Category Archives: Bad Influences

02/15/2018 · 3:42 pm

Arm’s Length

I won’t lie to you; I’m a conceited guy. I probably possess an overabundance of confidence in my own skills. As I grow older, I try to temper this arrogance, because I’ve seen how it can drive others away; friends, loved ones, fans. But you must understand the importance of this feature (not a bug). In today’s world, you have to be crazy to get anything accomplished.

I have a “Messiah complex”, for which I blame no one but myself. My endless vitriol directed at the entertainment universe springs from the concrete belief that I can do better for you. I can give you what you really want.

I can save you.

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Late To The Party, Movies You Missed, Saturday Movie Matinee

Tagged as 1984, 2000s, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, Adult Swim, Aram Khachaturian, Atlanta, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Bear With Searing Gas Pain, behind the scenes, Billy Jack, breasts, Buckaroo Banzai, Cartoon Network, Edgar Winter, Flash, John's Arm: Armageddon, laughter, Louis CK, Mike the Pod, movies, Newgrounds, Saturday morning cartoons, Sordid Hollow, Tailothepup, underground

02/08/2018 · 1:20 pm

Let’s Play Nice!

“Battle not with monsters,
Lest ye become a monster.
And if ye gaze into the abyss,
The abyss gazes also into you.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Hi there. My name is Matty Boy Anderson. I’m a cartoonist!

See?

If you’re new to this site, thanks for coming, I’m glad you’re here. If you’re not, consider this a refresher course! This one’s for the noobs!

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Late To The Party, Nostalgic Obsessions, Robot Toy Fetish, Site Stuff

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1984, 1990s, alcohol, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, depression, Friedrich Nietzsche, Garbage Pail Kids, hamsters, Jay Lynch, John Fahey, laughter, marijuana, Mike the Pod, Museum of Modern Art, music, New Jersey, NYC, Poddism, Savannah, Transformers, women

02/06/2018 · 3:46 pm

The 400th Post

Break out the champagne, it’s post #400! After four long, thankless years, I have managed four hundred posts on this beast. And you know what that means, don’t you?

No, it doesn’t mean I’m spinning the chamber of a revolver loaded with a single bullet. Silly person! It means I’m announcing the next issue of Bands I Useta Like magazine!

Work in progress- subject to change (©Matty Boy Anderson)

Just look at what’s inside:

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Idiot's Delight, Magazine Rack, Site Stuff, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 2018, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, censorship, comix, death, depression, DragonCon, farts, Goodfellas, Internet, Mike the Pod, Patreon, political correctness, politics, sellouts, suicide, underground, whores

02/02/2018 · 1:11 pm

In The Beginning

Set the Wayback Machine for 1998. I was at Kinko’s, in the middle of the night, running off copies of Mike The Pod Comix #4 (the blue one).

Those aren’t fonts. I didn’t have a computer. They’re typefaces copied from a book of antique alphabets, then literally cut and pasted. The rest is my own lettering.

The fourth issue was a transitional one. Drop Dead, my “90’s comic book“, concluded in its pages, in lieu of a seventh issue. I reprinted the Liquid Paper Pirates and Squeeky Wheel Gets The Grease strips from FINK, as well as For Whom The Beef Jerks.

Oh, and for the first time ever, I did full frontal, stark raving nudity. (NSFW!!!)

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Magazine Rack, Movies You Missed, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1988, 1990s, 1996, 1998, 2000s, 2008, 2018, Bad Religion, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, breasts, Cannibal Corpse, comic, comix, Drop Dead, Kinko's, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, music, New Jersey, NSFW, Oingo Boingo, pre 9/11, Savannah, Sordid Hollow, strips, The B-52s, underground, Ween

02/01/2018 · 10:42 am

God Lives Underwater

Twenty years ago, I drew the first batch of Bands I Useta Like strips.

Twenty years ago.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Magazine Rack, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1990s, 1995, 1998, 2018, American Recordings, Bob Dylan, breasts, David Reilly, electro-industrial, God Lives Underwater, Grateful Dead, Janet Jackson, Jeff Turzo, Jewel, Kurt Cobain, MAD magazine, Man, MTV, Paula Cole, Pennsylvania, Rick Griffin, Rolling Stone, Stanley Mouse, Taylor Swift, The Cult, Victor Moscoso, women

01/31/2018 · 2:12 pm

Generation Killjoy

We need to talk. Does that phrase make you uncomfortable? Good.

Because yes, we’re breaking up. It’s been a long time in coming.

The problem is, you want to be uncomfortable, and you want everyone else to be even more so. You’re just a malcontent. A killjoy. And despite what you might presume, I am not.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2016, Arthur Conan Doyle, Donald Trump, Facebook, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Phil Collins, Social Justice Warriors, social media

01/17/2018 · 2:33 pm

Soft Human Flesh In Front Of You

An essential quality in a modern person is the ability to accept that some things don’t make sense. There will always be unknowables and mysteries. We will all go to our graves without the answers. We must make our own answers, to maintain sanity, regardless of whether our answers are based in truth. We must move on.

What if we can’t? What if we lack this essential quality? What then?

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2016 election, A Serious Man, Barack Obama, censorship, Charlie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Netflix, Saturday Night Live, sellouts, Stanley Kubrick, whores, YouTube

01/08/2018 · 5:56 pm

How To Profit From The Coming Nuclear Holocaust

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been obsessed with mushroom clouds. Something about their unbridled destructive power, and their strange, haunting beauty.