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Limited Edition PSYCHOBILLY LUAU Rock Comic Now on sale! Check out Mort's MySpace Blog for ordering information!
The fabulous Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is toured the EU in August and September! The shows supported their new Jukebox Explosion album with a cover by Mort Todd (a homage to his classic first Back from the Grave album)!
Click on the poster art above to hear some of the tracks or buy the damn CD!
Look at this new video by HEAVY TRASH called "Way Out!" The band features Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray and the video was directed by Mort Todd and Matt.
We've started a MySpace page featuring the music from the DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Soundtrack! Check it out by clicking on the banner below! CD available this Fall from Cinedelic Records!
MORT TODD did the poster art for the CAVESTOMP! 2007 Garage Rock Festacular! Go to myspace.com/cavestomp for more information about this incredible event! There are also a few of the GIANT 23.5" x 29.5" posters autographed by Mort available for $25. To see more about this collectors' item, check out the Late Mort Todd's blog! Mort has also done some designs for CAVESTOMP! T-shirts and other merch that is now available! Check out all the items by clicking on the irritating image below or go to http://www.cafepress.com/cavestomp
Movies
Outtake from a short film starring Mort called THE PIANO TUNER. Mort is the title character and in this shot accidentally busts the piano instead of tuning it!
Poster for THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Documentary. Click on the image for more information about this future cult classic!
Mort stars in a new short film THE PIANO TUNER which is currently showing at film festivals. For more information, click on the poster below!
Mort Todd has contributed to a comic book that is packaged in the new DVD The Dead One starring Wilmer Valderrama (That 70s Show) based on the comic El Muerto by Javier Hernandez. The eight page comic, featuring the origin of the lovable Aztec Zombie, was written by Javier and inked, toned and lettered by Mort. See more info at The Late Mort Todd Blog! To order the DVD, click on the cover image below:
Mort Todd hosted a panel for the movie EL MUERTO at the San Diego Comic Con. Shown are Mort with star WILMER VALDERAAMA and creator JAVIER HERNANDEZ!
The DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL starred in 11 cult Turkish Films! Some are now on DVD from ONAR FILMS. Mention SADISTIK when you order and get 10% OFF! Mort is also the producer of a new DOKUMENTARY about the character being shot in Italy.
Television
Rotoscope animation Mort did of Christopher Walker for an unsold TV pilot, directed by John Moynihan.
A SESAME STREET cartoon directed by the late John Moynihan. Mort did most of the (very limited) animation and most of the backgrounds around the turn of the last century.
Books
One of Mort's current gigs involves translating and adapting the photo novel exploits of the Diabolikal Super-Kriminal SADISTIK! Visit goSADISTIK.com to see free previews, watch wild videos and, per chance, buy some of the books! Click on any images below to learn more about Mort's books.
Time to KILL? Download a FREE 37 page KILLING TIME bi-lingual magazine about WEIRD photo comics!
Now in production: A Graphic Novel adaptation of FREDRIC BROWN's classic noir thriller THE SCREAMING MIMI!
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US Premiere of Mort's film THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL was at the SANDIEGO COMIC-CON, Saturday, July 27,2009 where it recieved Special Mention!
Click on the banner to see the Movie Trailer and Music Video!
Mort Todd's WEIRD MENACE horror comic Now on Sale!
Check out Mort's new animated PLAYBOY cartoon HISTORY BUFF at http://www.playboy.com/articles/playmation-nation-history-buff/index.html
And leave a comment about it there! If it's popular enough it may become a series! And check out two other Playboy cartoons by Mort, BUNNI POWER and CUNNING STUNTS!
And here's one of Mort's latest comic books LUCY HELL, Devilgirl:
See more by clicking the image above!
See Mort's exclusive interview at Mystery Island by clicking on the image above!
TALES FROM THE CRYPT 7 on sale Summer 2008 at finer comic shops or click on the image for ordering information!
Listen to Mort Todd's LIVE INTERVIEW on Planet Comic Book Radio! Click on the image below for more info!
Eyeball the new T-SHIRTS celebrating the WORLD PREMIERE of The DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Dokuentary! Click on the poster below or go to cafepress.com/sadistik
MORT TODD was born on a date so horrible, the Germans have a word for it: Schicksalstag (Day of Fate). He was raised in America's Official Horror State, Maine, where he cultivated a keen interest in all media. As a youth, he started drawing and writing comics and a stint as editor of his camp newspaper foreshadowed his later career. In high school he drew ads and record covers for local clubs and bands and created the STIV BATORS logo still being used for the late DEAD BOYS solo career.
As a teen, he moved to New York City and began creating the classic BACK FROM THE GRAVE garage punk album covers from CRYPT RECORDS. This series is so revered, many record labels created knock-offs and Mort just recreated the first cover for a new album from the JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION.
Along with DAN CLOWES and RICK ALTERGOTT he contributed stories and art to the seminal PSYCHO COMICS. He sold his first screenplay for a TV pilot called THE ULTIMATES to a German production company while still a teenager. The pilot was produced, but never distributed and stars a young Dan Clowes as a teen rock 'n' roll superhero! Mort also wrote and penciled some stories for Dan's LLOYD LLEWELLYN series from Fantagraphics. Around then he started freelancing for DC, MARVEL COMICS, the infamous MYRON FASS and many other smaller publishers.
He became Editor-in-Chief of CRACKED magazine at 23 and worked with legendary artists like JOHN SEVERIN, BILL WARD and STEVE DITKO as well as helping start the mainstream careers of Altergott, Clowes and PETER BAGGE. A collection of Mort and Dan's UGGLY FAMILY strips from Cracked is forthcoming. Todd made headlines by getting renowned artist DON MARTIN to defect from MAD Magazine after a 32-year career there to join Cracked. Mort helped transform Cracked from a fifth-rate Mad clone into a third-rate one and tripled sales as Mad's steadily shrunk.
Some of the many covers designed by Mort as editor-in-Chief of CRACKED.
He created MONSTERS ATTACK!, an EC/WARREN hybrid comic magazine featuring many of the above artists along with ALEX TOTH, GENE COLAN and GRAY MORROW. Horror comics were supplemented with articles about movies and included one of the first interviews with director SAM RAIMI. At Cracked and Monsters Attack!, Mort wrote and drew stories and did the layouts for every cover.
Mort started his own imprint, AAA, which published the first authorized collection of Bill Ward's pin-ups in W.O.W. (World of Ward) and planned a new MR. A series by Spider-Man creator Steve Ditko which was never published due to lame pre-sales. AAA also published a bi-lingual humor comic called PEPITO with stories by SABRINA THE TEEN-AGE WITCH creator GEORGE GLADIR.
A portion of the titles edited by Mort at Marvel Comics.
Mort later launched a line of music comics called MARVEL MUSIC at Marvel Comics, working personally with such artists as KISS, ROB ZOMBIE, the ROLLING STONES, KRS-ONE and the estates of ELVIS PRESLEY and BOB MARLEY. Some of the talent working on these books included NEIL GAIMAN, KYLE BAKER, DAN BARRY, Severin, Colan and Morrow. While there he also edited a series of pre-Comics Code horror and giant monster reprints from Marvel's storied past and developed the oversized COMIC BOOK by REN & STIMPY creator JOHN KRICFALUSI. He also got the AYN RAND estate to agree to do an ATLAS SHRUGGED graphic novel but unfortunately could not get Ditko to sign on.
A recent book about the history of rock n' roll comics features a section on Mort and his Marvel Music titles. Click on the image above to see more about the book!
As a writer, artist or editor, he has worked at just about every comic book company contributing to a variety of characters from SUPERMAN and SPIDER-MAN to licensed characters BARBIE and LOONEY TUNES. Newspaper comic strips Mort has written and drawn include SPEED RACER, RAT FINK and MOLLY THE MODEL. His illustrations have graced many CD covers, magazines, newspapers and ads.
There's now a MOLLY the MODEL MySpace Page with two new episodes a week. The strip is by Mort with finishes by CLIFF MOTT and PAT REDDING who also worked on the RAT FINK comic strip!
Mort has also had a long career in film, video and animation. He storyboarded many award-winning commercials and he has produced animation for DISNEY, SESAME STREET, CBS, MTV and COMCAST including an animated TV pilot featuring CHRISTOPHER WALKEN. Recently, Mort was Assistant Director on the live action film DISTRACTION and directed his first live action short, a gangster comedy called A CHANGE OF HEART. Mort also has other film projects in the works and is producer of THE DIABOLIKAL SUPER-KRIMINAL Documentary premiering in Italy at the RAVENNA NIGHTMARE FILM FESTIVAL in November, 2007.
Mort’s media company COMICFIX has developed licensed properties for publishing, film, TV and animation. Besides translating the SADISTIK photo novels and developing a live action SADISTIK film series, Mort is also adapting FREDRIC BROWN's noir novel THE SCREAMING MIMI into a graphic novel and screenplay. Other upcoming comic book projects include BAT LADY and collected editions of Molly the Model, BOB MARLEY: TALE OF THE TUFF GONG, PROTOPLASMAN and The Uggly Family. Recent work includes a comic booklet in the Wilmer Vaalderama DVD, THE DEAD ONE, a CD cover for JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION and their European tour poster. Even more recently Mort has illustrated for the new Tales from the Crypt comic, completed new comic books featuring Lucy Hell, Devilgirl and Mr. Krime. With his pal Cliff Mott, Mort has created and directed three new animated cartoons for Playboy.
MONGREL ZINE #7 IS OUT NOW
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights!
Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his
Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with
tales of stealin’ Lil Wayne’s wardrobe girl and drinking with Fats
Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best
skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from
what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by
night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious
House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach,
plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans,
Corpusse, Telekrimen, and tonnes more…
This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks
including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for
this Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine!
Happy Birthday Mort! I currently have a parcel from IndyPlanet winging it's way across the Atlantic which includes Weird Menace and the Lucy Hell comic. Looking forward to reading them!
- AVXM-DDLM - Spicy-crunching mexican subway's street art - Post-nintendo HD-master DDLM's taking a shower - 21st century female sexuality icon AVXM's astral freak-out!!!! - Leon's Park Odd'ysey - Japploitation TV almost 70's commercial - Supermarket-Unkit Grafos - Azcapolanco's Gefahrenzone Gang - Spider man solarium - Pop-Jerk & killer grooves in xochimilco's sepelio - Hokus Pokus Chulalpis!!!! - Full-color anti-twister games - A retrospective of contemporary's cereals calcomanías - Melvin, el de los choco crispis synthesizer - Tigre toño, el de zucaritas zoolife<
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