Stephen R Bissette
@stephenrbissette.bsky.social
Father, son, husband, artist, author, researcher, cinema & comics historian, and former instructor (retired),
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS
Amazon.com: S R Bissette's In The Mood For MONSTERS: 9798275808681: Bissette, Stephen R., Bissette, Stephen R., Masztal, Mark A.: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Recommend the color edition (there's also a black-and-white edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G41R2LS6/
S R Bissette's In The Mood For...Monsters - Color Edition
Amazon.com: S R Bissette's In The Mood For...Monsters - Color Edition: 9798275966480: Bissette, Stephen R, Bissette, Stephen R, Masztal, Mark A: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Recommend the color edition (there's also a black-and-white edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G41R2LS6/
My inks on a Jack Kirby Etrigan sketch.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My inks on a Jack Kirby Etrigan sketch.
Hmmmmm. Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hmmmmm. Monday.
Proof copies en route.
Coming soon... watch for the announcement in early December, if not sooner.
Coming soon... watch for the announcement in early December, if not sooner.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Proof copies en route.
Coming soon... watch for the announcement in early December, if not sooner.
Coming soon... watch for the announcement in early December, if not sooner.
June 1928: H.P. Lovecraft's visit with "literary persons' in Guilford, VT.
PS: The so-called "The Awful" manufactured lore, positing H.P.L. visiting northern VT, is a lot of hooey. Never happened. No such HPL visit to the northern region ever occurred.
PS: The so-called "The Awful" manufactured lore, positing H.P.L. visiting northern VT, is a lot of hooey. Never happened. No such HPL visit to the northern region ever occurred.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
June 1928: H.P. Lovecraft's visit with "literary persons' in Guilford, VT.
PS: The so-called "The Awful" manufactured lore, positing H.P.L. visiting northern VT, is a lot of hooey. Never happened. No such HPL visit to the northern region ever occurred.
PS: The so-called "The Awful" manufactured lore, positing H.P.L. visiting northern VT, is a lot of hooey. Never happened. No such HPL visit to the northern region ever occurred.
Then again, after a couple of hours, the 'feature' allowing one to know what part of the globe a comment originated from was removed. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Then again, after a couple of hours, the 'feature' allowing one to know what part of the globe a comment originated from was removed. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
My first 'film collection'—8mm (and later, Super 8) 50' and 200' reels from Castle Films, Ken Films, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My first 'film collection'—8mm (and later, Super 8) 50' and 200' reels from Castle Films, Ken Films, etc.
In walking distance of our abode is this crumbling ruin of a once sizeable home. My pal Joe thought a local friend was squatting here when it was still partially intact; dunno.
Risked ticks (!) to snap these pix just after dawn; that dangling bright-red remote-controlled car just breaks my heart.
Risked ticks (!) to snap these pix just after dawn; that dangling bright-red remote-controlled car just breaks my heart.
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In walking distance of our abode is this crumbling ruin of a once sizeable home. My pal Joe thought a local friend was squatting here when it was still partially intact; dunno.
Risked ticks (!) to snap these pix just after dawn; that dangling bright-red remote-controlled car just breaks my heart.
Risked ticks (!) to snap these pix just after dawn; that dangling bright-red remote-controlled car just breaks my heart.
Matt Mazur worked with our son Danny Bissette on their latest musical project/LP; Matt painted the front-&-back cover art & interior sleeve art. He also self-publishes the zine OH YOU! (this is #26), which Danny showed me & I quite love it.
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Matt Mazur worked with our son Danny Bissette on their latest musical project/LP; Matt painted the front-&-back cover art & interior sleeve art. He also self-publishes the zine OH YOU! (this is #26), which Danny showed me & I quite love it.
I was up & walking in 20-degrees+ in time for sunrise...
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Photos ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette
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Photos ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I was up & walking in 20-degrees+ in time for sunrise...
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Photos ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette
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Photos ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette
NEW WORK:
All this arrived in the mail & via UPS this week. Collaborative work with Chuck Forsman (reprints), Tim Paxton, Denis St. John, & latest (final!) installment of serialization.
Info to follow, as one of these is "just" a proof print copy, making final corrections before it's available...
All this arrived in the mail & via UPS this week. Collaborative work with Chuck Forsman (reprints), Tim Paxton, Denis St. John, & latest (final!) installment of serialization.
Info to follow, as one of these is "just" a proof print copy, making final corrections before it's available...
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NEW WORK:
All this arrived in the mail & via UPS this week. Collaborative work with Chuck Forsman (reprints), Tim Paxton, Denis St. John, & latest (final!) installment of serialization.
Info to follow, as one of these is "just" a proof print copy, making final corrections before it's available...
All this arrived in the mail & via UPS this week. Collaborative work with Chuck Forsman (reprints), Tim Paxton, Denis St. John, & latest (final!) installment of serialization.
Info to follow, as one of these is "just" a proof print copy, making final corrections before it's available...
We've been secretly, silently working on this for 2 years.
Finally, we can talk about it...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Finally, we can talk about it...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Lighthouse Brings ‘Tyrant’ Back in Deluxe Edition
Comics veteran Chris Stevens’s Lighthouse Press will launch a crowdfunding campaign in the new year to reissue Steve Bissette’s lost classic in trade and oversize “original art edition” formats.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We've been secretly, silently working on this for 2 years.
Finally, we can talk about it...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Finally, we can talk about it...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Screenshot from my phone.
This fucking bullshit scam-spam hit me every-other-day, until I got fed up & "replied" as you see here.
They "unsubscribed" me in 20 seconds flat.
SCORE!
This fucking bullshit scam-spam hit me every-other-day, until I got fed up & "replied" as you see here.
They "unsubscribed" me in 20 seconds flat.
SCORE!
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Screenshot from my phone.
This fucking bullshit scam-spam hit me every-other-day, until I got fed up & "replied" as you see here.
They "unsubscribed" me in 20 seconds flat.
SCORE!
This fucking bullshit scam-spam hit me every-other-day, until I got fed up & "replied" as you see here.
They "unsubscribed" me in 20 seconds flat.
SCORE!
Our son Danny just handed me his brand-new LP yesterday evening. Wow! See first comment on the comments thread, below, to order your own copy, highest recommendation—
—and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...
—and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our son Danny just handed me his brand-new LP yesterday evening. Wow! See first comment on the comments thread, below, to order your own copy, highest recommendation—
—and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...
—and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...
NEW WORK: My 4-part serialized CRYPTID CINEMA™ analysis of 1950s-70s TV westerns w/cryptids & faux-cryptids concludes in the brand-new issue of BARE*BONES, now available on amazon.
Next issue: my autopsy of JUNGLE JIM movie cryptids (yep, there were more in the JJ movies than in Tarzan movies!)
Next issue: my autopsy of JUNGLE JIM movie cryptids (yep, there were more in the JJ movies than in Tarzan movies!)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NEW WORK: My 4-part serialized CRYPTID CINEMA™ analysis of 1950s-70s TV westerns w/cryptids & faux-cryptids concludes in the brand-new issue of BARE*BONES, now available on amazon.
Next issue: my autopsy of JUNGLE JIM movie cryptids (yep, there were more in the JJ movies than in Tarzan movies!)
Next issue: my autopsy of JUNGLE JIM movie cryptids (yep, there were more in the JJ movies than in Tarzan movies!)
Morning wakeup images/posts, everywhere hereabouts.
Predators & pedophiles & human traffickers rule, they don't even ATTEMPT to hide it any longer.
Predators & pedophiles & human traffickers rule, they don't even ATTEMPT to hide it any longer.
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Morning wakeup images/posts, everywhere hereabouts.
Predators & pedophiles & human traffickers rule, they don't even ATTEMPT to hide it any longer.
Predators & pedophiles & human traffickers rule, they don't even ATTEMPT to hide it any longer.
THE most corrupt Prez & Administration of my lifetime (7 decades on this dustball), absolutely. In terms of US history: move over, Hoover, you've been Trumped.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
THE most corrupt Prez & Administration of my lifetime (7 decades on this dustball), absolutely. In terms of US history: move over, Hoover, you've been Trumped.
Harwood Union High School auditorium was mighty special to me as a student; performed in a procession of 1-act plays & musicals on this stage, projected publicly-exhibited 16mm feature films & curated a film festival here, start of my "career" currently doing bonus features for Blu-ray/4K clients
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Harwood Union High School auditorium was mighty special to me as a student; performed in a procession of 1-act plays & musicals on this stage, projected publicly-exhibited 16mm feature films & curated a film festival here, start of my "career" currently doing bonus features for Blu-ray/4K clients
Despite Steely Dan, yep, I went back to my old school—Harwood Union High School, Duxbury/Moretown, VT—on Saturday. They've added on a whole new section, but the 2 most important 'rooms' to me, the library and auditorium, are lookin' fine. Library plenty different, that stage & screen the same...
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Despite Steely Dan, yep, I went back to my old school—Harwood Union High School, Duxbury/Moretown, VT—on Saturday. They've added on a whole new section, but the 2 most important 'rooms' to me, the library and auditorium, are lookin' fine. Library plenty different, that stage & screen the same...
The great folks at WowCool have restocked TYRANT®, TABOO™ & SPIDERBABY COMIX™ in time for Christmas—just in case you have any dinosaur-lovin' gift recipients in mind, or horror-comix-fanatics needing a dose of something potent to offset the eggnog!
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Wow Cool Alternative Comics
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The great folks at WowCool have restocked TYRANT®, TABOO™ & SPIDERBABY COMIX™ in time for Christmas—just in case you have any dinosaur-lovin' gift recipients in mind, or horror-comix-fanatics needing a dose of something potent to offset the eggnog!
www.wowcool.com?srsltid=AfmB...
www.wowcool.com?srsltid=AfmB...
Survived completely schizo two weeks of work screening/studying the justifiably infamous ILSA 1970s film series on the one hand, and East German 1960s & '70s fairy tale movies on the other—then seeing to blu-ray bonus features for both! Capped it off by dashing to the matinee of NUREMBERG (2025).
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Survived completely schizo two weeks of work screening/studying the justifiably infamous ILSA 1970s film series on the one hand, and East German 1960s & '70s fairy tale movies on the other—then seeing to blu-ray bonus features for both! Capped it off by dashing to the matinee of NUREMBERG (2025).
NEW WORK:
Drilling for gray matter? Since my brains haven't been eaten yet, used 'em to provide a full commentary track for the latest release of Pete Walker's infamous FRIGHTMARE (1974)!
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Drilling for gray matter? Since my brains haven't been eaten yet, used 'em to provide a full commentary track for the latest release of Pete Walker's infamous FRIGHTMARE (1974)!
kinolorber.com/product/frig...
Frightmare (Kino Cult #40) | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema
Pete Walker's film FRIGHTMARE has achieved almost legendary status in British horror history due to its initial condemnation. Sheila Keith stars as a former patient of a mental institution, who has se...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NEW WORK:
Drilling for gray matter? Since my brains haven't been eaten yet, used 'em to provide a full commentary track for the latest release of Pete Walker's infamous FRIGHTMARE (1974)!
kinolorber.com/product/frig...
Drilling for gray matter? Since my brains haven't been eaten yet, used 'em to provide a full commentary track for the latest release of Pete Walker's infamous FRIGHTMARE (1974)!
kinolorber.com/product/frig...
Why would our Felon-in-Chief flip on the vote? We all know he'll use passages to attack his enemies; we all know they're laundering the files; they'll use "under investigation" as rationale for not releasing the files; etc. Despite all this & so much more.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Why would our Felon-in-Chief flip on the vote? We all know he'll use passages to attack his enemies; we all know they're laundering the files; they'll use "under investigation" as rationale for not releasing the files; etc. Despite all this & so much more.