Valentine's Day Cards

Patent Application Valentines.



Ninja Valentines.



Papercraft Valentine.




SomeeCards Valentines.





College Humor Valentines.




Prince Adam Valentine.




Breaking Bad Valentines.




Golden Girls Valentines.




Batman Valentines.





Comics Alliance Valentines.




Originally from The Onion, I believe.

Here's a bigger batch from last year.

Valentine's Day cards on sale at W+K

Squirm by Christina Piluso and Key to My Heart by Carolin Harris on sale here.

Link roundup

1. Gallery 1988 needs votes on which Scott C. illustrations it should sell as prints.

2. BldgBlog:

Nettle's newest album, El Resplandor: The Shining in Dubai, released last month by Sub Rosa, comes with an awesome premise: it is a speculative soundtrack for an unmade remake of Stanley Kubrick's film, The Shining, set in a mothballed luxury hotel in Dubai.

3. The animator who made the Tintin video that went viral last week was invited to the Tintin premier and offered a job by Steven Spielberg.

4. Couple married for 72 years died one hour apart:

"It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going," said Dennis Yeager. "But we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up."

"They were still getting her heartbeat through him," said Donna Sheets.

Via.

5. Secret Cinema tickets going on sale tomorrow.

6. Tenacious Toys has those Gary Baseman vinyl figures I mentioned the other day.

Fantastic Four by Phil Noto

Faux-Life magazine cover by Phil Noto.

*Buy vintage Life magazines at eBay.

Link roundup

1. "Grocery Outlet, Supermarket Chain Where Oddball Products End Up." (Oddball products like Cleavage Creek wine.)

2. Relationship advice.

3. "Book Of 'Roadside Prostitutes' Made Entirely With Google Street View."

Image roundup

North Korea is like an Escher drawing.




Best friends.




Batmobile limousine.




Love.




Children's section entrance in the Cerritos Millenium Library in California.




Confident ninjas.

Charming marriage proposal

Panel from a charming illustrated marriage proposal by Jim Baab - - there's a video at the bottom showing the woman reading it.

*Previously: Marriage proposal by video game character.

Link roundup

1. Want that cute guy to call you? Pick him up on a rickety bridge. Via.

2. New short story by Kelly Link. (I haven't read it yet, but I've liked everything else I've read of hers.) Via.

3. The winners of the inaugural Google Science Fair.

4. Always nice to be reminded that I'm not the only person who prefers email to Twitter and Facebook. (I love Google Reader, too.)

5. FYI, I'm continuing to experiment with Super Punch 2 at Tumblr and mostly post images there that I'm not also posting here.

Image roundup

Duckling.



Sleeping polar bear.



Farewell.



Hearse.



Tiny monkey.



Spider-Man.



Chameleon.



Spirited Away, perhaps.



Please do not sit on crocodile.

He doesn't care about girls

The only things he looks at are dogs.

A comic book look at a young stewardess in love

A few panels from "Rendevous on Cloud 9" from Career Girl Romances #47. There are various issues of Career Girl Romances on sale at eBay.

The origin of the Sub-Mariner

A few panels by by Ross Andru and John Severin from Sub-Mariner #38 (March 1971), which details Namor's origin.

*Buy Heroclix at eBay.

Illustration roundup

Science! by Britt Wilson for an art show in Toronto.




The Phantom enjoys a good kiss of death.



You can't keep love buried in a grave. It will rise again.




From Bizarro Comics, Danny Hellman shows it's hard being Aquaman.





The Atom takes on saboteurs.

Link roundup

1. Comic strip by Lucy Knisley about online dating.

2. Weird niche blog - - Could they beat up China Mieville? Via.

3. It's Yang, Master of Kung Fu vs. a mistress of wolves in Night of the Wolf.

Illustration roundup

Sean Hartter guesses what Bane's mask looks like.




Panel from "Death's Bridegroom."




Flyer by Ben Zhu for Gallery Nucleus's upcoming Harry Potter show.




Cirque du Soleil/Zumanity poster by Casey Weldon on sale here.

*Buy circus posters at eBay.