Sound Panels from Dubble Bubble

REMEMBER THE ODD LITTLE COMICS IN DUBBLE BUBBLE GUM? As we grow up, most of us lose the practice of chewing big honking wads of bubble gum like this, but when you do get an opportunity to chew a piece as an adult, it’s a direct slide to the past. The blogger STEVE RODEN from Pasadena, CA at the “mity-fine” blog site Airform Archives assembled this group of “sound panels”— all treasured and saved from 1940s colored ink on wax paper Dubble Bubble comics. Remember, these panels are tiny, smaller than a postage stamp and usually way out of printing register. That’s the part I like the best, as evidenced in these enlargements.

Via here.

Art Excavation

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THANKS TO FELLOW BLOGGER Trixie Treats, I was able to discover these wonderful paintings by an artist named Greg Gossel. Greg uses a variety of materials and techniques on these 2 to 3 foot canvases, like silkscreen, acrylic, collage, spray paint, paint stick, paper white out, etc. What I like about these is the raw, multi-layered approach, like decayed billboards over time. Lichtenstein’s work is a bland chicken broth compared to this spicy jambalaya—a mixture of found, appropriated and excavated pop culture, comics, old advertisments, grafitti and paint. (Of course, we may not even be looking at Gossel’s work without the ground-breaking work of Lichtenstein, Warhol and the others, so apologies to them!) This is hipster-styled street art ready to hang.

Check out Greg’s art at: www.greggossel.com.