Tag: art

Clowns, Devils & Bait

“For those who don’t know, Crap Hound is a zine I started in 1994. I don’t talk about it much here, because it’s got no connection to LiarTown. Crap Hound consists almost entirely of high-contrast, black and white commercial art and imagery, collected into themes. All past issues have been reprinted, thanks to the extreme loveliness of folks at BuyOlympia. Topics are Clowns, Devils, and Bait, Hands, Hearts, and Eyes, Death, Phones, and Scissors, Church and State, Superstition, and Sex and Kitchen Gadgets.”

Creative clipart project by Sean Tejaratchi of LiarTownUSA.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 846 – Nancy & Sluggo

Ernie Bushmiller‘s ubiquitous comic strip has intrigued me since I was a kid. It was rarely funny, sometimes creepy, and the drawing style was unique and constrained. Bushmiller was more of a draftsman than a comic strip artist, and it’s obvious that he used tracing templates, photography, and in his later years, photocopiers.

One day in the early 1980s, this panel showed up in the Sunday funnies. I was hooked, and I began paying closer attention to the Zen of Nancy.

The .gifs above have been posted here previously, and scraping them into a pile seemed like the proper thing to do. The one in color was an early experiment with Jasc Animation Shop v.3.11, a program I acquired in 2012 (thanks, Possum). Most of the panels were lifted from Nancy strips posted on X/Twitter by @JohnnyCallicutt and re-used with minimal editing.

[For more Nancy, Sluggo & Aunt Fritzi stuff visit The Nancy & Sluggo Archive.]

Blobby McBlobface

[Found in here.]

Street Menagerie

[Street art by Belgium artist ROA. Octopus mural found here, previously posted here.]

Abterminal Hot Links

La Cumbia de Spiderman (El Hombre Araña), Patada y COZ (2022)
Twin brothers  Gabo and Frank  have a following in Mexico, South America and the US, with a number of records available for downloading. In 2016 their recording of El Pasito Perrón (the Big Dog Step) went viral.

Bimble.

Training.

Identipops.

LED curtains.

Tumbleweeds.

Cats are a-hoes.

Go with the floe.

The Hose Blower.

Norty Blues Episode 54.

The Voices [via Memo Of The Air}.

Kevin the Rooster [h/t eaglesoars].

Turn of the century bicycle stunts.

Reading Ulysses in Montana #625.

The lyrics to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

Kim Jon Un’s captive flashmob [via Bunkerville].

The Blue Berg of Happiness [via The View from Lady Lake].

[Top image: Impasto painting by Jason Anderson, found at  My OBT.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Paper Silhouettes

[Silhouette photos by Rich McCor, aka Paperboyo, found here.]

VW Microbrrrr

One of many ice sculptures at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge, Lake George,  Bolton Landing, New York. Or maybe it’s at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge in Rockport, Maine.

[Image found here.]

Antony Gormley’s Contribution To The World: 40K+ Clay Peeps

“By Antony Gormley, just some of the 40,000 clay figures from part of the ’Field for the British Isles’  on loan from Arts Council Collection, it’s being shown in three of the National Trust’s Barrington Court rooms currently in Ilminster, England.”

[Installation circa 1991 found here.]

M.A.R.S.* PATROL TOTAL WAR

November 1969 issue No. 8 of M.A.R.S. PATROL Total War:
“When the M.A.R.S. Patrol destroys an invader weather-control ship, they capture a badly wounded courier whose name translates as Victor. Victor explains that his is an army of aliens, intent on capturing Earth for its resources. Through their interrogation, M.A.R.S. concludes that the next major attack will be on Miami. Gold Key Comics Club News. In ‘Part II: Seek and Destroy’, M.A.R.S. helps fend off the attack on Miami even as ‘Victor’ escapes, determined to redeem himself. A booby trap from his own side kills him just as M.A.R.S. discovers the secret underwater base, which they then destroy.” [source]

…and one of them appears to be a football star.

 

Monkey Pastry Chef

“When wound and the start/stop pull actuated, the incredibly detailed and realistically modeled standing monkey chef begins his performance by looking left then right whilst opening and closing eye lids as mouth moves to speak, lowering head slightly to indicate his latest culinary creation…”

This mechanical wonder (ca. 1880) sold for over $36k in 2014, and was presumably purchased by someone to keep their little brats and pets in line.

[More photos and background story here and here.]