#Dave Payne

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Tim Curry as Gomez Addams - Addams Family Reunion (1998)

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Dave McKean’s covers for The Sandman presents: The Dead Boy Detectives

Dave McKean served as the cover artist for the entire 75-issue run of Sandman, constantly recreating the visual aesthetic of the series on shelves in the process. In what seems like a point of pride for McKean, this period saw a shift in the way he created his work, moving from predominantly paint with the occasional Joseph Cornell-inspired shadow box including found material to an ever-evolving mix of media: paint, pencil, photography, and — thanks to the emerging technology of the time - digital image manipulation, with McKean treating the covers as much as visual diary or exploratory canvas as static images intended to sell the contents of any individual issue. When asked about this period and how it affected him when it comes to embracing new ways of creating, McKean was quick to admit that when it comes to his work, he remains fascinatingly restless.

The covers for SANDMAN were actually big multimedia dioramas.

One of the signature elements of Dave's art is his usage of dim lighting.

He paints and creates art in a way to evoke deeper emotions for the onlooker.

If you keenly observe his art, you will discover more details than those that meet the eye.

The skillful usage of dim lighting in a sparse way makes the artworks extremely appealing. They make the frame more arresting, creating an other-worldly atmosphere.

Most noticeably in the font chosen for TSP: The Dead Boy Detectives is the round, typewritten letters. They also appear as an easter egg within the show, referencing McKean’s covers.

For the concept design of the opening titles, a closer homage to those covers was chosen at first, not only of the font on the issues themselves, but also referencing Charles’ “thought bubbles”* within later comics.

*I say thought bubbles because they are not directly speech bubbles as you can see above. Fonts change for Edwin and Charles when they are not directly addressing each other.

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Edwin Payne.

The lineart version of the one I posted yesterday. 💜

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edwin payne contains multitudes. he plays mendelssohn’s songs without words and debussy’s rêverie on the piano… AND he undoubtedly steals charles’ walkman so he can mainline the smiths’ eponymous album (1989) and cocteau twins’ heaven or las vegas (1990) on the rooftop at night (all the better to pine for his best friend properly)

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lsdunes: ‘Old Wounds’ is officially out now and available everywhere. This was the second song we recorded out in Joshua Tree at @ranchodelalunastudio with @alexnewps. When this song came together we knew right away that it was something really special and we couldn’t wait to share it with all of you. Now go out and listen to ‘Old Wounds’ on repeat! 🖤🦂🌵

Pro tip: Best listened to under the night sky 🌌

Art by: @gordondouglasball Layout by: @_sage_rage_ Produced by: @alexnewps Recorded at: @ranchodelalunastudio (@itookthisphoto) Tech: @sugenasty Engineer: @russo315

(L.S. Dunes Instagram | August 25, 2023)

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Liam at Annabel’s 60th Anniversary Party via Dave Benett IG stories - 10.06

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story by stevenbattelle, june 2

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AHHHH I NEED A FRAME SO BADLY this is so cool!!

Edit: GOTY X 2! So proud of this game and this cast

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The Zutons - Creeping On The Dancefloor

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The Zutons - The Big Decider (2024)

Quando há muito pensávamos que estariam artisticamente mortos, os The Zutons regressaram com The Big Decider. Who Killed... The Zutons? Afinal, ninguém. Eles estão bem vivos!

Quando há muito pensávamos que estariam artisticamente mortos, os The Zutons regressaram com The Big Decider. Who Killed… The Zutons? Afinal, ninguém. Eles estão bem vivos! Foi há exatamente vinte anos que Dave McCabe e companhia lançaram o seu álbum de estreia no mundo da música. Com o curioso título Who Killed… The Zutons?, o álbum foi bastante bem recebido pelo público e pela crítica. Numa…

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Heritage Foundation: Amy Payne: Tax Reform Ideas: Three Ways to Make April 15 Less Painful

Source:The New Democrat  I believe America needs both a short-term and a long-term tax reform plan not only because of our current partisan makeup in power but also because of our long-term economic outlook. The short-term plan is based on what can be passed now, which would improve our economy and give us a functioning and understandable tax code that anyone could understand that promotes…

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“Woodstock” by Matthews Southern Comfort

Paul Fitzpatrick: January 2023 Every now and then we get invited to write articles for other blogs. Recently we were asked to submit a piece on our ‘favourite number one single’, at which point I realised that very few good songs actually made it to the top of the UK charts in the 70s.There were a few exceptions of course – “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, “Maggie May” and a few others, but in…

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I didn’t want to have to address this again here but please stop associating Neil Gaiman with Dead Boy Detectives.

Neil Gaiman doesn’t own the copyright or trademarks to Dead Boy Detectives. The IP (intellectual property) was back-shelved from Neil in the early 2000s up until when DC Comics wanted to expand on them (because Neil didn't) so DC Comics hired new writers and create their own series for them starting with Ed Brubaker and Bryan Talbot. All copyright that Neil owns is public knowledge and listed here on the US Goverment Copyright and also shared above.

Neil Gaiman owns SANDMAN. Dead Boy Detectives appeared in ONE ISSUE. Neil owns the Sandman comics. Every time you see his name attached is because they included DEATH and DESPAIR to make a connection to SANDMAN. This was Netflix wanting to attach it to Sandman. The show originally set to air on Max had no attachment to Sandman.

Associating that man with the comics or show now is giving him credit for something he DID NOT CREATE.

Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham created Crystal Palace (who are also the reason why Litty and Kingman are named after them in the show! because it ties into THEIR comics!) 2013-2014 ordered a full comic series written by Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham.

Steve Yockey created Niko, The Cat King, Esther, Monty ect. All of whom are original characters for Dead Boy Detectives The Show. They are all original characters that appear no where else in the comics or story

STEVE YOCKEY OWNS THE IP RIGHTS TO DEAD BOY DETECTIVES NOW. Yes, as in Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne are Steve Yockey’s Dead Boy Detectives. Steve works for Warner Brothers and copyright is under them. Not Netflix, Not Neil. WARNER BROTHERS.

They are Steve's characters, no one else’s. Zack Ogle (Dead Boy Detectives writer) has confirmed this on Twitter, US copyright law has confirms this, Neil himself has also confirmed this.

Netflix canceling the show has nothing to do with Neil. They could easily state that in the articles as they have with other shows who have issues regarding him. There is absolutely ZERO correlation between the two.

Dead Boy Detectives had viewership Netflix didn’t like; that’s it. Netflix's horrific streaming model values only hit shows only and #1’s on their chart are the only thing that matter to them. Baby Reindeer blocked them from getting their #1 and Netflix only cares about that.

Netflix also doesn't care about who they employe. They have been working for years with Dave Chappelle, Steve Blackman and others. Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos has defended transphobia from Dave Chappelle and hid details of what was happening on the set of The Umbrella Academy about Steve Blackman's abuse from the public for years.

Dead Boy Detectives was unjustly and unfairly taken from us because Netflix only cares about what hits #1 and could care less about what happens to the cast, crew and writers of the show.

By continuously attaching that man's name to the show you are discrediting the actors, writers and creators of Dead Boy Detectives who deserve the praise for the show and comics they have created for the last 22 years.

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Deputy Secretary of Defense, Cyrus Vance tersely directed Strategic Air Command headquarters that the training phase of the SR 71 wing was over.

He directed the “senior crown” to cover Vietnam and to establish a location Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa.

By the time the 9th SRW was ready for Operational Deployment early in March 1968

Five SR 71s had crashed and were destroyed and tragically one test force RSO Jim Zwayer had perished over New Mexico.

The CIA’s A-12 at that same time in 1968 had three crewmembers dead and another five planes lost.

The aircraft that were selected to go operational were 978, 976, and 974. The deployment was scheduled for March 8, 10th and 12th. Three refueling operations were rescheduled for that six-hour and 18-minute flight plan.

Since they would travel faster than the earth rotates around its axis, they would essentially arrive two hours before their start!

However, in this case, they crossed the international dateline so these three SR 71s arrived one day later but two hours earlier on the clock. Wow!

On Monday, March 18, 0L-8 was ordered to fly its first operational mission.

It was an honor to be selected for the first mission it was pre-planned that Major Buddy Brown and Captain Dave Jensen have the honor. They were prepared to fly the first sortie with Lt Colonel Jerry O’Malley and Major Ed Payne as the backup crew.

Shortly after the airplane took off, there was confusion over what President Lynden Johnson said in his speech about the Vietnam War, and this first flight was changed immediately to a training flight, not an operational flight.

A few days later the order came to fly over enemy territory again. Buddy Brown and Dave Jensen were in the SR 71 ready to fly again when there was a technical problem. The mechanics worked on it and we were just about finished repairing the problem when Colonel Minter the operational officer put up a sign and showed it to O’Malley and said “You go”. Put up another sign for Brown and said “You stay”. As fate would have it. O’Malley and Payne also flew the second operational mission.

Buddy Brown was not upset about losing his chance to be first.

Perhaps he remembered the time when he was flying the U2 during the Cuba missile crisis in 1962. He was selected to fly a mission looking for Cuban nuclear missiles and could not due to weather so it was Rudy Anderson who took off from another area on the island of Cuba as backup.

It was Rudy Anderson, who was shot down and killed by the Cubans. My source is Velocity, speed with Direction, the professional career of General Jerome O’Malley written by Al Casey and Patrick Casey

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BG3 Actor Convention list from November through December 2024 and Beyond

Listed in Character Alphabetical Order and by convention start date. I apologize for any errors and will try to update as time goes on.

Astarion - Neil Newbon

Nov 1st 2024 Heroes Comic Con – Stockholm (2024) in Stockholm Sweden

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 29th 2024 Fan Expo San Francisco in San Francisco California USA

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Dark Urge - Neil Roberts

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

The Emperor - Scott Joseph

Gale - Tim Downie

Nov 14th 2024 Sasnakcity The Gathering in Kansas City Missouri USA

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Apr 4th 2025 Game On Expo (2025) in Phoenix Arizona USA

Gortash - Jason Isaacs

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Mar 8th 2025 Lexington Comic & Toy Con in Lexington Kentucky USA

Mar 27th 2025 GalaxyCon Richmond 2025 in Richmond Virginia USA

Halsin - Dave Jones

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Jaheira - Tracy Wiles

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Karlach - Samantha Béart

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Apr 4th 2025 Game On Expo (2025) in Phoenix Arizona USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Lae'zel - Devora Wilde

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Minsc - Matthew Mercer

Nov 23rd 2024 Heroes Dutch Comic Con 2024 in Utrecht Netherlands

Dec 6th 2024 PAX Unplugged Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Oct 9th 2025 NYCC in New York New York USA

Minthara - Emma Gregory

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Mizora - Tamaryn Payne

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Feb 15th 2025 Capital Sci-Fi Con in Edinburgh Scotland UK

Narrator - Amelia Tyler

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Orin - Maggie Robertson

Nov 2nd 2024 Collect-a-Con Houston in Houston Texas

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Raphael - Andrew Wincott

Nov 29th 2024 MCM Birmingham in Birmingham UK

Rolan - George Taylor

Scratch - Shaun Mendum

Shadowheart - Jennifer English

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Apr 25th 2025 LVL UP EXPO in Las Vegas Nevada USA

Wyll - Theo Solomon

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 12th 2024 Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

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L.S. Dunes at the Rancho de la Luna studio by Nick and Patrick Demarais

(Posted on September 1, 2023)