My brother has been after me for years to paint him a Muppet portrait- which I largely ignored. I decided to surprise him, however, when I was struck with the inspiration for this composition. My brother can be self-important, uber serious, and humorless- so Sam the Eagle was a natural choice. He also worked for Budweiser and to this day is relentlessly devoted to them and their products (me-”You wanna Estrella Galicia?” my brother- “Why can’t you be a man and drink a real beer? Like Bud?”). While driving I saw a Bud billboard and it clicked! Place Sam in front of a Bud sign, wings crossed, Bud in hand and you have a blue-collar “KING”. The wings of the Bud crest appear as an olive wreath crown, the circle sanctifies him like in Eastern-Orthodox iconography, the horizontal runners draw your eye to his penetrating and regal glare-a “Great American” like Sam would only drink Bud anyways, so there you have it- probably my favorite painting to date, to boot!
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plenty of excuses, which are just that, excuses. why I haven’t posted, why I’m not creating, why I’m not doing anything that isn’t just enough to get through the day to day that has become my life. A visit with family over the holidays resulted in a trip to my uncle’s office. He has a bobble-head of Michael Vick and a bobble-head of a rottweiler, laughing about it my uncle said, “Yeah, I know lots of people who aren’t living up to potential.” I know this wasn’t directed at me- but I couldn’t help applying it to myself- I’m not living up to potential. What am I doing? In this life or otherwise. Jesus- I’m 31 years old and though I talk a good game, that’s all it is- Talk and Game. I sit in admiration of others and say, “I wish…” or, “I could…” but it never really goes any farther. I want to do, but I always get sidetracked. I start, but don’t finish. I lose interest. The things I want to do turn out to be a lot of work, and I already do enough of that and get increasingly farther behind in spite of my best efforts. I rush in and fear to tread, all at the same time. What have I accomplished? Nothing. My family and friends believe in me and support me, but I never seem to do anything. I’m just fed up and and depressed and more than a little apathetic. I feel like like some bastardized conglomeration of Charlie Brown and James Taggart. Paralyzed by own anxiety and self-loathing and too lazy to do anything about either.
things went ok- I am alive and well, and in way too much pain- GOOO HYDROCODONE!!!!
What is Zuda Comics? Well, according to this, ZudaComics is a site for heretofore unrecognized comics-creating talents to submit their original content in the hopes of gaining an exclusive contract from DC Comics, and for DC to gain new creative properties to market, license, and sell. The question for me is: With the advent of Web-Comics- why does any creator worthy of winning an exclusive contract with DC Comics, need Zuda Comics or its parent, DC Comics, for anyways?
Why doesn’t…awww-skip it!
“In America there’s someone willing to pretend to be offended by everything and so we annoy people and that’s part of the appeal,” he said. “It’s to entertain people and also to annoy a certain segment of the audience as well.”
Simpsons and Futurama Creator and longtime Comics Artist Matt Groening to British audiences following preview of upcoming Simpsons’ Feature Film.
Amerika- The United States of the Offended!
Aside from being the worst phrase ever turned- this is how analysts describe exactly which news outlets get the most attention and for what reason….
read all about it, here!
Retainer for Lawyer=$50,000
Legal Fees=$172,000
Fines=$1500
Electronic Monitoring Anklet=$7248
Picture of crying, spoiled “celebutante(?)” as she’s hauled back to jail=Priceless!!!
A google search for the “World’s Ugliest Frog” got me something quite unexpected- the above image of Sam, a pedigreed Chinese Crested Hairless and 3 time winner of the “World’s Ugliest Dog” Contest. Two words keep coming to mind…. “JOIN US!”
