Its wonderful! I'm so glad to see this. :)
Thx again! I got 2 boys, 3 & 5 :)
Here's something we all worked on together:
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Fucking hell that sounds head wrecking.
It's really good stuff, Bobby. But welcome to the world of art. Nothing is ever quite good enough, and the more obscure a writer is, the more everything has to be PERFECT.
Fucking hell that sounds head wrecking.
After the MSY/tales from Fat Ernie's, it took me three years to even THINK about trying another project that involved more than me.
I have the same problem with artists that Bobby has with writers.
Yeah it occurs to me that it might be ridiculous to still be dealing w/ publishers & middlemen in the current paradigm.
The pay is negligible anyway, I might as well put my time and energy back into making and distributing my own stuff.
No shit. I'm sitting on 3 stories for graphic novels, complete, and I've just finally given up.
No Inspector Spacetime??
Do you sell copies of the comic book or just give online for free?
Would you be offended if color printed stapled together copies started randomly appearing in waiting rooms?
Dude - a lot of your stuff just goes right over my head but every now and again I feel like our wavelengths sort of intersect and I skirt along the edges of getting where your coming from. When squirmy told him to go fuck himself I started laughing my ass off and it lasted right to the end.
This is not a criticism, btw, the not quite on your wavelength thing. Just in case you were wondering. I actually really like that about you. :lulz:
Hmmm nice, I'll check that out!
Like most artists, I learned fairly early that for the most part, the only person who will act happy when you foist your art at them is your mother. Making art and assuming others want it because you like it is an exercise in egotism, which makes sense because in my experience most artists have fragile egos and are in constant need of validation. Therefore, when people ignore, reject, or dismiss your art, it is often a crushing blow to the ego. This is especially difficult for children.
The reaction formation defense mechanism that many artists develop in response to this is "Fuck you if you don't like my art, I don't give a fuck". It is fairly transparent.
Most functional and successful artists I know eventually arrive at a point where they make the art to satisfy their need to be creative, but then rather than shoving it at people and demanding appreciation, share it with people and hope for appreciation. We all still want the appreciation, the change is in the expectation.
I really enjoy your work, and I appreciate you posting it here. It's good stuff, I always get something out of it.
Very much obliged, Nigel & Dok!
Having such a great place to post stuff is really awesome for me. :fnord:
PD is the only place that has consistently given me feedback over the last several years.
It is VERY much appreciated!
Also, looks like my cover for Leary's Game of Life is finally going to be published
:lulz: Poison Ivy Man.
:lulz: Poison Ivy Man.
I know! He made it up for his halloween costume, and even invented an elaborate backstory :)
Written by Bobby Campbell – Art by Marcelino Balao IIISo much awesome!
Continued from AGNOSIS! EP. 23X “The Grunch of Fnords” (http://weirdoverse.com/buddhafart-ep-8-the-grunch-of-fnords/)
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Thanks! That there is supposed to be Don Draper from the Mad Men TV show.
Is there a reason I'm thinking I may have also caught the style elsewhere, a feature, perhaps, about a parallel world in which science is understood as magic? Forgive me in advance if I'm wrong about this, I have been known to sometimes take liberties with the connections I draw. That, and/or the Don Draper thing made me do it :lulz:
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Newly printed comix hot off the presses for SPX 2015 (http://www.spxpo.com/) :fnord:
I love the purusha ref., and how it calls for spirit :fnord:
That's awesome!
I love the purusha ref., and how it calls for spirit :fnord:
Thanks! I just recently reconnected with my old Indian Religion & Philosophy professor. I love all that stuff. Even the most far out fantasy-sci-fi-psychedelia seems hum drum compared to Hindu metaphysics.
That was awesome! It seems so different from your other work, very 1970's superhero-serial.
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Nice!
"To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.
Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold séances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky.
Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better."
:lulz: I like that. Would you mind if I shared it on Facebook? I totally understand if you aren't OK with that.
Dign' it - looking at pix 1 & 3 on this thread at work today and I'm just about ready to do some airbrushing atmosphere/space fx myself - thank you for the share :fnord:
:lulz: I like that. Would you mind if I shared it on Facebook? I totally understand if you aren't OK with that.
Don't mind at all! I'm not all that possessive about this stuff. Once it's out there wherever it goes is cool w/ me :fnord:
Dign' it - looking at pix 1 & 3 on this thread at work today and I'm just about ready to do some airbrushing atmosphere/space fx myself - thank you for the share :fnord:
Nice! I've never tried airbrushing. Wd love to see how it turns out! :fnord:
Super cool, LuciferX! :fnord:
Thank you. Can't wait to check out new posts here, always pleasantly surprised :fnord:
:lulz: Nice!
Been meaning to say how much I appreciate your work, Bobby Campbell! Thank you for sharing, and keep it up!
I don't care much about Star Wars, but my friends do, so I'm gonna repost that on my Facebook. :)
I didn't realise the Hero with a thousand faces references Finnegan wake. It was talked about a lot in Illuminatus! but I've never read it. Will have to give it a try.
Awww, I have a huge soft spot for Andre the Giant.
Hi Bobby, nice to see you again. I like this one! I feel like you managed to convey the quality of childlike curiosity in the simple question. Wonder is where we all begin, right?
Welcome back! And I thought you said it was only going away for a month, geesh, how'sSaturnJupiter this time of year? :)
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I originally made that animation the day that RAW died, connecting the dots of his preferred epitaph “Dove Sta Memoria” (Where Memory Lives) as the answer to one of his riddles “where does your fist go…?” Intending the obvious afterlife subtext. It does indeed make me wonder!
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It’s not as easy as it used to be to steal time away from IRL, but also the last several months have seemed like a particularly good time to work the long con, rather than short term reactions to the cacophony of the zeitgeist.
I’ve got 3 new books just about ready to go, just need to find a couple of quiet days to polish them off.
Hey, Bobby, we've never talked but I'm a big fan of your work! Glad to see you doing stuff. Hope you had a good time out on Jupiter, sorry we trashed the place while you were gone.
Cool. Re: Dove Sta..., can also be read as the inquisitive "Where is Memory?". Which meshes well with "where is fist?". I'll have to, eh, remember that one (pun reluctantly intended:). :lulz:
Oooh I like this installment! Thanks Bobby!
These are amazing! May I print them out and post them about campus?
I'd kill for my own style but all I got is shooting for photorealism and missing by miles :lulz:
Care to share how you went about developing it?
My style was developed pretty much by shooting for realism and missing by miles, but then leaning into the trajectory of my misfire.
Right on, P3nT4gR4m!
Happy to be of service! :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
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I LOVE this one.
More excellent work. I really, really love these! I especially love how you are tying in concepts from neuroscience.:fnord: :fnord: :fnord: Thank you very muchly! When I first showed my comix to RAW, way back when, he expressed great enthusiasm about the prospect of his neurosemantics getting translated to the comic book medium. Which I think had something of an effect on my output
These are wonderful, Bobby! Thanks, as usual, for sharing!!
Now there's an affirmation worth reciting. I also dig how well the 'old child' comes across in him.
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I feel like this sums up the inner feelings of every scientist ever.
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Love this one.
Dialling back the saturation really suits you. Much more serious feel. Powerful :mittens:
Solid hit after solid hit! I would totally buy a postcard-book of these, or some other printed format.
<3
but what happened to his pupils?
AKA
What?
Is the question to which life is the answer
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Put me out my misery, I need to know?
Enjoying these very much, Ty!
I read it in his voice! Love it.
I remember Ellis writing a blog series in part on Jack Kirby's screaming robot head, is this a reference?
I have the head of Jack Kirby in my office.
I built it myself. Which means, this being the late-postmodern 21st Century, I stole it from someone else and then tinkered with it until it became a transformative work. What I actually did was steal the Hanson Robotics-designed android head of Philip K Dick off an airplane, resculpted the front and filled its brain with the work of, interviews with and anecdotes about Jack Kirby…
"To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.
Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold séances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky.
Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better."
I remember Ellis writing a blog series in part on Jack Kirby's screaming robot head, is this a reference?
Yes indeed! From the "Do Anything" blog series (https://www.bleedingcool.com/category/do-anything-by-warren-ellis/page/2/)QuoteI have the head of Jack Kirby in my office.
I built it myself. Which means, this being the late-postmodern 21st Century, I stole it from someone else and then tinkered with it until it became a transformative work. What I actually did was steal the Hanson Robotics-designed android head of Philip K Dick off an airplane, resculpted the front and filled its brain with the work of, interviews with and anecdotes about Jack Kirby…
Wow, is that for real? hahahah
I read The Android Head of Phillip K Dick, which documents the creation of the Philip K Dick robot and how its head was stolen / lost during a flight.
I'm sure Ellis is teasing, but that's a great reference. :p
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More great entries since my last applause. I especially like Mr. Morrison!
May I ask what that sigil stands for? Or is your preference that your viewers attempt to parse it for themselves?
As always, THANK YOU for sharing and I look forward to more!
That scream
that gives me an idea....
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Awesome! Puppet warp?
Late twenties or early thirties I was on a big rhythms and cycles trip. Discipline body and mind to it. My work shirts were coloured for every day of the week. Monday was deep purple for me, though. Can't remember if that came from qbl or something else now. Long time ago.
Looking forward to Friday even more than usual now! Cheers, Bobby!
Late twenties or early thirties I was on a big rhythms and cycles trip. Discipline body and mind to it. My work shirts were coloured for every day of the week. Monday was deep purple for me, though. Can't remember if that came from qbl or something else now. Long time ago.
That's really cool! Did it produce noticeable results? Kinda similarly, I've been really into painting each room in the house a distinct color so as to encode a kind of personality in each space. The effect is subtle and certainly psychosomatic, but I enjoy it!
Was part of a wider regime I subjected myself to at the time. Yeah, I definitely think it made it's own little contribution to the - build a better P3nT - project.
Was part of a wider regime I subjected myself to at the time. Yeah, I definitely think it made it's own little contribution to the - build a better P3nT - project.
Very right on! I love stuff like that :fnord:
I love the idea that one of the big features of the renaissance was hiding occult symbolism within papal commissions. Is my favourite thing about the occult - is hidden. In plain sight. :fnord:
i would pay like 15 million dollars for a set of playing cards designed by you.
Perhaps a print run if you ever do one could have a bit of background on the back of each card :fnord:
These are wonderful -- I really like how the border of each card, without necessarily looking, appear to be symmetrical, but when focus in, they're all different.
Phenomenal, Bobby! I'd love a print of the "RAW 'Many Suspicions' portrait" to hang on my wall.
And if my schedule allows, I may try to attend RAW Day 2018!
i need to plaster my office in prints of these.
I'm sure this has been asked, but do you allow these to be distributed on social media? If so, what kind of attribution do you want? Is there a link or something?
Oh that is too cool! It's such a delight to see this stuff making the jump from the internet to IRL :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Do you get a decent enough print from the the web file? Maybe I shd start making print versions of the files available for download.
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Oh that is too cool! It's such a delight to see this stuff making the jump from the internet to IRL :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
Do you get a decent enough print from the the web file? Maybe I shd start making print versions of the files available for download.
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I'm not even going to ask about that background texture. I think my brain might just explode :mittens:
what's that subtle symbol in the hawk's wake?
it evokes ankh
it evokes a fractal
it evokes a caduceus
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Infinite thanks and finest regards, Dok! :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:John Lilly!
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John Lilly!
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Just turned in the last of my illustrations for the new editions of RAW's Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, wherein I was thoroughly in my bag :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
(https://i.imgur.com/wkxKeST.jpg)Serendipitous. I was ruminating on exactly the same notion tonight, only nowhere near as succinctly!
I like these.
Serendipitous. I was ruminating on exactly the same notion tonight, only nowhere near as succinctly!
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Very glad to hear it! I've done like 2 dozen of these over the last couple weeks, so there'll be plenty more coming down the pike!
Always luvin the thread - congrats on the Chronicles - and thank you for sharing this bit of process
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Stories may well be the most powerful things in the Omniverse.
Thank you very much, Space Adventures Of Christ!!
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Just noticed the publisher posted my illustration from Chapter 2 of RAW's The Widow's Son :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:Yeah, that's right!
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Just as soon as we write it.
I mean, that's the whole POINT of this goofy-assed deth cult, right?
Edit: convinced my friend this was a much better plan, see ya tomorrow!!
Hawkman is a personal fav for both myself and the wife. Love it.
I love these! I'm not sure when or why I stopped expressing myself artistically, but if you're not careful you're going to inspire me to start again, Bobby!
So...THANKS!
Fuck yeah!Ditto.
Right on, AQ! It's kind of a contagious thing, ain't it? "You must make and glue tiles! You!"It is indeed! Here's one iteration of a tile I have done, still need to move some things around a bit and pretty it up in a pixel art app. If I can help it, this baby's getting immortalized on an r/place clone site soon :lulz:
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Our intrepid group of plucky young punk rock artists arrived at the 2005 Philly Zine Fest with a wide assortment of indie comix & art, ready to introduce ourselves to a wider world, that we optimistically assumed would welcome us with open arms and wallets. I mean, why wouldn't they?
We'd worked so hard, published so many comix, and were so gd excited, that the idea of failure had never really crossed our minds. I mean, why would it?
But after about 2 hours of complete invisibility to the passing crowd of festival attendees a desperate idea occurred to me. Give the comix out for free. It was clear we weren't going to make any money from this event, and as poverty stricken as I was at the time, the point of the comix weren't to make money anyway, it was to communicate. So I called out the audible, maybe much to the chagrin of some of my more business savvy collaborators, all of the comix on the table were now free.
And the momentum of the day swung rapidly in our favor! Our once desolate corner was now mobbed with people, we were in the mix! We were meeting the world and the world was meeting us and it was joyous and awesome.
At the end of the day we had put several hundred comix into circulation. It felt great. It felt like we'd taken a loss and turned it into a win. It felt like this was the thing that was going to lead to the next thing, and we'd look back on this day as a pivotal turning point.
As we left the venue, feeling entirely elated, I beheld a wild spectacle! The courtyard of the venue, in lovely West Philadelphia, covered in our discarded comix, blowing in the wind. Overflowing trashcans stuffed with our comix, spilling out into an indifferent universe. Our comix were literal garbage. In light of such dramatic evidence it would have been tough to deny that I'd made a tactical blunder, but I did it anyway, and with a tightly balled fist raised to sky, defiantly declared,
"THEN WE'LL CHOKE THEIR RIVERS WITH OUR DEAD!"
The problem with Weirdoverse is that it has appeal, but much of it is incomprehensible to people that aren't already in on "the joke". The recent John Adams one being an exception, because it's a gut punch that talks to everyone who can read it. This is why WE all love it, but the convention-goers not so much...And almost nobody pays for a punch to the gut. Nor will they pay for cameos of characters that may be very well developed in your head, but have no relevance to anyone outside of yourself and people you have discussed them with.
Also, comics conventions appeal to people who want a story (even if it is the same story for 70+ years, but that's another rant). If this is your model for distributing ideas, you need to have a vehicle. An example of this would be Wilson's Schroedinger's Cat trilogy. The story very obviously exists only to carry specific ideas to the public. Which is why, when he ran out of the ideas he wanted to transmit, he couldn't finish it properly and it ended with 30+ pages of James Joyce bullshit. Nobody on this planet liked the story, but everyone remembers the IDEAS that he put forth.
This isn't a criticism of your work, which I find to be brilliant, but rather a flat statement about the marketing of your ideas.
Pure nostalgia! No lower form of pigfucking degenerate than the one who returned an unwound tape to the video store. :lulz:
Pure nostalgia! No lower form of pigfucking degenerate than the one who returned an unwound tape to the video store. :lulz:
Sometimes I rented movies just to do that to people.
But then, I suppose that's why I'm so damn lucky to understand how these magic boxes, how this series of tubes filled with cat videos, actually works, and circumvent the need for recording things myself.
It is with a heavy heart, and no small bit of genuine shame, that I must report the Watchmen show is really good. :| :| :|
There is one figure missing from that link, it's inviting.
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Made me LOL out loud :lulz:
I really like that.Ditto.
Thirded.I really like that.Ditto.
that one hit me in my mom feels, bobby
See what had happened was, for reasons numerous and varied, I absolutely despised going to daycare, and would just morosely pace around the perimeter of the playground for hours on end, waiting across aeons of perceived time to finally be rescued. Eventually other kids began to join me in my solemn parade. What a sight we must have been! A single file line of somber children slowly marching in loops around the playground again and again and again. Not sliding down slides, not swinging on swings, just walking in circles, doing time in a kindergarten prison camp.
Familial circumstances dictated that I would end up spending quite a lot of time alone growing up, and the TV picked up most of the slack in regards to my socialization. I was indeed very much raised by Television, as the cliche goes. Even eventually rebelling against it as a young man, and then reconciling, at a healthy distance, as I got older.
Try that kinda thing now, they'd tazer you for your own good.
I was born in a house with the television always on
Guess I grew up too fast
And I forgot my name
We stan a queen.
Waking up to Marsha P. Johnson made me so happy.
new comics?? hell yeah!
BADASS! KEEP IT UP!
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This is so awesome!! I love getting more and more of one of my all-time favorite artists' origin story <3
damn that hits hard, important to tell the all too real situations too
Goofed around on a podcast last night: https://youtu.be/-CKR53IqvT4 (https://youtu.be/-CKR53IqvT4)
You are not anything like I expected. That's neither good nor bad, just not what I expected.
You are not anything like I expected. That's neither good nor bad, just not what I expected.
That's pretty much the same way I feel when I see myself on video :fnord: :fnord: :fnord:
I'm enjoying hitting random pages in this thread, both to see how you've refined/evolved your style over time, and also because there is something worth reading on each one.
Also, that reworking of the Dr Who theme is so much fun!
This is one of your best.