Bender

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Designs stuff. Reads comics. Instills psychoses in offspring. He/his.

Head and torso illustration of Jack Knight, Starman, wearing a t-shirt with a fish skeleton symbol under his leather jacket.
Renee Montoya Question, black and white pen sketch by Denys Cowan
Ænima from 1996, Tool’s second album
Fruitcake loaf, cooling on a cutting board
Product photo of a Hamilton Beach electric tea kettle, boiling water.
Black & white drawing of a super muscled Will Payton Starman, bursting with cosmic energy, by Bart Sears.
Black and white sketchbook drawing of Gambit (shown from the waist up, holding charged playing cards) by the great Lee Weeks
Panel from Image Comics’ Shadowhawk, where he breaks a dude’s spine with a “KARAKKK” sound
Headshot drawing of Bullseye, grinning with bared teeth, from Marvel Comics, by Simon Bisley. It’s mostly black and white, with red in Bullseye’s bloodshot eyes and spitting blood from his mouth,
Photo stolen off the Internet showing a classic VIC-20 setup from the very early 1980s with the computer / keyboard unit surrounded by a television display, red joystick, and data cassette recorder. It rests on a floral tablecloth and a couple cartridges and manuals are strewn around.
“When Easter falls on 420 and you hand out the wrong candy” over photos of kids with Easter baskets and two kids looking high AF
Cover to Animal Man 72, by Mark Chiarello, showing a winged beast man lurching in front of television cameras with a stark color contrast between the beast man and background.
Original pencil drawing of Mark Chiarello’s Amazing Spider-Man 4 variant cover, featuring Spidey crouched, looking at liquid in a vat and seeing Hobgoblin’s reflection and the words “The Hobgoblin Strikes!!!”
Hardcover book “American Elf”, a collection of James Kochalka’s Sketchbook Diaries 1998-2003
Black and white cartoon illustration featuring Sexcastle by Kyle Starks (2025), Smiley Bone by Jeff Smith (2023), American Elf by James Kochalka (2004), and Jeffrey Brown from his graphic novel Clumsy (2022)
A page in my sketchbook featuring a black pen drawing of Renee Montoya as The Question by Denys Cowan
Cover to The Flash 54 (1991) showing Wally (in his Flash costume) falling from an airplane while holding onto a stewardess, as seen from the airplane’s point of view looking down at the cityscape below.
Dr. Doom’s Revenge comic book that came packed with the video game from 1988. Cover shows Captain America and Spider-Man greeting each other in the foreground, with Doom’s head and outstretched arms looming across the sky towards the viewer.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) movie poster
Reservoir Dogs (1992) movie poster
Interior page from the Marvel comic, Excalibur, depicting all the characters replaced with dinosaur humanoids.
Dr. Strangelove (1964) movie poster
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) movie poster
WarGames (1983) movie poster
American Movie (1999) movie poster
Blade Runner (1982) movie poster
The Muppet Movie (1979) movie poster
The Big Lebowski (1998) movie poster
Donnie Darko (2001)
A Cobra Battle Android Trooper (BAT) from the 1980s G.I.Joe cartoon.
Original 2001 screen cap of Lara Croft in her low polygon first design.
Cover for DC Comics Task Force VII issue 2 by Pete Woods, sowing members of the Doom Patrol and Aquaman family with some sort of humanoid aquatic robot swimming overhead.
Cover art to Tool’s 1996 release, Ænema
Scene from The Big Lebowski with Knox Harrington, the video artist, on a phone call with Maude and Sandro “about the Biennale” laughing like a maniac.
Pencil sketch bust of Morpheus, of the Endless, by Jill Thompson
Floating laughing heads of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, by Kevin Maguire
Cover to Generation X #1, 1994
Obama campaign poster parody featuring Optimus Prime and the text “Change… into a truck”
Photo of William Gibson’s book “Neuromancer”
G.I.Joe cartoon intro still, showing all the characters standing on the logo, American flag in the background, raising their fists in the air in a cheering manner.
Photo of Michael Kupperman’s hardcover graphic novel “All the Answers” on a plaid tablecloth.
Hellboy Winter Special cover by Matt Smith, showing a giant monster cat chasing Hellboy through the snow towards the viewer.