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Dastardly Heroes: H is for Harry

Posted on 02/21/2012 by Tat

Harry Potter works at a ranch branding cattle.

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Brâncuşi’s “The Endless Coffee”

Posted on 02/19/2012 by Tat

So that’s where he got his inspiration for The Endless Column!

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O‘Ren Ishii

Posted on 02/16/2012 by Tat

The Glass Celing exists. There are some holes in it, but for the most part it’s still in one piece. Of course the place it’s most pervasive is in the world of supervillainery. O’Ren Ishii, on the other hand, breaks through with gusto. She’s a well rounded baddass.

Some may say she’s a minion or minor villain because the movie is called Kill Bill, but think about it. She may have started off as a minion, but she rose to new heights. She wasn’t just an Asian female villain in a revenge movie. She busted through the supervillain glass ceiling and became a world class villain with style.

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Dastardly Heroes: G is for Gandalf

Posted on 02/14/2012 by Tat

Gandalf works at a head shop selling “hookahs” to hippies.

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Rocky Statue

Posted on 02/09/2012 by Tat

In a sadly ironic twist of fate the most photographed sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art isn’t any of the priceless works inside, but the Rocky Statue that sits at the base of the museum steps. The city has been asking the question “what is art” since the Italian Stallion himself donated it after Rocky III. It’s traveled around the city, even sitting in storage for a number of years, as the city has debated what to do with it. Rocky has been very controversial.

If you visit the statue and stay longer than the obligatory photo op you’ll see the diverse number of people who stop to take a picture with the fictional boxer. There are joggers, tourists, students, museum goers, and kids. Kids love Rocky. Not the movie, mind you, but the statue. He makes a fantastic jungle gym. Can you do that with a Brancusi? I don’t think so.

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Dastardly Heroes: F is for Fox

Posted on 02/07/2012 by Tat

Fox Mulder supervises the formation of crop circles by art school students.

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Voldemort

Posted on 02/02/2012 by Tat

Another of my favorite escapist franchises is Harry Potter. Not the movies, the books. Yeah, I was there at midnight at the bookstore waiting for the novels to be released. There are so many terrific characters I would love to illustrate! Voldemort is not first on the list. Yet there he is, all evil and snakey.

Voldemort was one of the villains that I left off of my Heroes and Villains sketches for the 2012 Sketchbook Project. He’s such an iconic villain I felt bad for leaving him out so I decided that he would be part of my first villain trading card set.

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Dastardly Heroes: E is for Edward

Posted on 01/31/2012 by Tat

Edward Cullen. That’s it. Does there need to be anything else?

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Dastardly Heroes: D is for the Doctor

Posted on 01/24/2012 by Tat

Doctor Who uses the Tardis to bet on yesterday’s horse races.

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The Ranch Store

Posted on 01/19/2012 by Tat

On your way to the Badlands, and I encourage you to go because it’s surprisingly breathtaking, is the last stop you’ll encounter before entering the national park. The Ranch Store is a small gift shop that’s marked by a giant prairie dog and topped with a pretty awesome sign shaped like a steer. On the inside it’s your pretty standard gift shop stuff, but outside you not only get to see the six-ton prairie dog but you can feed real live prairie dogs that live in a nearby colony.

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