“Fuck the Esso-Terrix, start with a Big Bang!” How Orwellian can you get? Zeitgeistastic 1984 Montreal post-underground-comix/post-punk-schmuck memorabilia applicable to any old era and/or one-horse-town, including the one you’re presently stewing in your own stink in: For. Only. Ninety. Nine. Commiserateable. Bucks! Featuring a Walt Kellyesque critter sniffing around someone’s heavenly wide-open Jugheaded rump! Or is that cavity part of a horrifyingly self-satisfied S. Clay Wilsonian pirate face’s schnozzle? Who “nose” what was going thru acid-addled Rick Trembles’ brainpan when he scribbled this final filler half-page to Sugar Diet Magazine #1! Best of all, the original art includes a perfectly intact, ancient history, sliced swatch of Roy Lichtensteinerrific dot Zip-A-Tone (in the first panel)! Its shiny glossiness is blinding my face as I write! It’s the kinda irreproducible sheen that simply cannot be translated to a computer screen, akin to Skratch ‘N Sniff & Sensurround™! You have to coddle it in your hands face-to-face to fully experience its historical significance! “Pass the ointments because it’s PARANOIARAMA”! (Seen here: Actual yellowing tear-sheet from the published work. To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original 1984 art for sale (with Zip-A-Tone) for only $99.00 CAD. Includes finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back). 8 X 6 inches on thin, white card-stock. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Here’s another feature I illustrated for the late Al Goldstein’s long-running NYC-based smut review Screw Magazine. “Jungle Cum Carny” explores the inner-workings & secret disciplinary dungeon of a salacious sideshow at a sleazy carnival. I was trying to do a smutty Grand Guignol homage to exploitation movie pioneers Herschell Gordon Lewis & David F. Friedman (explicit sex mandatory when submitting work to Screw). “Another day, another jungle-cum fume drenched dollar!” Also published in Montreal’s Image Gun #1. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

SOLD SPECIAL DEAL: All 4 pages of the original art for sale for only $200.00 CAD. Includes the cover art (not seen here), the 3-page story, all pencil art preliminaries, all original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a bonus copy of the issue of Screw that everything was published in! Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

The late Al Goldstein’s long-running Screw Magazine used to be a great place to get published once in a while. The NYC-based smut review would feature a different underground cartoonist on the cover every issue, often with a short comic inside by the same artist. Screw not only came in very handy for me in the nineties because they were one of the few places that would pay for my weirdo doodles, but it was also a very nice boost to be in such good company, having published over the decades the likes of underground comix luminary Robert Crumb & alternative comix pioneer Julie Doucet among countless others. I remember when visiting their offices around the time this got published, cartoonist & contributor Mike Diana happened to be there too, & when I showed him my cover, he was particularly tickled pink by my rendition of the miniature male nude boning the giant male nude’s tight pee-hole. Tee, hee. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

SOLD Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

I used to love making flipbooks in the late-70’s/early-80’s. Movie equipment & film stock was so expensive it was out of the question, so flipbooks were actually the cheapest way to make cartoons. Now, 35 years later, I can turn my old flipbooks into “movies” AKA animated GIFs with relatively little effort. It’s fun because the original drawings were so small, about an inch & a half on endless card stock slices, that now thru the magic of ScAnNiNg I can see all this work magnified for the first time. I called this one BITTER SKUD BILL for some reason. And this is before “Skud Missiles” came into the popular lexicon here with the Iran–Iraq War. To me, I thought it was just a word I made up that sounded funny!

Here’s an old print comic of mine from 1989 for Montreal’s Reargarde Magazine, documenting what took place after one of Lydia Lunch’s spoken word shows at Montreal rock bar Foufounes Électriques. My “interview” with her kinda went sour.  She called me “A Woman Trapped Inside A Man’s Body” so I ended the strip with a drawing of myself as A Polymorphously Perverse Little Boy Trapped Inside A Blood-Soaked Dumb-Ass’s Body! (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

The latest webisode of BLABCO wherein “purple gate 13 via the central orb of Makimbah’s moat on planet Blabco” gets explored by way of Rue Jean-Talon & Avenue De l’Épée right around my corner in Park Extension! I even snuck in some of the places I liked to go to before the big fire. You can see MARCHÉ BK all boarded up, & SALATEEN where I used to go get 4-buck Chicken Biryanis all the time (Salateen reopened down the street but I haven’t tried it yet; I hope they still sell those amazing 4-buck Chicken Biryanis)! There’s also plugs for my bands The American Devices & Sacral Nerves in the form of posters on the walls (including the fact that Sacral Nerves is playing this Thursday May 21 at the MUFF Montreal Underground Film Festival’s 10-year anniversary opening party @ Sala Rossa, 4848, St-Laurent)! Like & share if u like 2 like & like 2 share!

BLABCO EPISODE 2 © 2015 by Rick Trembles. Animation: Rick Trembles, Voices: Rick Trembles & Esther Splett, Guitars: Rick Trembles & Rob Labelle, Bass: Andre Asselin, Drums: Jackie Gallant & Howard Chackowicz

For more information contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Come say HAPPY EIGHTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY to Golden Age Canadian Comics creator JACK (CRASH CARSON) TREMBLAY at the SALON BD MTL this Friday May 1st at 460 St. Catherine West, #508, above the old Future Shop (Metro Place des Arts)! May 1 is his actual birth-date! He’ll be there starting around 5:30 pm but doesn’t know how long he can stay, so COME EARLY! I’ll be there with him sharing a table selling Motion Picture Purgatory books & minis! He’ll be selling the last copies of his AESTHETIC COMICS mini & signing prints! More info at the official event page HERE

I did this one when I was 14. It’s one of the first cartoon pages I ever drew. It’s never been published. I like the simplicity of this thing. When & why did I stop fleshing out complex characters like this & become such a blowhard with overcrowded texts in my comic strips? Original art for sale for $300 because of sentimental value. If this is too steep, check out the rest of my blog for more affordable stuff. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $300.00 CAD. Original B&W inks on illustration board. Postage not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

Sex makes me giggle. All those poopy places & stuff. Boobs & tits. Cocks & dicks. How can you not guffaw? Sex also gives me nightmares. Gooey ones. I painted this one when I was on welfare living with Louis Rastelli across from Parc du Portugal next door to Leonard Cohen’s old place. Louis wrote about that period in a book called “A Fine Ending,” published in 2007. He now works for Archive Montreal, Distroboto, & Expozine. I had all the time in the world & a hungry belly there so I ate lotsa rice & beans & read lotsa art books. I decided I wanted to become a serious artist & push paint around for a change instead of inks. This was one of the results. The following year I would receive my first Canada Council Grant to produce the dirtiest thing I ever made, “Rick Trembles’ Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show.” (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $200.00 CAD. Original B&W acrylic painting on 6 1/2 X 7 1/2 inch illustration board. Postage not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

HAIL HOLLYWOOF was for an issue of The Montreal Mirror back in 1998 before I was doing Motion Picture Purgatory again there on a regular basis. I was asked to participate in an issue featuring different local cartoonists & I chose to submit this wacky stream of consciousness acrylic painting that I’d actually done the year previous under the title FUCK YOU, YOU FUCK. Those words appeared on the first page, which I ended up submitting to Danny Hellman’s Legal Action Comics #1 in 2001. The original art for that first page was sold to an anonymous buyer. The second page seen here originally had the words YOU FUCK, FUCK YOU, where it now reads “Hail Hollywoof.” This was in order to compliment the first page’s FUCK YOU, YOU FUCK. “Hollywoof” was an actual novelty dog show that was being heavily advertised at the time on TV (I think around the Xmas holidays), kinda like a circus act for the kiddies. I called my comic “Hail Hollywoof” to poke fun at the kinds of events I figured I’d have to cover for The Montreal Mirror, had I been actually working there on a regular basis. Soon enough, I WAS hired to do a weekly column for them & plenty of the films I ended up having to review came pretty damn close to these “dogs.” (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Original B&W acrylic painting on 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 inch illustration board. Postage not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.