Portrait of Thomas Sowell

UN Traffic (with Fluffy McNutter)

Death Frieler 2

Frank Frazetta died yesterday.  He was 82 years old.

There were a handful of illustrators that inspired me when I was growing up, and Frank was at the top.  I've been ripping off his work ever since.

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I have no excuse for this.

SE Cupp Redux

UPDATE: As promised here's the final scan of "S.E. Cupp: Lioness".

SE Cupp: Lioness

Amended Petition for Roman Polanski

Original here.

We have learned the astonishing fantastic news of Roman Polanski's arrest by the Swiss police on September 26th, upon arrival in Zurich (Switzerland) while on his way to a film festival where he was due to receive an award for his career in filmmaking.




His arrest follows an American arrest warrant dating from 1978 against the filmmaker, in a case of morals drugging a 13 year old girl and sodomizing her against her will.


Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him.


We think this is awesome.


By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permitted works to be shown and for filmmakers to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this.



The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance, undermines this tradition: it opens the way for actions of which no-one can know the effects.


If the fucker would have paid for his crime after he pled guilty he would be out in time to make great films like The Ninth Gate.
 
Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown and international artist now facing extradition. This extradition, if it takes place, will be heavy in consequences and will take away his freedom which is AWESOME!
 
Filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians - everyone involved in international filmmaking - want him to know that he has their support and friendship. if he was a real man he would have paid for his crime instead of running away like a bitch.


On September 16th, 2009, Mr. Charles Rivkin, the US Ambassador to France, received French artists and intellectuals at the embassy. He presented to them the new Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the embassy, Ms Judith Baroody. In perfect French she lauded the Franco-American friendship and recommended the development of cultural relations between our two countries.


Of the 30,000 participants in an online poll by the French daily Le Figaro, more than 70 percent said Mr. Polanski, 76, should face justice.


If only in the name of this friendship between our two countries, we demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski. the US government uphold justice and put Roman Polanski behind bars.