Eye Poppin’

My buddy Victor Cayro (aka Bald Eagles) is a total shredder of an artist and cartoonist. A while back he was asked to contribute to a zine celebrating M.U.S.C.L.E. Men, those collectible little figurines we used to play with back in the eighties:

For the zine Victor created about a dozen different M.U.S.C.L.E. Men of his own imaginings, including this awesome Popeye the Spiderman:

Some time after the birth of this drawing, I was writing BART with Logan and busted out my Moleskine but I couldn’t think of what to draw. Logan suggest I try my hand at my own Popeye the Spiderman, and this is how it came out:

As I told Mr. Eagles, it is no where near as sophisticated as his, but the abundance of mocos
give it a certain charm.

**Incidentally that zine has yet to make it to print, which is a shame, but write furiously to Alvin at Buenaventura Press, wish him a happy birthday, and beg him to make it happen!!!

Happy Leprechaun Day

I have been lucky enough to spend the last few days in a magical place called Kish, nestled in St. Helena.
If feel like the gods have beens smiling on me…

Perched

Just one of those weeks…

Separated at Birth?

Last week I picked up this lovely Jesus pequeño at the Nueva Libreria Mexico:

I think he bears a mild resemblance to this hillbilly decorating this great ashtray I picked up at a thrift store in Puyallup, Wa last year:

Cheese Sweep Steaks

Drawn backstage in Philadelphia. I was definitely eying Tim’s cheese-steak.

Brigid

I ran into Brigid twice last week. Nice seeing her. Reminded me of this drawing I did of her, almost a whole year ago:

This was at the Line Bar in Juarez, Mexico. I don’t think she will be playing any shows in that town again soon. Some dude in the audience couldn’t stop slapping her butt while she was performing. Later he came up to her and said he was gay.