{ Monthly Archives }
May 2009
Dawn of the Gearheads
Most badass comics creator Scott Morse has a nice little project going on right now called Dawn of the Gearheads. It’s a short, three panels per page comic that he slapped together over the course of a week on scrap board. When I say slapped together, I don’t mean like that chair that you tried to make for your grandfather’s birthday at the last minute, the one with only three longs, none of which were the same length. Morse has created a gritty adventure comic with only the most basic tools and a strong will. Get your glimpse now, because once the serial postings are done, he’s taking the whole thing down for later sales in the real world. You remember the real world, right? It’s that scary place that’s waiting when you turn away from your monitor.
Dawn of the Gearheads found via Drawn!
Veronique Meignaud
Falling somewhere between Tim Biskup, James Jean, and Egon Schiele’s nightmares is the work of Veronique Meignaud. I’m pretty hyped on her mix of bright colors and neutral tones, and how every one of her paintings feels like a fairy tale of horror. If it wasn’t so beautiful, I might be a little creeped out.
Beardoff 2009 Winner
Sorry this didn’t go up yesterday, connectivity issues and general laziness prevented me from posting. But, hear ye, hear ye, the time for announcing the official winner of Beardoff 2009 is nigh! And with 9 votes to 6 the winner is that beautiful bastard pictured above. Me!
I was a little disappointed in the internet, as I usually am, due to the large number of page views, and paltry number of votes. Not to belittle anyone that did vote; you guys are awesome and I will try to find prizes to give you all, maybe some little 4×4 paintings of beards or something. You deserve it for taking the tiny amount of time out of your day to help emasculate a complete stranger.
Speaking of which, Matt, if you can stop menstruating and sobbing into your lace doilies for long enough to drive up here, I’d like a nice filet, medium-rare. The cow blood tastes like victory — delicious, bearded victory.
Oddly enough, Ert voted too late (thanks, Ert), but she was still entered into the randumb prize drawing and won. So congratulations to Ert, you’ll get your prizes sometime soon. I guess if everyone is getting a little beard painting, I need to come up with something better for her than just a drawing out of my sketchbook. Let me think on it, Ert, and I’ll get back to you. Or suggest something. There really is no structure to this thing.
Videos
Beardoff 2009 results and randumb contest winner coming tomorrow.
Jaakko Mattila
Aside from having waay too many double letters in his name, Finnish artist Jaakko Mattila has blown my everlooving minnd with his watercolor works. Each one is a subtle geometric masterpiece, showwing excellent control of the meedium. Dude got skills, in other words. What’s the conversion ratte for Finland? I need to find out how bankkrupt one of those ppaintings is going to make me. Not that it will change my mind about buying, but just so I can get the appropriate amount of tears readyy.
Beardoff 2009 Judging
*voting is now closed* For those of you that voted, thanks and keep watch for the randumb prize winner tomorrow. For the other 300 people who read the post and didn’t bother to vote: eat a syphilitic dick. Can’t even spare 30 seconds to vote. Cock-knockers.
At the beginning of April my friend Matt and I decided that it was high time we stopped being little girls and grew manly beards. Dudes that we are, we decided to make it interesting by turning the whole beard growing process into a competition, and so Beardoff 2009 was born. Both of us have suffered through the slow, itchy, and disgusting process of growing a beard for 30 long days, and now it’s time for the winner to be decided. That’s where you come in, internet. We need you to be our impartial judges, so one of us can throw their beard-mastery in the other’s face. The loser also has to buy the winner a big, manly, delicious steak, because we’re men and that’s what men eat.
To sweeten the pot, one random voter will be chosen to receive some sweet prizes in the form of a DEATHCAT!!! t-shirt that Matt designed, and probably some drawing from my sketch book. That’s as good as we can offer without corporate sponsorship. The real prize is knowing that you have helped one man make another man cry, and at the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about.
Leave your vote in the comments. Make sure to leave your e-mail so we can contact you about your fabulous prizes.