Robert J. Lewis

Graphic artist/illustrator in whatever medium will have me, proud papa, optimist despite all evidence to the contrary…

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

the kind of nerdy YT comment I'm 100% here for

"Kubrick shot the film two full stops underexposed on Kodak's discontinued 5298 film stock, which was rated at 500 ASA but used at a faster speed. The deliberate underexposure...was then force-developed in the lab by two stops..."

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@ThatEricAlper Billy Bragg

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @roger_bakes @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon That cover ain’t lying!

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@bghorror This is my iPhone wallpaper…

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@roger_bakes @ihateclaims @bram_kawa @Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon There’s a shameless moment in the 1989 EPK where Kane is just casually drawing Batman on the set—clearly staged (was anyone there when the page was blank?) & reminding me of Burton’s later film about the Keanes & their weird paintings the no-talent hubby took all the credit for.

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@roger_bakes @ihateclaims @bram_kawa @Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon That’s Bob—reportedly—who steadily employed assistants & “ghost artists” to draw the pages, which were of course solely written by uncredited Bill Finger! Kane was unrepentant a/b his blatant plagiarism & continued to market & sign prints while Batmania 2.0 was in full bloom..

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@ihateclaims @bram_kawa @Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @roger_bakes @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon It was a big deal when Kane was revealed to have created “new” art & design concepts for the Burton film, which was almost immediately revealed to be a straight swipe from Todd McFarlane’s earlier “Batman: Year 2”!

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@ihateclaims @CarloDallapicc1 @Freelineorlando @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @roger_bakes @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon LOL—I worked at a convenience/video store as a summer job & people would return rented VCR’s w/ potato chips & toast crumbs left inside…99% of my job was unscrewing the boxes & cleaning the interiors & heads, when not selling DuMarier smokes to French-Canadian truckers…

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@bram_kawa @CPorterMusic True—DVD-Rs are entropy on a platter!

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@JWhilken @HorrorPaperback Cynically—what wouldn’t be?!!

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@HorrorPaperback That shot of Blount floating away from the mirror/portal isn’t discussed enough…

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@Fcsnva @Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @roger_bakes @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon Loved those—Cain and Abel!

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@HorrorPaperback Largely forgotten (I saw it on VHS & am not aware of any subsequent disc release) but it had some moments of invention I wasn’t expecting, considering the state of the franchise post-Dante then-and-since…

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@hermannkarlovic @CarloDallapicc1 @Freelineorlando @roger_bakes @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon You could arrange to have them injected w/ some sort of jellyfish enzyme (you’ll be dead, so harm no foul) and make them bioluminescent (remember, there are no “bad ideas”…)

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@CarloDallapicc1 @hermannkarlovic @Freelineorlando @roger_bakes @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon Were they introduced to it early? I was in my 30s when it became a downtown staple & perhaps my already-finicky ‘buds were too-secured & immoveable…

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@hermannkarlovic @Freelineorlando @roger_bakes @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @CarloDallapicc1 @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon There are countless vendors in my block of downtown Toronto alone—it’s an Asian (Taiwanese?) cold tea drink in which the “bubbles” are lumpy tapioca spheroids that make me want to gag, no matter how many times I re-attempt to warm up to it…

[Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day @NormSNLJokes]

This week Disney released a new CD, featuring a rapping Mickey Mouse.

To avoid controversy, the CD will not include the controversial hit single, "Cat Killer."

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@Freelineorlando @hermannkarlovic @roger_bakes @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @CarloDallapicc1 @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon (Sidebar question: does anyone actually like bubble tea…?)

[Robert J. Lewis @Robertjl]

@hermannkarlovic @Freelineorlando @roger_bakes @DreadmonX @OldCarLongRoad @CarloDallapicc1 @ihateclaims @Windix3 @stonemonkts @PatrickC895106 @performativeUtt @AMclenon I can get you an XL Rubbermaid container and a keg of bubble tea—cheap!