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Retro Style Fashion and Home Decor

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: General

Welcome to Retro Graphic 17. We do retro style designs for apparel and home decor. Retro Graphic 17 is always open to suggestions and special requests. We also do personalized items. If you need a custom design, just message me. We will do my best to fulfill your wish.

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Halloween Trends For 2022

By tosopSunday - October 9th, 2022Categories: Holiday Patterns & Paintings

Halloween Gifts From Zazzle

  • Caution! You are about to get SPOOKED. Halloween at Zazzle is full of zombie-loving, pumpkin decorating, cobweb spinning fun and creativity! Join us in celebrating this Halloween season by browsing through our Halloween decorations, invitations, clothes, and more!
  • Plan a BOOtiful night of scary movies and costume contests with your fellow witches and werewolves, and don’t forget to stay safe while doing so with our spooky range of Halloween face masks and Halloween face shields.

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Who Supports Beto

By tosopFriday - September 23rd, 2022Categories: Current Events

Who Supports Beto?

  • Beto O’Rourke gets $2 million, his largest campaign donation yet, from Austin couple
  • Cliff Walker, a partner at the progressive consulting firm Seeker Strategies, said Texas Democrats have increasing reason to be optimistic due to “unprecedented national action” on important issues, combined with “unprecedented state failure” like the 2021 power grid collapse.
  • The RealClearPolitics polling average — an average of various recent polls on the race — has Abbott up 6 points on O’Rourke. In that average, Abbott’s largest lead came in the CBS News poll which put him up 8 points, and the lowest in both the University of Houston’s and Quinnipiac’s polls at 5 points.

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Halloween T-Shirts for 2022

By tosopFriday - September 23rd, 2022Categories: General

Funny Scary Hairy Howl-O-Ween Werewolf Trick Or Treat Party

  • Do you want a creepy, spooky outfit? Enjoy trick-or-treating in this Werewolf Halloween design, a red eyed monster, Hairy Howl-O-Ween, that everyone will love. For a fun time this All-Hallows-Eve, this is the monster for you. Ideal for a holiday Party
  • Slightly distressed, colorful green, red & purple halftone. Create lively conversation around holiday party ideas, Halloween themes, Halloween candy, Halloween outfits, funny Halloween clothing for men, women & kids. The cool Trick or treater

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Phone Cases As Gifts

By tosopWednesday - September 22nd, 2021Categories: articles

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Apache Trail No. 1, a Silver Age Western Comic

By tosopMonday - October 9th, 2017Categories: articles

Discovering a Lost Gem

Apache Trail #1

This Silver Age Western Comic was published in 1957 by Steinway Comic Pub. Inc. with artwork by Ken Battefield.
Source: Comic Book Plus and Grand Comics Database (GCD)

Native American on Horseback with Rifle


In June 2016, I discovered this beautiful comic book cover featuring an American Indian on horseback firing a rifle. I was immediately taken with this image; the dynamic lines and the beautiful color combinations impressed me as something special that I should share on my The Ninth Art store.

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Restoring My Roommate’s Old Photos, Black & White and Color Techniques

By tosopWednesday - October 4th, 2017Categories: articles

A Light Touch

Patricia Dorrian in the 1950s

Source: Dana Dorrian’s Family Photo Album

A Fun Project

A couple of weeks ago, my roommate Dana asked me to scan a couple of old photographs he found while looking through his old photo album: one was an old black and white photo of his late mother, Patricia; the other was a color photo of Dana in his sailor uniform, taken in 1986.

I knew that Dana would have been satisfied with just the scans, but I decided to do a little restoration work with PhotoShop before I sent him the finished products.

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Rare Golden Age Romance Comic

By tosopTuesday - September 19th, 2017Categories: articles

Diversity in Golden Age Comics

Negro Romance #2

Source: Rare Golden Age Romance Comic at The Ninth Art store
Scanned Image: Comic Book Plus

Negro Romance #2

In February 2017, I discovered a beautiful photographic comic book cover and decided to make that the next design for my The Ninth Art Zazzle store. February being Black History Month, I had intended to use a super hero or sci-fi comic as my source, but couldn’t find any public domain comics in those genres with black leads. But the minute I laid eyes on Negro Romance #2, I knew I’d found my new subject.

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Reading List: The Ten Essential Jack Kirby Stories

By tosopSunday - July 30th, 2017Categories: General

Obviously Jack Kirby is the greatest comic book artist of all time, but most will agree he’s also one of the medium’s greatest writers. He wrote the way he drew: Big and loud and primal, but with a surprising amount of intricacy and nuance waiting to be discovered amid the crackling explosions. We’ve put together a list of the ten essential stories that you should read if you want to get more familiar with the King.

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Coming Of Age: The ‘Persepolis’ Mixtape

By tosopSunday - July 30th, 2017Categories: General

Marjane Satrapi’s incredible work Persepolis focuses on the experiences of a young Marji and her family growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The Revolution caused many changes to the relatively peaceful Iran of Marji’s youth, including gender segregation, the abolition of secular education, and the strict enforcement of sharia law.

In Persepolis, Marji becomes increasingly rebellious, wearing denim jackets emblazoned with “punk rock,” and going to the black market to buy illegal copies of popular music. It became illegal for women to dance in public, or for men and women to dance together; listening to Western popular music and getting her dance on was a way for Marji to rebel.

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Comics Alliance Presents: Why We Love Comics

By tosopFriday - June 30th, 2017Categories: General

Comic books are just fantastic, and we here at ComicsAlliance really believe that. While the name “ComicsAlliance” might have stopped making sense as a phrase and just become the name of the website around six or seven years ago now, it’s something we strive for in how we cover and represent the comics and communities we feature. Comics bring us together, and things that bring us together should be celebrated. With that in mind, we asked our staff why they love comics, and while it’s a broad question, there’s something in each answer worth thinking about.

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