accessories are a must
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010I love putting villainous mustaches on non-villainous characters. I would like to fly through the night Santa-style painting evil mustaches on every baby doll and stuffed kitten on earth. But, I haven’t any magickal flying reindeer and my cats aren’t about to pull a sled so pish posh to that.
So, next week I may not post a comic. Things are extra hectic with the 2 upcoming shows to prepare for plus another secret project that will open smack in the middle of the other two. Anyway, at this very busy time, somehow it seemed like a good idea to plan a road trip to a yurt in the middle of the woods somewhere near Gainseville.
The yurt is basically a tree-house without walls. It has 2 levels one of which (thankfully) is screened in. There is no plumbing or electric. I’m half wondering what the hell I was thinking and half looking forward to it. I’m sure it will be great. Right?
On the way back we’re going to swing by the University of Florida’s Festival of India which promises a rich cultural experience with music and art and hopefully some tasty food. The whole trip is just a couple of days but I’m sure when I get back I’ll want to make up for lost time and will probably have client commitments to tend to as well. So, if you stop by and there is no comic, either I was eaten by bears or I just plain didn’t get to it.
Last week I went to a collage party at the Morean Arts Center organized by one of my favorite local artists, rag-doll maker extraordinaire, Queen of Mail Art: Jennifer Zoellner. It was fun just being silly and playful and sticking stuff to the walls. I brought a few GingerDead printed things to cut out and also made some wonky collaged creature out of magazine pics and I also made a voodoo-y dolly out of a lolly pop and paper. Jim made a funky assemblage with his CD and became a piece of art as Jennifer’s little girl stuck piles of paper on his face and hair and adorned his chest in lolly pops.
Here’s a pic of Jim and I’s fancy collage’n:
And one that allows me to now boast, “Yeah, I have my work in a show with Tim Burton’ because I found a program from Burton’s MOMA show on the wall and stuck my characters on top of it. I’m pretty sure that totally counts! 
Okay, I’m off. Wish me luck with the outhouse spiders. See you soon…
<3 calan
March 24th, 2010 at 1:25 am
yes, that totally counts!
a tight surly scowl
behind a slick line of hair
can’t hide the dastard
March 24th, 2010 at 1:25 am
throw an “e” up in there
March 24th, 2010 at 11:01 am
gabe – done
March 24th, 2010 at 11:32 am
LOL totally counts ;D
We grin in delight
in our long curly ‘staches
We dastardly two
We sneak and we steal
Your yummy cupcakes by night
aren’t we evil?
March 24th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Wow, that trick works well.
Next time I’m in the ghetto,
I’ll be fake mustached…
Black hat looming high.
Panhandler deterrent
Halt! I’m dastardly.
Also…
March 24th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
well i hope your schedule tapers out some.
snidley doesnt have
anything on gingerdead
he just needs a laugh
borris badinoff
look out here comes the wicked
cookie of doomness
yay old cartoon references and with that i’m off to bed gotta be up at 4am
March 24th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
crud forgot the “Look out” in the second line in the second stanza
March 25th, 2010 at 10:51 am
fixed it amanda
love the old cartoon references!
March 25th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
have fun on your trip and please dont get eaten by bears the world cant afford 2 lose some1 as talented as you. the world has so little art left in it as it is. sorry i am idiot 2 most things and haiku is one of those things
March 25th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
thanks darlene. i’ll try! you aren’t an idiot. a lot of people who haiku here never wrote one before and you certainly don’t have to. if you are interested…we all seem to tend to follow the general (although antiquated to be honest) rule of 3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables per line respectively. it really need not follow this rule. i’m not sure why i do most of the time when i know it’s not necessary. really it’s more about capturing a moment or describing an experience and using 3 short lines and approx 17 syllables. you’ll see lots of examples in the comic and comments. there’s also an article here and throughout this site: http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiartjr.htm
March 26th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
opened raincoat flash
i’m sorry officer, but i
did not see moustache
March 29th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
outhouse spiders live
in deep, dark, damp scary holes
beware when you sit
March 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
ha i think i can do haiku. we had to do it todau inn class. ummm okay ket me think
we may be angry
but we have our mustaches
give a loud hurray
April 12th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Ha!! I LOVE this picture. He looks like he’s saying “Ya we bad, what up? You want some of this?” Haha nice. Also looks like an album cover. Ginger and the Dead coming live to your area.
See the mustaches?
Stop your smiling this instance
and fear us i say!
No suspects no clues
All the milk in town tainted
What a mystery
April 13th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
hehe
October 13th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
hahahah cute!!!