ART & ARTISTS
JULIAN RITTER
The official Ritter site has vanished, so yours truly is building one!
One of the few artists whose life I can relate to, Ritter valued his independence and
took crap from nobody.
GRAEME FLANAGAN
The biggest online repository of my work, larger even than this site,
are my friend Graeme Flanagan's immense Hoffman galleries!
GEORGE SPORTELLI
A fellow wanderer in the savage Internet Art jungle known as eBay, my pal George has
also painted more outdoor murals in California than any other living human!
SYD MEAD
Is Syd an artist, a designer, a futurist, or all three? A major influence
on my PHASE II work, Syd Mead is still a one-man revolution--and has been
since the sixties!
MICHELE BASTA
A "Blue Dragoneer" from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Michele's strange and
fanciful works reach a hidden place in the psyche. Impressive,
mythic and and otherwordly!
The HAUNTED STUDIO...
...of Lewis Barrett Lehrman is an eerie eyrie indeedy, bursting at the stitches
with his special brand of in-demand Spooky Artworks featuring Haunted Houses like yours!
HENRY CLEWS
We first became familiar with Clews' work via his bizarre sculpture
at South Carolina's little-known and edenic BrookGreen Gardens, but
you can find much more online!
ANDY VIRGIL
A magazine illustrator from the Golden Age, we recently discovered
Mister Virgil's works and now want a similarly touching eulogy site when we toddle off the coil!
RICHARD TUCKER
A friend and correspondent for some time now, Rick's artwork amazed me upon
first seeing it--even more so, where's he been hiding? He even writes, too!
PHOTOGRAPHY
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
Possessed of a true and inerrant artist's eye, Miss Cartwright has left
her role on Lost in Space far, far behind! Another native of Altrincham,
England--like yours truly!
KIRILL SIMIN
Another Russian expatriate now in the Deep South, Kirill's mesmerizing
imagery invades our dreams and lodges deep in the mind! He's also
Arturo Bastard's official photog!
LITERATURE
LOREN EISELEY
My personal recommendations don't come any higher than for Eiseley's
haunting, quasi-spiritual panoramic scientific odysseys across the vast,
tractless wastes of anthropologic Time and Space!
MERVYN PEAKE
Best known for his sprawling, gothic Gormenghast trilogy, "the book where
nothing ever happens", Peake's writings continue to alarm, mystify and hypnotize!
KAREL CAPEK
Exploring the life of the man who first used the word
"Robot" in Literature! We're fond of all his works, but in particular
the strange novel "War with the Newts"!
KULTURE
TIKI MAGAZINE
Yep, we subscribe here at H.I., and you can too! Relax under shady palms,
sip exotic beverages and loll around to the tune of our very own Tiki Music CD!
VLADIMIR TRETCHIKOFF
He's the
artist behind the most reproduced print in the History of Humanity. Those doubters
or the curious among you are encouraged to drop by The Source!
HAROLD GOLEN GALLERY
A prestigious "Pop Surrealism" Art gallery located in sunny Miami, Florida, where yours truly unveiled
his first one-man show--of Phase II artwork, that is!
CAUSES
GOOD WORKS...
We've been contributing Art to this worthy cause for some time now, visit the
comicsxafrica.org site for more info on their current projects in Africa!
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HOFFMAN SITES
UNDERWORLD LIBRARY
This is the new Mike Hoffman Publishing imprint, look here for new art, cartoons,
mags, comics and all kinds of crazy concepts. It ain't no universe, it's a whole World!
MONSTER U. MYSPACE
Ya can't have too much MONSTER UNIVERSITY, so we stuck up this Myspacer to augment the
regular M.U. site. It's either social networking or a social disease!
MADAME TARANTULA
Madame T.--or Maria Velez, or "Osimvah", or whatever name ya wanna call her--
now has her own, personal Myspace site with stuff found nowhere else. It's 4077 A.D.!
SQUID GIRL
Yep--it's the gal with the name half the comics community wish they'd though of,
but Hoffy got there first. Now she's got her own ultra-aquatic submarine space too!
MUSIC
FOUR JACKS AND A JILL
A South African group, FJ&AJ's territory lay between childhood innocence
and teenage naievete. Glenys Lynne still has the sweetest voice around! Real square,
but who cares?
YMA SUMAC
The reincarnated Aztec princess with the astounding four-octave
vocal range is still here to wow and amaze you, filthy and unworthy though you may be!
ESTHER OFARIM
The Israeli songbird and actress is enshrined at this fine German
site! Remember the 1968 release
that catapulted Esther and Abi to worldwide fame--"Cinderella Rockfella"?
ARTURO BASTARD
The outrageous Italian "Peacock of Rock" somehow survived the psychedelic
1960s and now invites into his love-love-love nest with a Pied Piper song
from 2525!
HELLO JAGUAR
How about HOWDY PANTHER, or WHAT'S UP LEOPARD? Well, deeper
meanings are often lost in translation, so what you get from my Japanese buddy "Hello" is up to you!
MICK RONSON
He may be gone now, but he sure ain't forgotten! Ronson could get more feeling out of
one note than most guitarists do with a million. An expert arranger of note, too!
ALBUM ART
LP Cover Lover is a superb resource site featuring the greatest, weirdest, kookiest and
mostest overlooked-est retro album cover art ever!
COMICS & ANIMATION
MILTON KNIGHT JR.
Creator of Midnight the Rebel Skunk back in the 80s, Milton ain't resting
until his cartoon's finished! His site's as massive as his talent. When he goes, the fun goes, too!
FUNNY ANIMALS
They ruled the Comic Book world through the 40s and 50s, but nowadays they're gone like
dinosaurs! YET, a few fossils can still be dug on eBay, like maybe a HA-HA or GIGGLE!
WARREN LEONHARDT
Orb Hoffman International's new pal Warren Leonhardt's swell Art site & Blog!
The Mutual Admiration Society's still in its diapers, BUT IT'S GROWIN' FAST!
SEAN PATTY
In true Berserkir fashion, my pal Sean just don't give up the good fight!
Watch a true talent self-publish himself all the way into Comic Book Valhalla!
FILM & VIDEO
TURA SATANA
We had a great time making the world's first Tura Satana comic book,
and now you can keep abreast of her activities--both of them--at her velvet-gloved official site!
NITA NALDI
From lowly chorine to fabulously famous femmes fatale actress, she played
opposite Valentino and Barrymore, and features prominently in our Scarlet Cascade mag!
PETER WYNGARDE
AKA Jason King of "Department "S", he's one of England's finest actors of stage,
screen and TV--and creator of the infamous & rare album "When Sex Leers its Inquisitive Head"!
SOMETHING WEIRD
Don't let the fact that Mike did a cover for their catalog sway ya--we
watch this sorts stuff all the time at H.I. and so should you! A trove of video sleaze
and exploitation!
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