Adult therapeutic coloring books have become all the rage. Sam Blackwell missed the point & his coloring books are more likely to inspire nightmares & B horror flicks than calm & serenity. Sure, you could spend days & even weeks completing intricate patterns worthy of framing & hanging in your psychiatrist's office, but wouldn't you rather create something creeptacular?
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It was 1986, Ronald Reagan was on his 2nd term of “Making America Great Again”. A gallon of gas was $0.93, bacon was $1.75 a pound and the Atari 7800 was the hot game system of the year. Marvel's first theatrical movie Howard The Duck, bombed at the box office. The first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, more commonly known as Mad Cow Disease, was reported.
Sam Blackwell was an aspiring ventriloquist/Synth-pop performer when he and his ventriloquist dummy, Nilla Mocha disappeared. The pair, known as Sam N' Nilla, was last seen performing at The Egyptian Room in the West Covina Lanes Bowling Alley. They resurfaced 30 years later, homeless and living on the streets in Beaverton Oregon with no knowledge of where they had been for the last 30 years, total amnesia.
Sam was weather worn, dirty and aged as if he'd been living on the streets for the last 30 years. Nilla, the dummy was clean, seemingly untouched and still in his 1980's pastel blue Miami Vice suit. Sam was found with an 8 song cassette Ep recorded on a Casio MT-210 and the drawings for this coloring book along with a note pinned to his back that read, “If found, return to Earth”. The songs were terrible, the drawings were kind of cool.