Uber Revenge

Hello, once again this week i'm venting in cartoon form. It's a surprising source of good ideas just listing down stuff that annoys the shit out of you, that and it's very therapeutic. You see, I love my coffee and I love buying coffee from different places and trying new brews. But the one thing that really annoys the shit out of me is when they ask you if you want sugar in your coffee and then don't stir it in! I know I can stir it myself, I also know I can just friggin' put the damn sugar in myself too, which I may as well do! What's the point of even asking? Don't bother! I hate having a moderately sweetened coffee only to get to the end to have a ridiculously sweet coffee! Then I have to throw it out, which I really hate wasting good coffee. I know it's a major 'first world problem' and not even that big a deal, but man it just annoys the crap out of me. 

I've written down this basic idea a couple of times (as I often get 'sugar shafted') but it wasn't until the other week that I came up with this final idea of using one panel after some chick in a cafe didn't stir my damn coffee whilst on one of my 'brainstorming trips' into Brisbane City that I do at least once a month. You see, the original idea was to be a multi-paneled strip, detailing the great lengths this guys goes to, to woo and date this woman who 'wronged' him by not stirring his coffee and then get revenge on her in bed. In the end if I can do it in one panel, I'll do it, not purely because I'm lazy....although that is partly it (or more accurately, time constraints), no I actually like the challenge of compressing ideas into one panel. 

The one thing I was worried about on this one is all the text in it (not just because my spelling and grammar skills are pretty awful at times, thank you Google Chrome auto spell check, tick!), as I always try to limit text as much as possible. But in the end I liked the idea of him rambling on really fast revealing his evil plan as it was. I also tossed up whether to have some caption text to explain things and cut back on his speach bubble but I ditched that and just went with it. I think the hardest thing to get across was the idea that she worked in a cafe and served him a coffee, the text did have quite a few re-writes before I finally settled on this, what do you think?

Anyone notice the background on this one? All I did was a Google Image search for "Wallpaper Patterns" and just placed it as the background, what do you think? Guess how I got that idea? I was reading my son a picture book the other day and I noticed that the art in it used a similar technique and I've been meaning to do some more experimenting with adding photo's and other images into my cartoons. So now I plan on taking photo's of different textures and patterns to used for things like this. I really like it.

Anyway, time to go, see you next time!

Mike

Duck Face

(click on image for the full sized version)


Hello again! This week's cartoon comes from the nearly endless source of humour ideas that is, the "Things I Hate List". So I complain a lot I must admit, hey I can't help it if so much stuff annoys the shit out of me. But it is only recently I discovered to harness my complaining and to vent via cartoons, it's great! In one of my notebooks dedicated to lists of things, I have a massive and every growing section of just things that annoy me, it's very liberating, you should try it. This week it's women on Facebook who pull that damn 'Duck Face' in photos! Don't know what I'm talking about? Here's Urban Dictionary's explanation: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Duckface Here's some examples:

Now I'm fairly certain if you have a Facebook account, you have a least one 'friend' with some of these photo's, hell knows I do. Why the hell do women seem to think pouting their lips like that makes them look like a friggin' model? You look like a duck, that's it, oh sorry you also look like an idiot, I forgot that one. Seriously, it really bugs the shit out me, I mean look at them, they look stupid! (while I type this I keep glancing at those 2 cows up there and it keeps making me more annoyed!!)  I can't take all the credit for this idea, as what inspired it was a comic posted on http://pleated-jeans.com/ that had Elmer Fudd shooting the duck lips of a chick (have a look at it here). When I saw it, I had the idea for this cartoon pretty much straight away, by using the tried and true Brinks "just add sex and see what happens" method. This is a first for me though, drawing a popular cartoon character masturbating! Tick that off my bucket list.... Initially I tried to condense it down to one panel, but I couldn't do it so I thought I do a strip, which I haven't done in a while anyway.

The middle panel, originally had her mouth open talking, and it wasn't until I was tracing it ready for inking that I thought that I can't have a cartoon about duck face without a duck face in it! So I quickly changed her mouth and make her thinking text instead of speaking it. 

The first anniversary of this blog is quickly approaching, the end of the month actually, so I need to get my butt into gear as I still plan on revamping the site and move it over to my .com site. So the next few Friday Night Art post's will be purely dedicated to the new site, so look out for some more new Bert logo designs this Friday night! See you then!


Mike 

I Come to Clean Zee Pool

What up? How are we all? So this week I don't have much to talk about in regards to how I got this idea honestly. I was reading though one of my old big book of ideas (I'm actually revisiting old ideas to see if I can use them for generic comic strips as some ideas just can't fit into one panel) and stumbled across this idea, and thought I'd give it a crack today. What do you think?


Well seen as though that's it in regards to this cartoon I thought I might share what I've been working on ideas wise, to keep the whole theme of this blog. Yesterday I was driving around and noticed a real piece of shit car with a Transformers logo on it and it got me wondering if having them on your car was ever cool? Seen as though I'm a massive social media horebag, I posted that question to Twitter and Facebook and got some awesome responses! For starters I had no idea about the fact that apparently the latest trend with red-neck, yip yarnin' morons is to hang metal testicles from the back of their utes. Wow. So this came about as we ended up discussing some of the "Blights of the Modern Automotive Age" (That's a direct quote from Adam, I had to use it as it was a gold phrase! Cheers buddy!). Now this got me thinking that lately I've actually gotten some ideas from things that I hate and annoy the shit out of me, so as usual, I started making a list this morning! Wow, I have issues, seriously....It was way to easy to start a list and holy shit it's getting bigger! So here is my current list on just this subject matter;

The Brinks List: "The Top Blights of the Modern Automotive Age":

1) Frangipani Stickers - Why oh why were these damn things ever popular? I've never understood the need to cover you back windscreen with shit, I mean it's not like you need to see out of the damn thing now is it?

2) My Family Stickers - Why do you need to express your love of your family via stick figures is beyond me. I especially dislike the ones that have every god-damn pet they own on there as well so it pretty much fills the whole windscreen. If I come over and eat one of your gold fish will they scrape that sticker off straight away? There are some awesome parody versions of these stickers you can get though, like this gem: ( http://stickerish.com/products-page/parody-decals/443-2/)

3) Transformers Stickers - Like my mate Don pointed out, yes it can be cool if placed on a bad-ass car that you could easily see turn into a giant robot killing machine, but on a rusted old Datsun 120y, hell no. The only thing that piece of shit is transforming into is a small compacted trash cube.

4) Flags - Yes, no matter the sporting event, you're guaranteed people are going to have a flag sticking out of their window on a plastic stick to show their support, even friggin' months after said event has finished, yes you won, get over it. Oh and Australia Day tends to multiply these fuckers quite significantly for some reason, yes I love my country....but I love that my car doesn't look like it's in a moron motorcade more.



5) Reindeer Horns and Noses - Look I hate Christmas at the best of times, but I'm getting better now I have a kid I must admit, but nothing makes me hate it more than people that dress their car up to look like Rudolf. It seemed way to friggin' popular last year and I hope that everyone gives it a rest this year or I may lose my shit.

6) 'Humourous' Bumper Stickers - Look on the rare occasion you do see a funny one, but even then, after seeing 50 times the shine tends to wear off. But it's even worse when the joke was shit in the first place and then becomes popular and you see them everywhere! I've always been tempted to have one on my car but I know I'd just get sick of it really quickly and not find it amusing any more and have to get rid of it. In fact I have an awesome Xbox one that says: "Achievement Unlocked: Placing Sticker on Bumper" But my lady didn't see the funny side so in the cupboard it lives!

7) Jesus Fishes - Look I'm pretty anti-religious anyway so you can see why I hate these damn things, they shit me to tears. One of these days I'm going to get me a Darwin Fish for my car, just because they are awesome. Why is Jesus symbolized by something he was killed and something he created to feed people? Lucky he didn't feed them sausages, that would look awkward....

8) Testicles on Utes - Seriously, how is that a good idea? Do they gave a giant cock as the hood ornament? 








Well they was very therapeutic I must say! No where near a complete list, is there one I missed? I was thinking of doing more lists like these as a mid-week update type thing with some images to go with each one like above, what do you think? Oh and just out of interest I just stole all those images from Google Image search, I'm lazy. So other than making awesome lists to read, my "Annoy List" I'm working on is going alone very well and I've already got some ideas planned to use it, something in a strip form I think. I won't ruin the surprise until I work on it more. Man I hate a lot of things.....


Alrighty, time to go, have a good week!




Mike