And this week marks the series’ one-year anniversary! In this “weak’s” episode: Winter Blunderland! To read previous entries, dig into my earlier Snubdom posts. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
February 15, 2021:
In this weak’s episode: Birth of a Denigration! To read previous entries, dig into my earlier Snubdom posts. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
January 12, 2021:
In this weak’s episode: Waft of the Weeping Willow! To read previous entries, dig into my earlier Snubdom posts. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
December 22, 2020:
This year (& month) marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s most favourite Canadian band THE AMERICAN DEVICES. We had new songs we wanted to unveil & planned to do some live shows to celebrate, but then you-know-what hit the globe. Well, I’ll be damned if we’re gonna come up empty-handed for this momentous event so I commissioned 100 of these limited edition jewel-like die-struck sandblasted lapel pins with antique finish & butterfly clip to celebrate! For only 10 bucks (postage included) I’ll ship you a pin in a zip-lock baggie with an official signed & numbered Certificate of Authenticity, plus a signed, hand-drawn cartoon rendition of the band by yours truly! And if anyone in my Montreal vicinity wants the pin just by itself & can meet me in person for a safe transaction, I’ll knock it down half price to 5 bucks! Email me NOW for deets on how to order this once-in-a-lifetime one-of-a-kind giftie at ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com! Click on the image below for film footage of our little army of lapel pins!
In this weak’s episode: Bubblicious Bereavement Blues! I’ve been posting these 5 at a time since February but since I’ve been making them less frequently, now I’m gonna post each one as I make ’em. Remember; they’re “weaklies,” not weeklies. To read previous entries, dig into my earlier Snubdom posts. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
November 23, 2020:
Winter lockdown’s gonna be lonely so I made myself an imaginary friend to talk to about movies! In this very first animated episode of MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY BLABCO I look at the “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis’s take on the swinging sixties: SUBURBAN ROULETTE (1968)! Making these quick & dirty because the sooner the better when it comes to movie reviews & this is my prototype/template so far! Lemme how I can improve future episodes & what movies you’d like to see me tackle next! Click HERE or on the screencap below to watch!
As promised, here are the five latest episodes of the autobiographical comic I started back in February. Remember; they’re “weaklies,” not weeklies. To read previous entries, dig into my earlier Snubdom posts. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
June 13, 2020:
July 7, 2020:
August 7, 2020:
September 1, 2020:
October 1, 2020:
As promised, here are five more episodes of the autobiographical comic I started back in February. I’ll continue posting this series here five at a time as I make them. If you wanna catch them fresh off the Cintiq as they come out, follow me on Eff Bee HERE, although that platform’s mandatory compression policies makes them a touch lossy whereas I always post them large & clean on this site. If you wanna read the whole series in order from the very beginning you can start HERE. And there’s a special oversized poster entry HERE. (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
April 6, 2020:
April 25, 2020:
May 6, 2020:
May 13, 2020:
May 28, 2020:
To “celebrate” my first month of total self-confinement due to Covid-19, this week’s instalment presents: What I see while astral projecting above my cubbyhole! (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
From the get-go, the images coming in from Wuhan were making me really nervous. As far back as January, I had started wearing thin gloves everywhere I went so that if I had to use touchscreens for debit card payments, my flesh wouldn’t have to make contact with any shared surfaces. And I always used my pinky. I felt a touch silly & hypochondriac doing this. When I published the first installment of my new autobiographical series on social media February 22, 2020, it was to celebrate the charges that got dropped on my garbage infraction. As Covid-19 started creeping its way closer to Montreal, that’s where my comic strip went. My March 1 entry had actually been drawn before I knew about Quebec’s first case. They get darker from then on. I’ll be posting this series here five at a time as I make them. Stay indoors & wash your hands! (To see images full-sized, click on them to open in a new window & use your magnify function).
February 22, 2020:
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March 19, 2020:
March 26, 2020:
RICK TREMBLES is a Montreal-based illustrator, post-underground cartoonist, writer, filmmaker, & musician. Two books of his Motion Picture Purgatories have been published by the UK’s FAB Press. He’s written for Fangoria & Rue Morgue Magazine & his comix have been published in internationally distributed books, periodicals & anthologies such as Russ Kick’s “The Graphic Canon,” Robert Crumb’s “Weirdo,” Darius James’ “That’s Blaxploitation,” Thomas Waugh’s “Montreal Main,” Fantagraphics Books’ “Pictopia,” Kier-la Janisse’s Spectacular Optical “Kid Power,” “Satanic Panic,” & “Yuletide Terror,” & France’s “Hopital Brut” for Le Dernier Cri. His award winning animated film Goopy Spasms has toured the festival circuit globally. He is currently animating a series of cartoon shorts called “Building 108.” He’s been a singer-guitarist for post-punk band The American Devices since 1980. The L.A. Times has called him “A famous free thinker,” The Guardian has called him “Genius,” & Robert Crumb has called him “Even more twisted & weird than me.” His Mini Motion Picture Purgatory illustrated column appears monthly at blog.canuxploitation.com.