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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Prince Street News: Let's Make a Trade!

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It's another off-topic installment of PRINCE STREET NEWS , from BACK ISSUE 's "Monkeying Around" issue #163 . This month I...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Prince Street News: Let Me Spell It Out

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BACK ISSUE #162 is an all-MAD issue, but the Prince Street News is another off-topic episode, as it's a look at the nigh-dead art of h...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Superman Nr.13

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 This cover redux of a Danish Superman comic book from 1951 (see original at the bottom) shows the issues with doing artwork in fluorescent ...

Shrouded

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 Based on a photograph I saw online (unsure of provenance, anyone know? Tell me, I'll give credit!)
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Prince Street News: Super Summer Fashions

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The new BACK ISSUE (#160, July 2025) is a "Summer Fun Issue," which gave me the opportunity to return to a theme I've visited...

Woke Since 1938

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 I got so sick of seeing people on the Right trying to deride the new Superman as being "woke propaganda" that I felt I had to dra...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Lo-Fi Takes the Streets 2025

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 My second year doing the artwork for Lo-Fi Takes the Streets, the music and food festival hosted by Jersey City's Low Fidelity Bar ! He...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Prince Street News: Crisis at Julie's Bar

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 The new BACK ISSUE ( #159, almost sold out already! ) celebrates the 40th anniversary of DC Comics' seminal, universe-streamlining max...

Dani's Dawgs

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 Another set of pet portraits! Want some? Reach out! 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Cover Redux International II

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 I was commissioned to do another round of foreign comic book cover recreations ( see here for the first six pieces ), this time all DC char...
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Bitten by a radioactive silverfish at the age of five, Karl Heitmueller Jr. (aka Kalli, aka Pops Gustav) gained the power of pop culture hyper-perception. Now as an adult, he writes, draws, and cartoons about comics, movies, television, music, Superman, advertising, design, politics, religion, drinking, and jerks. Sometimes all at once.
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