In the process, I found a sketchbook from middle school and early high school that somehow I've been hanging onto for.... 18 years? At the time I was taking weekly extracurricular cartooning classes in the backroom of a local Dick Blick. Being a very sedentary and sunlight-shy child/adolescent, my parents were quick to encourage anything that got me out of the house for an afternoon. I requested a bit of homework to add to the weekly comic pages (If I dig those up, I may show them as well) I was making, and this notebook was the result.
My instructor, who will remain nameless because he's since become an upstanding citizen, would make a list of complete ludicrous titles. My job would be to add a gag cartoon of some sort to each one. Here are a handful for your perusal (many were too blatantly vulgar to show. Trust)...
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| "The fat man with gigantic nipples standing on line for Star Wars on a cold night" |
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| "Jerry and the Dog Sausage" |
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| Top: "King Fatty Dumb Jackass in his castle eating gum" (apologies for the unintentional phallus) Bottom: "The animal kingdom bakes a cake for their friend, the loving manatee" |
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| Top: "Giraff Whiplash" (sic) Bottom: "Morris the Cat arrested for beastiality" (sic) |
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| Top: "Jerry the Gentile Giant" (sic) Bottom: "The Kitten Dog Fight" |
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| "Exploding Robot Kittens" |
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| Top: "The World's Fugliest Man Breaks Wind" Bottom: "Soil Trauser Aromatherapy" (sic) |
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| Top: "Tina Tuna and Tom Terrific" Bottom: "Squirl Bread™" (sic) |
-my ability to draw animal anatomy was way more advanced than my human anatomy. Unfortunately, that isn't saying much.
-my love of Ren & Stimpy is very clear in the loving care I put into sausage and butt-acne textures
-the lists my instructor gave me were riddled with misspellings. I knew this at the time and thought they were funnier with the screwy spelling. I'm confident I am still right.
-while many are embarrassing, I'm pretty proud of a bunch of them. I will stand by the manatee, "giraff" and "squirl" any day.
And just to save my ego, here's some recent work.
-S
4 comments:
Dude- these are actually pretty advanced for a middle-schooler . high -schooler! I'm impressed dude. That last image is looking sweet too . Take care in the storm this weekend!
sounds lik you're instuktor suffored from severe dyslexia.
- skip jenning, drunk piolet
Were any of these completed with a peanut butter cube eraser?
Several, yes.
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