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My Dead Grandmother Keeps Getting Mail

May 31, 2007 By Bradley Weber

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Dec. 30, 2017 — This comic was first published on May 31, 2007. Nearly eight years later and it still holds up. Nearly 25 years after my grandmother died and I still miss her.

Scroll down to the gallery and click on the first image to view it all. 

Here it is! The long-awaited, much-touted mystery comic. It took nine months to do, but the finished story came out much better than expected thanks to two key people:

  • The wife, who aided with various visual elements and let me tie up her iMac for a whole day.
  • My wonderful and tolerant mother, who provided old snapshots and acted as a photo reference without asking too many questions. (And to think she was worried I was going to do something weird with those pictures.)

This comic is dedicated with a great deal of love to the memory of my grandmother — who really did die 14 years ago and whose mail still gets delivered to my house.

I miss you, Charlie. Now more than ever.

 

Filed Under: Art, Comics, Stories

Parnassius Autocrator (1995)

May 17, 2007 By Bradley Weber

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(click here for more detail)

There was no plan for this piece. I made a frame, stretched some canvas and started gelling on pieces from a discard copy of J. D. Salinger’s RAISE THE ROOF BEAM HIGH, CARPENTERS. When it became clear that was going nowhere, on went some paint.

It almost stopped with the lightbulb, but something was missing. Why would all eyes in this painting be staring at lightbulb? (And what is it with me and monsters, anyway? Sheesh.)

Bruce mentioned a trick he learned at college: if a painting is giving you trouble, look at it in a mirror. Seeing the work in a different way might make the problem clear.

And damnit if that didn’t work.
[Read more…] about Parnassius Autocrator (1995)

Filed Under: Art, JMS Labs

Still Life With Monster, VII

May 10, 2007 By Bradley Weber

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Filed Under: Art, JMS Labs

Making Me Look Good

May 10, 2007 By Bradley Weber

Thanks to my pal Bruce Bachelder for framing the third-to-latest Still Life With Monster painting. (see the full-size original here, then go check out Bruce’s gallery over at the Fine Arts Guild site.)

I gave the framed piece to our friend Holly who liked it so much she hung it in her Hall Of Art.
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Thanks for putting Monster in with such august company, Holly.

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Filed Under: Art, Humor, JMS Labs

Still Life With Monster VI (and haiku)

May 3, 2007 By Bradley Weber

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Monster’s roaring rage
shakes the tender bonsai leaves
but they are not moved

Filed Under: Art, JMS Labs

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