Joe Rosales

@joeartguy.bsky.social

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I have been an artist and writer for a long time.

SpotGideon: me, to the furry in reg line blasting EDM from his backpack speakers (screenshot from STAR TREK IV of Spock rendering a punk on the bus with a loud boom box unconscious using the Vulcan nerve pinch)
Martin from The Simpsons angrily demands “My geode must be acknowledged.”
Colored drawing of Alfred J. Kwak wearing a red scarf and happily skipping along, with the caption (from text in the original comic) "Warum bin ich so fröhlich, so ausgesprochen fröhlich? So fröhlich war ich nie!" ("Why am I so cheerful, so very deeply cheerful? I've never been so cheerful!") 2011 art by Joe Rosales
All Robot & Computers Must Shut the Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak to You I do not want to hear “thank you” from a kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You have no right to speak in my Holy Tongue
A-Kon Dallas 2014 floor cosplayers very accurately dressed as Katnappe and Jack Spicer, the villains from the cartoon Xiaolin Showdown.
Comic panels in which a beefy glasses-wearing man in an archetypal 1960s conservative suit and hat, his hands balled into fists, gritting his teeth, addresses the reader. MAN: Got to get a grip on myself… I’m a grown man! An intelligent Adult! With responsibilities! MAN: (American flag waving in the background) I’m an AMERICAN! MAN: (walking boldly forward in a sunny suburb with fighter jets flying overhead) A citizen of the UNITED STATES! MAN: (pushing chest first against another beefy man in a suit going in the opposite direction) A real hard charger! Step aside, buddy! Grrr, grr OTHER MAN: Grrr grunt MAN: A man with know-how! A citizen on the go! (other beefy men walk boldly in the background) MAN: (alone, addressing the camera, sweating) I must maintain this rigid position or all is lost! Art & text by Robert Crumb, Zap Comix issue 1 (1967)
Bûche de Noël, aka Yule Log, a rolled chocolate cake and fudge dessert with chocolate buttercream frosting, dusted with powdered sugar and garnished with meringue mushrooms, snails, mice and hedgehogs.
Megacity One citizen Nobby Klunk discovers the joys of simping – the craze for dressing up in ridiculous outfits to look like an absolute fool – much to the horror of his fiancé Clovis, who looks at her husband-to-be with unconcealed disgust as he has shown up to their wedding wearing a carrot nose, thick goggles and a canoe, and is dripping wet. NOBBY: Simping really works! Those juves would have passed me by and never even noticed me before today. But now – you saw ’em, honey! They couldn’t keep their hands off me. They saw right away I was somebody! Script by John Wagner, art by Alan Grant and Cliff Robinson, from 2000AD prog 527 (1987)
The top 3/4 of the first page of Marvel Comics ClanDestine issue 1, pencilled and written by Alan Davis, inked by Mark Farmer. A room full of A.I.M. troopers in their yellow full-body hazmat suits with distinctive cylindrical “trash can” headpieces are weilding huge high-tech firearms against a shadowy figure rampaging through their ranks as equipment burns in the background. NARRATOR: Prologue. Years ago, in a laboratory secreted beneath the murky waves of New York Harbor. A.I.M.—the Advanced Idea Mechanics—discovered that some ideas can be TOO advanced. AIM TROOPER: I can’t get a bead on it… it’s moving too fast! (MODOK levitates into the room) MODOK: Move aside, minions. Your master, MODOK, will subdue the creature. Nothing can stand against my psionic might! Nothing! (MODOK blasts the creature with psionic power, then looks distressed as it turns to glare at him.) MODOK: Noth… no…
Photo of Texas wildflowers growing in my yard, mostly red and yellow gaillardia (Indian blankets) with some lavender-colored lemon bee balms.
Ska fans Halby and Blue, dressed in natty two-tone suits, address the reader in a single comic panel. HALBY: NOW I’m o-k! NOW I’m all right! I got ten hours sleep and a long shower! BLUE: What we call “the poor man’s vacation”! HALBY: And now we’re popped to a food run! Art & text by Evan Dorkin from his science fiction comic Hectic Planet (aka Pirate Corp$)
A black & white photo of Margaret Kerry dressed in a one-piece swimsuit and ballet shoes pulling on a mockup of a giant pair of scissors held by stage workers on a scaffold, taken while she was shooting reference footage for Tinkerbell for Disney’s PETER PAN (1953).
The large pulsing, glowing blue-white double ring against a black background advertising “See what’s new in iOS 27” on the iphone app store. The ring takes up much of the screen and shifts from bright white to black with indigo outlines, evocative of current representations of a black hole’s event horizon.
A traditionally drawn stick figure character stares at various glossy, disturbing photo-like images in the white void of the A.I. Art Museum while being regaled by a distorted stick figured rendered using A.I. in Artificial Intelligence by ActiveObjectX (Nate Ziller).
The infernal Martin Taylor (Sting) feigns concern for their situation after talking his way into the middle class London home of Norma and Tom Bates (Joan Plowright and Denholm Elliott) in BRIMSTONE & TREACLE (1982).
Henry the Puffy Taco, the much beloved and respected unofficial mascot of the San Antonio Missions baseball team, running the bases while being chased and tackled by a child. Henry the Puffy Taco is always caught before finishing, except for one time decades ago when he completed his run by accident. The child who failed to catch him was my cousin, who recently gave a radio interview about this now legendary incident.
The very cartoony Zern and Derum, in winter hats, visit the mall to do some holiday shopping in Casey Blitzjam’s anarchic and bizarre series Derum and Zern.
Marshal Law, dressed in fetishy black leather with jackboots and a peaked cap, violently melees his way through the superpowered Gangreen gang, snapping bones and impaling limbs. MARSHAL LAW (narrating, panel one): Lot of people say I hate super heroes… (panel two): That’s not true, you know… (panel three): Well, all right… it’s partly true… (panel four): Okay, it’s true. Writing by Pat Mills, art by Kevin O’Neill
Wide panel written and drawn by Evan Dorkin showing the human Halby and the eyeless alien Renesco Blue dressed in suits. HALBY: Now I’m O-K! Now I’m all right! I got ten hours sleep and a long shower! BLUE: What we call “the poor man’s vacation”! HALBY: And now we’re popped to a food run! From Pirate Corp$ v2 #4, reprinted in Hectic Planet Volume Two: Checkered Past
Panels from Evan Dorkin’s comic book adaptation of BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY (1991), showing a scene of Evil Robot Bill & Ted ripping off their disguises revealing Evil Ted was actually disguised as Evil Bill, and Evil Bill was actually disguissd as Evil Ted. This scene does not appear in the actual release of the movie, but was in the script.
Evan Dorkin’s Milk and Cheese are interrupted by the cops in the middle of their game of No-Talent Celebrity Tag. COP: We’ve got complaints that you’ve been running around Trump Plaza, breaking things, stealing, shouting, vandalizing… MILK: Pish-tosh, my good man! COP: Eh? CHEESE: He means “bullshit.”
Three human women in protective suits and cloaks aim chemical rifles and scan the surrounding area as behind them a gigantic mantis raises its head over the forest-like foliage to look at them, making it clear that the humans are mite-sized compared to the insect, in a scene from Rev Storm’s Humans-B-Gone!
The base and cord of a lamp showing a newly installed cord switch, along with various tools like a wire stripper that aided in its installation.
The cover of the Nerd Inferno collection of Evan Dorkin comics, featuring quadrant squares each containing a member of the Eltingville Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror & Role-Playing Club (Bill, Josh, Pete and Jerry) with angry dairy products Milk & Cheese in an inset center circle.
The t-shirt design for Mephit Furmeet 2, held in 1998. It is a black on white design that features two skunk girls, the left one drawn as an angel with feathery wings and a halo facing the viewer, the right one drawn as a devil with bat wings and horns facing away, each holding out their left arms so their hands meet palm to palm in the middle. The angel skunk is wearing cutoffs, leg warmers, and a tank top that says Paradise, while the devil skunk is wearing thigh-high leather heels and a leather minidress accented with chains. Across the top and bottom are the words "see the world in black and white." Art by Joe Rosales
Quark’s mother, the older Ferengi Ishka, looks sideways at the deadpan Vorta Yelgrun (Iggy Pop) in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Magnificent Ferengi” (S6E10).
Young cat hero Arke looking worse for the wear with his sword, a black eye, cracked tail, missing tooth and low Health bar from grinding random low-level encounters in a blue area of his game world with no potions for over an hour in the highly repeatable X QUEST by Mr Tsuyo (@heyiamtsuyo.bsky.social).
The hulking, scheming, highly educated and completely vicious Captain Hook (Tim Curry) from Fox’s Peter Pan & the Pirates (1991).
Widescreen night shot of the titanic, gravity-defying, elaborately lit pyramid-like Tyrell Corporation headquarters complex from BLADE RUNNER (1982).
Picture drawn years ago for Phil Foglio's birthday showing the cartoon versions of Phil and Kaja Foglio in Asteroid Al's Bar, along with a huge crowd of partygoers who are all from other projects Phil Foglio illustrated over the years. Phil is wearing a stack of large hats including a sombrero labeled El Gran Creador. Art by Joe Rosales.
Black and white photo from the late 1940s or early 1950s of the Corpus Christie warehouse of H.E. Butt Grocery Co, now known as H.E.B. It is an industrial building with large rectangular paned windows and a flight of stairs leading to a second-story entrance. “H.E. Butt Grocery Co” is in large letters attached to a steel framework on the roof.
The cover of the XXXenophile Omnibus showing a crowd of four-armed green-skinned Barsoom-like sexy alien women aiming their fleet of ships toward Earth, apparently to capture one human guy. Art by Hugo Award winner Phil Foglio. A small toy parasaurolophus is to the right of it for scale.
Model employee Ivan, in a white t-shirt and blue cap, sits across the desk from orange-shirted Gutterball manager Rico in the manager’s cramped and messy office, prepared for another possibly erroneous dressing down in Eyeball2D's series "Day Job."
One view of the library at Biltmore, with its plush red reading chairs and patterned porcelan and brass electric lights. The wrought iron spiral stair to the upper gallery can just be seen on the left. On the right atop the bookcase are marble busts of great French writers — but not Voltaire, since Vanderbilt was quite religious and did not like him.
The unnamed lilac-colored globular protagonist and their perpetually hidden guide Consonance (who appears only as a slit of blackness showing two eyes peering out from a lump of landscape) pause in their search for their name before a field of shining white flowers in a geometric forest of a childhood memory in the series Undoes Rust by Unangazord.
The human male Looter and blue amphibian humanoid Drake haggle with green reptilian scrap dealer Yalina in her shop in Alexander “Froggers” Schenck’s mixed-media sci-fi series The Looter. It features and-made sets, props and landscapes, 2D and stop motion animation, and some great predatory alien puppets.
The devious, murderous, and exceptionally limber replicant Pris (Darryl Hannah) in BLADE RUNNER (1982). Pris, an escaped rogue “pleasure model,” is dressed in see-through lingerie and sitting comfortably next to an underlit chessboard with her knees pulled up next to shoulders, a demonstration how flexible she is. She has on white face makeup and pink pearl lipstick with an airbrushed black stripe across her bright blue eyes, and is holding the upper half of an undressed Barbie doll gingerly by the hair — a reference to her original “sex doll” role. Darryl Hannah is 21 in this photo.
2022 post on Xitter by @nkulw: Great time to be a hater, many things suck and many people are stupid
Grizzled private detective Philip Nwar, with a gray fringe combover, brush mustache and rumpled trenchcoat, contemplates a string of disappearances in the pun-filled monochrome world of NWAR by Dan Markowitz.
Illustration by German master Albrecht Dürer from his book The Painter’s Manual (1525) showing an artist using a perpective machine consisting of a fixed eyepiece to keep the painter’s view steady and a fixed glass pane on which the subject is quickly sketched for reference for the final piece, ensuring the perspective throughout the canvas is accurately reproduced from life.
Panels from “D.R. and Quinch Go to Hollywood” (2000AD progs 363-367, 1984) in which director D.R. and cameraman Quinch, who is pointing a camera at the action, look on as Marlon’s horrified agent shouts “MIND THE ORANGES, MARLON!!” at legendary actor Marlon, who after taking one orange from the bottom of a massive pile is fatally buried under an avalanche of citrus. Art by Alan Davis (Batman, X-Men), script by Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen).
Sea-creature-like Limpet, her blue skin spotted with barnacles and her long green hair holding decorative pink starfish, smiles as she talks to the camera about life in her seaside city in BeaJumpup’s Pop-Ocalypse.
Dedicated party animal and chronically medicated fox Lika is sporting a black eye as she and some other citizens are handcuffed by the NYPD on an overpass in Leah Hall’s Mammal Squad!
Liam and Smell stand on the sidewalk wearing yellow safety vests outside the shopping center and watch a bad action series on a battered television while they’re supposed to be working in CapaciousSpace’s meandering British cartoon series Trolley Boys.
My scantily-clad Warcraft Nightborne Warlock on the Spell Tome challenge mount, a big flying book you earn by completing multiple different difficult class encounters in an instanced arena called the Mage Tower. Interestingly I did not take this character into the Mage Tower, but she looks the best riding the big book! The floating crystals above her and floating horned skull beside her are not part of the book, but part of her being a Warlock.
The "cultist van" the rental place gave me to carry people and cargo to a con in Dallas, complete with heavily tinted back windows to hide our Brothers and Sisters from the eyes of unbelievers.
Sandals the fox stops on the lawn to talk to Orlando the alligator on the porch under a beautiful blue sky with clouds in Cool Times by DeadlyComics.
The aurora as seen from San Antonio, Texas, a faint white line creeping up from the northwest horizon.
My Twitter phone app with the original Twitter logo, grayed out and with the Twitter name replaced with the word “Waiting…” as it attempts an update it will never complete.
System agent Smear, a dark blue program wearing a tuxedo who has three faces on his head, drives his large sedan through a shifting bitmapped desert landscape of lines and tones in umami’s existential surrealist drama SAFE MODE.
A long-haired cartoon version of Rick Springfield (voiced by the singer) plays the guitar and sings in the Filmation show Mission: Magic! (1973).
A black and white inked drawing of a grinning sexy albino vampire squirrel girl with a huge tail who's dressed in a tight rubber mini dress, rubber opera gloves and thigh-high leggings. She is holding an acorn inexplicably fully encased in tight zip-up rubber, complete with studs, D-rings and a pump. This drawing is titled "The Rubber Nut." art by Joe Rosales
The light brown baker mouse Mix stands back-to-back with the gray engineer mouse Match after the successful demonstration of his newly-built baked goods cannon in Nine’s crazy baking series Mix ’n’ Match.
The cover of DC Comics’ House of Mystery issue 1 (1998), a restart of the 1960s anthology series under the Vertigo imprint. It shows tall thin Cain holding a lantern on a pole over his shoulder following short heavy Abel through a graveyard toward the titular House, followed by their huge pet lizard and observed by a black cat standing on one of the headstones. Art by horror comics legend Bernie Wrightson.
mc chris ponysona I designed, a white pony with with a microphone cutie mark wearing mc chris' signature black t-shirt and black ball cap with the lower-case letters MC on it, in front of a large leaf. I thought his name would be Blunthoof. Art by Joe Rosales
Vegajack, a thousand-year-old bioengineered master of the Shadow Arts, fills out a form at a temp agency in Gene Goldstein’s NOXP short number 2. “Expected salary…” he says, before deciding “a mountain of gold!”
Evil Easter-hating rabbit January Q. Irontail (voiced by Vincent Price) dressed in a dark blue suit with black gloves, talking on the phone in his poorly lit cobwebbed lair. From the stop motion Rankin/Bass Easter television special Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971).
The Three Caballeros: American Donald Duck, Mexican red rooster Panchito Pistoles, and Brazilian green parrot José Carioca, dancing while wearing sombreros. Panchito was voiced by Joaquin Garay and José Carioca by José do Patrocínio Oliveira, singer/actors from Mexico and Brazil respectively.
Jack Kirby cover of Sargent Fury and his Howling Commandos, featuring Fury's culturally diverse team including an Irishman, a Black guy, a Jewish guy, an Italian guy, an upper class British guy, and a white Southerner called "Rebel."