This is by my brother, Graffo.  It is a work in progress.  There usually no meaning to his art, unlike mine which is usually complaining about something.  He has finished this in oil and it is one of my favorite paintings by him.  I will post the finished pic here when I can get it. The first drawing.  It is very small and a lot of times drawn on a napkin.  I save these if I can but he has thrown away a lot of drawings.  He loves to draw and I regard it as a chore, most of the time. steve @_livingdog - Instagram  

Daumier is such an astounding artist that I almost don't know where to begin.  As usual, I will not try the readers patience with background, that can be found here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier My brother, Graffo, has a degree in lithography and I think that Daumier is his hero.  He certainly is influenced by his style.  Daumier's biting commentary and extreme artistic talent informed France during his lifetime.  Let us take this, for instance: No. 13 Rue Transnonain April 14th, 1834, a shot is fired near a barricade and a platoon of soldiers enters No. 13 and slaughters 12 people who had nothing to do with it.  Louis Philippe's already unpopular reign takes a nosedive.  The government seizes the picture and the litho stone but the damage is done.      He did a series of lithos concerning the law.  I will not presume to explain this to the viewer. The c...

My brother Steve had this cast in bronze a few years back.  It weighs about 200 lbs.  He had a number of bronzes done at the same time.  I think it is awesome. Head, microcrystalline wax. Small head, bronze. Small heads, bronze.  It is unfortunate but this medium is too expensive to work in without an assured buyer, at least for us.  He is a huge Honoré Daumier fan.     https://www.instagram.com/sdavis.howdy/      

I majored in Theater Lighting and Technology, props, carpentry, even some makeup classes.  But take a look at this- https://youtu.be/uMCj64bCK9g Not too fucking shabby, huh?

Earlier in my posting I have mentioned Roberto Raviola,  aka Magnus.  His artwork is over the top.  I first heard of him in Heavy Metal about 1979.  This was the story that I have never forgotten and have never seen any done better: Milady 3000  Necron.  Unbelievably pornographic and violent as all get out.  Awesome!   Read it.  Buy, borrow, beg, or steal, but read it.  But today I am going to talk about Kriminal, a 1964 venture from Magnus and Max Bunker. Anthony Logan, English master thief.  This is a direct rip-off of Diabolik, by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolik I am not sure who the artist is, but I love the picture. Whip! Striking .   Pride and Woman.   Probably not Magnus.  Great cover. Magnus. I believe the vault of the Dei Longest family is ready for a new customer. The Movie....

My new cat Mischa, aka Memee, is coming along just fine.  She stalks me through the house and hunts my toes by night.  Last night she came down and sat in the living room with us, a first.  I have a bell on her so I have some idea where she is.  In the above, I am trying to figure out how to repair a broken small guitar so that it works.  Behind me is the Lydia Ann lighthouse, which cannot be seen through my window, is about 15 miles away, does not look like that and the window faces the wrong way anyway.  Today I have my trouble cat Mingo in the clinic being neutered.  It is not right because he is about 7 years old, and is a lovable and sweet tomcat.  But he bullies my old kitty Jango, although Mischa tears at Mingo all night and he just lays there and meows.  I really should have done this when he was a kitten.  It took me ten days to finish this due to my overwhelming sense of how bad my skills are.  Even at that this is ...

In one of his more brilliant they are out to get me, nothing is what it seems books, Philip Dick has his protagonist, Ragle Gumm, endlessly playing a newspaper game for his living.  The setting is a small town in the 1950's, and the game is a giant grid entitled "Where Will The Little Green Man Appear Next"?  He uses a blink comparator  and his own intuition. He has been winning for months, but there is a secret.  The newspaper allows him multiple entries, which he numbers in order of probability.  One day an editor appears at his house and tells him he forgot to number the guesses. The time is actually in the 21st century, and we are in a desperate, losing war with the lunar colonies, who are on the dark side and beyond retaliation.  The game Ragle is playing is a probability assessment of the next nuclear strike.  Ragle has had his memory wiped, he is really a fashion designer who has always been able to predict which way the public will...