Thursday, March 31, 2011

OVERTON LOYD: PRETTY AS A PICTURE!!!!!

Overton Loyd:  Pretty As A Picture!!!!
by Dr. Sarcofiguy, Age 45


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I was rummaging at a local music store that actually carries LP'S!  Not VINYL, but LP'S!  Meaning "Long Playin' Records!"  That's what folks used to call music on those plastic platters before they decided that it was passe' and switched to CD's! 

ANYWAY:  The good Doctor stumbled across an album from his youth.  The album?  PARLIAMENT:  FUNKENTELECHY VS THE PLACEBO SYNDROME!  Casablanca records, 1977!  Yeah, buddy!  Did that thing bring back memories!
 

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What was most especially special about this lp was that it had the actual, rarely seen, comic book inside!  YEAH!  It was Doctor Funkenstein VS Sir Nosedevoidoffunk!  It was an awesome comic drawn by the amazing OVERTON LOYD!  Now, some of you may not know this, but, Doctor Sarcofiguy's alter-ego is an artiste, and he was inspired by two people, Al Hirshfeld, and OVERTON LOYD! 


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As you can tell from Doctor Sarcofiguy's album cover (available HERE!!!!):


With this. . . .


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 AND THIS. . . .



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Oh, there was nothing like the cariacature work of the magnificent Lloyd.  It was funny.  Memorable.  And wonderfully free flowin'!  Very structured in it's "spontaneity!"  I dunno if my alter-ego ever feels like he's captured that grace of pen that Loyd, or Hirshfeld, has in his career, but he's certainly tried!


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Look for OVERTON LOYD at his website, ya hear? 
Click HERE!!!!
And for my alter-ego's, JOHN DIME'S work on his flickr site too!  HEE!!!!
Just click HERE!!!!

LATERS!

Friday, March 11, 2011

INTERVIEW WITH A GLAMPIRE!!!!!



INTERVIEW WITH A GLAMPIRE!!!!!!
By Me, that's who!!!!

Gettin' to knowwww MEEE!  Gettin' to know all ABOUT MEEEEEEEE!!!!  Hee!

The good Doctor has been most fortunate to have folks taking an interest in his wondrous career!  Yessss!  So I'm doin' a little pay it backwardsing for all the the support! 

Just consult the charmin' little links I've provided below for the recent folks that have done me a great service, ya hear!!!!?




Here's a charmin' interview, and review, with me on The Count Gore site with the loverly ATHENA, yeesssssss!



Here's an interview with me conducted by the magnanimous Scott Ruth!


Here's a charmin' review conducted by J.F. Guida and S. Michael Wilson with my alter-ego John Dimes!
If you've got the time to sit on down, it's well worth AALLLLLL the talkin' Dimes and company did! 
CAUTION:  It's a geek fest beyond all known parameters!  HEE!


The good Doctor always gets his mentions on this here charmin' site!  Just scroll on
down till you find me! There's LOADS of fun stuff to be had till ya get ta me!!!!!


LATERS!!!!!!!

Monday, March 7, 2011

BEAUTY BEYOND THE PALE or "Heroic Albinos That I've Loved!"


I hate the term albino, really.  Nowadays it emphasizes the overimportance of having a skin tone.  I'm BEIN' SERIOUS!  

People, let me tell you, when it comes to color?  There is so much prismatic diversity within the Spectral Crayola Categorical Continuum, that just calling somebody "white" or "black" is ridiculous, and just plain old LAZY!

What I want y'all ta do is buy yourself a swatch book from your local hardware store, and I want you to learn a few more color descriptions!  Fer instance, I'm NOT BLACK!  I'm more a burnt sienna, or a honey cocoa!  That's right!  And ALBINOS aren't really opaque, or devoid of color.   I refer to them as salt toned!  Sometime I've been known to use the term, POWDER, like my favorite movie character.

But my favorite descriptions for an albino's tones would be Alabaster, Snowy, or MARBLE, yeaaah.

I've already illustrated how desperately I wanted folks to produce a Sandman movie!  I've got the perfect star:


BEN WISHAW.  Oh, he was totally fantastic in one of my favorite books turned to film, PERFUME:  The Story of a Murderer, which was written by Patrick Suskind. 







As you can see, my alter-ego has manipulated a few images just to prove my point on how perfect he'd be for the role.  FUNKY, HUH?!


And then there's my other favorite Marble toned hero that I think should get the Hollywood movie treatment!   ELRIC of Melnibone'!  The journey of Elric is a wonderful blend of sword and sorcery, better even than CONAN the barbarian, I say! 


I got him cast already!  Somebody Edgar Winter-like, but not so damned old to play the part!  I was thinkin' Leornardo Di Caprio at first!  Then I saw this guy:

This Marble fashion model could do the trick, I TELL YOU!  Well, I don't know if'n he can act, 
BUT I'M DESPERATE!!!!!


OH, IF ONLY FOLKS WOULD LISTEN TA ME FOR A CHANGE!!!!