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Entries from November 2008

Replacements, Skate Gate

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to Rich Burton for the tip. Watch it here. The show has two segments the one about skateboarding is in the second half. The player restarts after each segment. there are commercial segments in between. I was able to move the slider to skip to the end of each segment but I have a [...]

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Bart Simpson on a Skateboard

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I worry that people will consider what I’m doing as violating their copyrights but I am fairly meticulous about documenting credit and linking back to the artist. In my own work I do plenty of parody and homage to classic cartoon characters There are lots of products out there that are officially licensed but there [...]

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Max’s Thrash toons

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

This one ran in

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Wrench Pilot skateboard comic

November 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Check out Andy Jenkins’ (previously mentioned here) Wrench Pilot that originally appeared in Transworld Skateboarding it ran from 1989 through 1991, 23 Episodes plus a couple extras. Every time I go back to these I am humbled by his skill. Jenkins was recently interviewed by Slap. Thanks to Skate Daily for the tip.

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Bart Simpson flash skate game

November 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You’re Bart Simpson, you’re naked and you’re skateboarding in this simple Flash game which is was a promotion for The Simpsons Movie

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Tags: games · merchandising · the giants

World Industries comics

November 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I watched The Man Who Souled the World recently. It was a really good skateboard history lesson about Steve Rocco and World Industries. After a bunch of the guys split to form Girl, World Industries started using the Devilman, Flameboy and Wet Willie characters as their new spokesmen. All the violent, sexual and crude humor [...]

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Tags: advertising · comics

One less teenager

November 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Bizarro is a consistently funny newspaper comic. The BizarroBlog adds a level of explanation to the strips. Read Piraro’s novel approach to skate justice at the blog. That could work.

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