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Blazing Violence Comic Signed By Larry Blamire Dir. Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra For Sale
This listing is for a signed comic book written and illustrated by filmmaker-artist Larry Blamire, director of the cult hit THE LOST SKELETON OF
CADAVRA and creator of the steampunk project STEAM WARS. Recently, Blamire came across several copies comic books and sci-fi magazines containing his work, and is in the process of making some space. While still in art school in the 1970s, Larry Blamire developed a costumed vigilante character known as the Predator, and published three comics containing his stories (ACE OF SPADES 1 and BLAZING VIOLENCE 1 and 2). This sale is for a copy of BLAZING VIOLENCE 2, the Predator's final appearance, and the only one with a full color cover (on heavy cover stock). It contains a full-length 26-page black-and-white Predator story, written and illustrated by Blamire who also painted the cover. It is signed on the inside by Blamire, however cover will be signed upon request. WARNING: the story does contain graphic violence. The
comic book is not graded, but is in nice condition, with only faint
signs of wear (NOTE: picture is not of exact book, but they are all reasonably in the same condition). The comic
will be boarded and securely packaged, and we will combine shipping on
these comics and magazines (see sales for other issues). This is only a five day
sale. Thank you for looking and please check back for more--perfect
presents for that LOST SKELETON fan.Larry Blamire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Larry Blamire is an American filmmaker, writer and artist best known for the independent film The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.Blamire
studied illustration at the Art Institute of Boston under Norman Baer, a
second generation student of Howard Pyle and soon began working as a
science fiction illustrator for Galileo Magazine among others.In
the 1980s Blamire began acting on stage on a whim, landing roles at
various Boston theatres; the Open Door Theatre, the Alley Theatre, as
well as a season at the Boston Shakespeare Company. It was with the Open
Door Theatre that he found a home, particularly in their outdoor summer
productions at Jamaica Pond by the Pinebank Mansion in a natural
formation known as the Kettlebowl. His first play, In the Nations, a
dark western which he also directed, received critical and audience
acclaim and was followed by his version of Robin Hood in which he played
the title role but did not direct. It was later published by Bakers
Plays, continuing to be performed worldwide. In 1984 he wrote and
directed Interface, a science fiction thriller based on the alleged
Philadelphia Experiment featuring ambitious effects and sound design.
Performed indoors, it played well with audiences but, like Robin Hood,
received a mixed reaction from the press.In 1985, however,
Blamire wrote and directed Jump Camp, a surreal dark comedy about a
writer searching for a missing psychiatrist in a ghost town that took
the quirky dialogue suggested by In the Nations and elevated it to
heights of absurdity. The play was an instant hit with audiences and
critics alike, ending up on the year's ten best lists in the Boston
Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix. Moving outdoors again,
Blamire's next play, Bride of the Mutant's Tomb, was a comedy about a
hapless Ed Wood-inspired director trying to make his low-budget science
fiction movie in the 1950s with a group of misfits. Despite less than
complimentary reviews, it proved to be another crowd pleaser. In 1987
Blamire next wrote Whyo, a revenge tragedy about Irish gangs in 19th
Century New York. It received a grant from the Massachusetts Council on
the Arts and Humanities and an ambitious staged reading at Gloucester
Stage Company. This led to Israel Horovitz commissioning a play, The
Chroma Line, a partly autobiographical look at life in a wallpaper
warehouse. His last play of the '80s was Ha'nt, a one-act performed as
part of a horror anthology. During this period, Blamire received
critical acclaim for a series of leading stage roles, including
MacMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hotspur in Henry IV, Part
1, John Proctor in The Crucible, Tilden in Buried Child and Al in In the
Boom Boom Room, for which he won The Boston Theatre Critics Circle
Award for Best Actor. He also played the rapist in the Boston premiere
of Extremities. In the 1990s, despite revivals of In the Nations and
Jump Camp (the latter at the Alliance Repertory Company in Los Angeles)
and a lead role as the country DJ host in the hit show A Closer Walk
with Patsy Cline at the Charles Playhouse, Blamire found himself moving
away from theatre. In 1992 Blamire's comedy sketches were chosen for the
HBO Writers Search, and he directed several at the Stella Adler Theatre
in L.A. They were also collected in an evening called Larry Blamire's
Sketch-O-Rama by a new Massachusetts company, Theatre 9. Towards the end
of the '90s, Blamire was writing more and more screenplays on spec,
several of which were quarter- and semifinalists in the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship.In 1997
Blamire began working with an internet start-up called Bali Hai
Interactive, given carte blanche to develop new cutting edge
entertainment. What resulted was The Wise Eye Guys, a quirky interactive
nonlinear animated adventure for which he did thousands of drawings and
directed the voice actors (which included his wife, actress Jennifer
Blaire). Months after the company moved its offices to Los Angeles, it
went under in the dot com crash of 2000. Trying unsuccessfully to raise
money for the floundering Bali Hai, Blamire, having recently read about
developments in digital video, got the idea of shooting an
ultra-low-budget spoof of 1950's bargain basement science fiction
movies, incorporating elements from Bride of the Mutant's Tomb. The
resulting film, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, premiered at the Mill
Valley Film Festival in 2002. Picked up by Michael Schlesinger for Sony,
the film was released in 2004.That same year, Blamire wrote and
directed Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits (now Meet the Mobsters), produced
by and starring John Fiore and some of The Sopranos cast. In 2005, he
wrote and directed Trail of the Screaming Forehead. Though continuing
the retro science fiction spoof theme, the film had a different look and
feel, in widescreen and color, under the Ray Harryhausen Presents
banner, with a title song composed by Blamire and sung by The Manhattan
Transfer. After festival screenings, it was picked up by IFC, playing
VOD in 2009, slated for DVD release in 2010. In 2007, Blamire formed a
company, Bantam Street, with his core group of actors and technicians.
Their acclaimed web series Tales From the Pub launched that same year.
In 2008, Bantam Street made two films back-to-back; The Lost Skeleton
Returns Again, a sequel to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, and Dark and
Stormy Night, a stylistically authentic takeoff on 1930s "old dark
house" movies.[1] Both feature Bantam Street's ever-increasing pool of
veteran character actors, including Betty Garrett, H.M. Wynant and James
Karen.
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Blazing Violence Comic Signed By Larry Blamire Dir. Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra: $31
