GIANT BOTTLE OF LIQUID PAPER

I am in a two person show with Jim Woodring right now at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas called Walpurgis Afternoon (curated by Robert Boyd). Jim Woodring demonstrated his GIANT PEN as part of the opening festivities. I was asked to partake and so I drew a GIANT BOTTLE of LIQUID PAPER.

This drawing (see above) is being auctioned off (along with many other works of art, including Jim's giant pen drawing) to benefit SKYDIVE, a local artist run center.

IGNORE THAT UGLY OL' THING ON AMAZON

This is the real cover for PURE PAJAMAS.


Until I change the colour scheme again.

TING's LUKE WORM

A papier mache sculpture of TING's Luke Worm as seen at the London City Press Club. I happened upon this place a couple months ago when a friend played a music show there. I'd ne'er heard of it. It's in a funny location, on the bottom floor of an apartment building, next to a convenience store (it relocated here in the 90's from it's original location). The door handle is a pencil, the logo on the door is a pen nib and the walls are filled with framed originals (bolted to the wall) by Merle "Ting" Tingley and other cartoonists from "back in the day", including Chester Gould, Ferd Johnson, Al Capp, Doug Wright and others. Some of them musta been visting or somethin' because a couple suggest they shared drinks there ( "They wouldn't let ya pay for a drink, huh, Moon?" -Ferd Johnson). Maybe some of them were buds with Ting(?). When I was a boy (spoken in stupid voice), I used to check out Ting's cartoons all the time in the London Free Press, not really for the politics but for the worm he hid in each drawing. I had not seen this earlier style but I love it:




Will It Come To This? from Ting Cartoons

Dated 1954 (This must be "pre-worm"...or at least I cannot see one in there...)




Ferd Johnson at London City Press Club




Chester Gould at London City Press Club

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Irish Spring in London, Ontario



Scooter with Dirty, Narrow Pilon



Giant Tiger Bag and Thawing Box and Pizza Hut Box

(BTW: I received an e-mail from Pizza Pizza today offering me a free Large Pizza Hut Pizza.)



Broken Shovel



Wonderful Red Tractor on High Street

SWED

I will be showing these drawings and some other ones as part of the exhibition FAMILY SHIRT curated by Matthew Feyld at KRETS in Sweden.


Opening: 09 April at 19:00
Closing: 08 May at 15:00

K R E T S
Kristianstadsgatan 16
Malmö, Sweden

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