Category: GIF Animations

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

The .Gif Friday Post No. 849 – SolOreo Eclipse, Sheila’s Glasses, Spin the Grove & Ronnie Spector’s Wiggle

Oreo eclipse plate animated from this. [h/t Corrine L.]
Sheila Jackson Lee clipped from this video.
Eucalyptus plantation created from this photo.
Ronnie Spector .gif modified from this one.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 848 – A Babble Nymph, A Shoebill Glares & A Horror Mantis

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 847 – Duck Flood, A Building Massage & Some Skidders

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 846 – Nancy & Sluggo

Ernie Bushmiller‘s ubiquitous comic strip has intrigued me since I was a kid. It was rarely funny, sometimes creepy, and the drawing style was unique and constrained. Bushmiller was more of a draftsman than a comic strip artist, and it’s obvious that he used tracing templates, photography, and in his later years, photocopiers.

One day in the early 1980s, this panel showed up in the Sunday funnies. I was hooked, and I began paying closer attention to the Zen of Nancy.

The .gifs above have been posted here previously, and scraping them into a pile seemed like the proper thing to do. The one in color was an early experiment with Jasc Animation Shop v.3.11, a program I acquired in 2012 (thanks, Possum). Most of the panels were lifted from Nancy strips posted on X/Twitter by @JohnnyCallicutt and re-used with minimal editing.

[For more Nancy, Sluggo & Aunt Fritzi stuff visit The Nancy & Sluggo Archive.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

The .Gif Friday Post No. 845 – Carbon Faceprint, Railhopper & Little Dancer

[Found here, here and here. Other sky dancers here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 844 – FU Trash Receptacle, an Urban Geyser, and Boys, Bikes & Beer

[Culled from here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 843 – Hidden Strength, Insult Response Face & Heeere’s Donny!

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 842 – Dancing The Radioactive Flesh, Vintage Tagger & Jake Blues’ Brows

[Found here, here and I messed with Joliet Jake’s mugshots just because.]

More about the top one: From Mexican surrealist producer Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965), the final scene in a nightclub (Café Milleti). Saint Simon Stylites is present, and so is the Devil. St. Simon asks “her” for the name of the dance, and the Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
The band is Los Sinners. [Scene starts at 41:18.]