tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16348568367485309642024-03-12T17:59:07.079-07:00KW Monsters Blog of EvilI spend most of my time devising evil plots in my secret villian's lair, underground. I pride myself on my wonderous ability to commit advanced acts of devious and demonic trickery without guilt.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.comBlogger550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-50095820405022553632016-07-22T21:55:00.002-07:002016-07-22T21:55:52.752-07:00Rosie the pup learning to say I LOVE YOU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-22508553911348741182016-07-22T16:25:00.002-07:002016-07-22T16:25:38.038-07:00PALS I haven't been on here too much lately. Some new things:<br />
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I adopted Max. He's part boxer and I don't know what else. So far he can shake hands and sit on command.His specialty is the ability to tear his pillow to pieces when no one is looking. Mei's specialty is the ability to sew it back together, over and over.<br />
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I bought Rosie for $100. Normally dachshunds cost a lot more but she didn't have any papers. I didn't care about that since I wasn't planning on breeding her. I just wanted a buddy. She can almost say "I love you" on command. It comes out as AH WUH WOO. Sometimes are better than others. If I can get a good one on video I will post it.<br />
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I got a Les Paul Studio Pro 120th anniversary edition. It cost me 2 other guitars plus some cash. The other 2 guitars had been packed away and untouched for about 20 years, and amazingly, they were still in tune. One was a Telecaster 50th anniversary edition. Weirdly it was not worth any more than what I originally paid for it. I'd been taking extra care to keep it pristine, and making space for it all this time, and it amounted to nothing. I didn't like playing it because the neck felt too thick to me.</div>
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Figured maple carved top.<br />
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<br />KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-47791957885155495292014-11-10T20:47:00.000-08:002017-02-04T21:53:38.400-08:00HOW TO GET THROUGH A RED LIGHT LEGALLYI don't really know if this is 100% legal. I've never tried it but I've wondered about it ever since I was a kid and learned it was okay to make a U-turn in the middle of the road.<br />
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Something tells me it would get me into trouble if I tried it, and I'd like for a policeman to officially tell me it would be illegal. That would rest my mind.<br />
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This is only posted for educational purposes, so if you try it and get into trouble don't go blaming me.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-81981791153820267992014-10-17T09:57:00.001-07:002014-10-17T09:57:29.586-07:00SPINNER RACKI found a spinner rack for $30 at the flea market. I've been wanting one for a good long while but they were always way out of my price range. I see them on eBay for$200-$300 and up in to the $1000s for some reason. All they are is wire and a couple poles. I have no idea why they cost so much.<br />
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It's not noticeable at this angle but my spinner rack is Baby Huey heavy.<br />
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<br />KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-49791496283196320872014-10-11T18:44:00.002-07:002014-10-11T18:44:53.649-07:00PINOCCHIO VS DRACULA in color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While digging around for another old picture I found this. It's a color version of a black and white drawing I posted a long time ago. I figured I'd go ahead and post it since I haven't posted much lately. If you snoop around you can find the black and white version.<br />
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In other news, I've just recently completed a 32-page Gold Key style comic book. Now I'm looking around for a printer who does newsprint. That's surprisingly difficult to find these days. Supposedly the newsprint paper is dusty and mucks up a digital printer. It's funny because back in the day newsprint was used because it was cheaper. Now it's more expensive than fancy shiny white paper. I wanted newsprint for nostalgic reasons. If anyone knows where I can get a comic book printed the old fashioned way let me know.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-75262044965199680602014-07-02T08:07:00.002-07:002014-07-20T07:47:47.455-07:00SQUATTING MONKEYA squatting monkey is considered good luck probably somewhere. I'm just guessing. If I'm right then it would be really lucky to have this tattooed giant-sized onto your chest or face. If I'm wrong then you'd have a lot of explaining to do.<br />
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If you'd like to see more Screaming Wilhelms click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-935098012742621392014-02-08T16:24:00.001-08:002014-02-08T16:24:41.773-08:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #16Here's the next installment of Screaming Wilhelms. This one seems more like an editorial cartoon rather than a traditional comic strip.<br />
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And for those of you who want more reasons to keep looking at it, here it is with a little color in it:<br />
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If you'd like to see more Screaming Wilhelms comics, click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-39099171962060883512014-01-09T21:21:00.000-08:002014-01-09T21:21:12.767-08:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #15Here's another Screaming Wilhelms comic. It's based on my favorite grade school jokes. I am still slightly fascinated by it.<br />
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If you'd like to see more Screaming Wilhelms comics click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming+wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-27799201744011589302013-09-25T21:03:00.000-07:002013-09-25T21:03:08.330-07:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's my latest Screaming Wilhelms comic. This is actually based on my grandpa. He was taking care of a dog named Clyde. My grandpa hated and resented Clyde and was forced to be responsible for him. I don't know if it's true or not but supposedly Clyde ate my Aunt Sandy's garage.<br />
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One day my grandpa took Clyde to the vet and the conversation in this comic happened almost word for word. When Clyde came back home that day, he had no idea how recklessly his life had been teetering. My grandpa's unwillingness to part with one more dollar kept Clyde breathing another day.<br />
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If you want to see more Screaming Wilhelms comics click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming+wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-50156316164101378812013-09-19T15:44:00.001-07:002013-09-19T15:44:35.506-07:00Nasty Sinaster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nasty Sinaster is a villainous creep. He delights in the misery of others. He looks like the <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/2009/11/blood-count-2.html" target="_blank">Blood Count</a> because they may possibly be distant relatives. Probably the main difference is his hair isn't as kempt.<br />
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It's fun to draw something after being lazy for so long. A lot of things have happened since my last posts. We moved, I got kidney stones, and gangrene in my appendix. I'm healing up pretty good now and am starting to feel better than I have in a long time. The appendix hurt pretty bad but if I had to vote I'd say the kidney stones were a little more miserable. The appendix only hurt until it was cut out. The kidney stones just kept on hurting and hurting for weeks. I didn't realize this but kidney stones have sharp points all over them and that's why they hurt so bad. The biggest one I had was slightly smaller than a B-B.<br />
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The silver lining is I lost a lot of weight! I didn't feel like eating for days on end. I'm sure the weight will come back but while it's off I'm gonna take a bunch of photos of myself doing regular everyday things. Then when I'm old and see the photos it'll look like I was normally a thin person.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-63669588732177941822013-09-08T09:51:00.000-07:002013-09-08T09:51:14.967-07:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a new Screaming Wilhelms comic. This joke takes advantage of the comics medium. When I make comics I like to think of them as storyboards for an animated movie I would make someday in the future. This is one I wouldn't be able to use. In a minor way it actually bothers me.<br />
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If you want to see more Screaming Wilhelms comics click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming+wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-54265933485356615352013-05-12T19:25:00.001-07:002013-05-12T19:26:30.553-07:00DREAMER<br />
The reason for my lack of drawing posts lately is because I've been spending my time recording songs. I didn't know a good way to post it until now. This is a song I made up called Dreamer. I recorded it using the free Audacity program. I love using Audacity and can't believe it's free.<br />
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The drums were created first, out of single hits I downloaded off the internet. I found snare, bass drum, open and closed high-hat sounds, and a crash cymbal. After I got a 2 measure drumbeat constructed I copied it for the rest of the song. Drum rolls were made on a 2nd track.<br />
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Acoustic guitars were recorded next. I doubled them so I could separate the sound in stereo. Also the double tracks make a chorus effect.<br />
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The keyboard sound is fake. It's created with a tone generator in Audacity. It will make a steady "A" note for you. Then you can chop that up and shift the pitch to make other notes. To make a chord I created multiple tracks of that A-note, and shifted them all to different keys. I added phaser and wahwah effects to the chord to make it sound like an organ. There are tons of effects inside Audacity, and you can search the internet for many others.<br />
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Then I did the electric guitar, just a raw signal straight from the guitar, to a line into the mike jack on the computer; no amplifier. The fuzz effects were more Audacity effects.<br />
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After the electric guitar was finished I added the bass. It is effect-less other than having the bass EQ pushed up a bit.<br />
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Vocals were last, and they were doubled too. Since they were doubled I didn't add echo or reverb to them.<br />
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You can record something that sounds like an entire band with only a guitar and a microphone if you don't want to spend a lot of moola. A bass part can be played on the guitar, and then pitch-shifted down an octave. The bass EQ can be raised a little to get it to sound more bassy.<br />
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I've got mixed feelings about the identical compositions in every frame. Supposedly repetition is one of the principles of art. My immediate impression is to think it's boring. I wonder though, by repeating an image a bunch of times have I transformed this picture from an illustration into a piece of art? Hey! Alright!<br />
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I'm not saying this is art, but if it were pictures of soup cans repeated a bunch it could go for thousands of $$$!<br />
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If you would like to see more Screaming Wilhelms comics click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-69690774111276884112013-03-19T20:14:00.001-07:002013-03-19T21:41:22.732-07:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My only excuse: I am male. It's bred into us males' brains to giggle eternally at the sound of cheeks'o'flappin. Ask any guy. If a guy tells you they aren't funny then you need to watch that guy.<br />
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For more Screaming Wilhelms comics click <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=wilhelms" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-2387448814768427402013-02-23T19:16:00.000-08:002013-02-23T19:16:14.788-08:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of those ideas that seem good and sensible at 2 or 3 in the morning, but then later in the fully awake part of the next day you wonder what you were thinking.<br />
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See more of The Screaming Wilhelms by clicking <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming" target="_blank">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-69828710052917624742013-02-15T16:25:00.002-08:002013-02-15T16:25:39.872-08:00BEST VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT I EVER GOTA commercial grade popcorn machine! It can make 2 gallons of popcorn at a time! I think it's about 5 feet tall.<br />
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<br />KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-79255833142185876082012-12-30T23:35:00.003-08:002012-12-30T23:35:33.150-08:00MAKE A LASER PISTOL OUT OF A JUICE BOTTLEHow do you work this blogger? I fergit! Although the real reason I haven't posted anything in a while is because of laziness I'm tempted to use "getting a new house" as an excuse. We did get a new house and it left me computerless for a while, but not for five months.
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I made a movie prop laser pistol for my yet-to-be-realized movie. I've been planning out a movie now for many years. I've got story ideas but not a complete story, and I have lots of props and friends who are willing to act.
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This laser pistol started as a pomegranate juice bottle. Actually 3 juice bottles. Walmart sells 4 different sizes. I epoxied 3 together to make a gradually tapering shape. The logos were removed with acetone and elbow grease.<br />
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Step 2: Make the entire gun! Sorry about the lack of pictures up to this point. I didn't think to snap photos until I was pretty far along. The hand grip was carved out of wood. The round part above the hand grip is a plastic wine glass with the stem removed. It was $1 at Target. The long barrel is a candy tube. The clear trigger/body contraption is made from a post-surgery breathing machine.<br />
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Here's a view of the back side. I cut part of the wine glass off so I could put batteries in the hole. There's a wooden plug for screwing over the hole. I will glue that cone-shaped clear piece to the back of the wood plug to disguise the flat back of it.<br />
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This laser pistol lights up. Here's a string of green LEDs and a battery pack ready to slide into the long tube you saw a few pictures above.<br />
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Here's another smaller cheap plastic wine glass. I pulled the base off to use it as a disk for the front "laser-emitting" end of the barrel.<br />
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I pulled this off of a Halloween toy. It lights up and blinks and changes colors. It'll go inside that front disk.<br />
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This gun will have 2 triggers. One will activate the blinking piece in the photo above, and the other will activate the long strip of green lights. These triggers are on/off buttons from Radio Shack. I epoxied them into holes drilled into the hand grip. The holes meet another hole which travels up into the top compartment. That's how the lights will attach to the batteries.<br />
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Here's another one of those breathing machines. If you've ever had to use one then you hate them, and are most likely happy to see one cut up and turned into something else.<br />
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The breathing machines also come with a flexible breathing hose. I will use that too.<br />
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The juice bottles slide down over the tube like this. I should have mentioned earlier a hole was made in the bottom of each juice bottle before epoxying them all together. The holes are just big enough for the tube.<br />
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These little wooden things on the sides are wheels and axles and spools you can buy at a hobby store. I got them at Hobby Lobby. They have lots of various shapes. I don't know what I'll do with them all but bought a bunch of different ones. I don't know what the purpose would be for these things but they seem like they'd be absolutely necessary.<br />
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This paint "makes any surface look like hammered copper." It did a pretty good job. The entire body was sprayed, but not the juice bottles.<br />
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After the paint dried I applied Minwax dark walnut stain, and then wiped off the high spots so it would look darker in the crevasses. I cut some fake black leather from scrap at work to make a gripper for the palm-side of the hand piece, and attached that with contact cement.<br />
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It glows green when the red button is pushed. Intuitive, eh?<br />
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For some reason there's a box of old broken radios in the garage. I cut a couple little squares from the circuit boards and glued them to the sides of the gun. I wanted it to look more deadly. Does it help? I don't know. <br />
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The last thing I did was put a big wad of leftover colored wires inside that clear flexible hose and glue it to the side of the gun. You can't tell very well from this picture but the wires show through the tube, and make it look as if something really technical must be going on inside there.<br />
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It was glossed over in the pictures above but a "crystal jewel" ceiling fan pull was mounted to disk on the front of the barrel. The blinking, color-changing light is right under the crystal so it flickers when the black trigger button is pushed.
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After completion I was saddened to learn no real lasers shot out of this gun. All this work for nothin!KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-42633161306178753752012-07-03T17:11:00.000-07:002012-07-03T17:11:23.140-07:00"EVIL MIND" word trickery!I never have enough evil stuff on this here blog of evil. Being determined not to keep going on like that, I sat and brain-grunted until some evil finally squeezed out.<br />
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I have 3 versions here. It says EVIL MIND, and when you turn it upside down it still says EVIL MIND.<br />
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I incorrectly call this a palindrome. I was told <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/2009/05/palindrome-names.html">the last time I posted some of these</a> this is called a "reflection." <br />
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I've been trying to think of something I could put this on. It would be best if it were something which flipped upside down, and rightside up, and was head-related. Maybe a hat, but I don't know why someone would wear a hat upside down. I need some brain-storming ideas. Does anybody have any?KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-85764403119326193212012-06-13T21:37:00.000-07:002012-06-13T21:37:13.413-07:00MUSTACHE-MAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjePIY2jQEw/T9lpM5wInRI/AAAAAAAADdc/eOKZ6nsCDaM/s1600/mustache-man-s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjePIY2jQEw/T9lpM5wInRI/AAAAAAAADdc/eOKZ6nsCDaM/s320/mustache-man-s.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><br />
I thought it would be reeeeally dumb if there was a superhero called "Mustache-Man" who was covered in mustaches, but didn't actually have a real one on his lip.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-39042967408577210542012-05-20T10:19:00.000-07:002012-05-20T10:19:57.285-07:00MISSING PANEL COMICS #1Here's number one of "Missing Panel Comics." I hope to make and post more in the near future.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"You Can't Wear a Necklace if You're Neckless"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mjba2IA6xsQ/T7km6JWa0GI/AAAAAAAADcg/6MDWZvPrJJs/s1600/mpc1-s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mjba2IA6xsQ/T7km6JWa0GI/AAAAAAAADcg/6MDWZvPrJJs/s400/mpc1-s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">click pic to enlarge</div>KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-48512955474355064882012-05-11T18:01:00.000-07:002012-05-11T18:01:38.940-07:00I AM FORB-ESSThis is an old drawing I found. I'm not sure if I've posted it before and I'm too lazy to check if I did. If you've already seen it and now you're looking at it again, I am so deeply and truly sorry.<br />
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See more Screaming Wilhelms comics by clicking <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=wilhelms">HERE</a> or <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=wilhelms">HERE</a>.KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-71482550936382640712012-05-01T10:37:00.001-07:002012-05-01T10:39:15.736-07:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #8And another! And as always, sorry in advance. Click image to enlarge.<br />
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<div>There are a lot more Screaming Wilhelm comics where this came from. Look <a href="http://kwmonster.blogspot.com/search?q=screaming+wilhelms">HERE</a> for more.</div>KWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792617397718781026noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634856836748530964.post-30651498523799535092012-04-29T13:10:00.001-07:002012-05-01T10:41:20.968-07:00THE SCREAMING WILHELMS #7It's been a while since I posted any cartoons. Here's the next in the ever-growing line of Screaming Wilhelms comics. Click to enlarge.<br />
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