Another crazy drawing of mine slightly colored.
Retro babes come to me...
50s juvenile delinquent movies, film noir, silent, drive in exploitation trash films, nudie cuties, classroom propoganda/scare films, Hammer vampire movies, Japanese films especially Akira Kurasawa and Seijun Suzuki, other foreign films. Anything with Jack Nance, Vincent Price, or Harry Dean Stanton.
I tend to veg out for days reading the same kinds of things ya know. Alot of stuff about ancient Greece right now. Though it's hard to keep all the facts straight in your head even with the Cliff's notes. All the Gods and all the characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and all the wars, and islands, and leaders, and play writes,and outside influences, and different tribes, and what the philosophers are saying... Sometimes I read Mark Twain or Philip K. Dick or Russian stuff. I'll just lay around sometimes reading underground comics. R. Crumb, Dan Clowes, and Julie Duecet. I like early 50s stuff too like EC comics. Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman are great. I think the greatest comic strip artist of all time was a man named Windsor McCay. He did this thing in the newspaper in the early 1900s called Little Nemo In Slumberland. It defies description. I don't have any Windsor McCay right now. It's hard to find.
I was lucky enough to swipe a whole butt load of authentic 1950s pulp novels, all first editions, from a hospital waiting room, when I lived in Laramie, WY a few years back. At first I just got them for the cover art work but recently I started reading this one. The gratuitous sex and violance in this one is absolutely fabulous. Has a guy trying to find a bikini for a skinny dipping girl on a yauct while guys chaise him around the boat and try to beat him up. Then he has to find a latter for her to get her out of the water and runs into a room full of gangsters. The poor girl is out there quite a while before he gets her out of the ocean. If you are lucky enough to find them, 50s pulp crime dramas are a blast. Too bad there isn't some magic way to preserve them. In fifty years or so they'll probably all have turned to dust. Enjoy them while they last.