“And Gyro Gearloose is always worth a visit wherever he practices his malignant arts.”
— Gary Panter
PSA
Dane Martin and I are in dire need of your recommendations for dark/creepy/terrifying/and otherwise obscure films to watch this month. Best recommendation wins an envelope full of original drawings in the mail! *Mystics in Bali doesn’t count we’ve already seen it!!
Thank all of you for these fantastic recommendations! Please keep them coming!
Knowledge is a gift!!!!!!!
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As I get older and slower, sketchbooks become increasingly deathly important.
Anonymous asked: Hey won't don't you post anymore?
new drawing plan, to keep productive during the new disgustin’ 40-hours-a-week retail job I got a few weeks ago—
*draw at least two hours on days i work
*draw in (small moleskine) sketchbook during lunch break
*draw four hours-plus on days i don’t work
*just keep following the pattern of comics/books i’ve set out upon, blindly
*don’t stop
*don’t twirl around in the mud in pain
*don’t experience strange and crippling guilt from reading successful cartoonist tour blogs
*thanks
Anonymous asked: Hello! Some of your cartoons are about the character's relationships with religion or religious education... What is your relationship with religion? You talk about it as a critique, a tribute, a meditation, or just as a "thing"? Sorry if the question it's a bit personal or weird, just curious...
It’s just an interesting element to me personally… another part of the atmosphere. I really like overly “weighty” symbols like crosses or Walt Disney. It’s most definitely not a critique, or anything that calculated. I basically put in anything that is important to me or relevant to my experience, and I certainly went to Sunday school a lot and those images are deep in my brain and undying. The last thing I’m trying to be is irreverent or offensive. I just like having a little celebration of anything there is in the world that is uncomfortable or interesting or personally (selfishly) valuable. Christian phrases and images are too powerful and poetical (and weird) not to pull from. I like presenting certain religious elements as something new and separate and not really based on the real thing. I’m doing a story right now called “The Made-Up Baptism,” where my character Debbie is obsessed with doing her own version of baptisms on her childhood friend the Wise Old Bird, even though she has no idea what a baptism is and it’s all very vague and creepy and upsetting.