Caturday – Beat Poet Style

Caturday isn’t over yet. Here’s my weekly Caturday sketch featuring some key figures of the Beat Generation as cats. Hanging out in front of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, California are William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac. When I visited San Francisco in 2000, I had a drink in the bar that was right across the street from the famous bookstore. It was late night, and had just arrived in town. Didn’t get a chance to go inside the shop. Perhaps next time.

Links:

https://www.litkicks.com/BeatGen

https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-the-beat-generation

https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-beat-poets

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Anais Nin Quote

…and a good Monday morning to you all. Starting the week out with not just one, but two blog posts.

Actually I’m just playing catch up. Haven’t updated this in a few days.

Here’s a Photoshop experiment based on one of my personal heroes, writer Anais Nin.

Anais Nin. Photoshop experiment, May 2011.

I wrapped the text around her face, with the following quote:

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
— Anaïs Nin (The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1)

Tales Of Woe App

Tales Of Woe

For those who don’t know, the book Tales of Woe is going to be released next week on August 17th. Written by John Reed, it features illustrations by a variety of talented artists. I have six illustrations in this book. You can get your copy on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

In the meantime, if you have an iPhone or an updated iPod, you can get your very own Tales Of Woe application. On iTunes you can download completely for free. You can also share this app on Twitter and Facebook. So c’mon, let your friends know how miserable you really are. ‘Cause if you didn’t have this app, you’re gonna bore your friends with your woes anyway. If you rather share your misery the old fashioned way, soon you won’t have any more friends. So at least this app entertains without vampyric alienation. That way, they’ll just think you’re being clever.

Here’s the link to download:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tales-woe-companion-app-to/id385939329?mt=8#

Shitty Shakespeare

It was the winter of his fucking discontent…

Shitty Mickey does Shakespeare:

Shitty Mickey does Williams Shakespeare. July 2010. http://www.shittymickey.com

New episode up now!
www.shittymickey.com

Nightmare Pics

First of all, I apologize in advance. Not many photos were taken of the Welcome To My Nightmare III event. The following two pics were snapped before the show began.

Shitty Mickey Webcomic Panels on Display, As Well As A Few Assorted Other Illos. Sat. March 27th, 2010. Shitty Mickey was written by John Reed and Drawn by Michele Witchipoo.

At the top right of this photograph, you can see the Sarah Palin illustration, done summer 2008. Originally posted on a Penguin House blog entry, September 2008. This same illo will be published in the forthcoming book, Tales of Woe (MTV Press). It’s been an honor to work with John Reed.

The other display from my self-published sketchbook, on ‘WitchesBrewPress’ of course. These images are from Babalon Babes no. 4, the Astrology issue.

Images from Babalon Babes No. 4, The Astrology Themed Issue. My self-published pin-up/sketchbook, available from WitchesBrewPress.

This next photo was of the band Skum City.

Skum City @ Welcome To My Nightmare III, March 27th, 2010.

Last but not least, here’s a classic Billy Dee Williams neon sign for Colt 45 malt liquor. Hanging in the Don Pedro establishment.

Billy Dee Williams neon sign selling Colt 45

Photos by Ben Herman