Untamed Highway
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" The Comic that Scratches the Underbelly of Forgotten American Popculture!!"
Male
38 years old
LITTLEROCK, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 9/26/2008
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Good comics. Stuff like EC comics (Tales from the Crypt, early Mad, etc.), Basil Wolverton, R Crumb, Dan Clowes, Los Bros Hernandez, Richard Sala, Altergott and Doofus, Peter Bagge, John Stanley, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Will Elder. Classic comic strips.Artists like Shag, Mark Ryden, Tod Schorr, Big Daddy Roth, Robert Williams
Sleazy retro trash culture, tikis, shrunken heads, b-movies, stuff found in the dark overlooked corners of thrift and antique stores, offbeat Americana, freak shows, the underbelly of history, old obscure cartoons, novelties, drawing and writing, beatniks, forgotten pop culture, mid-century architecture
| | Music | Untamed Highway was created under the influence of Spike Jones, Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Les Baxter, Man or Astroman, the Bomboras, the Boss Martians, the Ventures, Link Wray, the Stooges, the Hexxers, Rev Horton Heat, Flat Duo Jets, Perez Prado, Las Vegas Grind, Frolic Diner, Music for TV Dinners, Vampyros Lesbos, Ennio Morricone, Back from the Grave, Nuggets, Pebbles, Pretty Things, the Huntington Cads, the Tiki Tones, Sin Alley, Booker T, the Cramps, Henry Mancini, Davie Allen, Teenage Shutdown, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, The Sonics, The Banana Splits | | Movies | After a night of drawing, we sit down and enjoy, and gain influence from the following: Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Teenage Strangler, Eegah, She Freak, She Mob, Acid Eaters, Chained Girls, Ed Wood, House on Bare Mountain, El Santo movies, Little Red Riding Hood vs the Monsters, Kiss Me Deadly, Wild Guitar, I Eat Your Skin, Ghost World, American Splendor, Crumb, Buster Keaton, WC Fields, Marx Bros, Laurel and Hardy, Switchblade Sisters, Touch of Evil, Mad Monster Party, Pink Panther movies, The Party (w/ Peter Sellers), Don Knotts movies, esp. The Ghost and Mr Chicken, In Like Flint, Our Man Flint, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly, Hitchcock, John Waters, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino | | Television | Just got a bootleg copy of The Green Hornet and it is BAD ASS!! Why does no one seem to know or talk about this show? I guess because nobody reruns it. It is made by the same people that made the Adam West Batman, and they even did a cross-over. But the Green Hornet is less campy and has more of a secret agent/film noir feel. Lots of gadgets, hip pads, moody lighting and tough hoods in suits and hats getting their asses kicked by Bruce Lee as Kato. The soundtrack is Flight of the Bumblebee played over a groovy 60s beat. I think that Quentin was paying homage to the Green Hornet in Kill Bill 1 with the masks and Bumble Bee theme song. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, go to eBay right now and get a bootleg copy of this show! I'm a big fan of the old Batman but think Green Hornet is even better! Can you tell I'm excited?!
Ghoul a Go-Go, The Spike Jones show, Ren and Stimpy, Beany and Cecil, MST3K, Dick Van Dyke, Red Skelton, Ernie Kovacs, YOur Show of Shows (Sid Caesar), Peter Gunn, Mr Lucky, Batman (w/Adam West), Get Smart, 77 Sunset Strip, Man From UNCLE, Andy Griffith, the Munsters, The Addams Family, You Bet Your Life, Carnivale, The Muppet Show, The New Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein | | Books | The Book of Tiki, Nightmare of Ecstasy-the Ed Wood Story, Southern California in the 50s, a Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, Crackpot by John Waters, Killer in Drag by Ed Wood, Sax Rohmers Fu Manchu books, Jim Thompson, crime fiction circa 30s-early 70s, John D MacDonald, Kamapua'a:The Hawaiian Pig God
Magazines-Barracuda, Ugly Things, The Continental | | Heroes | Noah's wife Jennifer!
Check out her retro swank rubber art stamp company
~ SIDESHOW STAMPS! ~
For all your crazy, cool-ish, hip, and ghoul-ish rubber art stamp needs.
We're also BIG fans of:
Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Spike Jones, Arch Hall Jr, Charles Phoenix, Big Daddy Roth, Basil Wolverton, John K, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman and the list goes on...
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Surf Music & Frat Rock, TIKI Paradise, Kustom Kulture, 'All Things Retro', The Fantasy Artwork of William Max Miller!, The Tiki Lounge of Terror, lowbrow lifestyle, Shag
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Occupation: | comic book |
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About me:
Untamed Highway is an underground comic book. It is steeped in the tradition of lowbrow, kustom kulture art. Like a film noir story as if designed by Spumco. A slapstick mystery, with much love to Big Daddy Roth, Basil Wolverton, Shag, and R Crumb. It tells the story of Sydney Drake, an atomic age slacker who gets caught up, in classic Hitchcock tradition, over his ears in a web of intrigue. Some of the spiders crawling around this web are: Bananas Barofski, a large man with a gorilla mask stapled to his head, who has it in for Syd; the Eye in the Wasteland, a fraternal secret society obsessed with investigating strange roadside attractions; Anna, Syd's sexy ex-girlfriend; Idol Hans, the proprietor of Syd's favorite tiki bar, Irving the tiki, who stands like a grim sentinel outside Hans' bar; Curious Jorge, the owner of the Curiosity Shoppe where Syd must go to meet his destiny with Adam the Alligator Boy; Noodles O'Toole, a jolly remnant of the bygone silent movie era; the Worm, a armless and legless vile freak; and Dr. Kali-Gary, a sardonicly amusing Horror Show Host.
Untamed Highway is the creation of Noah Snodgrass and Shawn Dickinson; who did the Jimmy Groynn comic strips for Rockabilly Monthly; a special comic book for Garage Punk band the Hexxers; and Logos for bands like the Torpedo Monkeys, and Horse Cave Trio; Border Radio; Brutal Beauties; Octane Radio; and Java's Bachelor Pad; among many other freelance projects. Contact us for your next art project, logo, album cover, etc.!
Here are a few of our reviews:
"Just when you think everything has been done in comics, along comes this one with a fresh story idea and super art work. Wild art work with lots of detail and action make this comic grab your interest right away." -Homemade Comics
"The story in this comic is terrific! The exchange between the assortment of odd characters and the bizarre twists keeps the action moving non-stop from cover to cover. Each character is developed in just enough detail to keep them interesting without slowing down the story. And the artwork in this comic is great! Lots of line work and heavy shadows accent the underground cartoony style. Untamed Highway has it all!"- Almost Normal Comics
"Madcap insanity is all over the place...the writing was funny at times and smart at others. Sometimes even both!"-Optical Sloth
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