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
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3 comments:
Its fun to see these kind of things. Evolution is a nice thing. And to see the extremes, whoooaaa!
Amazing piece Scott!
I love this post so much. Having been witness to your college years' sketchbooks, it really is awesome to see the progression.
bless you sir for posting these. everyone should do this. you've come a long way baby!
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