Anders Nilsen's Blog, page 41

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Scribble Card for Little Lutherans

two events this week

A reminder, Genesis 22:1-24

Black shape/advertisement for beer, study for Yggdrisil the world tree drawing, year old to do list

Show n Tell show

TODAY !
Sunday, March 28th
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm

Shawn of Shawnimals
Anders Nilsen
Chad Kouri
Susie Kirkwood + Jill Summers
The Curious Cardigans
meet Diana Sudyka

LINCOLN HALL
2424 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL

Giant System Chicago

The multi-talented Kyle Obriot has been busy. Check out his new project, Giant System Chicago. He's shooting Chicago acts in their practice spaces, doing one song, simple, straight forward, unglossed. And weekly. In particular see the preview for next week's much anticipated session with White/Light.

Big Questions #14

I finished Big Questions #14 about a week and a half ago. Here's the cover:

I'm about six pages in on number fifteen, which is the last issue. Which makes about 30 pages left to draw before this story, which I've been working on since 1999, will be done. Sort of.
Here's a page from the #15:

click on picture, see amazing thing

Rothenburg's Kriminalmuseum and Munich's Altes Pinakothek

In a small town called Rothenburg we visited a Museum of Crime and Punishment. There were, of course a number of torture devices that were pretty harrowing (lots of good ideas here for Dick Cheney), but most interesting was the collection of iron masks made to be worn by criminal offenders while chained to a pillory in a public square. The masks were surely heavy and painful to wear, but the main idea was to humiliate the person, often times to make them a caricature of their crime.
Amazingly...