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Tor Johnson returns

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:29 pm Wed, Aug 3, 2011

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Drew Friedman painted a swell portrait of the celebrated pro-wrestler/actor Tor Johnson for the back cover of the upcoming Fantagraphics reprint of Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental, co-written by Drew and his brother Josh Friedman. Tor Johnson Returns

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore

    I think I NEED a whole sheet of this as a decal. Just the head.

  • Donald Petersen

    Upon viewing this evidence of Tor’s return, I realize now that I’ve never seen Tor Johnson and William Frawley in the same place at the same time.  Hmmm…

  • knoxblox

    That’s awesome.

    Here’s one of my favorite slices of cheese:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ZJjOYth3I

  • Richard_Kirk

    Zardoz speaks to you, his chosen ones.

    • scifijazznik

      +1 for you.  +1,000,000 for Charlotte Rampling. 

  • scifijazznik

    Sitting here at work, staring at this for the last five minutes, all I can think about is how I can’t wait to get home and photoshop a Magritte apple just above Tor’s piehole.

  • irksome

    “HODOR!”

  • Drabula

    I had a full-head Tor Johnson mask in the 70s…..wish the hell I still did.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I had a full-head Tor Johnson mask in the 70s

      Hipster Kitty had a Coleman Francis mask.

  • http://twitter.com/erg79 Evan G.

    “You know, in actuality, Lobo would have to struggle with this problem every day.”

  • An Infinitude of Tortoises

    Tor LIVES!
    (And not just the publisher, either.)

  • jvtsc

    TIME FOR GO TO PRINT

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=552780331 Nick Kingan

    I’ve made myself a desktop out of this :)

    http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s269/amnesiahouse/astrozombies.jpg