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July 11, 2008 |
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Ink on Napkin
FOUND by Jess
in Oregon
I found this on a table I was clearing at the coffee shop where I work. I really liked the octupus sheriff thing; it made my night a little more surreal.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
pretty nice facial hair for napkin men.
Squidbillies?
Wow. Just wow.
My appointment book has weekends on the right-hand side of the right-hand pages, which affords me (during those interminable Monday morning staff meetings) a decent doodle space on which to create works such as these. I salute the Napkin Inker.
I like the little guy by the tree. Human? Rabbit maybe? Or a squirrel, I wonder?
Cool...freak show! How bored was someone? Looks like one of those "study sessions" in my college days when you meet at a coffee place or wherever and do everything BUT study.
With apologies to the Kinks:
Pictures of napkin men, pictures of napkin men,
Pictures of napkin men and you!
Octopus sheriff guy looks like he's "built for speed."
Whole thing strikes me like the start of a late 1960's album cover.
@adam: Looks like a squidbilly to me. But not an actual one. Like one the artist made up. Maybe for a fan script?
@baby basil
It is The Status Quo you should apologize to. Don't recall The Kinks ever covering that;) Great song though. Groovy napkin too.
The little bear in the forest is BAIT... Notice the lion stalking him from behind the tree on the right! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Why is the big hand pointing the finger at Spock? This is illogical.
I think the guys with facial hair must be Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum all grown up. They have bad attitudes now because of all the teasing from the other kids. At least they took those little spinners off their hats!
i thought this was a commentary on the iraq mess. then i read the comments so far. perhaps i just see every ridiculous gun-totin' gung-ho cowboy as gwb these days. i cannot wait for january.
I see it as a tree stump sheriff, but I still don't get it. Like it though.
There's also the recent kids' book:
"O. O. Octopus: Sheriff of Blue Ribbon Sound" by Pat Gaines. Dragonfly Publishing, Inc., 2008. ISBN: 0980137659
Tonight my daily nightmare will include a Ronald Reagan/Freddy Mercury/Squiddly Diddly/tree stump/gun totin' sheriff.
Maybe I'll forgo sleep this evening.
Tang, i was going to say he looks like a tree stump man,too.
The two bearded guys look like Russian Cossacks, to me. And i didnt notice Spock until i turned my computer on its side.
the bear in the forest is so simplistic and childlike, when compared to the detail of the trees.
I love the Sheriff's lasso and pistol *BANG!* drawings, however, the part in his hair leaves alot to be desired!
"MY name is Sheriff TRUMP, and you're FIRED!!! Bang! Bang! (Pun intended!)
SQUIDBILLIES!!! (google it- you won't be disappointed)
At first, I thought the sheriff might be carrying a pizza because why do you need a lasso when you have a gun? And six big dicks?
the dude with the pointy ears doesn't look like spock to me: note the unibrow! Spock always had such daintily tweezed, gorgeous brows... Maybe Spock&Scotty's lovechild.
The bear in the forest looks to me like he might be contemplating the suiside door...
Don't do it, Bear! There's so much to live for!!
xoxo
Clearly concept art for a Squidbillies spinoff.
LOL @ TURBO and The Six Big Dicks!!!! Great name for a band....
Holly, i'd go see that band. The after party is craaaaaaazy.
Squidbillies! That show is one of our favorites on Adult Swim! The others are Frisky Dingo, Lucy Daughter of the Devil, ATHF, Harvey Birdman, and Robot Chicken.
@the call is coming--I would love to see a spinoff of Squidbillies! I think the "sheriff" above is somehow a mutant combo of Erlie and the sheriff currently on the show. Maybe some freak nuclear fusion, created by Dan Halen.
That's the hand of God condemning terrorists, George W. Bush, and some sort of horned crab at the top right. At the top left are some woodland creatures who were foolish enough to hear the voice of God and must commit suicide by jumping off that cliff. At the bottom, Squidbilly sheriff/mustachioed George W. Bush is making sure all goes as planned.
Such is my interpretation. I am a napkin doodler myself and like to think I have special insight into the minds of fellow doodlers.
Actually, maybe the sheriff is Jimmy Carter, now that I look at it some more.
The little hat on Sheriff-Squid's head is the best, although the mouth is a little too creepy for me.
The hand with the squiggles around it looks like something from The Electric Company, or School House Rock. Or maybe The Yellow Submarine.
HA! I loved Electric Company as a kid. Funny that would be mentioned.
I thought the two heads on top of each other looked somewhat like a totem pole, like maybe for a tribe of Russian Cossacks.
I wish I could draw like this "artner". Very cool! Tree Stump Sheriff Guy is super creative. Expressions on the 'Three Woodsmen' are excellent.
Is that one renegade armpit hair sproinging out of the sherrif's lasso=wielding armpit?
I love his ten gallon hat.
Come on, Jess in Oregon.. can you give us a LITTLE more info on where it was found? Pleeease? PDX? Eugene? Hillsboro? Salem? Umatilla?
MONA- I'd be right at your side, groovin' and boppin' at that concert!!
Plus, I'd be there with you for the after-party...with balls...errr...I mean bells on!!!
He's either the "Sheriff of Giddy" or the second cousin to Sigmund and the Sea Monsters..
http://www.70slivekidvid.com/satsm.htm
He could be Elvis Squidbilly in disguise.
Nothing like a nice horned crab and checken sandwich!
Giselle, so funny that you should mention Sigmund... I was watching short videos on Myspace yesterday of Sigmund, Dr. Shrinker (my FAVE!!) and HR Puffnstuff, so Sherrif Octopus made me thing of Sigmund, too.
Never knew that Billy Barty was not only Hugo, Dr. Shrinker's faithful assistant, but also Sigmund the Sea Monster. Hilarious!
are you sure it's not a Chechen sandwich?
If the bear poops in the woods, can the octopus sheriff arrest him?
Its an amoeba western, helpful protozoa ready to take on the bacteria of the world.
this is cool. Kind of reminds me of an amazing animation I saw on youtube. If you fancy a bit of wowwing, type "muto" into youtube. You won't be disappointed.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
Roasted chechen in a lovely azerbaijan sauce, or perhaps a dagestani reduction - served with a curried raisin couscous.
Chrome: I LOVED HR Puffenstuff! That guy was so cute. What was his name? He was a shorty but a cutey. Wonder if he had a big dick and a good sense of ha ha?
@fan of cute english boys
The flute playing boy was Jack Wild (who was also the Artful Dodger in Oliver)
I think he died recently.
The sheriff guy could be one of Sigmund's family on Sigmund the Seamonster. Sid and Marty Croft had quite the bizarre imagnation, fueled I assume, by herbal supplements, haha.
Why is the witchdoctor spying on the teddy bear? Could this all be some psychedelic right of passage?
It looks to me like there's an alien peeking at the little bear in the woods. Look out, Little Bear, he's gonna take you to the Mother Ship.
And how 'bout that giant Monty Python Finger pointing to the Spock/Scotty unibrowed love child.
I would have to concur with the "wow". Just wow.
@Tori I'd just like to see any Octopus arrest me for doing my business!
@Effie Just watched Muto and is one of the most innovative pieces of animation I've ever seen! Thanks for recommending it.
Perhaps the artist was thinking about a new look and trying to decide on a facial hair fashion. The sideways head has a unibrow.
Like yump in' yimmineee I would like to know where in Oregon this was found. Jess, are you out there? Please tell!
Jack Wild! That's him! That boy who played Oliver was cute as well. And I'm pretty sure that Jonathan was really cute too. I bet he could have had his own tv show--like maybe about a boy who played a bassoon or something. The flute thing seemed to work fine for Jack London.
And just so no one thinks I'm a total Anglofile I was also a big fan of Jan Michael Vincent and Kurt Russell. And I can't forget David Cassidy!
LOL! @mlm Loves me some adult swim
That is definitely a hybrid of a North Georgia Redneck land squid and Burt Reynolds.
That guy in Across the Universe is pretty cute too. He's English, right?
@ A Fan: Jack Wild died of cancer of the mouth and throat about 18 mos ago. He had to have his tongue removed some months before he died. When I was in middle school we thought he was the greatest! My BGF had a tape of his songs and we wore it out..."serious" ballads and story songs, nothing Puffenstuffy. (Even as a kid I found the "Genie" character on Puffenstuff cringeworthy.) I have searched all the P2P songshares I can find...nobody has a single Wild song to share.
Sigh. I'd give a great deal for "Beggar Boy" and "Punch and Judy Show" on MP3.
Have you ever seen the video for Everclear's "AM RADIO"?
The magic talking flute makes an appearance...
watch it now.. it's HILARIOUS!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8JEoFzvxiyI
(if that fails, here's the tiny one:)
http://tinyurl.com/59o3tc
That Everclear video is great! I was so that kid in the 70s with my little am radio. It was white and looked like a lopsided donut. It opened up to make like an 's' shape and that was were the little dial was. You could carry it or slide it on your arm. It probably had a name but I have no idea what that might have been. On Sunday nights I'd listen to Dr. Demento on WLS with the ear phones because so my parents wouldn't hear.
LOL.. I was SO there! Right down to Dr. Demento, whom I "discovered" in 6th grade... (my Mom knew, though, so I didn't have to hide it.) I didn't have the cool funky radio you describe, though- we had a huge antique wood one and then a small boring black one. The honkin' old wood one picked up more stations.
Sometimes we'd get "skip" and pick up 64KFI from LA CA. (waaay far away, and over several mountain ranges. Late at night and in the summer. What better time to stay up all night just to hear Kiss You All Over or Ballroom Blitz one more time. "You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the.. AM Radio.")
Yes it is Early Cuyler, the coolest squidbillie in the south.
Hey, Running: I just KNEW you'd be there with me!
I thought it was a tree stump sheriff, protecting the forest in the background. There seems to be all kinds of riff-raff in the upper right corner - including a dragon??
I LOVE THIS