[Figurines by Japanese sculptor (or Mechissai, Mecchisae, Meetissai, translates to Very Small) found here. He’s also got a book. h/t Pam M.]
Tag: art
Easter
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
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.
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
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.]
Tacky Raccoons 