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Title: Found old cartoons I did for a Computer Store in 1991!
Post by: theMadArtist on February 18, 2016, 11:51:15 AM
Forgot all ABOUT these!
Store didn't last long- even tho flooded with business....
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 18, 2016, 11:52:47 AM
Lemme know if you want to see more.
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Post by: mk162 on February 18, 2016, 12:34:18 PM
these are cool.  I like the style of 90's hand drawn art.
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Post by: tpitman on February 18, 2016, 03:58:19 PM
At first I thought it was for the ComputerCity down at the mall by the interstate. They sold Macs, too, and had a service bureau for film.
Just out of curiosity, did you used to live around here? I worked catywampus across the street at the Maitland Avenue intersection at Florida Software Services (711 Building) which in the early 90s had become Kirchman Corp.
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 18, 2016, 04:24:06 PM
At first I thought it was for the ComputerCity down at the mall by the interstate. They sold Macs, too, and had a service bureau for film.
Just out of curiosity, did you used to live around here? I worked catywampus across the street at the Maitland Avenue intersection at Florida Software Services (711 Building) which in the early 90s had become Kirchman Corp.

Yes, indeedee! Lived in Central Fla all my like up to @ 9 years agoi- when moving up here to Seattle- the opposite side of the U.S.!
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 18, 2016, 04:24:57 PM
these are cool.  I like the style of 90's hand drawn art.

Thanks, MK- I LOVE cartooning by hand. Will post the rest....
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Post by: Sbrem on February 18, 2016, 05:47:43 PM
I get a sense of R. Crumb in your cartoons... (just a little mind you)

Steve
Title: Re: Found old cartoons I did for a Computer Store in 1991!
Post by: theMadArtist on February 19, 2016, 12:14:28 AM
Thanks for the compliment; Crumb was very good!
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Post by: Sbrem on February 19, 2016, 07:38:01 AM
Zap Comics came out when I was in high school, they weren't my father's comics, LOL. I bet Frog knows what I mean...

Steve
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Post by: Doug S on February 19, 2016, 09:41:23 AM
Very nice drawings but they also make me laugh because of the computer specs.  I thought I had something when I had a computer like that in the past.
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 19, 2016, 03:53:32 PM
Very nice drawings but they also make me laugh because of the computer specs.  I thought I had something when I had a computer like that in the past.

It was HILARIOUS: they had a voice-over man imitating the Terminator saying these lines on the radio! Everytime I went there the store was packed!
I don't remember- but a partner or their accountant stole funds- and the store went under after 2 6 months......
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 19, 2016, 03:55:03 PM
-GASP!- ONE MEG RAM!!!!!!
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Post by: Sbrem on February 20, 2016, 09:52:31 AM
The Mac Plus I learned on had 1 MB of RAM, and an external 20 MB hard drive, that cost over $600 in 1990. Floppy drive or could add some extra drives (SCSI) and a 9" Black and White screen, no gray or color. I figured out how to upgrade it to 4MB of RAM, it really screamed then, let me tell ya...

Steve
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Post by: Frog on February 20, 2016, 10:14:22 AM
Zap Comics came out when I was in high school, they weren't my father's comics, LOL. I bet Frog knows what I mean...

Steve


Actually, if your father was into comics at all, that "pre comics code" stuff was pretty heavy in its own right!
As our comic fan-boy Mad knows well, some of the covers are classic!
http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html (http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html)

http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html (http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html)

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Post by: theMadArtist on February 20, 2016, 12:45:17 PM
Yup! I'm a 60-year old kid~

http://oldcomicsonline.weebly.com/ (http://oldcomicsonline.weebly.com/)

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Post by: theMadArtist on February 20, 2016, 11:01:23 PM
More~
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Post by: tpitman on February 20, 2016, 11:40:13 PM
The Mac Plus I learned on had 1 MB of RAM, and an external 20 MB hard drive, that cost over $600 in 1990. Floppy drive or could add some extra drives (SCSI) and a 9" Black and White screen, no gray or color. I figured out how to upgrade it to 4MB of RAM, it really screamed then, let me tell ya...

Steve

My first Mac was a !!si. One meg of RAM soldered onto the motherboard, cracked my wallet for another. 40 meg hard drive.
Coupled with a Macintosh 13" monitor which was the standard at the time.

Invoice attached to show how far we've come in terms of bang for the buck. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro I bought last year for $1700.
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 21, 2016, 02:29:30 PM
Imagine in the NEXT 20 years!
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Post by: jvanick on February 21, 2016, 03:00:56 PM
man those ads bring back some OLD memories...

I remember getting the 'Computer Shopper' magazine and pouring over the deals....

started in 1986 with a clone 8088 (nec-v20 "turbo") with hercules mono graphics, single 360k floppy drive, dos 2.1, and 640k added a 20 meg! hard drive for like $800..

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Post by: theMadArtist on February 22, 2016, 07:10:36 AM
20 megs of RAM???? THEN???
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Post by: Sbrem on February 22, 2016, 09:32:02 AM
Zap Comics came out when I was in high school, they weren't my father's comics, LOL. I bet Frog knows what I mean...

Steve


Actually, if your father was into comics at all, that "pre comics code" stuff was pretty heavy in its own right!
As our comic fan-boy Mad knows well, some of the covers are classic!
[url]http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html[/url] ([url]http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html[/url])

[url]http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html[/url] ([url]http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html[/url])


My dad's comic reading days were in the Twenties, nothing nasty there, but I remember EC comics, lots of blood and gore...

Steve
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Post by: theMadArtist on February 28, 2016, 10:26:42 PM
Zap Comics came out when I was in high school, they weren't my father's comics, LOL. I bet Frog knows what I mean...

Steve


Actually, if your father was into comics at all, that "pre comics code" stuff was pretty heavy in its own right!
As our comic fan-boy Mad knows well, some of the covers are classic!
[url]http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html[/url] ([url]http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html[/url])

[url]http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html[/url] ([url]http://www.retrospace.org/2009/11/pre-code-nastiness.html[/url])


My dad's comic reading days were in the Twenties, nothing nasty there, but I remember EC comics, lots of blood and gore...

Steve


There were comic books in the 20s????
Title: Re: Found old cartoons I did for a Computer Store in 1991!
Post by: theMadArtist on March 01, 2016, 07:43:21 AM
more
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Post by: Sbrem on March 01, 2016, 08:49:15 AM
I didn't use the word "books" on purpose, it would have been the comics in the newspapers for dad as far as I know.

Steve
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Post by: Frog on March 01, 2016, 09:32:20 AM
Yeah, there actually weren't any "Comic Books" until the "30's, though in 1929, Dell gave us a glimpse of what was to come. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funnies)

As for the beginning of comic strips, historians actually credit the cave dwellers of Lascaux, France 17,000 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux)!

This actually was the subject of a paper I wrote back in school around 1973!
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Post by: theMadArtist on March 01, 2016, 07:51:08 PM
Cool info, Froggy!
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Post by: theMadArtist on March 05, 2016, 09:52:28 PM
Found another example~ a Finance Company for Realtors wanted an Christmas card with the faces of many employee photos cut out and pasted over cartoons of the provided story....TOUGH job! (B.C.- Before Computers!)

The Front Cover~
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Post by: theMadArtist on March 05, 2016, 09:54:14 PM
1997~ Inside page 1
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Post by: theMadArtist on May 04, 2016, 10:25:10 AM
Found THIS from the 80s!
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Post by: Command-Z on May 04, 2016, 07:07:58 PM
These are great! Keep em coming.

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Post by: theMadArtist on May 28, 2016, 10:55:13 PM
Nudder One I just found~
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Post by: theMadArtist on May 28, 2016, 11:18:47 PM
And some more~