08/31/2014
The most excruciating artists to deal with are always the ones with humongous egos and condescending, needlessly hostile attitudes. Oedipus here is a combination of an awful lot of them I’ve encountered in my time, and the parting thoughts were usually akin to what Scapula is thinking.
On a different topic, there are definitely friendly and talented artists that I am a fan of, including cartoonist David Reddick, creator of the webcomic Legend of Bill and more recently the King Features syndicated comic strip Intelligent Life.
David has been an ardent supporter of fellow comic-artists all over the world, so I thought I’d repay the kindness with some fan art (or ‘fanboy art’, if you’re familiar with his work). Here’s IL characters Skip and Gwen heroically escaping the clutches of Scapula and the Sinister Monster Doom Legion!
INTELLIGENT LIFE is currently running in major newspapers and its own site, intelligentlifecomics.com.
I went to SCHOOL with a dump-truck full of little posers like this Scap. Killing one isn’t so much murder as ‘unlicensed hunting’.
Pick them off one by one or flood the school? Decisions, decisions…
(okay, I better not make jokes about mass-murder, lest I end up in a scenario like The Fisher King)
Can I please jump into the comic, punch him, run away then run back and pants him?
No? Oh, well. I have run into artists like him in real life before and most likely will again. *shudder*
You wouldn’t want to pants Oedipus. Lord knows what you might find down there.
I can’t wait to see this brat killed.
You can always do fan art of such a scene! I share fan art in the Facebook group (unless it’s REALLY vile), so go nuts.
The symbolism is clear. it is “I just drew a giant vagina, very badly.”
It’s not symbolism, it’s art! You don’t know anything! Your feeble mind cannot comprehend the true artist behind the painting….
Not that comprehending it is going to enrich anyone in any way.
I’d make a Georgia O’Keefe joke, but her stuff really doesn’t bother me. I guess if you want badly drawn vaginas, just look in the notebook of the really perverted kid in school (no, that wasn’t me…I was too busy drawing the prototypes of characters who would eventually wind up in SCAPULA).
I haven’t made any bad experiences with artists but Scaps reaction in the last panel I can relate to…
You don’t need to be an artist to have a humongous ego and a pissy attitude. Just look at most YouTube commenters!
I’m sorry, any time anyone has ever said ‘You don’t understand me’ or ‘You don’t know me’, I’ve taken it to mean ‘I am in serious need of injury, please proceed to bestow harm upon my person’. This has gotten me kicked out of more than one fancy party and embarassed the heck out of my mother……. so, really it was win all around except for a few minor issues in court.
Go up to any stranger on the street and tell them, “You don’t know me.” See what happens (if anything, since a sane person will just walk away).
It’s something that sort of sounds like a cry for help, but mostly comes across as an egotistical insult. You’re better off NOT knowing them!
I always thought of it as a sort of warning. Nature’s full of them. Poison snakes have rattles or bright colors. Egotistical wastes of oxygen cry that they’re misunderstood or that people don’t know anything about them. It’s mother nature’s way of informing you they’re toxic to the intellect.
Ah, “excuse you:” My cue to see if the orbital lasers now pack that extra punch I was going for.
“Excuse you” should be the triggering phrase for any instantaneous death rays to activate upon the speaker. Someone get that working!
Y’know, I keep trying to get funding for common sense humanity-improvement projects like this but they keep sending me for psych evaluations.
OMG before he dies, he must do a “Pose Off” with Hypnausea to see who can be more pretentious!
I’m certain Hypnausea could kill this little punk with his super-villain level professional pretentiousness.