Dynamic Duos

Threes a crowd, and pop culture's best teams are pairs. From Calvin & Hobbes to Jessie and Walt, Sam Carter put together 69 pairs for his solo show, Duos, at F+ Gallery.

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Cereal Killers
Birth Of A Golden Girl
By The Power Of My Little Pony

Cage Against The Machine

What is it about Nicolas Cage that inspires so many artists? (Hanksy, via Gallery 1988's How The West Was Pun show)

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Nicolas Cage: Snow Monkey
Nicolas Cage Wants Cake
Nicolas Cage + Lichtenstein = Nictenstein

Sid & Nancy & Mario & Peach

No future, no future,

No future for you

No future, no future,

No future for me.

The Sid & Nancy Nintendo Lost Levels by Butcher Billy (via Topless Robot)

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Vicious Vangogh

She Ain't No Human Being

Never Mind The Sex Pistols Saturday Morning Cartoon

Mystery! Intrigue! Super Powers! And Aliens!

Wow, you can get a Rambaldi device on the back of a comic? Awesome! Sure, it could lead to the deaths of millions, but, you know, whatever.  (Dana Lechtenberg for Gallery 1988's Bad Robot show)

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Lost Tiki
Who Observes The Observer?
Comic Book Ads - They Really Work! 

I've Got Franz Kafka Waiting There For Me, Yes I Do

Franz Kafka metamorphosizes into a leader of the KISS Army, Peter Criss. (Kitty Kafka by Chet Loggins)

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KISShrooms 

"Good Ol" Gregor Brown

Gene Simmons Slimed Me

As Seen By Scott Campbell

Portrait by Scott Campbell at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival, where I got his The Great Showdowns book. Good Show.

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Return Of The Great Pop Culture Showdowns
Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?
I See Dead Croquet Players

I'll Be Bert

They said Bert was evil - seems it is actually true. (Jeff McMillan for WWA Gallery's Gag Me With A Toon)

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The Bert Locker
The All New Adventures Of Mr. B
You're Gonna Need A Bigger Bert

Yabba-Dabba-Fuck You!

"Who's the head bull-goose loony around here?" Randle Patrick McMurphy meets Fred Flintstone (Dave MacDowell for WWA Gallery's Gag Me With A Toon 5)

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The Seven Jack Nicholsons & The Enchanted Mental Hospital
It's Not a Doll, It's An Action Figure!
Attack Of The 50 Foot Betty Rubble

The Adoration Of Elphie

Wicked, the Wizard of Oz and Leonardo da Vinci. My kind of mashup. (The Adoration of Elphie by James Hance)

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Wicked Witch Of The Westside
The Hipsters Of Oz
Rocking The Yellow Brick Road