Kentucky and Indiana

I think it's safe to assume that this had something to do with Abraham Lincoln.

10 Homonyms

Regrettably, this was just a drawing and a hastily-scrawled homework assignment sharing a page, rather than an illustration of a fanged gentleman shouting his love for homonymy. Incidentally, spellcheck thinks that "homonymy" is not a real word, but it's a big stupid idiot in that regard.

With luck, my recent computer difficulties are behind me (though I'm still using a scanner bearing a sticker exhorting me to "Get Ready for Win98", so there are still opportunities aplenty for disaster), and, barring further mischance, (week)daily postings should now resume. Did you miss me?

Dog-Head Monster From Outer Space!

This one required a fair amount of retouching to be readable, since it was apparently drawn with a fairly hard pencil lead on cheap gray newsprint-- specifically, on page 12 of My Own Book for Listening and Reading (Student Record Book for Reading Laboratory® 1b, 1973 Edition). Still, I felt like it was absolutely worth it to share that crazy dog-monster with you, my loyal viewing public.

Still Life With Moo-Cow Creamer

A product of art class at school, this technically falls slightly outside the time frame of this project, but it's got the Moo-Cow, so I'll let it slide.

Beware of the Blob and his Snazzy Spacesuit

Clothes make the man, they say...so what might they do for a hideous one-eyed blob? Here are a couple of designs for exo-skeletons for Mr. Blob. The boots on the left one and the chestplate on the right-hand one seem to be inspired by stormtrooper armor. As a bonus, you get a couple of arms and an unfinished quiz or homework assignment.

Some People Might Call This a "Space Cowboy"

Few, if any, would call it a "Gangster of Love", however.

A Day That Shall Live in Infamy

A brief treatise on the "General Sherman" tree, the biggest living thing in all the world. Mostly notable because, according to my mother's note on the back, it was my first homework assignment. Also, I suspect, my last one to be turned in on time.

Ten Toes and Three Mouths

The second drawing featuring someone with snakes for arms here at "Early Works", though I wouldn't consider it a running theme in my work or anything. I don't know if those are lightning bolts or merely jagged antennae on his roll of neck-fat (which might actually be a loose-fitting necklace). This piece was a little tricky to reproduce, being drawn with what I imagine to have been a fairly hard (6H?) red colored pencil on green school paper, so this is as clear as I could get it.

I got a perfect score on my quiz on the obverse face, though I was apparently too eager to get down to important monster business to take the time to sign it. Mrs. Ashworth seems to have been able to figure out who was responsible easily enough, though.

The Purple Monster Strikes!

No relation to the villain of this serial. Perhaps I should just say that a purple monster strikes. This was done as classwork in Mrs. Jamie Corrigan's art class (I'm pleased to see that she's still teaching, but a bit distressed to discover that they closed my old school six years ago). At some point around this time, I made a pretty decent Godzilla paper-bag hand puppet that I'm still trying to locate. Watch this space for details! For the (likely nonexistent) curious, the "5-G" next to the signature refers to my being a member of Mrs. Garrison's 5th grade homeroom.

Ben and Me

Like our subject of April 15th, this was part of a book report, this time of a more well-known book (also a Disney short), though one that I remember nothing about that one couldn't deduce from looking at the video box. It's interesting that I selected a scene that doesn't include the mouse narrator---I wonder if I perhaps didn't actually read the book, but just drew Franklin's experiment, which I already knew about?