Demons 6 & 7

These two are Homestar Runner fanart of minor recurring characters. The little green dude is The Goblin, who lives under the old '74 Gremlin in the woods. He does a great little dance. The other dude is Rumble Red, the sensational character find of Nineteen Aught Eleventy Twelve. He's Old Timey Homestar's Great Gazoo figure. Follow the wiki links on the character names to see the originals. I did both of these without a reference. Rumble Red turned out pretty good, but the Goblin is kind of a mess.

more crossover silliness

Demon 5

When Empire Strikes Back came out me and my crew were still young enough to think action figures were cool. (We outgrew that phase but I eventually outgrew the outgrowing.) Dave, at the time my bestest friend in the whole wide world, got himself a Hoth Han Solo. Even back then we all considered Captain Solo to be the coolest guy in outer space. I was never a big toy-wrecker as a kid, but somehow I ended up snapping the head right off of Dave's Han Solo. He re-attached it with some superglue, but it was never quite the same. For one thing, poor Han lost all ability to rotate his head. This isn't one of the stories where Dave stopped being my friend because I broke his toy. He and I continued to be best buds for years after the Han Solo Incident. Still, when I try to figure out why Dave stopped talking to me a few years back I can't help but remember that one broken action figure.

art project: 100 Demons

When I want to read a serious, non-explosion based comic I turn to Lynda Barry, the master of what she calls "autobifictionalography". Her book One Hundred Demons is one of the reasons I've started drawing recently, even though I suck at it. (If you're looking for more people to blame Scott McCloud and S. John Ross' Encounter Critical were my other two big inspirations. These three helped me ignore my internal critic and just draw some stuff, no matter how inept or juvenile the results.) Anyway, One Hundred Demons was itself inspired by an earlier work, a 16th century Zen monk who painted a long scroll with a hundred demons running across it. Barry decided to try a similar project.


Barry urges her readers to try drawing a hundred demons of her own. Strangely, she takes the brush and ink she uses very seriously and instructs fellow travellers to use a similar set-up. Then she notes that for paper she uses any old thing. Newspaper, yelow legal pads, whatever. Weird. Personally I'm going to ignore her suggestions for writing utensils and use whatever is at hand. Here are my first four demons, done with magic markers and crayons on printer paper.


Don't expect much more sophistication than this, folks. I'm using this project as an excuse to play with my daughter's art supplies.

more Burlewish fan art

Nextwave's run is coming to a close, but I've found two new comics that I'm now following. Given that both these dudes specialize in beating the crap outta people, I thought a crossover was in order.


My wife took a glance at this picture and asked "What is the guy on the left supposed to be kicking? The air?" Good eye, sweetie.