Thursday, July 2, 2009

steel pole bath tub





i've always loved this strip,
it's from a comicbook
which came as an insert with
steel pole bath tub's
1990 album, "Lurch"
:
this comic drawn by
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4 comments:

  1. troylloydJuly 2, 2009 at 1:07 AM

    Gary Panter did the cover art
    for spbt's album "scars from
    falling
    down"

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  2. Andrei MolotiuJuly 2, 2009 at 3:27 AM

    Wow, that's fuckin' fantastic!!! Do you have any idea who drew it?

    Even before I read your comment I was going to say it reminds me of Gary's Zomoid!

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  3. troylloydJuly 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM

    :
    i'm pretty sure it's by Dale Flattum

    he did a zine thing in the late 80's
    early 90's called Flesh Horse (look at the 5th post from bottom) - that was done in
    that specific style, i wish i had
    some copies of that zine!

    here is some stuff of his at gigposters

    my funny but sad steelpolebathtub story:
    i saw them play live in the early 90's,
    it was an unusual venue outside the usual
    "grunge circuit" at this club in Buckhead
    (yuppietown), anyway, before i went to the
    show i went by the Book Nook & spent what
    little money i had on a nice spiralbound
    fullcolor David Sandlin artcomic...
    the show was great, they jammed down the
    house, but i wanted a t-shirt & didn't have
    enough money, so after their set they were
    setting to the side & i approached them
    & asked if they would trade a t-shirt for
    a David Sandlin book & they did the trade,
    sadly, as is often the case, a girlfriend
    later absconded with the t-shirt !!!

    i've lost so many of my cool t-shirts to
    xgirlfriends!!!

    & damn, those David Sandlin things are
    fairly rare, so i ended up losing both ways!!

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  4. troylloydJuly 3, 2009 at 12:58 AM

    i edit'd the post to ammend
    Dale Flattum's authorship,
    i contacted him for permish
    if this post was okay
    & he said yes.

    funnily, he also told me
    that the David Sandlin book
    i had traded was swiped by
    one his xgirlfriends, ha!

    it comes full circle.

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