Dear Scott McCloud,

I finally understand my place:

Right in the middle.

Fondly,

Ber Bentin

Miok Evolves

rumiokok

RU MI

OK OK?

Naked (it's not what you think)

First this.

Then this.

Eyeball Mountain 2

Eyeball Mountain

Sketch for "Moon"

moon

verb

1 stop mooning about WASTE TIME, loaf, idle, mope; informal lollygag.

2 he’s mooning over her photograph MOPE, pine, brood, daydream,fantasize, be in a reverie.

Artist's Statement

"Drunk" "Again"

I visited the Intuit museum today (Chicago's outsider art museum) and was lucky enough to spot this tattoo design of knock-off Mickey Mouse who is " 'Drunk' 'Again' " (love those quotation marks). The current main floor show is called Freaks and Flash, a show about tattoo designs ("Flash") and the people who sport them ("Freaks") --

-- Of course the Mickey tattoo design (which I'm considering getting, by the way, tramp stamp, perhaps?) reminded me of R. Crumb's famous poster "Stoned Agin!" --

-- which was the inspiration for another piece of art that I posted in October, and this Series 5 Garbage Pail Kids card illustrated by John Pound, card #177: Lazy Louie or (as the card that I own names him) Meltin' Milton. The image below is of the original artwork, which was already sold, apparently, on eBay, but I've already contacted Pound about the original pencil and color roughs for this painting. I've never bought a piece of art before, but it seems like this might be a good place to start; here's to inebriation and art about it!

Let's talk about myth >>>

>>>Devdutt Pattanaik<<<

Untitled Kermit the Frog Collage

Coupl'a great people who I wish I could just brain pick for a while:

A Couple'a Quick Jam-jams

Here we are, more faces

Some scans from a limited edition offset print book I'm working on. I'll be selling them at SAIC's upcoming Winter Art Sale (open to the public 11a-7p Fri, Nov 20 and 10a-5p Sat, Nov 21) as well as at Quimby's, Chicago Comics, and possibly Graham Cracker and Golden Age, all in Chicago. If I find the extra time in my schedule I'm thinking about creating a few special hardcover copies of the book as well, which I will sell only at the Art Sale. I will also definitely have some small glossy posters of four of the faces that will appear in the book printed in gold and purple.

AND remember... faces are everywhere.

J. M. Szancer, illus. for Lokomotywa by Julian Tuwim (Poland, 1954)

I found this image today on the blog A Journey Round My Skull, which has been a great source of strange drawing and illustration ephemera to feast my eyes on. This is the first in a series of images called The Wonderful Wizards of Lodz, Kids' Books from Poland Part 1. Aside from my attraction to the sunburst shape of the train wheel, this illustration is just filled with mystery. What exactly is the turtle doing? Trying to reach the center of the wheel? Avoiding being run over? Being run over? Chasing after the cloud on the opposite side? Are they enemies, friends or lovers, the turtle and the cloud? All of these questions are made possible by OUT OF CONTEXT and viewers like you.

Doodle face - Tuesday, November 5, 2009

Drawn during a talk about how to make a website. Thank Gawd I have this blawg. I'm just kidding, I kind of paid attention.

Hooray

Monster Face 10.27.09

"Everything Ever"