I know the feeling. :/
> I'll have to try to get my own artistic
>skills a little above their current Cynicalman level before my next furry
>con, so I can maybe participate.)
!!!
If you can draw half as well as Matt Feazell can, you should certainly
have no problem "participating". Anyone can do stick-figures, but
Feazell makes them brilliant works of minimalism. Next you're maybe
going to tell us you can only paint rectangles as well as Mondrian?
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>If you can draw half as well as Matt Feazell can, you should certainly
>have no problem "participating". Anyone can do stick-figures, but
>Feazell makes them brilliant works of minimalism. Next you're maybe
>going to tell us you can only paint rectangles as well as Mondrian?
I had a box turtle named Mondrian. Only my artist friends ever got the pun. :[
-Mughi
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Okay, okay, I know what you mean. I think Feazel's art lies largely in
framing, and storytelling with minimal elements. I'm just not sure stick
figures by themselves would be appreciated and sought after additions to
sketchbooks, even if they had pointy ears and tails on them :)
And call me a philistine, but even though I can get into Pollack and some
of the other abstact expressionists, I think Mondrian was a no-talent.
I have to admit, though, the man knew how to get a lot of use out of a
yardstick. :)
Okay, I know this is not the right newsgroup to talk about Cynicalman. But
having been a fan of it and small press comics since 1987 I thought I
should clear something up.
MATT FEAZELL CAN REALLY DRAW!! He knows all the elements of drawing (he
used to have a drawing tips column in COMICS F/X) and only does stick
figures to make a point--that a good story can run with any art. His
comic line "Not Available Comics" was an observation that the 'hot' comics
of the time were the ones nobody could find, hence Not Available.
I happen to own the original art to an entire Cynicalman story. Its
the "Cynicalman Goes to Washington" story laid out for use in the
Washington CITY PAPER. Got it for $15 at the Chicago con where I met
Matt in person--cool guy.
ObFurry: Anyone out there coing to Philcon?
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: ObFurry: Anyone out there coing to Philcon?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
TYGGER WANNA **GO**!!!
[sniffsniffhiccupsniff]
...i've been wanting to go to philcon ever since i made friends on that
side of the coast...
TTFN!
Tygger!
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scuttling things. Some had claws, some were bristling with eyestalks or
cover in quivering tentacles, but no two were alike. They had burned,
cut, abraded, and dissolved various parts of his body. The awful things
slithered, hopped, and waddled off into the far recesses of the cave as
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>In article <2sve65$hkq#umcc.umcc.umich.edu> s...@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Steve
PRL> Arlow) writes: >
>>If you can draw half as well as Matt Feazell can, you should certainly
>>have no problem "participating". Anyone can do stick-figures, but
>>Feazell makes them brilliant works of minimalism. Next you're maybe
>>going to tell us you can only paint rectangles as well as Mondrian?
PRL> Okay, okay, I know what you mean. I think Feazel's art lies largely
PRL> in framing, and storytelling with minimal elements. I'm just not sure
PRL> stick figures by themselves would be appreciated and sought after
PRL> additions to sketchbooks, even if they had pointy ears and tails on
PRL> them :)
For another example, L.S. Lowry's paintings (which inspired a song which
got into the British pop music chart).
PRL> And call me a philistine, but even though I can get into Pollack and
PRL> some of the other abstact expressionists, I think Mondrian was a
PRL> no-talent.
Mondrian did other styles of works as well, some of them quite
conventional, so "no-talent" is a bit harsh. But I'd agree that the
paintings he is best known for do look rather limited in content.
Dave
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I had an operating system named Mondrian. The joke was on me. :(
(Mondrian was a clone of TopView (IBM's text-based multitasking
windowed operating system, itself but a footnote in computer
history). Microsoft bought out the company that made Mondrian, and
dropped it almost immediately thereafter. When I tried to get
technical support, MS at first denied that the product existed...)