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Hi. My name's Rob Schamberger. I'm that guy who paints rasslers. And other stuff. My list is short and few and the thing about it is everybody on the list is comin' in after you.

It’s good that Hangman Page is so popular with the AEW fans because I really enjoy making paintings of him. For this one, I wanted to play around with the lighting and colors from his entrance pyro, when the flames are behind him and creating interesting combinations. The edge of light on one side, while a strip of him is getting hit by the house lights, and then more oranges from an off-composition pyre. It’s a fun challenge to work with, especially using watercolors.

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Rob and Jason Arnett's novella Rudow Can't Fail!
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One of the most absolutely perfect comics pages ever made is Milt Caniff’s final Terry and the Pirates strip, as Terry says farewell to Jane and in a meta fashion to Caniff. The visual storytelling of her footprints in the snow as she runs back for that final embrace, then following her as she walks away and onto her flight carries so much unspoken emotion. It’s the kind of thing that would be lessened by words, I think.

Then we’re left with Terry waving at the flight and then his own footprints as he walks away, and again metaphorically as Caniff departs the strip. Couldn’t have been done better.

As a bookend, Caniff went on to start Steve Canyon and this is the first page from that. The way that his Terry and the Pirates finale ended with Terry waving goodbye and then walking away, Canyon begins with multiple characters waving hello and greeting the unseen titular character. It’s a nice binary of waving goodbye and hello, and then as a page unto itself I love this manner of introducing a character through how others see him. Once Steve finally makes his entrance on page six we’re getting thrust right into his first story in a way that makes you want to know what happens next. Again, couldn’t have been done better.

If you’re unfamiliar with Milton Caniff, at one point he was not just one of the most successful cartoonists in America, but a major public personality of that time. He was wildly influential on other artists, notably Will Eisner, Jack Kirby and many of the EC Comics crew like Johnny Craig.

I’m personally a fan of his chunky inking and learned that he would ink his faces with a pen and then everything else with a brush. He’s one of those artist’s artists, where every time I study his work I learn something new. One time at a comic shop I bought a signed collection of Steve Canyon priced at $15. As soon as my transaction was completed I opened it up and showed it to the owner and winked at him as his shoulders drooped. One of my most prized possessions!

I’ve been playing around with different ways to heighten each aspect of the dishes I make and I came across a wonderful way to do that with things like tater tots and fries. I had a few frozen fries left and picked up some tots and baked them up in the oven as normal. While they were cooking I mixed up 4 tsp of sea salt, 2 tsp of white pepper, 1 tsp of sugar, ½ tsp of Chinese five spice powder and ¼ tsp of ground ginger. As the tots and fries were close to done I heated up some of my homemade bell pepper oil and tossed them around in it for about a minute until they were coated. Then I added about half of the spice mix and tossed them around again.

It’s a lovely mix of flavors to add that works especially well with my homemade stout beer ketchup. There’s the salt and pepper of course, but the ginger gives it some heat and the cinnamon in the Chinese five spice works wonders with the bit of sugar.

Love you more,
Rob