My cousin-in-law works for Red Cross and got to see President Obama’s speech in person. She’s kind of a fan and, needless to say, was a little star-struck. Audrey and I created this image to tease her.
Oh, and Happy Halloween!
More Apropos of Nothing.
A friend recently commissioned me to draw Mitt Romney and Barack Obama as zombies. Or as another two friends suggested today, Mitt Zomney and Ozomba! (Thanks Bre and Anthony) They also suggested, “Presidential Zombinees.” How about, “Prezombies”?
Also, check out the new “Caricatures” section at JesseBaggs.com!
I saw this on a t-shirt at the Sacramento art gallery Sol Collective, back when they were in their old location on Del Paso. It always made quite an impression on me—even before the economy collapsed—but unfortunately I couldn’t identify the artist, despite inquiries made to Sol Collective.
Two of our close friends, Geoff and Becca Scott, are opening a new brewery, Track 7, this New Year’s Eve. I previously worked with Geoff and Becca to create the “Pretty Tasty” illustration for their Ceccarelli Pears, sold at Sacramento-area farmer’s markets:
Geoff and Becca asked me, along with two of my other artist friends, Skinner and Phil Altstatt, to create art for their beer labels. I was assigned drawing duties for the Big Four Ale, which “[ … ]contains the four essential ‘C’ hops – Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and Columbus [ … ].” The Big Four Ale takes its name from the founding members of the Central Pacific Railroad: Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford, known collectively as “The Big Four.” Interestingly enough, The Big Four were so powerful that following the publication of a political cartoon critical of Huntington, a law was passed that banned political cartoons in California! According to the California Historical Society, “It prohibited the publishing of any drawing which reflected adversely upon the ‘honor, integrity, manhood, virtue, or reputation’ of any individual. This anti-cartoon bill became law in 1899 and remained on the books for fifteen years, a chilling legacy from the era of the Big Four.”
I suppose my illustration, seen below, would’ve passed muster. I’ve also posted each of the Big Four by themselves so that they can be seen in more detail.
Come out to Track 7 Brewing Company Saturday, December 31st, for their grand Sacramento opening!
“Well, it turns out that you are not one thing. Your brain is made up of lots of competing sub-populations. The right way to think about the brain is [that it’s] like a neural parliament with different political parties that are battling it out to steer the ship of state.”
David Eagleman discussing his book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report (the quote starts at 4:55). Sounds like someone’s been reading my comics!
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
The newsstand I recently painted for the Sacramento News and Review will be used to distribute papers to attendees of this year’s California State Fair. I don’t know if Cal Expo will become its permanent home, but I’m very excited to have my newsstand at the Fair, especially since there were almost 730,000 attendees last year (pdf), an average of close to 40,000 people a day!
So if you visit the fair, look for this box!
When I upgraded the blog recently the permalinks for all my blogg entries were changed, meaning any links in my blogg to anything else in my blogg no longer work. Rather than fixing them, here’s all six parts of Congressional Caffeine Caucus Catastrophe! in one place, which was probably something I should have done a while ago anyway.
“Now some men like the fishing / And some men like the fowling / And some men like to hear / A cannon ball a roaring / Me I like sleeping / ‘Specially in my Molly’s chamber.”
From the traditional Irish song, “Whiskey in the Jar,” my favorite version being Thin Lizzy’s.
Amanuensis –noun. A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
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