FW: Incredible Doodle Portraits
Functional doodling, this I like.
From afar, Jason Sho Green’s ballpoint pen portraits could look like any other portrait you’ve ever seen. But come a little closer and you’ll notice that some of the dark areas are actually made up of drawings of people, creatures, animals and more. Like magnificent
modern-day mosaics, they’re filled with such hidden surprises, one could literally look at them for hours.
Incredible Doodle Portraits @ mymodernmet
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10-28-10
Shazam!
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Pay Sidewalk Coming
I laughed, but then a chill came over me. Was this yet another sardonic one–liner from Mat Groening’s beloved comedy classic, or was Fox (and its aligned interests) super–liminally seeding the idea of pay sidewalks to a mass audience?
…an idea that might bloom in the gated communities of a future (Rick Perry’s?) America?
I’ve seen The Future and it Will Be.
I’ve seen The Future and it Works.
From The Falcon and the D’ohman (The Simpsons Episode NABF16).
Addendum
Apropos of nothing, later that same night, Seth MacFarlane opted for this visual punchline to a joke about penis enlargement pills:
FW: Doodling may draw students into science
More nice things being said about the utility of doodling:
Research shows that illustrating concepts develops creative reasoning skills.
The most striking thing was the effort that students would apply to learning about science when they read and then drew what they could understand from the text, and how much enjoyment they derived from doing this.
Back in the late 30s/early 40s, the Nuns would beat our hands with rulers for doodling in class. That must be why I’m not a scientist.
Doodling may draw students into science @ Science on MSNBC
Wha-huh?
Tentacula
Who Loves You?
FW: In Defense Of Doodling
Sunni Brown is still at it! She caught our eye with her The Miseducation of the Doodle post at A List Apart a few months back (which we hotlinked about 15 posts previous), and now she’s following it up with a video. She offers some nice bon mots (to doodle is to make spontaneous marks to help you think), but if doodling becomes a hot topic amongst the cadres of designerazzi servicing the corporate death machine, we promise to hold her accountable.
In the meantime, enjoy!
Racer X Vendors
Flipping App
Apres Arthur de Pins
Vastly Superior
Maximum Power
SG VPN
Whither Shermy?
Johnny Sekz
Back to Basics June: In Search of Stan Zetz
Back to the core mission of this blog: sketchbook pages. If not one per day, then one for each day of the month of June! ATARI!!!
FW: Doodleizer
Here’s a cute idea: a make-your-own music visualizer. Doodleizer.com is a Flash-based (tool? toy? toyl?) that takes whatever doodles and scribbles you make and “animates” them to a song you select. Momentous? Stunning? Life-altering? No, but as I said, cute, and doodle-related so it merits a post.
Townhouse
Tenement
FW: The Miseducation of the Doodle
It’s not often we forward other people’s content, but Sunni Brown gets it.
Doodling may be better described as ‘markings to help a person think.’ Most people believe that doodling requires the intellectual mind to shutdown, but this is one misrepresentation that needs correcting. There is no such thing as a mindless doodle. The act of doodling is the mind’s attempt to engage before succumbing to mindlessness. Doodling serves a myriad of functions that result in thinking, albeit in disguise.
Although the overt argument here is an attempt to recontextualize the doodle as a business tool — and I’m holding her personally liable if the term “Strategic Doodle” becomes a corporate buzzword (Business Hammocks, anyone?) — her attempt at codifying a visual vocabulary of doodling (as opposed to drawing or cartooning which, while related to doodling differ in intent) makes this is my favorite blog post of 2011 (so far).
The Miseducation of the Doodle @ A List Apart.
Ice Station
Way Station
Monastery
Home Den
Funitos
Rudolph
We @ SBCI wish you and yours the happiest of holidays!
Monster Pants
An old favorite. I finally added some Zazz to the logo and sky.
Property
Widget
Hot, Drunk & Stupid
Maximum Sustainability
Component
Escargot
Happy Birthday to Me!
Sex poodles that we are, we here at Sketchbook Club International commemorate the biennial anniversary of this blog by posting a picture of Sophie Howard. She makes us feel… um… well, let’s say grateful and happy.
(Sweet Christmas!)
Happy fourth birthday Sketchbook Club International! Thank you Sophie, and we look forward to your next visit in… 2012!
Androplex
Rooftop
Bolt Bot – Pink
Intoxi-Katie Storyboard
Condo
Heat Map of my Song Lyrics
I used Wordle.net to sift the most oft-used words from the lyrics of the last 80 (or so) songs I’ve written, and generate this heatmap to reveal the common threads of my ouvre. I made this collage by overlaying several variations of the image.
I, you, and, the, to, me were most populous, but culling the articles and common pronouns, the remaining key words were know, want, just, like, love, always, and never. These words are the apparent soul of my secret heart, splayed open like the wanton virgin on her wedding bed. Ooh yeah, baby baby. Ooh, yeah yeah…
Jingle Bells
Casper Space Ship #1
I love the whimsy and simplicity of this delightful cover, most likely by Ernie Colón.
Ka-Ching!
House
Drama Man Gets A Phone Call
From 1987. Wouldn’t he look better with hair like late-period Marty Allen?
Yawn
Life Sucks
…and we has a theme! From 1991-93 comes yet another strip destined for inclusion in Don’s Suicide Comics (A Not-O-Biography). I think I was trying to write In My Life, if you get the metaphor, but instead opted for the quick way out, if you’ll forgive the pun.
The last three panels of p.3, and the first two on p.4 totally deflate the story by being both mundane and genuinely boring, but the “Produce” panel on p.4, and “I was going to find a purpose in my art” on p.2 are worthwhile. I also really like the angsty, proto-Unabomber teen Don. He’d be a good character for the Intoxi-Katie show.
Board of Directors: H.R. Director
Board of Directors: Director of Marketing
Board of Directors: C.O.O.
Board of Directors: C.F.O.
Board of Directors: C.E.O.
Life Is A Cheesy Plotline
From 1987: Part three of my infamous Batman/Gary Zielinski trilogy, in which I deliver frontier justice to the (proto-Amalgam Comics) Jokerine for the murders of Batman and Robin, and the ennui of my 21-year-old self is splayed for all to see.
Attempted Birdhouse
Sharply. Acutely. No… keenley. In the months since his mother’s abrupt death, he’d felt his age more keenly than ever before. The cruel insight that often accompanies such loss had made him suddenly aware of his prospects as a man balanced pointedly atop his middle age and staring down a murky path. His health would only decline from here forward and, having no children of his own, it was unlikely any known acquaintance would attend to his needs or see him off with dignity at the end of his life.
That bold and beneficent halo that had radiated from his skull since childhood — consecrating and protecting him, lighting his way — had now faded, and so the cruelties of the world stabbed into his brain with thorny malice. The past bellowed in his ear, loudly and unrestrained: How little he had made of his abundant opportunities; all he’d taken for granted and exhausted; all that he had surrendered and never reclaimed. Things would not — his fine mind assured him — get any easier, unless… he surrendered. Unless he accepted the available options. Unless he compromised.
He had been gifted with a venomous clarity, and when one has clarity, one has no choice.
– from Attempted Birdhouse by Totie Gabor
75 Way to Draw More (DIY booklette)
In the true spirit of blogging (AKA laziness), I have taken the whole cloth of this post from the very excellent Drawn.ca and “re-contextualized” it here as new content (as the gangbangers fire off gunshots in the near-distance; How poetic — or is it prosaic?), along with a pic of the assembly instructions:
“Michael Nobbs has created a small booklet called 75 Way to Draw More which he offers up on Flickr for free download. Like the title says, the book contains 75 light-hearted ideas for getting people to draw more. He plans for there to be a Flickr group of the same name in a week or two in which people will be able post drawings made in response to the book. Get to work!”
White Persian
T (Mystery Architecture)
Apt Bloc
Mother, Jugs and Speed
Funk
Excess
Doodles in the News
Feb 27 is National Doodle Day
…in the U.K.! British celebrities (and “celebrities”) donate their doodles to a charity eBay auction. If you search around a bit, you can find some gems by Ricky Gervais (above), Nick Park and Ralph Steadman.
LINK: National Doodle Day
Study shows Doodling helps improve memory
A British research study reports that, “Doodling while listening can help with remembering details, rather than implying that the mind is wandering as is the common perception.” I told the same thing to all my grade school teachers, and none of them believed me. Praise Allah that today’s young doodlers have this data to back them up.
LINK: Research Shows Doodling Can Help Memory Recall
RELATED: A Sketchy Brain Booster: Doodling (Wired.com)
I am Encumbered
Street
I Wuv Oo
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KAWAII!! Elmo Dog
My Crotch Hurts
Here’s an historic Sketchbook Club jam from WAY back in 2004!
Don Schweinhund: panels 1, 5
Dan Pigelow: panels 3, 8
Laura Pork: panels 4, 6
unknown: panels 2, 7
0914
So Long Geo. W
Wolvertoon
517
Über Mouse
Inspector Gadget
Tales From My Bald Spot
Blush
Woo
Not Again
Wow
Hernandez
Barfly
Barfly
Still Sexy
The Serpenteats
Oh, Snap!
Moustachio
Maggie
Comprendo
Snap
Ultimate Squirrel Girl
Skull Muffin
B TV
Bots
The Planeteer (and Stim)
Beware the Curse of Double Don!
Sad Puppy Love
Chopin as a cat
Panopticomics: Prof. Fatso in “Milk For Satan’s Baby!”
Yo! Truth is Beauty
Syops Comics and Stories
Happy National Fart Month!
Captain Methane
Happy National Fart Week!
Woo! Woo! Woo!
Happy National Fart Day!
Why I Would Make A Poor Muslim
cabin
End Times Funnies 100
Orange Foxy Don
arm bat
tax joy
I’ve Waited 28 Years For This Day
Another doodle I held off posting, so as not to jinx the election. (Whew! It worked!)
Zbigniew’s Secret Muslim Obama Nightmare
This is a very abbreviated doodle illustrating a dream (my friend) Ziggy described having a shortly before the election.
I’ve waited until well after the polls were closed to post this, just to make sure some chucklehead somewhere couldn’t point to it and say, “See? That’s exactly what’s gonna happen if McCain loses!”
Vote
M, and hir Great Love Discovered!
Zinc
Welcome Colonel Zombie
meh.
Detective Sweatermeat
Detective Melody Sweatermeat et le Capitaine Chester Funbags (avec Marie Bunny) dans: L’affaire de L’flottant Typographie.
Springfield Punx
Every so often, the interweb will smack you in the face with a massive halibut of awesomeness. To wit: Springfield Punx.
Dean Fraser has mastered Simpsons character design. He applies this skill to a growing list of characters from comics and popular culture, and posts the results to the wonderful blog linked above.
By way of example, I present his versions of Frank the bunny, Donnie Darko, and Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. He offers plenty more goodness at his blog, including Watchmen, Dwight Shrute and a perfectly-executed Craig Ferguson.
Gasbag Funnies Weekly #7
I Find The Defendant… Delicious!!
The Living Turd
FYI: If you’re not familiar with American politics, those aren’t arms. They are fecal cannons (manufactured by Diebold/Premier Election Solutions, I believe).
RGLARGH!
Mickey Maus
Just Keep Walking
Some of my old characters from the 90′s: Eye-van, The Tragic Mister Fist, and The Bearded Clam.
Dogtective
Inspired, I suppose, by McGruff the Crime Dog and The Wraith, Michael T. Gilbert’s excellent parody of The Spirit.
Terrior
Heaven’s Gate
Some Handsome Hands
UUU
Zombie Pol
Logotecture
Building F
Barnyard
Batman With Eve
This is classic in so many ways, where do I start?
One of eight imaginary splash pages by Waid, Templeton and Raspler from the wonderful, hilarious and near-mythic Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, August 1999.
If I had a Superman fetish, I’d post another classic, President Abraham (Braniac) Lincoln versus Clark Kent, Metallo!.
Bat-Hound! You’re wonderful!
The GentriFucks
Sophisticated sociopolitical satire circa 1999
Faces of Don: OCD Megapost
Giant Boner Mickey
TV Squad has a good recap and pic of the moonlight duet, but I may be the lone soul to post a pic of Giant Boner Mickey from South Park’s Eek, A Penis! episode.* Ms. Garrison yearns to be a man again, and hires a research lab to grow her a new penis on the back of a mouse. Mouse escapes, setting females to shriek the episode title, and then pauses to sing duet with penis on a moonlit fencepost. Garrison pursues, loses the trail and goes to the cops for help, where his description of the quarry yields the sketch** below.
* The power of Christ compels me.
** Thus qualifying for inclusion on this blog, and keeping the Giant Penis post company. My parents would be so proud.
Little Red Houses: OCD Megapost
Robert’s Rules of Chaos
Happy Birthday to Me!
This year, my birthday presents to myself are a 24″ LCD and a TV tuner. Sadly, I couldn’t find a picture of (my official birthday hostess) Sophie Howard with a giant screen of any kind.* And despite the most popular post on this whole site being Giant Penis, I couldn’t find a pic of her with one of those either, which both gladdens and saddens me 
I hope this humble and chaste bikini shot will suffice.
* It strikes me as kind of weird that I couldn’t find a pic of her posing with a tv screen of any kind. She’s the kind of model who, one would think, would be a natural fit to sell monitors to the internet crowd, flatscreens to gamers, or screens to guys in general, right? Or even as a prop in a photoshoot somewhere, once, in all of England, just once? That’s just odd.
Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
Hik
I saw a bio of Eleanor Roosevelt, and her friend Lorena Hickok seemed pretty cool.
Kirby, Ayers and… Torr!
OMG!!! – the same thing happened to me when I was like 10, and his name was also Torr!!!
From Torr by Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers and …? Amazing Adventures #1, June 1961.
Noids
Noids
Limon Curry?
More Ditko
Indeed not, for he is Tad Carter, the Original Marvel Mutant!
From The Man In The Sky by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, December 1961.
Wally Wood inks Steve Ditko
Wally Wood inks Steve Ditko, with a Sergio Aragones closing panel! From Plop #16, September 1974. I read this story when I was way too young, and I believe it warped my brain:
See what I mean? It starts out like Mad magazine, and turns into a 70s psycho-killer movie! But hey, at least by the end of the story, Hubert is no longer an impotent weenis, disconnected from his surroundings! He’s engaged! Vital, even!
The rendering of Hubert’s oddball performance throughout the story is a tour-de-force of mood and expression. Check out his demented feline smile in panel 4 of page 3!
Here are some other favorites, starting with this Will Elder-esque panel. Why does that grey cat look so angry?
Hubert’s expression of surprise and delight in this next panel made a huge impression on my pre-adolescent nerd self. To this day, I dream of a prehensile dandelion girlfriend of my very own! (sigh)
And finally, a panel that had a significant and questionable effect on l’il Don (by which I mean myself and not my manservant). To this day, I often find myself muttering Humbert’s final soliloquy (well, this or, “ape killed ape!”) under my breath at the most inappropriate times!
Essay Question – (30% of final grade): From a moral relativist point of view, are Humbert’s actions justifiable?
boing!
I See
Ooh Nice!
Eye V Seeing You
FOA
Pushy Galore
Ism
Preacher
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
I saw this excellent Dick Tracy strip on The Comics Curmudgeon, and I had to share it with all the Emo kids (or is it Elmo kids?).
Lil’ Bruce Wayne
If you dig this, then you are cool. If not, then Sturgeon’s Law applies to your disfavor. More — including the Wikipedia entry about this great series — at Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog (which is also very cool).
“That’s Not What He Said Last Night!”
I’m just glad I didn’t draw the peach eating a Tootsie Roll.
Hailey
Comrade Stim
GOP ’08
Don the Hut
Me likee ice cream, twinkies, Godzilla, Grimace and… i don’t know – ninjas?
Don the Tard
I Wanna Wet Wolfie
Shoe
Foxy Don Adventures – Page 1
D4NM Tag
Foxy Z
It would be better with a heart instead of a z.
Padre Panda
Godzirra
Thank you Mr. Banker, but my new gun deserves the credit
I wonder how many kids got themselves killed imitating this ad?
(from Modern Comics #85, 1949).
Ironic Synchronicity Department: The address for Specialties Manufacturing Company — 1367 N Sedgwick in Chicago — is literally right around the corner from my Dad’s print shop (from ’73 to ’03).
They were long gone by the time we were there, or else I would have spent all my allowance there instead of at Bizarre Bazaar. The address is also mere blocks away from the Cabrini Green housing project, which had more than its share of children playing with guns.
And soon, in fearful symmetry, the remains of said housing project will themselves shortly join Specialties Manufacturing Company in that great gated community in the sky.
Super Cutie
Monster Pants
GLBT Bratz
Beware the Chalice of Doom!!
Dark Evil Don Victorious
Foxy Don Cartoons
Pika Pika Mutha-Fucka
Vs. Sgt. Tabby
Monster Pants
Commix Covers
Speech Miser
Alt: Buck Rogers Colors
Running Man
Mr. Corsage
This is Ebeneezer Dragon Man‘s corsage, throwing a tantrum. I wish the face had more expression. Circa 1987.
Krazy Khung
Circa 1988.
Self 2 & Self 1
Oblique
Grotesk
Kirk & Spock: Their Celestial Musical Fantasy
Obviously…
Mike Mignola Batman
Ebeneezer Dragon Man
Here’s the original drawing:
Peabody and Sherman
The Barking Cow
From 1987, inspired by “The Falling Dog” by Donald Barthelme and “The Singing Detective” by Dennis Potter, just don’t ask how.
Self Portrait with Cat Shadows
Did I really draw this in 1987? I was working the night shift at a gas station, saving up to backpack thru Europe that summer, so I had a LOT of free time to draw.
Yes that really was my hairstyle (and color), including the dapper ‘stache. Sure I look massively stud-some and all, and my kung-fu grip rulez, but where are the unicorns?
Satisfied?
Chivalry
Blechh!!!
Marvin Manwood
Since the Giant Penis post has become an international fave (ahoj Prague! JÁ naděje až k být na návštěvě brzo!), and to celebrate the first anniversary of SBCI blog, I thought a little fanservice was in order. No, this blog is not going to go porno, but here’s a friendly relative of G.P., Marvin Manwood: artist, beatnik, performance poet, furby and — if you catch him at the right moment — contortionist!
Mister Don Is On The Rebound
Hey Little Dickens 2
The Spirit
Archie in Line Drive
A Cartoon By Kurt Vonnegut
“The good Earth — we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.”
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
“Make love when you can. It’s good for you.”
“When you’re dead, you’re dead.”
So it goes…
Calling All Skifflers!
Love Bite
Noids
Why I Yearn For The Sweet Release Of Death
Why Can’t I Get The Love I Want?
What I Believe
End Times was a popular drink and it still is…
Don drew the red lines. Dan drew the black lines.
Attempted Holiday Greeting
Land of the Lost
Monster Pants
Felipe
Spider-Charlie Brown
jdh.goodgrief is a cartoonist and blogger from England. He’s posted a bunch of drawings I really enjoyed: Peanuts characters as Marvel superheroes.
Oh Reggie!
Monster Pants
Brandy
Def Don
The Turn of the Millennium
Armchair Living
Why Fucking Bother
Monster Pants
Sax Bug
M073618 Voted
Tongue
Bad Mime
Don Colors
Car Crash
Blue Hoof
Wings
Winter Rulez
Every Tuesday Nite!
Purrr
More Hot Love Comics
Nope
Hot Love Comics
Unka Skunk
Hmph
Little Superstar
Love Is…
Yerk
Fishbulb
You Made It!
K/S Closer Video (NSFW)
Little Dickens
Furries
Until Finally
Hong Kong Phooey
Space Princess Meets Space Cadet
Faces of Don
Hmph!
Abusive Granny
Dan’s Intro
Miscellaneous
Blue Steel Don
Dan thinks I’m too brutal when I caricature myself. This is his idea of a flattering portrait of me. “Blue Steel” indeed!
Are You My New Poppa?
Introducing Intoxi-Katie
You’ve met this girl many times, haven’t you? Dan (he really exists, I swear!) drew this based on a mutual friend, and she’ll have her own cartoon series someday. She even has a theme song, written by the real life intoxiKatie (Happy b-day BTW!).
I colored it, but this is an example of what someone who actually knows how to draw can accomplish. Also present: Lil’ Dickens is rendered rather modestly, and Dan has “reimagined” Morry the robot in his own inimitable style.
I Said I Was Sorry…
Gasp!
Someone Else
Ah, I do miss France!
After Yui Toshiki
Michelob Judah
Happy Couple
Rudy asked why my face is so dark. I said beacuase it makes Rachael appear to glow angelically. Plus, it better expresses my inner troglodyte.
Pick One
Drugachusettes
I saw this on Stereogum, and had to post it. I’ve got a thing for those druggy Krofft kids shows (as well as The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock, but they can wait), and this skit from Mr. Show — “The Altered State Of Drugachusettes” — summarizes it all so nicely.
For the sake of comparison, here’s the opening credits for H.R. Pufinstuf — smoke up!
Giant Penis
Wonder Girl
…and her magic puppy! (that’s his right hind leg beneath him — sickos!!!) She’s basically Kim Possible with the Silver Surfer‘s board, but I love her anyway!
Electrawoman and Dynagirl
Another great clip from the Krofft Super Show of the mid 70′s: the opening credits for Electrawoman and Dynagirl!
Morry and a Chica
…or is that a Bratz? No, the head’s too small. And Morry is usually blue or grey, but he looks kinda cool in red, don’t he?
Dogfinger
Batman’s Greatest Boner
The great Dial B for Blog posted a hilarious article on an old Batman story that unintentionally demonstrates the dangers of using slang.
Hey Little Dickens !!
A jam by Don and Dan (He really exists — I swear!), in which Morry the cute little robot gets it in the end!
Deadly Secrets of Pie
That Simpson Girl
Either Erin or Susan
I’m not sure, but I think this is a portrait of my friend Erin. I’m not sure, cuz it doesn’t really look like her, but it kinda does, y’know? It also kinda looks like Susan too. Maybe it’s both. Now that I think about it, I think it may have been a Noxema ad!
Greeting Card (Maybe)
Quick Doodle + Photoshop = Greeting Card Image. If you’re foxy employee and asking for a raise from your bear boss, maybe? Maybe not…
Dr. Shrinker
I loved this TV show as a kid, but upon seeing the opening credits recently, I suspect this show sucked mightily. If you remember any of the Krofft Super Shows from the early 70′s, guess what? They were created under the influence of psychedelic drugs! Just like all the classics.
I’m guessing the boys were on one bad trip (downers?) when they came up with Dr. Shrinker. Maybe they were listening to Let’s Get Small by Steve Martin. (Ha ha – good one!)
It kinda looks like a mashup of Rocky Horror / Dark Shadows, don’t it? Still, Billy Barty and that bitchin’ theme song… Maybe it was pretty groovy show after all.
Chimp or Bonobo?
Logo 02
Another quick-and-dirty logo idea. He’s actually an old Batman villian. I’m partial to the cat with the eraser on her tail. She doesn’t look too happy about it though…
The Centaurs
Hand-drawn by Winsor McCay in 1921, this was the peak of technical innovation in animation in its day — Jazz Age CGI, if you will. We glimpse a naked centauress through the trees, and follow her as she meets her boyfriend’s (grand?)parents and little brother. Not much of a story, but I imagine it was quite a crowd pleaser back in the day — a naked nymph for the boys, a clean-cut (sylvester?) stallion for the girls, and a cute centaur baby for the Moms.
Archie disses hisself
I’ve been told I do the same thing. Archie, Archie — you really are the everyman, aren’t you?
BTW – I’m trying to find the name of the artist who drew this. No, it’s not DanDeCarlo, and it’s certainly not Bob Bolling (That’s a joke — if you know Bob Bolling’s work, you know he had a much different style. Ha ha — Good one!). This person was active in the groovy part of the sixties, and possibly earlier. It might even be Neal Adams, who I know worked for Archie comics at some point, but this guy produced a lot of pages. This guy can clearly draw as well as Adams — note the well-rendered hands and clothing folds, as well as the hot chicka in the corner. Hubba hubba! And wait until you see his Caveman Archie strips!
I think this artist created the most dynamic pages of any Archie artist (have you seen the drawing in their books lately?), and I can’t find any reference or documentation to tell me who it is. I’ll be posting more from this artist in the future in an effort to solve the mystery!
Doodles
This will be a pretty busy week for me, so my posts won’t be as ambitious as last week’s. With that in mind, here are some cute doodles!
Mad Foxy Don
Were-Bunny (aka Donny Bunny)
Ha! You Wish!
Pandagram
… or maybe Panda Force 3000? How about Pandacore?
Judah
I Saw My Dream Girl Last Night
Had a great Fourth of July weekend – hope you did too. Everyone in Chicago was out enjoying the great weather we had — lucky us — and that brings up an interesting point. Chi-town seem to be benefitting from the whole climate change thing! While the Northeast has floods and the West has record heat waves, Chicago is enjoying the perfect middle. Summers and winters are definitely milder than they were ten years ago. So, hooray for us, I guess.
Anyway, sometimes I run across strips that I think are too schmaltzy or too sloppy to post, and then I remember what the magic of color can do to a sketchbook doodle!
Logo 01
Since I did the Uncle Sam image last Friday, I’ll honor the birth of the Declaration of Independence, and the birth of the United States of America (ahh… America! Remember America? I sure do miss America. sigh. I wonder whatever became of America? anyway…) with the birth of NEW American Hero!!!
I probably should have put him on a stars and stripes background, but he’s the first in a series of doodles in our quest for a Sketchbook Club logo. He’s supposed to be a kind of samurai/gaijin/otaku/nerd, if you know what I mean. But instead of a Final Fantasy XXVII sword, he’s got a giant pencil. (Ha ha — Good one!) If anyone wants to suggest a name for him, feel free.
This pic isn’t as dynamic as yesteday’s, so I nominate it as spokesimage for the emerging gentlecore movement, if there is such a thing.
Arrows
Looks like I’m getting this quick and dirty colorization thing down – ey?
Best T-Shirt Ever!
It’s hard to remember what American culture was like before the Simpsons, but there was a time when subversive humor was relegated to the cultural fringes (National Lampoon, Firesign Theater, Bill Hicks and that ilk), so a-feared of these words of truthful anger were the matrons of polite society, the governmental entities charged with suppressing vice, and our overfed corporate overlords.
But in the 16+ years since its debut, this show has flung so many mind bombs into our culture, that it has helped to desensitize our tartar-clogged brains. After a few palsied attempts at resisting the counter culture (Simpsons vs. Waltons anyone?), the Man remembered that he always gets an even bigger slice of the communal pie by packaging and selling the latest rebellion. (Che Guevara baby tees in pink and blue, on sale now at Forever 21!) Nowadays, after hundreds of episodes of the Simpsons (and Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, South Park, etc., etc., etc.), even their sharpest barbs go down as smoothly as Jay Leno’s vanilla-logues — I mean monologues.
And yet despite my hipster blasé, every once in a while a gag will pop up on the show that sticks with me. A gag that summarizes a thousand little arguments and complaints into one bitter punch line — mmm, catharsis! With that in mind, I share with you a classic Simpsons moment that encapsulates all of America’s problems in one image. Viva la revolution — Now to veg out on the sofa with Twinkies and cartoons!
From the episode Blame it On Lisa (DABF10 / SI-1310).
Club Girls 1 – Horriffic Heather
Everyone loves trading cards, right? Well, somewhere between the Bratz and the Garbage Pail Kids, there’s a whole mess of Club Girls! First in the series, the gothic princess from the west side – Horriffic Heather!
Lucky in Love
This is an example of what is colloquially known as “irony”. Or is it sarcasm?
FYI: it looks like we will have a few new posters starting soon. Keep your eyes peeled!
The Fantastic Four
Mr. Fantastic by Dan-tastic
The Invisible Woman by Dan-tastic
The Thing versus The Human Torch by Don-o-mite
Ack! #1
Another quick-and-dirty colorization job. I wish I really did have a fox suit like this!
Zap.. for Mary
To balance out the Legion of Dan post, here’s one for my BFF Mary — quickly colorized for maximum impact!
The Legion of Dan
And one more for today — a tribute to my sketchbook club mentor: Dantastic Bigelow!
Don Misses His Shot… Again
Here’s a classic from last year. Sad boy rules!
…or is it Always Be Closing? I can never remember.
Happy Birthday to Me!
As a birthday present to myself, I finally set up this site. Can you guess what ELSE I want for my birthday? That’s right — a new cell phone. Here’s to auspicious beginnings!
