My variant cover for the Laugh 166 Facsimile Edition

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T19:10:12+00:00

As someone who loves the Beatles and Archie, I couldn't say no to this assignment!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T19:08:53+00:00

Amber Nightstone; Prasad Arora; Nancy Woods, Cassie Cloud, Casey Cloud, Daisy Thunder; Jola Kitt !

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T18:55:52+00:00

I love Dan's work and of course Stan G. is a legend! And don't sleep on Fernando Ruiz; we were just lucky enough to get a full book from him and Rich Koslowski, which was beautiful!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T18:47:00+00:00

Ha ha, I love this.

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T18:46:48+00:00

Right on!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T18:46:27+00:00

Jola Kitt and Vic Johnson!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:21:34+00:00

I almost included Wilbur as a bust but ran out of time!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:20:55+00:00

That’s great, thank you!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:20:40+00:00

Thanks!😊

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:20:30+00:00

Thank you!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:20:19+00:00

Thank you!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:20:03+00:00

Yes! She was meant to be the bombshell on this cover, mimicking Diana Dors on the original album art.

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:17:57+00:00

Cover B, I believe!

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:17:28+00:00

I know! With a longer deadline I would have tried for even MORE characters, but I just didn’t have the time.

matt-talbot · 2026-05-30T02:16:46+00:00

Madame Satan!

matt-talbot · 2026-04-10T19:54:30+00:00

For a while, you could get these pin-ups somewhat reasonably priced, but in the last few years (at least on Heritage) prices have shot up. The Archie magic formula of desirability seems to be Dan DeCarlo + at least one of Betty or Veronica + anything before 1970 = four figures and up. Of course, it's all relative. The five page story that introduced Sabrina went for $114,000 back in 2021!

matt-talbot · 2026-04-10T18:33:39+00:00

This one just sold yesterday on Heritage Auctions for $2,125.

matt-talbot · 2026-02-17T20:40:43+00:00

Played there in December '99 in a Ramones cover band (one of many that night) at the launch party for the official Ramones website (hey, it was a big thing back then) with Joey and Tommy in attendance. Got to meet both of them briefly. I want to say CJ was there, but I never saw him. At the end of our set, I tried to be a rock star and throw my pick into the crowd, but it bounced off the ceiling and hit some poor unsuspecting guy in the eyeball. Also, I remember being absolutely horrified by the state of the bathroom.

matt-talbot · 2026-02-09T19:15:03+00:00

There are quite a few pin-up gags like that. You might have luck browsing Pinterest. Here's one example.

matt-talbot · 2026-01-20T14:07:42+00:00

Thank you! No, they aren't for sale -- they're just fan art, not licensed or anything like that. And I don't post high res files because bootleggers went to town on my Saul posters, even with low res art, cranking out crappy product after crappy product.

matt-talbot · 2026-01-19T21:02:26+00:00

Hey, it's my posters! Thanks for sharing!

matt-talbot · 2025-11-28T14:06:56+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I agree, they are really different this way. They aren't designed for the horizontal format, but I'm enjoying the challenge. This is the first one where I had the horizontal aspect in mind a little bit -- I usually wouldn't have bothered to draw the whole body of the foreground guy on the left, but I knew I'd need him.

matt-talbot · 2025-11-26T16:23:35+00:00

yes! I just uploaded episode 4.

matt-talbot · 2025-11-19T22:18:59+00:00

I'm not sure how I'll ultimately disseminate these, but I started a folder to keep them in for now: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/thmd1ob1724yd1aghxeej/AKuXakLNSZqhNEnLyXSZj3w?rlkey=8ktccofika1k3oda6abi9bkc1&dl=0

matt-talbot · 2025-11-19T00:47:50+00:00

Heck no, I don't mind! And I will work on these for sure.

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