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t-shirts from beyond the grave

9/25/2015

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a couple weeks ago something remarkable happened. i posted on twitter (yeah, i'm on there) a throwback thursday sort of thing, a pic of a  t-shirt design i made in 1988 for an underground zine in lexington called VOID!. i think maybe 2o of these shirts were printed, the illustration was a funny one, desmond tutu holding the wizard of oz dog, toto, standing next to fantasy island's tattoo and the band U2. toto and tutu with tattoo and U2.
right? anyway, after that tweet went out a guy in denver contacted me asking if there were any of those shirts left because he had had one. um, no, surely you are mistaken. you never had one. well, after talking a bit, he DID have one! as the story goes, he was at a party in louisville in the late 80's (i already believe it) and a drunk girl puked on him. her boyfriend was trying to do damage control and replaced the guy's soiled shirt with one from out of her car, which happened to be said shirt. how she got it, i do not know, but the pukee then had that shirt stolen from him about a year later! ahhhh. circle of life. to my knowledge, i was the only one who EVER had this shirt! i figured the guy who printed them didn't even succeed in actually selling any!
here's the kicker: the pukee said he always wanted that shirt back and has plugged the phrase "toto and tutu with tattoo and U2" every now and then into google for 16 YEARS. ha! my tweet was the first and only time he got a result. so....i hope to print another run and send him one. he deserves it.

then, about 3 days after that whole exchange, an old high school pal named mike emailed me. he asked if it was ok if he could send a (different) shirt that he'd printed up with another one of my old drawings on it to a friend who was currently in a band. apparently, i had done a drawing for mike's high school garage band (around 1986- i had done a shit ton of drawings back then and don't remember most of them) and his present musician friend wanted to wear something on stage to honor mike's dad, who had recently passed away. i said sure, go for it..... and then found out the musician being discussed is the current bass player for.....kid rock. so when that picture emerges i'll be sure to share....even though the drawing kind of sucks, it's a nice gesture for that guy to wear it. what a strange week that was....here is the shirt from the first story......
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cat's out of the bag.....NIX COMICS!

9/7/2015

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yeah...pretty thrilled to have a 2 page spread in the upcoming nix comics quarterly #8 (NCQ8). for this issue i have completed 12 absurd stories that were either too foolish, raunchy, or disturbing to make the cut! nix comics is the baby of ken eppstein, a music geek/ record pusher out of columbus who is more likely to have his books in record stores than comic stores. fine with me. you can check out his website here and his FB page here. NCQ8 is to be released this october, and based on what i've heard about it, it'll be a real humdinger.
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506 ASH

9/7/2015

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i will be a participating artist in this eclectic car themed show coming saturday, september 12. also looking forward to an accompanying car show/cruise-in on the gallery's grounds. i would have driven my '61 lancer to the occasion, but it wouldn't have been too happy going all that way.....

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