Japanese whirlwind demon.  Could not find the name of the artist but I am guessing that the red kanji is a signature.  I don't know from Japanese.   They employ their claws or a sickle to do their thing.  Pretty damn malevolent, if you ask me.  These are invisible weasels, and if anybody has invisible flying bloodthirsty weasels with sickles it would be Dai Nippon. This vicious fellow is by Xatchett off deviantart.  These yokai ride dustdevils and whirlwinds and slash up the unwary, while drawing no blood.  In the 1890's there was a rash of these attacks.   https://www.unmyst3.com/2014/11/legend-of-kamaitachi.html   Some anime.   https://youtu.be/sxC-g5sCWXk The whirlwind thing seems to be a big part of all this. Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosea, 1969. And another.   This is the photographer who took the dynamic black and white pictures...

I am having a blank spell this week with my "artwork".  There are so many talented artists out there I have to pause and re-evaluate whatever it is I am doing.  So this week has been all photo essays.  I kinda doubt anyone is waiting for a bunny picture so at least this is something to read. Fucking Stan Lee. Remember, kids.  Only users lose drugs! This is for real. When I was growing up a lot of people admired Wallace.  I wonder if there is a Lester Maddox sequel? Too much, baby.  Wanna guess where this is going?  1946. Even the Corps didn't try this.  They just told us to do it. What is that idiot doing with his left hand? Notorious E.C. issue.  Made a starring appearance in front of the Senate Committee investigating juvenile delinquency and comics.  William Gaines was grilled but good.  This was used to bring in the Comics Code, which...

I rather doubt it.  Felix Salten wrote a book before Bambi called "The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.  Disney paid him just 5 grand for Bambi, and the Nazis hated and burned it, as they thought it was metaphorical and to their detriment.  Since Bambi was published in 1921 and the fun boys did not get power until 12 years later, one wonders what they were upset about.  Fucking wankers. Bambi was translated into English by Whittaker Chambers in1929. Twenty Two Bears. Happy Easter. I loved this as a kid.  Happy Easter again. Oh mama dear look here look here Alas, what was once high adventure is now murder.  But Bob Clifton, Flaming Asshole, probably would not do so well at the box office. (To be fair, Wilbur Owings "Dock" Hogue was the primary OSS man on the ground in the Congo during the war, and he was there to keep Nazi hands off the super rich uranium). ...

This is the genius writer Yukio Mishima, born Kimitake Hiaroka.  I have admired him since my teens. In 1970, he kidnapped the top general in Japan and then he killed himself in a spectacular seppuku performance piece.  He was a world famous writer, but the only movie filmed for an English speaking audience from his books was "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea", which I did not like.  The movie bio "Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters" is much closer to his writing.  He was outrageous to Japan at large and loved by the media.  The movie Mishima has never been released in Japan, because his wife does not think he was gay, a classic case of outright denial.  She must not have read his books or noticed how he looked and acted.  A theatrical release was planned for Japan in 1985, but a bomb threat at a festival screening of the film there made distributors drop their plans. The film has been shown on Japanese television (albeit with the gay...