Quest for the Crayons

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This started off as a still life. Why do all these sticks want the crayons? Maybe it's more about the honor of getting them (the "quest") than the crayons themselves. I like the variations in the eyes of the sticks: exes represent a dead stick, slanted half circles represent an evil or powerful stick, circles represent a special stick (Indy, for example), and dots represent a regular stick. Note the smoking stickperson on the right side of the pedestal.

Middle Finger (minus thumb)

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Strictly speaking, it's stylized "Play-Doh." Did I think about putting "MOM" inside that heart?

MUTHA GUSE WUZ HERE

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Our first political cartoon! This drawing has a sense of aloof criticism. George W. Bush gets his appearance from his ears and nose.  At the time, I didn't understand Bush's political choices, but I was immersed in internet lore surrounding him. It was cool to hate George W. Bush not just as a political leader, but as a stupid person who spoke poorly. The bottom right and left corners are two scenes I saw enacted often in middle school.

hot damn!

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This was drawn in response to my music teacher announcing to the class that we would be watching Stravinski's "The Firebird." We were supposed to draw our own interpretation of what we thought a "Firebird" looked like; this was my contribution. I'm not sure I was self-aware enough at the time to make a joke about my own short attention span, but that's what "look! A monkey" seems to say.

This next page *will* make you go, "WTF?"

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A series of two. First:

Then:

I've had my fair share of disclaimers. They seem less about warning the viewer of the content and more as a message of themselves. Or maybe they served to excuse me from any negative social consequences my drawings could have had at the time they were drawn (and now!). I stretch the anatomy of the animals in this drawing to fit them to their function. The head of the giraffe has been erased and redrawn in erasable pen.

Abstract Land (crazy!)

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I don't think "abstract" necessarily means "crazy," but I guess I was trying to play down my actual interest in abstract drawing. Is the blue scribble in the top right a human figure(s)? The bottom left hand scene of violence seems completely unrelated. One man (my stick figures, unless indicated, were all male) is having his neck pierced open by another man wearing sunglasses. His hands move involuntarily to his neck to try in vain to stop the bleeding. Chllgh!

Bob's Ambulance

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This is Bob (the hamma-stoppa)'s ambulance. For some reason, he's not the driver. If you look above the CENSORED bar, the top of a "p" is just visible. The stick figure being run over has sacrificed his body for a joke. I'm not sure if the subterranean creatures are moles, voles, mice, or something else. 

Oliver, Oliver...

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This is a picture of a piece of broccoli playing a flute in the streets of London. Oliver Twist can be seen in the lower left corner. The grid pattern is meant to represent cobblestone streets. I didn't know how to draw perspective very well.

CHKLLGH!!

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Although the first two victim stick figures look like they're suffering similar punishments (?), one is burned while the other is electrocuted. The third stick figure is the only one with a substantial body (for a cannonball to go through), and the last stick figure is the only one with a substantial face (for the grappling hook spikes to stick into). I don't actually know how to draw cylinders.

puzzle Time!

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This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.

When you lift the top sheet off, it reveals what is underneath:

This was my first vaguely political drawing. I expressed distaste that George Bush had won the election and was being manipulated by Dick Cheney. I don't think I actually knew much about these issues, I just read about them in Mad Magazine or the like. I'm also unsure whether I was trying to poke fun at the apparently cryptic language of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" or whether I was just messing around. Both seem equally likely. On the back page, we have Bob "the hama-stopa", a donkey, a stylized "4" that is in danger of becoming a swastika, and a bird shooting lasers out of its eyes. At the top is "mar-yuh-loo", a mispronunciation of "Mary Lou" by the character Zero in Louis Sachar's young adult novel "Holes". I wonder why "gay" was written to describe the donkey, then vigorously crossed out?