Whether you’re a propeller head or not; whether you’re a valued research scientist, an engineer, or a mad genius; or even if you’re none of the above - what you do may be, in fact, rocket science. No matter what they say.

Life’s just full of things that aren’t rocket science. Ask anyone. So how to gracefully explain to all and sundry that what you do IS, in fact, rocket science? We’re here to help.

As usual, available as a poster, greeting card, blank book, coffee mug, and on T-shirts.

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Explorers on the Earthlike planet Wurlitzer 1015 are dumbfounded when they discover an ancient, mysterious monument brooding over its hills. What can it mean? Where can it have come from?

This retro science fiction pulp style illustration is an object lesson that shows us how little we really know of the worlds - or of the jukeboxes - that crowd the universe. The archaeological dig is still in progress; but there’s no doubt that these platter spinning aliens were here long before we were. And where are they now? Only the cryptic message “8 TRAK RULZ” may point the way.

Okay, sorry, I made that part up.

Yep, it’s another fake sci fi pulp magazine cover, and like the others, I’ve splattered it across T-Shirts, a poster, an archival print, blank books, greeting cards and, well, anything else that wasn’t moving too fast for me. And I’ve gotta say, I’m still sort of spry. Ish.

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Chris Giddens writes to share with me his astonishing Lego retro rocket, complete with pilot-adventurer, which he tells me was inspired by my Retropolis pictures. I can’t help but wonder whether it takes him longer to build one than it takes me to model it :). Whillikers!

There are three photos of the little roadster rocket in his Flickr stream (here, here, and here) and those pictures share tags with some other pretty neat stuff I might otherwise have missed.

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I guess I really wanted my imaginary magazine “Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual” to be in print, one way or another, so since I couldn’t do that exact thing I got wrapped up in designing a series of blank books with that and other retro science fiction art from my Retropolis series.

What came out of that convoluted sentence is this collection of blank books with both lined (or ruled) pages, and with unlined pages.

While I was at it, I put together a new series of clocks. I’ve offered a few small clocks for sale before but these new ones are another matter entirely - 14″ in diameter, with glass lenses and awesomely retrofuturistic aluminum rims. Neat!

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Wronged by men & betrayed by fate, Bonnie Scarlet sails the airship REVENGE across the known worlds in an unending quest for plunder, justice, and just plain peevishness. Why? Because, that’s why. What do you mean by that?

Ladies: it’s a dream come true.

Gentlemen: Okay. It’s like this. That time last week when you found yourself standing behind a tree with guacamole all over your head, muttering “What just HAPPENED?” is pretty much all systems nominal for Bonnie Scarlet.

You’ll have learned by now that there’s not actually anything you can do to avoid the rampaging hordes of either sky pirates or your girlfriend. So like the various law enforcement agencies of Retropolis you’ve come to rely on ducking - and it’s important to avoid ducking straight down - or running, when necessary, and at all other times you’ve just got to be prepared to stand and deliver.

But hey, it could be worse - and that’s an actual quote from the Space Patrol - because whatever else you can say about her* she does what she does with uncommon style. ‘Cause really, it’s not just anybody who has their own airship, right?

*When she’s on the other side of the Moon, I mean.

Available - without guacamole - on shirts, posters, greeting cards, and non-shatterproof coffee mugs.

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