Private Wendy is ready for the trenches. Ronald McDonald doesn’t stand a chance, although he does have the largest Fast Food Posse. Only Jack in the Box may stand in the way of Wendy as most of her weapons involve blunt force trauma to the head.

Nothing bothers me so much as when I believe I have been incredibly clever and no one else notices. In that theme, please enjoy my joke with me: [more...]

Tonight I ate the home-cured gravlax that I made following the recipe I found at I Eat You. It was delicious. Unbelievably good. If I don’t die of food poisoning, I will call it a success.

This being my first foray into the world of self-prepared-uncooked fish, (…okay, that isn’t quite true – I once dried some catfish in our food dehydrator, effectively ruining it, but I didn’t eat that…) I went ahead and photographed it for your viewing pleasure. Please note that my photography is almost as amateurish as my cheffery. And wordsmithery.

Now that you have a picture, if it kills me, you know what to go after. Avenge my death!

Okay. So cleaning up vomit isn’t very exciting, but if you shout “THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR… DAD!” right before you do it, then it adds a little luster.

This is my Antithesis Art entry for “Redesign a Peanuts Character”.

Anthropomorphic Kitchen Appliances… I wish I could claim that mouthful, but it was Richard’s idea. This is my completed version of my earlier sketch post.

I believe the best prose, poetry, and art all accomplish the same thing: They create a sense of yearning. It may be yearning for a particular feeling or time or place, or it may be that the work makes you wish you were a better person in some way. I feel that way when I read Charles de Lint. Charles de Lint is an author who specializes in works that blur the realm of fairy tales and reality. I’ve only read a few of his short stories, but I’m enamored with his abilities.

This artwork doesn’t exactly illustrate Charles’ short story “The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep”, but it echoes the feeling I got while reading it some years ago. This painting was done for Country Bible Church’s remodel of an existing room. They are going for a coffee house feel and asked a few of the artist members of the church to create paintings for the room.

Good ol’ Santa is a good ol’ boy.

It has been too long without a post on The Replacement Komics. I’m sorry to say that I don’t have anything new to post, so I am going to post old Antithesis Art entries twice a week (Monday and Friday) for the next couple of months hoping that I’ll get a chance to create some new stuff in the meantime.

I haven’t posted in a blue or green or burnt umber moon. In August we were blessed with our third child, and she is getting all of my spare time. I’ll be back when she starts having a regular bed time.

A young pirate named Two Lipped John was in a horrible accident involving cutting toward himself.

Here is the colored version of Capt. Halfbeard. I used Noodler’s ink and watercolors in a moleskine notebook.

Isabelle made a portrait of me from the side with my hand on my cheek. She borrowed my fountain pen and used her own watercolors. She’s obviously a shameless flatterer.

Richard at http://table38.com/ has been rocking out the drawings the last few days. Here is my current drawing, sans the color it will some day be graced with.

Before the baby was born, I decided to do a bunch of art so that my site would not grow stale while I was in No Sleep Til Brooklyn mode. Unfortunately, I used up all of that work before the blessed event. So, here is more artwork done for www.AntithesisArt.com and rehashed here for your enjoyment. ALSO: Please note that The Replacement Komics is now using a CSS and DIV based layout instead of using tables. That makes it cool or something. ALSO: I’ve discontinued the “comments” functionality until I have time to code a more secure implementation of it. The only folks who were using it seemed to be promoting prescription drugs for male issues.

Have you ever had that feeling that perhaps your life is a big cosmic joke? No? …well, neither have I. I was just kidding. Anyway, this drawing was originally done for the www.antithesisart.com project Gone Fishin. I hope you enjoy it.

Mr. Manheimer is working hard to blend into his new environment. He has taken to the foxtrot quite nicely, but is still uncomfortable with the fancy dress and rich diet of the late 1870’s.

Also too disturbing.

A while back I did some Charlie Brown drawings for Antithesis Art. This one was a little too disturbing and didn’t make the cut.

When we’ve finished raising kids, perhaps we’ll buy an oat guzzler and hitch it up to this here wagon. We’ll take the show on the road. We’ll follow a horses fanny around for a few years before we forget our own names and become indigent social parasites… I think it is good to have a plan for retirement.