#clay rodery

[clayrodery]

This weekend at SDCC…

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THE DIRTY SECRET BETWEEN L.A. AND ITS WATER SUPPLY -- THE HEART OF THE MATTER IN "CHINATOWN."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1330x1663 -- Spotlight on a "Chinatown" (1974) themed piece from the Atlantic article, "The Lies Los Angeles was Built Upon" -- "Chinatown" is about the secret history of how Los Angeles became a paradise — but it offers a warning for the city’s future," written by Chris Stanton, published July 25, 2024. Artwork by Clay Rodery.

"When Robert Towne sat down to write the screenplay for "Chinatown," he quickly found himself lost in a maze of his own making. He had set out to write a detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, one that would pay tribute to the Los Angeles of his childhood -- a time before industrial smog choked the city, and before the Manson murders persuaded his friends to buy handguns and guard dogs. He wanted it to star his friend Jack Nicholson, whom he had first met in an acting class in the 1950s. And he planned to borrow liberally from a book on Southern California history that his then-girlfriend, Julie Payne, had found for him at the library.

If the movie was to be about Los Angeles itself, Towne wanted to intertwine the characters’ personal drama with some sordid local scandal — and where better to look for inspiration than the actual history of how the city had stolen water from a valley 250 miles away, ravaging the valley in the process? Towne had found an original sin on which to build his story, but the audacity of the crime and the sheer depth of conspiracy required to pull it off seemed impossible to fit into a screenplay. His first draft was about 340 pages."

-- THE ATLANTIC, "The Lies Los Angeles was Built Upon," by Chris Stanton, published June 25, 2024

Source: www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/06/chinatown-50th-anniversary-water-california/678780.

[womeninfictionandirl]

Robin by Clay Rodery

[brokehorrorfan]

Hero Complex Gallery has released the remaining inventory of its San Diego Comic Con exclusive prints online, including:

The Exorcist by Liza Shumska

Beetlejuice by Stephen Andrade

Predator 2 by Rich Davies

Shin Godzilla & Godzilla Minus One by Danny Haas

What We Do in the Shadows by Nichole Daniels

Blade Runner by Aaron Lea

The Thing by Casey Callender

Batman by Clay Rodery

Vertigo by Michael Dunbabin

The Running Man by Bryan Carey

Fallout by Conor Fenner-Toora

Sweeney Todd by Fredlobo Lopez

Gremlins by Oscar Martinez

Blue Velvet by Garbhan Grant

[chronivore]

Clayrodery aka Clay Rodery (USA) - Gorgon, 2011

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Cool Batgirl art by Clay Rodery.

[comiccrusaders]

Qui-Gon by Clay Rodery #comicart #comicbookart

[tired-of-being-wired]

By Clay Rodery

#bladerunner #rutgerhauer #roybatty

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Art by Clay Rodery

[zenosanalytic]

Hey, so I saw this image, unattributed, earlier tonight and I just wanted to say Clay Rodery(that’s his instagram; lots of good stuff over there) made it, sometime Pre-2015(that’s a tattoo a friend of his got of the pic).

A bit understandable that it wasn’t attributed, though, as there doesn’t seem to be a complete or “original” version of this illustration associated with any of his accounts, just that tattoo reference. Most versions google search spits up are, typical for these days, unattributed pinterest links.

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Clay Rodery - Dust witch

[walrusmagazine]

David Frum Fights the Right

The controversial conservative export on his fears for the US election and the future of the Republican Party

What if Trump wins? What if he legally, legitimately wins? Then it’s full crisis mode, Frum said, not just for America but for the world. “Scorched earth. My God, it’ll be gruesome. It’ll be a sign that the American democratic system has been truly corrupted because, if he wins, he will win despite a big majority of the country being against him. So it will be a win either through massive voter suppression or a massively unfair outcome in the electoral college. How do you even talk about this being a democratic system of government anymore?”

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Clay Rodery (clayrodery.com).

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Clay Rodery

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Catwoman 1939 by Clay Rodery

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Grogu by Clay Rodery

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Adam West as Batman

by Clay Rodery