Glutton Boon

Post-It Pompadour

Something the world needed (especially in the times we are living!): A sloppy Post-It note drawing of a dragon with a way-cool pompadour hair do!

Finalize

The Age Old Question

The Strange B-Day

A week ago, I was playing a movie on the video machine when my doorbell rang. I found it was a younger member of the family next door -- he wished me a "Happy Birthday, man!" and gave me a package from a Bakery. A little surprised, I thanked him, and he went on his way. I opened the bakery box.

Inside was a colossal cupcake with green frosting and the likeness of a baked turkey on top. On the turkey in red jell were the words Happy B-Day Rod (my name being "Rob", that was a little odd...). Yes, a little puzzling, indeed.

Oh, and the cupcake was a little stale, too, but I guess it's the thought that counts.

Seven Times Seven

This being the anniversary of my birth, I'm reminded of what is rumored to be my first words at the age of 18 months (I had remained silent until then) ...

Lines on Paper

This is Just Stupid...

It's the Great Gourd, Charlie Frankenstein

Laughing Life

Phun With Photos

Took a pic of my pal Tim, (Leader (Guru? Lama?) of The Red Plastic Buddha, and the resulting image reminded me of some Covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland -- so, daring to venture into territory not meant for mortal man, I, utilizing the tools of modern technology combined said photograph (altered to give it a slightly "oil painting" look) with an old cover of FMoF:

This does indeed amuse me.

Covered

I recently read that thieves will steal even manhole covers. It got me to wondering where exactly do you get replacement covers. I assume you'd could get them from a manhole cover plant --- but where do these plants grow?

Past Past

Phone Doodle

Was doodling while talking on the phone -- and this is what I drew, unretouched (is that a word??):

Stupid Question

Hey, let's ask a character I just drew with Sharpie markers a question!

Q: Is there a limited amount of total intelligence shared by the entire human race, and the more people there are, the less intelligence is available to each individual ( Or: The higher the population on Earth, the stupider the individuals)?

Mechanical Psychosis

A quick sticky-note cartoon

Emmett Frankenstein

I guess it's time for another Frankenstein AND disturbing clown drawing.

What's Left

Thought I'd doodle something with my left hand. This is the result:

Hmmmm -- perhaps it would be a much more interesting drawing if I said it was an Evil Clown Robot that just wasn't wearing it's make-up...

Every Kid Knows

There was a time when every kid knew that if you put in the effort, you could put together a working robot out of junk you find laying around the neighborhood!

Gell Train

While riding on the commuter train, I doodled in my notebook. Instead of using my usual ultra-fine point marker or a pencil, I was using one of those "gell" pens. Here are some drawings:

Is the woman pictured above worried that her hairstyle makes her look like a member of Deep Purple, circa 1968?

Whatever happened to the "classic" convict look? The orange jumpsuits just don't just don't seem to have the same comic possibilities.

Just an ape-y lookin' thing

Grungy old car. When you see a junky old car sputtering down the street, do you ever think "boy, where ever that's going, I want to be there!" ? -- I didn't think so!

Thinking About Food

I thought that maybe it was about time I did another robot drawing, but this idea was eating away at me, so I drew this first.

Perhaps this fellow just watched The Wizard of OZ, and can't get the Scarecrow's song out of his mind.

Do you suppose Swanson will ever come out with a Hungry Zombie TV Dinner?

Industrial Memorabilia

They've got these conventions & memorabilia shows where they've got actors and other celebrities that will personally autograph photos, books, records and other memorabilia, usually for a fee. Fun and interesting for sure -- But what if they had such autograph/memorabilia shows for working stiffs?

Wouldn't it be fascinating to talk to the last guy (or gal) to make a living operating a Univac Keypunch? A telegraph operator? An eight-track tape deck installer? Yes, one could round up hundreds of ordinary workers from dead industries and have a Festival of Obsolescence!

Applied Anxiety

Just something that popped into my head

Quick Urchin

A quick drawing on a Sticky-Note. Urchins of 1935.

Twenty-two years after the above moment, the young fellow pictured was standing in the spotlight of a smoke filled basement cafe, and accompanied by bongos and flute recited this:

The Coffee is Tepid

I Imagine Steam Long Gone

Dissipation

Dwarves Call From the Garden

Ten years after that, he was an anonymous clerk at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Aside from his occasional appearances at the Maynard Chess & Scrabble club throughout the 1960s and '70s (it closed down in 1979), no one can remember anything more about him (no one can even agree on his name...)

Ersatz Geek

If there was a mystery novel called MURDER AT THE COMIC CON, there'd just have to be a scene like this:

Scribbling at Five in the Morning

Still not asleep at five in the morning, so thought I'd just grab a pencil and draw. Now I'm posting this at 6:00am...

Case Closed

In late Victorian London lived many great detective.

One of them was Thomas St. Cthulhu.

Known as The Baker Street Cephalopod (or, less charitably, "That Hideous Bloke"), St. Cthulhu solved many cases that even his more well known rivals deemed impossible, such as The Case of the Living Waffle and Nyarlathotep's Cheque Book.

St. Cthulhu retired from crime solving when it was found that his methods, though successful, often brought about some kind of apocalypse

Mr. Hotdog

This last week I was outside running some errands, when I spotted a guy dressed as a giant leprechaun handing out fliers, and it reminded me of the time a few years back when I saw a guy dressed as a hotdog. I saw the Hotdog man handing out restaurant adverts by the BlueLine CTA station at Damen; He had the same kind of face one would see in a minor villain in a Spaghetti Western -- an incongruous look for an anthropomorphic hotdog. I also thought it rather odd that a giant hotdog would be wearing a hotdog shaped hat, too.

The Good Old Days

Retro Shock & Space Yowl

A couple of Post-It sized doodles I did on Monday

Doodles on a Train

The phrase "Mugged by a Wookie" had popped into my head, and I thought perhaps it could be the basis for an amusing drawing. While riding on the train home, I had my sketchbook out and was seeing what I could come up with along those lines, but didn't really come up with anything I liked. I just continued doodling, though. Here are some of the drawings:

Hey, maybe this could be something; perhaps the title of an entry in a paperback book series -- Space Age Frankenstein: Mugged By A Wookie!

Alien Observer

An Attorney Will Be Provided

Frankenquestion

I was in the mood to draw a Frankenstein...

The Plot Thins

Squashsquid

Tentaclown

Why not end the "Sticky-Note A Day" Month with something that crawled out of the darkest pit of madness to amuse and delight?

Verisimilitude or Just Lies?

An anecdote from the life of -- hmmm, shall we call him Tommy?-- Yes, "Tommy"

In a valuable life lesson, young Tommy's mother urged him to give his LAST piece of candy to the grungy panhandler who worked the downtown corner daily. Eagerly, half stumbling, Tommy ran with his offering to "Mr. Scruffy". Scruffy accepted with a snaggletoothed grin and a wink (he'd have rather been given some booze). Ever since that fateful day, anyone with a hard luck story have been able to take advantage of poor old Tommy...