a subgenre of this that I particularly like is cameo appearances by real people who are now almost totally forgotten
https://i.imgur.com/RtaogE4.png
photos of the real Judge William Long and Mayor William F. Devin (I couldn't find any of Mrs John L Locke):
https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2024082574-300x0.jpg http://www.historylink.org/Content/Media/Photos/Large/sma135.JPG
There's a 'Camp Long' park in Seattle named after Long but aside from that none of them seem to have left much trace
― soref, Friday, 4 May 2018 09:20 (six years ago) link
Coincidentally I just read a Batman comic that based a whole story around this guy, who was apparently super-famous in the big band era but is now pretty much a footnote.
http://www.jasmine-records.co.uk/store/image/cache/catalog/jasmine/product/604988039825-500x500.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0D5JRiLds0/UBNU-2wDCxI/AAAAAAAApfA/UoXkrgff5EQ/s640/det14409.jpg
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Interesting documented use of the etymologically mysterious term “copasetic” (sic).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 27 May 2018 05:12 (six years ago) link
Nice disguise on that album cover, jeffrey tambor
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 27 May 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Douglas Wolk, late of this parish, spots some faces drawn by Mark Gruenwald: https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/post/174249987928/dan-rather-ed-koch-and-barbara-walters-all-appear
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Monday, 28 May 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Beano-Cover-061113.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
the proud 'still only £2!' is bending my brain a bit there
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm sure the Beano costs 10p.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
that's the price it is and will forever be in my mind for sure
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
Also big up to that artist for being confident enough to feel he could draw Richard Hammond without ever having seen him or heard him described.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Unrelated but related:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f6/85/19/f68519cc95e886a36b3e538c37542d5b.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
kind of related but Rick Moranis "starred" in this cartoon that I thought I totally dreamed up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhZegXEj3U
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
Wait, what
https://babblingsaboutdccomics3.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/sup_62.png
http://thefifthbranch.com/images/oldies/superman/wellessaves.jpg
This would make sense if it was published back in the thirties when most people would've only known Welles by his voice, but this was nine years after Citizen Kane! There would've been no shortage of reference pictures of him, surely.
Maybe it was supposed to be Clark Gable but they couldn't get permission to use his likeness, so they just shrugged and went, "Uhh, Orson Welles, maybe?"
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 2 June 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
What did Welles look like IRL six months before that issue came out?
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Saturday, 2 June 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Here's Welles in '49:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f4/3d/4e/f43d4e52fa60398e7d6c350edad81236.jpg
The comic was supposed to be promoting his current movie as well, you'd think they would've tried to make it look even a little bit like him?
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
Funt.
https://crossover.bureau42.com/action345.jpg
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
could you write a story about this cover and ... win £20?
https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/2161025.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 30 June 2018 12:08 (six years ago) link
http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans3/MTU74_SpideySNL2.JPGhttp://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans3/MTU74_SNL.JPG
spidey goes to SNL for a very special Marvel Team-Up. more at supermegamonkey.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 January 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
I'm sure the cover of that is a dead link upthread btw
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 3 January 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
An unnamed Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon in Amazing Spider-Man 99.
http://berkeleyplacecomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_3632.jpg
Country Joe & the Fish in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 15.
https://people.well.com/user/cjfish/fury1.jpg
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
my man Hannity
― ⅋ (crüt), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
AM I GLAD I SAWYOU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
Give it up for Spidey, he uses his first nationally-broadcast television appearance as a platform for prison reform. Good dude.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
wow @ country joe and the fish
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Meta - Roy Thomas and his first wife Jeanie make an appearance in Avengers (written by R Thomas):
https://i2.wp.com/berkeleyplaceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/roy-thomas-and-jeanie-thomas.jpg?resize=292%2C250
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 March 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
I admit, there are lots of examples of 'real' comics creators appearing in comic books
For real, just read a '70s Daredevil at the weekend featuring Stan & Joan.
Country Joe was a holy grail appearance I'd been meaning to post here for forever but couldn't track down because I misremembered the band in question as the Lovin' Spoonful.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 March 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Just took this... I see it was already posted above, but don’t wanna waste an imgur upload:https://i.imgur.com/RgNaZkj_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― Pat McGroin (morrisp), Saturday, 4 July 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
Disney synergy:https://i.imgur.com/mEfPxxT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 07:09 (three years ago) link
Who the fuck is that punchable-faced dude?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
Ah, the Trump enabler.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
no, that's a different Jimmy, who recently fired his (hired-six-months-earlier) head writer over disagreement re: what constitutes Trump enabling.
In a separate post, Drysdale noted that the extensive amount of jokes made at the expensive of President Donald Trump was a sticking point for her, not because of an underlying support for the president but how she sees comedy aimed at him potentially helping his image to the world at large. She wrote: “I believe that comedy is a powerful tool. I believe that it can handle anything, no matter how unfunny. I don’t believe that making fun of this man, doing impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It only adds to his.”“I am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be involved with, another Trump sketch ever again. I have landed in several jobs and situations over the last few years, not just The Tonight Show, where the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can’t decide the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to vote him out of my creative life.”
“I am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be involved with, another Trump sketch ever again. I have landed in several jobs and situations over the last few years, not just The Tonight Show, where the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can’t decide the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to vote him out of my creative life.”
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Kimmel pivoted from being bro-tinged middle-America-friendly snark to being comparatively radicalised against Republicans on health care (and personally lying to his face about letting newborns die) grounds during the last administration.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
"made at the expensive President Donald Trump"
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 March 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
betting the writer's fingers were still thinking of "extensive" four words earlier
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/from-beyond-the-unknown/17-1.jpg
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 August 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
Image above didn't load, hopefully this one should
https://i.imgur.com/7zBtZNY.jpg
Scanning back through the thread and spotting Jackie Kennedy reminded me of this wtf reveal from Action #309, where it turns out JFK stood in for Clark Kent to protect Superman's secret identity. Which with spectacularly unfortunate timing, hit the newsstands a week after Kennedy went to Dallas.
https://i.imgur.com/dO9cY9X.jpg
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
Well, at least Supes didn't have to worry for long about JFK accidentally revealing his secret identity.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:27 (three years ago) link
That’s why the ballistics are so confusing - first shooter missed, Supes caught the bullet in his mouth, and spat it back through JFK’s dome to keep him quiet.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 23 August 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Of related interest
Please search with @rblandford’s tag #popculturereferencesinMarvelComics You will not be disappointed.— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) November 1, 2021
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Monday, 1 November 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
Ladies and gents, here come Glennan, Saul, Benji and Hal...the TWISTS!
https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-01.jpghttps://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-11.jpghttps://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-07.jpg
I'm not sure why the Paul stand-in looks like more like Jason King dressed in Dr Strange's wardrobe though.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
THE CLUE IS ON THEIR ALBUM COVER!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
"new arrangements and stuff" lol
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
It's funny how late this was to capitalise on Sgt Pepper era Beatles as well, 1970?? I guess in the DC universe every fashion trend is about three or four years behind the real world, so at this point hip and trendy youngsters are still wearing beads and kaftans and confusing oldsters with beatnik lingo.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:40 (two years ago) link
Captain Britain commits regicide
https://i.imgur.com/2PYbY9f.png
https://i.imgur.com/Zr8cjve.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:47 (eleven months ago) link
disappointing cop-out in this Superman comic (from Jan 1969, so they could have gone with LBJ or Nixon)
https://i.imgur.com/HYKcd2m.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:53 (eleven months ago) link
Lol at that Ed. note
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
bonus Queen vs Captain Britain content
https://i.imgur.com/mSm0BMx.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:02 (eleven months ago) link
Richard Nixon as the head of the Secret Empire:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d2-DVITeUySU-XoBxlhLSpVQEJQ=/0x0:630x624/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:630x624):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8496509/SE02.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 6 October 2023 05:48 (eleven months ago) link