Burt is just not a first name you hear much anymore. Everyone is naming their kids after cities and states or famous dogs and bears from movies: Madison, Dakota, Marley, Gentle Ben etc. Burt is the name of a regular guy, whose parents didn’t pull his name from an atlas. Wesley Burt’s first name clearly isn’t Burt, but it still has the effect of making me think that he’s just a guy who drinks some beers and maybe is a plumber. But Wesley Burt isn’t a plumber (that I know of), he’s an artist and a helluva good one. His drawings alone are worth my weight in gold, what with all the layering and dramatic groupings. So maybe it’s good that his first name isn’t Burt, because that could’ve resulted in his drawings being replaced by really well done pipe fittings. We all lucked out on this one.
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