Brandon Graham's Blog, page 53

Hey again, regarding your future adult comics, do you think you'll ever make a sequel to your Perverts of the Unknown comic too? I want to see more of this series happen!

I had a follow up planned but the publisher asked me to make Pillow fight instead. 

My current plan is to work up to a big collection of all my adult comics in the next few years, If and when I do, It would be a blast to do some a Perverts story in there.  

How do you feel about Robert Crumb on a personal level, in a sense of separating the artist from the art? His controversies are vaguely similar to Kanye's to me, in that I can often appreciate how brilliant their work is, but their work is so autobiographi

Hmmmmm

I don’t personally have any issues with Crumb or West.  Granted, it’s easy for me to sometimes gloss over ideas that don’t effect me directly. If I was black and/or a woman I might be less casual about it. So take that for what it is– 

 I do think it’s strange to ask artists to plumb their souls to show how they look at the world but then expect them to not have any messy ideas. I don’t think messy ideas are the same as doing terrible things. 

The conversation gets sooo crazy on the internet that I wonder if my own feelings on something are nudged by it– I felt like I was more critical of both Crumb & West in the past but seeing people flip the fuck out (and I’m not saying you are) has caused me to want some nuance. 

Stinktober day 28 Keep on Truckin’ I was reading up on the...

Stinktober day 28 Keep on Truckin’ 

I was reading up on the popularity of Crumb’s one pager and how it affected his work after it. 

“I became acutely self-conscious about what I was doing. Was I now a “spokesman” for the hippies or what? I had no idea how to handle my new position in society! … Take Keep on Truckin… for example. Keep on Truckin’… is the curse of my life. This stupid little cartoon caught on hugely. There was a D.J. on the radio in the seventies who would yell out every ten minutes: “And don’t forget to KEEP ON TR-R-RUCKIN’!” Boy, was that obnoxious! Big feet equals collective optimism. You’re a walkin’ boy! You’re movin’ on down the line! It’s proletarian. It’s populist. I was thrown off track! I didn’t want to turn into a greeting card artist for the counter-culture! I didn’t want to do ‘shtick'—the thing Lenny Bruce warned against. That’s when I started to let out all of my perverse sex fantasies. It was the only way out of being “America’s Best Loved Hippy Cartoonist.”

"Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone..."

“Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.”

- Bill Watterson (via tozozozo-x)

Stinktober day 27 Snotgirl

Stinktober day 27 Snotgirl 

Stinktober day 26 Kekko Kamen

Stinktober day 26 

Kekko Kamen

Stinktober 25 BABAR the barbarian.

Stinktober 25 BABAR the barbarian.

Stinktober day 24!!!The Phantom Smoking.I’m a big fan of the...

Stinktober day 24!!!

The Phantom Smoking.

I’m a big fan of the Phantom being a legacy hero, whose outfit is passed down through generations. 

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ROYALBOILER BRANDON GRAHAM DRAWN OUT COLL TP

Created by Brandon Graham

This collection spans BRANDON GRAHAM’s (KING CITY, PROPHET, MULTIPLE WARHEADS) twenty-year career, and includes select cover work, illustrations, drawings from his work in animation, and assorted art, along with pages from his sketchbook, showcasing influences from all over the globe that combine into something uniquely personal.

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Stinktober Day 23 Animals eating Sushi

Stinktober Day 23 Animals eating Sushi