Mister Scribbles

 Deviant Art just gave me a Pride badge, because of this - I got a Pride badge today for answering a questionnaire.  At last, some recognition for my community spirit!  However, while high spirited and witty as these remarks are, I am not sure they read my entries closely. How are you celebrating Pride Month this year?   If you were to design your own Pride cover image, what color would you use and what would it look like?   What would you add to the rainbow Pride flag to make it more representative of you? Answers - 1).  By draining even more blood from Christian children for my increasingly fervent,  dark  rituals. 2).  Red and black.  A hobnailed boot crushing a human face, with the word "Forever" below the design. 3).  Gray hair. My badge.

I bought this in a thrift store a couple three years ago for two dollars.  It was, and is in a lovely pink frame with orange matting.  I guessed that this was a young person who did this.  If this article is correct, and I have the right artist here, then I could not have been more wrong. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/meet-helen-williams-a-94-year-old-painter-whose-art-is-brightening-corpus-christi/ Who still thinks Furry is just for kids?

My private life is my own! Johnny Craig, who else? The Hares were so persecuted by the other beasts, they did not know where to go. As soon as they saw a single animal approach them, off they used to run. One day they saw a troop of wild Horses stampeding about, and in quite a panic all the Hares scuttled off to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear. But just as they got near the bank of the lake, a troop of Frogs, frightened in their turn by the approach of the Hares scuttled off, and jumped into the water. “Truly,” said one of the Hares, “things are not so bad as they seem: “There is always someone worse off than yourself.” Drawing by Gustave Dore, 1867, and real fucking good too. Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

The last cartoon with an unamed Bugs Bunny in it.  Elmer's Pet Rabbit has a rabbit identified as Bugs Bunny but it is the old design of Bugs.   Porky's Hare Hunt, 1938.  Nascent Bugs Bunny. Elmer's Pet Rabbit, 1941.  Identified as Bugs but he is the earlier design, and no visible front teeth.  His personality was not set until Wild Hare, by Tex Avery. Bugs in the more familiar design, his personality more flamboyant and less thuggish. The Trickster Rabbit arrives. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4053d   From tiny acorns... Bugs is something else!

Billy believes he is the most recent stud he saw on TV.  I think he was watching Douglas Fairbanks last night.  i.pinimg.com/originals/68/ea/5…   In fact, I am certain of it.  Oh, yeah, this is exactly what Billy sounds like when he talks - youtu.be/cSVPc4GZSUM?t=20

Billy does not start something and just let's it go unfinished, uh uh, No Sir!

I have always wanted to post a WIP, and here it is.  Billy is feeling a bit sad today, he was out at his property and is just overwhelmed by how much work he has to do.  So he idly carved his name on one of the trees bordering the cattle ranch.  That should do it, he thought as he proudly surveyed his work, I've done something today!

So, I'm looking up the Casa Loma Orchestra and I find out that their big hit was Girl Of My Dreams, which was used very well in an excellent movie, Angel Heart. I'm reading the comments on You Tube and it seemed like everybody there knew the movie inside out just like I do.  This caught my eye: Deana Kathaleen - Mickey Rourke looks like the cowardly lion now. A five year old comment.  But let us see if this observation has a grounding in truth. Mickey Rourke. The Cowardly Lion. A big shout out to Deana Kathaleen for this priceless, blue ribbon wisecrack.  Take that, youth and glory! Seems only yesterday I sat through this movie 4 nights in a row. https://youtu.be/Hce32X6TXoA

Love is where you find it. Fame is fleeting and meaningless... ...yet often unavoidable.   Opportunity sometimes does occur, ...yet luck's a chance but trouble sure. Providence often takes a hand... But mistakes crop up in any plan. Go placidly amidst the noise and haste. Don't dream it - Be it! Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light- Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. "Time" is an illusion. All the world’s a stage,                        ...

Not Humpty Dumpty. Graphic free association. https://www.instagram.com/_livingdog/

Armand Rassenfosse, 1919 A Belgian c. 1862 - 1934,  Rassenfosse is now known for his illustrations for Baudelaire's Les Fleurs de Mal, in an edtion of 130 books.  He was a very technically adept printer, and, judging by the hilarious cartoon above, quite the artist.  He invented several techniques for printing, including a method for non-mirror image plate printing. From Les Fleurs de Mal. Lecture érotique 1899  A Woman Young Woman At Her Toilette Sketch for the above. He did book design.  The Letter E. Poster by Rassenfosse The Letter C. Bronze of Rassenfosse by Pierre-Felix "Fix" Masseau

Billy Bunny, Robot Fighter! I saw nothing wrong with the way Magnus dressed when I was a kid.  In the 1960's, everybody who was anybody in the superhero biz wore skin tight nylon.  The only one whose costume bothered me was the Phantom, because clothing like that in a tropical jungle would be worse than impractical not to mention an obvious detriment to stealthy movement and jungle neutral coloration, never mind sweating.  As an aside, Magnus is way overdressed for swimming in the left hand panel.  I was on two swim teams for 5 years, and boots, utility belts and unitards are not the thing for swimming, particularly if speed might be very important, as it seems to be here.  But dig that fucking Think-Rob!  On dry land Magnus would attract derision in South Beach.  I mean, white go go boots with black leather?  Why Russ Manning, an Army veteran, chose such a get up for a man who could crack steel with his bare hands is beyond me. ...