{"id":1383,"date":"2011-09-21T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2011-09-21T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:30:56","slug":"tim-hamiltons-steampunk-re-creation-of-the-forgotten-spurt-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/21\/tim-hamiltons-steampunk-re-creation-of-the-forgotten-spurt-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hamilton&#8217;s Steampunk Re-Creation of the forgotten Spurt Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=10226&#038;page=1#Item_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/tim_hamilton_spurt_hammond.jpg\" alt=\"tim hamilton's spurt hammond\" width=\"270\" height=\"531\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:9px;margin-bottom:6px;\"><\/a>There&#8217;s a long standing feature over at the Whitechapel Forum in which artists each do a &quot;remake\/remodel&quot; of an obscure (or even a well known) character from the history of comics and genre fiction. <a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=10226&#038;page=1#Item_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This week it&#8217;s Spurt Hammond<\/a>. Yes. You got that right. <em>Spurt Hammond<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You should know in advance that there will probably be no spurt joke left unturned and if spurting phallic symbols upset you, you probably shouldn&#8217;t look&#8230; but on the other hand you might ask yourself just how symbolic a phallic symbol is if it never, ever&#8230; well&#8230; spurts. Food for thought.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But I digress: the whole reason I even mention this is that I was so taken by this non-spurting, nearly non-phallic drawing by <a href=\"http:\/\/hamilton-tim.pair.com\/CUTBLEED\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Hamilton<\/a>, who&#8217;s also the illustrator of the recent graphic novel version of Ray Bradbury&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/080905101X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=webomator-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=080905101X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webomator-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=080905101X&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Our steampunk Spurt here seems to travel by airship (which is always a plus) and the rendering has a <em>slightly scratchier than Moebius<\/em> flavor that I really like.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And if you&#8217;d like to understand what on Earth the original Spurt Hammond was all about, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misterkitty.org\/extras\/stupidcovers\/stupidcomics75.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this link<\/a> probably won&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> help; but it&#8217;s a snarkily-commented version of an original Spurt story from <em>Planet Comics<\/em> in 1940.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]tim hamilton, spurt hammond, whitechapel forum, remake\/remodel[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a long standing feature over at the Whitechapel Forum in which artists each do a &quot;remake\/remodel&quot; of an obscure (or even a well known) character from the history of comics and genre fiction. 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