Here's where Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas (cartoonist-types in middle-Alabama) can post some art, discuss collaborations, and just keep each other informed on their own projects.
funny stuff.. The "torture" feature on the website was especially amusing, where the little bear shakes his head "no" as the visitor is presented a choice of lobotomizing him, shocking him, etc.
Strangely just in the past few days I had been considering doing some paintings (or something) with cute little bears. It brought to mind the bear in Ted Stearns' "Fuzz and Pluck" (a great comic), but then also those colored bears you see on Grateful Dead merchandise. (I'm not sure what they mean in that context---just randomly trippy imagery? Or maybe there's some specific reference there that I'm not aware of.)
Re: Grateful Dead bears: Once, I was looking at the back of an LP and saw, to my astonishment, those little bears. I was shocked because a) it wasn't a Grateful Dead album, and b) the album was from the late 50's or something, so the Dead weren't even a thing yet!
From this, I theorized that the record company might have just occasionally used those bears as little filler elements, and that after they used them on a Grateful Dead record, people started associating them with the Grateful Dead. I don't know if my theory is quite correct, but it would seem to explain their strange existence.
Salty 'Ham, as in BirmingHAM, Alabama. Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas are cartoonists based in the upper-middle section of Alabama. To learn about our members and see a bunch of their work, go to SaltyHam.org.
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funny stuff.. The "torture" feature on the website was especially amusing, where the little bear shakes his head "no" as the visitor is presented a choice of lobotomizing him, shocking him, etc.
Strangely just in the past few days I had been considering doing some paintings (or something) with cute little bears. It brought to mind the bear in Ted Stearns' "Fuzz and Pluck" (a great comic), but then also those colored bears you see on Grateful Dead merchandise. (I'm not sure what they mean in that context---just randomly trippy imagery? Or maybe there's some specific reference there that I'm not aware of.)
Re: Grateful Dead bears:
Once, I was looking at the back of an LP and saw, to my astonishment, those little bears. I was shocked because a) it wasn't a Grateful Dead album, and b) the album was from the late 50's or something, so the Dead weren't even a thing yet!
From this, I theorized that the record company might have just occasionally used those bears as little filler elements, and that after they used them on a Grateful Dead record, people started associating them with the Grateful Dead. I don't know if my theory is quite correct, but it would seem to explain their strange existence.
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