Archiving my artistic influences thread from twitter. I liked this exercise, for all the usual narcissistic reasons, but also bc by juxtaposing all these artists that have affected me, I see where they connect to each other as well as myself. - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 -
Harold Gray
Takashi Murakami
Paul Pope
Henry Darger
Gary Panter
Robert Rauschenberg
Lynn Varley
Frank Miller
Shigenobu Ohashi aka Butanohana
Bwana Spoons
Aya Takano
George Grosz
Julie Doucet
Mark Wheatley & Marc Hempel
Ernie Colon
Rumiko Takahashi
Guy Davis
Rick Veitch
Ryan Cecil Smith
Hellen Jo
David Mazzucchelli
Michaelene Walsh
Keith Giffen
Christophe Blain
This week #FanArtFriday features Little Orphan Annie and her dog Sandy, and they're celebrating their creator, Harold Gray, on what would've been his 129th birthday, and Dennis the Menace (UK) and his dog Gnasher, and they're celebrating the life and legacy of one of their creators, David Sutherland OBE.
This artwork was done in the style of the late Al Hirschfeld (hopefully), who passed away on this day in 2003.
Melvin creates a teleporter to travel different dimensions and investigate about many stuff, until George and Harold enter the scene and when Candy and Mr. Krupp were about to intervene and prevent anything, they accidentally teleport themselves and the other 3 kids into a different dimension, known as the real world.
They see that this strange world isn't like theirs and seems grayer and less cheerful, in the way meeting a new girl...
"The average Englishman, you see, is not interested in ideas. Say what you like about political theory. No one will listen. You could shove a whole slice of the Communist manifesto into the Queen's Speech. Nobody would turn a hair. Least of all, I suspect, HMQ."
I write for those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J.K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs of intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the internet.