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@ericnewsom.bsky.social

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Ph.D. Media Scholar, Designer, Psychic Detective (retired). Was Eric Newsom on Twitter, but now here I am known as Eric Newsom.

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · Nov 11

Here are some things I've been working on recently:

Alvin Brooks shoulders his shotgun and refuses to shoot a retreating suspect in a still of animation from the documentary The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks.

Poster for It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, featuring Clarence the Angel pulling a haggard George Bailey from the freezing river.

A cable car reaches the top of Ještěd mountain, where stands the incredible architecture of Ještěd Tower.

A screaming Peter Maybury gets pulled into the sky while tied like a mummy to his steamer trunk in a scene from The Airship Quebec.

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 11h

A remake of John Carpenter's THE THING, but it's about transmission of lice in a third grade classroom. And let the third graders have flamethrowers.

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Eric Vespe @ericvespe.bsky.social · 21h

Rest in Peace to the great Drew Struzan, a man whose work sparked the imaginations of a whole generation of movie nerds. The master is gone.

I had the privilege of visiting him in his studio once and getting to talk shop. Here’s his words on one of his masterpieces:

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 19h

A societal embrace of this regurgitated pablum would guarantee there would never be another Marilyn Monroe and there would never be another Game of Thrones

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 20h

Children of Men, even if it ends on the slightest of hopeful notes.

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 20h

RIP the great Drew Struzan. Even his rejected comps are better than any art I'll ever make in life.

Pencilled Drew Struzan comp for the poster of Big Trouble in Little China.

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 20h

RIP D'Angelo. His Black Messiah album was overshadowed that year by Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly being released three months later, but it's a fantastic album, a beautiful, intelligent close to the trilogy.

This is my second-favorite SNL performance ever:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEph...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

www.youtube.com

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 21h

Dave Sim is my single instance of "separate the letterer from the lettering," but I'm sure there's something solid somewhere in Cerebus.

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 1d

I not only memorized phone numbers, I can still recall my friend David's number all these years later, and still sing the tune that accompanied it in my brain.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 1d

...In this one, is everyone around you starving to death (to the point of sometimes eating poison to fill their empty stomachs) while you in the meantime rampage the countryside, slaughtering boars and bears and leaving hundreds of pounds of meat to rot, taking only the hides with you?

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 1d

We just watched Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure with the student cinema club last week. Might be a good one for this list. The films of Béla Tarr too, perhaps.

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Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Columbo Day! Maybe eat an egg roll with a cannelloni in honor, bowl of chili on the side?

Columbo with a bunch of food in front of him “When I was a kid I bet I had more egg rolls than I had cannelloni.”

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 1d

The real split toward the bad timeline happened when NBC kept Conan from taking over The Tonight Show.

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking a lot about the decision to replicate the panel but not the word balloon shape.

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Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up in Gastonia and went to school in Cullowhee! I totally get it and miss those mountains terribly.

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I just bought a copy of The White Lady by the Bridge and look forward to reading spooky NC stuff this evening. Whereabouts in NC are you?

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 2d

Onslow took Hyacinth's death harder than expected.

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 2d

"Wait, I can explain..."

Wyoming Man Found With 30 Eyeballs In His Anal Cavity

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait for your take on: bsky.app/profile/damn...

Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 2d

JESUS CHRIST, Hi and Lois

what the fuck

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 3d

Same for Moanin', by Blakey and Mingus respectively.

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Javier (Martin) Caba @monoapilas.bsky.social · 3d

MOTH-GIRL. I'm learning (again) how to use gouche.

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 3d

Dude was an international treasure hunter!

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 8d

My contribution to the 2025 Ed Asner Family Center auction

comics.ha.com/itm/original...

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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 4d

No relation.

ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social · 4d

Liking this for truth, not for acceptance.

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