1. Infinity Showcase, Pussey!
2. Nightstalker, Box Office Poison
3. Mayor Hundred's biographical comic, Ex Machina
4. WHIZ broadcasts, Captain Marvel
5. James Kochalka's comics, American Elf

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Randall Kirby

1. Captain Clarinet's clarinet playing - Ps238
2. Statue triptych - Spiral Bound
3. Dawk's Stone Lithography - THB
4. Omaha's dancing - Omaha the Cat Dancer
5. Devil Puppetry - Dork!

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Scott Dunbier

1) Jughead #134 cover by Dan DeCarlo Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead visit a pop art gallery--and Jughead has a copy of Zap Comix!
2) That House of Mystery story by Gil Kane and Wally Wood that has Kane, as a comic book Artist, being pulled into a page of comic art. Was it called His name is Kane!?
3) Creepy #1, Baldo Smudge, by Al Williamson. About the hack cartoonist who takes credit for others work, and kills them when they try to collect their due--and the hack cartoonist is real!
4) Jughead's Dipsy Doodle pages.
5) My World, from Weird Science #22. The great Wally Wood describes the wonders of being a comic book artist.

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Gary Usher

1. Humberto's Palomar statues from Love and Rockets
2. "Franz Kafka" comic strip in Criminal
3. Schroeder's Beethoven bust from Peanuts
4. The birthday cake trophy made from "The Demon of Destiny Drive" and...
5. The portrait of Dr. Drew hanging above Doc Stearn's fireplace both from Mr. Monster (original series)

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Michael Dooley

1. Writing "I Was a Saturday-Evening Post-Modernist" -- Two-Fisted Painters Action Adventures
2. Painting signs -- Little Signs of Passion
3. Forging Picassos -- Ace Hole, Midget Detective
4. Murdering painters as performance art -- Two-Fisted Painters Action Adventures
5. Struggling with the creation of a memoir that deals with the Holocaust -- Maus

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Eric Knisley

1. Radiant City, Mister X.
2. Bianca Castafiore's TV premiere, "The Castafiore Emerald" (Tintin)
3. Auralie's "visions that dance", Forever People
4. Sex Bob-omb, Scott Pilgrim
5. The caveman movie (it's never named) from "Primal Man?" (The Crusaders, a Jack Chick spin-off)

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thanks to all that participated

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