no idea comes to light before pencil (or pen) touches paper. everything we do starts out as a sketch of some kind. this is sort of a baby album of our ideas. click the thumbnail for a larger image.
okay, technically it's a slant rhyme. But, it still works. We were leaving dinner a few weeks ago and we saw a VERY common site in the midwest. Someone driving a huge vehicle who doesn't give a shit enough to park it without screwing up everyone elses' lives. I said "Hummer, rhymes with dumber." So I came home and drew this.
I'm going to submit this to Adbusters.
When I was in a rock band, I wrote a song called "Blind Spot." It was inspired by the great Superchunk. The lyrics went something like "All this acidomeophen, has been helping out my heart. It's back in tempo with my mind, it stopped attacking from behind. Attacking from the blind spot."
My friend's dad had heart replacement surgery yesterday. I was thinking about him a lot when I drew this and thinking about that song. The guy behind my bag has a handlebar moustache.
"The Rubberband Man" is a Spinners' song from 1976 about a guy who makes incredible sounds with a rubber band stretched between his toes. The Spinners' producer, Thom Bell, wrote it for his son. It was originally titled "The Fat Man." We keep the song in our playlist at the studio because every time we hear it we're guaranteed to smile.
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
a client once told us "utters [sic], gross" requesting we take the udders off a cow character for their menu (they also told us cows don't have horns). a couple months later Nickelodeon released the film "Barn Yard" featuring a male cow with udders. Apparently udders tested well for Nickelodeon.
