Comic: Productivity is relative

I seem to recall a time, not so long ago, when I would draw and post quick, simple comics about bears.. Let's revisit that time, shall we?

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Ahh.. A nice change of pace after all of the real humans lately. It's always easier with bears.

Comic: Goldblummates

Jeff Goldblum and Jeff Goldblum.

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The dialogue consists of quotes from the man himself (and not characters he has played), which I found online and arranged. I can't say for sure that the lines are entirely accurate as I didn't compile them, but I seem to remember him saying such things on Letterman or Conan some years ago. Who cares, anyway? The words themselves are clearly somewhat inane, but the magic is that they are from the mouth of Goldblum. I do not appreciate Jeff Goldblum in an ironic way; He is a fine actor and one of my all-time favorite talk show guests. Remember those Apple commercials? I want to have a conversation with this man.

As for me completing the redo of what I set out to do last week, I am not thrilled with each depiction seen here, but I feel that overall it's Goldblumy enough, at least compared to the failures as described in my previous post.

Failure: Goldblum

I am having a personal crisis: I can't draw Jeff Goldblum.

Maybe I can draw something that looks vaguely Goldblumesque, once or twice, but I've given myself the task of drawing Goldblum six times for something that I'm working on (or was working on up to this point). I have penciled and redrawn all six figures many times, and I can not manage to muster more than a couple of slightly Goldblumish creatures, who seem to only get much less Jeff-like after the introduction of ink..

-A sampling of my feeble attempts at Goldblum.

Have you seen pictures of Jeff Goldblum? Of course you have. You've seen him on television, on film, and perhaps even in your dreams. You know what Jeff Goldblum looks like, as do I. I can close my eyes and picture an entire room full of Goldblums (laughing, pondering, chatting about this and that), and each one of them looks enough like him in my mind to the extent that I can certainly say, "I really, really know what Jeff Goldblum looks like," and I can mean it.


Jeff Goldblum is a chameleon. He is such a great actor that he has the ability to look totally different every time his image is captured on film, and yet he still completely remains himself. I'm confused by his nose, his eyes, his eyebrows, his chin, his damn smile-crevices.. What's up with his hair? His ears- what is going on there?

Has he had work done, or is his ever-changing appearance just the effect of aging and muscle gain and/or loss? Have you considered the possibility that there might be several Jeff Goldblums?


I couldn't draw Giada De Laurentiis, either.. and I was only trying to do just one.

(Sigh) I will get past this.. Perhaps I will at some point, sooner or later, redo what I started.. not that the idea is necessarily worth it in and of itself, but this could become a personal mission.

TV Chefs and Cooks #3

More food people you mighta seen while lookin' at the TV..

Nigella Lawson-


Guy Fieri-


Julia Child-


The Swedish Chef-

-For Aaron. Bork bork bork!

TV Chefs and Cooks #2

Mario Batali-


Anthony Bourdain-


Duff Goldman-

TV Chefs and Cooks

Paula Deen-

Butter, y'all!

Gordan Ramsay-


And tonight, let us all shed a tear for Petrozza-

Oh, Petrozza.. If only you hadn't started off so poorly. You were still robbed. This may not have worked out, but maybe now you can become the "Next Food Network Star" instead. You may be messy, but then again so is Rachel Ray.

Me?

A self portrait.. The nose seems to be a little off (a bit too Duchovny-esque).

Bad People #2

More total jerks.

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Bad People

Collect 'em all!

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I did this first one with a ballpoint pen.. I later took a rapidograph to it in an attempt to touch it up a bit.

Comic: This wheelin' ain't free

Comic! ..Done today.

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Has "pimp" ever been on one of Groening's "Forbidden Words of.." lists? If not, it should be. Not only is it kind of a stupid word to use for anything other than an actual pimp, but by now it's also terribly antiquated. Rappers and whoever else may continue to use it to describe themselves should it apply, that is if they wish to repeat the same things many of them have been saying since 1992, but neither objects such as cars nor elderly folksmen are "pimp."

More Filler!

In an effort to put some wood on the little campfire that is my blog, here are more sketches, some more recent than others.

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First, above we have a bit of concept art for a comic I made for an as yet unreleased CD by composer Michael Perilstein (The Deadly Spawn, Winterbeast). Buy his The Least Worst of Michael Perilstein, and you will not only enjoy some of his finest music (plug!), but you will also see the first comic I did for him a few years back. I suppose I own this image as it didn't end up in this comic, but my current profile picture is actually from yet another comic that I worked with him on, and therefore he technically holds copyright on it (!). I, however, retain ownership of myself and Michael Perilstein likewise holds all rights to Michael Perilstein. Above we find him in France.


Birds are always pretty good.


"So I was hawlin' muh trailurh down ta Dixon Cownteh.."


Attempts to draw my old roommate's dog.. Honestly, it doesn't really look like her.


Why not?

Comic: onyd!

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..I used different paper this time and suffered for it. My pen line was quite bloody, though it doesn't look much different than usual when shrunk down a bit.