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I’ve been doing little comics in my sketchbook again and posting them on Patreon and Ghost. Enjoy!

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Nursing a wounded heart and bruised ego are never easy things to do BUT a glorious pop jam but a pop diva will always pull me out of the dumps. Baybee!, Doja Cat’s just released single “Jealous Type” did just that. And a person who is proudly perpetually in love with 80s music, “Jealous Type,” sounds and looks like the 80s never ended. The big synths, neon colors, MTV video vixen attitude. ALL OF IT! Miss Doja captured everything that made that era feel larger than life.

But Doja isn’t pulling from nowhere. By the late 80s, radio already belonged to the pop divas! I know this because I was there consuming it all like oxygen.

Paula Abdul. Janet Jackson. Pebbles. Jody Watley. Chaka Khan. Vanessa Williams. Karyn White. Apollonia 6. The Mary Jane Girls. These women gave us songs that blurred R&B and pop. Songs that lived on every radio format and songs that will no doubt be blasted at my funeral. Check out these jams!

CHAKA KHAN • THIS IS MY NIGHT (1984)

SHEILA E. • GLAMOROUS LIFE (1984)

APOLONIA 6 • SEX SHOOTER (1984)

MARY JANE GIRLS • IN MY HOUSE (1985)

JANET JACKSON • WHEN I THINK OF YOU (1986)

PEBBLES • GIRLFRIEND

PAULA ABDUL•THE WAY THAT YOU LOVE ME(1988)

VANESSA WILLIAMS • THE RIGHT STUFF (1988)

JODY WATLEY • REAL LOVE (1989)

KARYN WHITE • SECRET RENDEZVOUS (1989)

Together they not only broke ground for women in pop music but they built the blueprint. They made pop look bigger, sound brighter, and feel bolder.

And you still hear it. “Jealous Type” proves that blueprint is alive. The neon. The choreography. The essence. It’s all there. And to borrow the title of Mariah Carey’s upcoming album, I AM HERE FOR IT!

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by Viktor Vasnetsov

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Yoshitaka Amano: Vampire Hunter D (1983)

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Darwyn Cooke

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Portrait of poet Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, 1910, Ilya Repin

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Oh and I want to fight all the Gen Z kids who are like ‘teehee, we’ll just do lavender marriages instead!’ Some of us are adults who want equal rights and protections under the law of our land.

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Anders Zorn - An Irish Girl - 1894

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Japanese magazine “アドン / the ADON” 1988 covers by 武内条二 / Joji Takeuchi

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Richard Newton, ''Hot Blood: Tales of Erotic Horror'' ed. by Jeff Gelb & Lonn Friend, 1989

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Dracula trade paperback #1, Warren Publishing, 1972. Front and back cover illustrations by Esteban Maroto.

Info from Grand Comics Database.

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Jantzen, 1939

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Frank Frazetta, “Deina” (1973), first published in Dow Elements Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3 — preliminary and final art.

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Michael Leonard (British, 1933-2023), Dressing at Night (5). Coloured pencil, 11.7 x 14.5 cm.