THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Inking RSA #15
Here I am inking a panel for Ralph Snart Adventures #15 releasing this Winter.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Hookers In Bondage
Until issue 12 of Volume 3 of Ralph Snart Adventures, I edited and answered all of the letters to Rubber Room Gossip. Issue 12 had the letter from a Kathy Snyder who lambasted RSA as fodder for a good book burning.
My response was not exactly polite. If she's not dead today, Synder must be a book-banning MAGA nut. Two things of note; first, after that issue, NOW stopped giving me any letters addressed to myself or Ralph Snart as Diane Piron took over editing Rubber Room Gossip (to detrimental results), and second, those issues in Synder's complaints were receiving the Comics Code (just like Archie and Jughead). Of course, however, during that time the Code was thoroughly approving of spandex-stretching boob juggling and indiscriminate, blood-spurting violence.
Dear Editors of Ralph Snart,
Today my son brought one of your comics home. I am shocked there is such trash like this out for kids to buy. I would prefer he didn't read garbage like this. He said he saw "Humor" on the top of the comic, so he thought it would be funny. He is 12 years old, a hooker in bondage is not funny to a twelve year old and especially not to his mother.
Your so called comic book is far from comedy. Repulsive, probably, comedy, never. I intend to let the shop owners of the store know just what kind of legal smut they are selling. It is no wonder kids of the world are such a mess today, reading garbage like this. It is too bad most kids' parents aren't paying attention to what their kids are reading. I found out just by accident.
By the way, whatever happened to Archie and Jughead? Did Ralph Snart spit toxic waste on them?
I wonder if any of your children read this garbage? I'm not what you would call a religious person, but in this case I feel confident in telling you, you will reap what you sow!
Kathy Snyder
By the way, you can have your comic book back.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2022
NOW Comics Archives First Release
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Ralph Snart Adventures Volume 5 |
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Story & Art by: Marc Hansen Hot Babes and Free Beer Reprints Volume Five of Ralph Snart Adventures from 1993. Includes the two lost issues six and seven. 80 pages. Watch me in action! It's a FREE download, you cheap bastard! |
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022
Bundled Comics
At the end of the new NOW Comics, the owners of NOW sold off most of the back inventory, for pennies an issue, to someone who bundled various issues together and polybagged. This would've been sometime after 1995 most likely. NOW had nothing to do with the bundling, other than selling them the books, and I don't think they were ever sold in comic shops.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022
Crazy Crypto
I added a crypto currency button as an additional means to support The Snart. Donations to The Cause won't suffer PayPal's outrageous cut if you send some crypto coinage (either Bitcoin or Ethereum).
Currently working on the pencils for Ralph Snart #15 -- about half done.
Just fixed a minor boo-boo on the cover of #14. Re-download it if you want the latest and greatest edition.
Had to repair my sweet Dazor lamp from the '50s. Amazingly, the company is still in business and sells replacement switches you can solder. Below is the old switch. Couldn't desolder, so I had to cut and re-strip the wires (above the corrosion).
Currently working on the pencils for Ralph Snart #15 -- about half done.
Just fixed a minor boo-boo on the cover of #14. Re-download it if you want the latest and greatest edition.
Had to repair my sweet Dazor lamp from the '50s. Amazingly, the company is still in business and sells replacement switches you can solder. Below is the old switch. Couldn't desolder, so I had to cut and re-strip the wires (above the corrosion).
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2022
Ralph Snart #14 Just Released
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Ralph Snart Adventures #14 |
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Story & Art by: Marc Hansen Mondo Monster Fanboy Ralph is an obnoxious fanboy and must go to extremes in order to get his idol Fella Spookgosi's autograph. In reality, Ralph is stupefied by boobies. Color, 22 pages. Watch me in action! It's a FREE download, you cheap bastard! |
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
Ralph Snart NFT!
Or should I elaborate... Ralph Snart will not have any NFTs.
10 reasons NFTs are dumb.
All good reasons, but I’ll add, as it pertains to art — traditional art, in which the art is a physical, one-of-a-kind object is being replaced by digital art, which is not a physical object and not one-of-a-kind. Traditional art is also harder to create requiring far more skill and know how, hence the rise of digital art (people are getting lazier and dumber). So which would you rather own (or in the case of digital, “own”).
5 reasons NFTs are not dumb.
None of these reasons are compelling. Metaverses? Web3? Meh. Monetizing every interaction on the web will only encourage more trolling, spammers, hackers and general dumb asses hoping to "cash in".
10 reasons NFTs are dumb.
All good reasons, but I’ll add, as it pertains to art — traditional art, in which the art is a physical, one-of-a-kind object is being replaced by digital art, which is not a physical object and not one-of-a-kind. Traditional art is also harder to create requiring far more skill and know how, hence the rise of digital art (people are getting lazier and dumber). So which would you rather own (or in the case of digital, “own”).
5 reasons NFTs are not dumb.
None of these reasons are compelling. Metaverses? Web3? Meh. Monetizing every interaction on the web will only encourage more trolling, spammers, hackers and general dumb asses hoping to "cash in".
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2022
Some Changes...
The first is obvious; The current series (volume 8) of RSA is online for free. Other books and volumes will go online in due course. The reasoning behind this will be discussed later.
The file format has changed from PDF to CBR. Since FireFox opens and decrypts encrypted PDFs (along with many other apps), moving to a more popular digital comic standard seemed more appropriate.
This website overall has adopted CSP, which was NOT EASY. No longer using inline styles and scripts is a hard habit to break. Gone are the days of the '90's when getting a domain and host was cheap and easy, and creating a website was so insanely easy and back before trolls, bots and hackers ruined the web.
The file format has changed from PDF to CBR. Since FireFox opens and decrypts encrypted PDFs (along with many other apps), moving to a more popular digital comic standard seemed more appropriate.
This website overall has adopted CSP, which was NOT EASY. No longer using inline styles and scripts is a hard habit to break. Gone are the days of the '90's when getting a domain and host was cheap and easy, and creating a website was so insanely easy and back before trolls, bots and hackers ruined the web.
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2022
Lastest Poop #796
Above: Cover for RSA #14. Pencils and lettering are all done for RSA #14. Instead of inking right away, I'm going to try and write issue #15, but I'll try and do another video of inking that cover this month.
Above: beer #58. Made a keg beer in January and a bottled version in February. Bottled a few in some old pre-pros: (L to R) Edelweiss (circa 1905), Grand Rapids Brewing (circa 1910), and Blatz (date unknown but maybe ~1915). Sitting on top of a Hudepohl long neck box (circa 1960).
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022
Inking RSA #13
Here I am inking a panel for Ralph Snart Adventures #13 releasing this Spring. This issue will be the final part of the Origin Trilogy.Inking panel two, page 17 of issue #13 of RSA. Yes, I've gone full nerd and labelled the brush for when I first started using it. Double-speed playback (I'm not that fast -- anymore.) Normally I'll use just one brush per issue, but have had a hard time finding a good brush so have gone back and used an array of older brushes for this issue. I've been inking so much lately, I've created a bulbous callus on my pinkie finger -- such are the travails I must endure!
Marc Hansen
Cartoonist and creator of Ralph Snart Adventures, Weird Melvin and Doctor Gorpon. Hansen has done most of his work for NOW Comics, but has also done work for Marvel, Disney and Kitchen Sink Press.
Ralph Snart Adventures was published from 1986-1993 by now defunct NOW Comics, and was the longest running comic in the entire NOW catalog, selling an average of 50,000 copies a month during that nine year period. Over two million comics were published, and it was the first indy comic to receive the Comics Code.
Today, Marc Hansen publishes Ralph Snart Adventures as an ebook on a sporadic basis. Current issues are available on his website. Keep up with Ralph Snart on Twitter and Facebook.
RALPH SNART IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK. COPYRIGHT 2022 BY MARC HANSEN.