Turn On, Drive-In, Drop Out
It's slipshod and rotten, not keen Both scripting and plot are pre-teen But by golly gee! It's sci-fi 3-D! Folks flipped when stuff shot...
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A Quarantine Christmas
In this crazy year we're all isolated on our own little planets. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to each and every one, wherever you...
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It's Hammer Ti-- Um...I mean...it's Christmastime!
Some gunsel gets mad, there's foul play! A honey goes bad--like, astray! And >pant< is she stacked! Then Santa gets whacked! Oh, there's...
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Surly and Sticky
I'm developing a set of stickers that I'll eventually make available on this site. It will be a collection of monsters, aliens, weirdos...
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Jack Davis (December 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016)
Here are a few images by Jack Davis, drawn for EC Comics during the 1950s. I chose violent imagery because there is an inherent violence...
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Spontaneity is Hard Work
Drawings can have a life of their own. A composition can be a process of discovery. One of my first priorities is to keep life in a...
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Surly Cinema: Hayley's Comet
I recently watched the terrific British film Tiger Bay (1959). It's the story of a young girl who befriends a Polish sailor on the run...
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The Feast from 20,000 Fathoms
The perfect host never complains He's gracious when he entertains When company's starving He does all the carving And serves them up...
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Make Mine Marvel...Again
I've been doing this art thing for quite a while. I started in comics as an inker way back in the 1980s, and somehow got my first job at...
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Surly Hack Studio
"Hi! you've reached Surly Hack Studio. Leave a message and the Hack will call you back." That message has been on my answering machine...
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Depth Perception: Wallace Wood's 3-D Staging
One of my biggest influences is cartoonist Wallace Wood. Wood's art had an illusion of depth that was quite remarkable. On my Patreon...
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Welcome to the Hack Shack, home of all things Surly!
I’ve been in comic books for a long time. A freelancer who’s lived job to job. A hired ink-slinger on superhero books who eventually...
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