John E C Art

This is where I'll be semi-regularly posting art. Say hi if you feel like it.

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Found some pictures of rabbits doing flying kicks at each other and had to draw them.

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The legendary @kavanagh-liam reminded me of an old in joke and updated it with a gag and I immediately wanted to adapt it into something. Here's the thing.

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Barl is the worst.

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I was perfectly happy to do nothing today but this little doodle of Stan Hansen just wouldn't get out of my head until it existed.

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I hope you get my 20+ year old music joke. If not, feel free to add in your own bad lyrics.

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This Tibetan Skeleton Dancer is incorrect, Grizzly Bears are never chill and you should never pet them.

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I love a good folk costume. These two are from very different cultures but I thought they looked like they'd be pals.

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I'm a big fan of Japanese Yokai and the idea that once something gets old enough its spirit makes it become alive.

So here's a Game Boy advertising itself as a hip system with 40 year old games so it can eat your hands.

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While I was drawing this I was thinking about how weird the idea of killing and wearing a piece of an animal is. We've done it for a long part of our history as human beings.

Is it a way of claiming the identity and power of the animal for yourself or is it a way of reasserting our place among animal kind? Its messed up how we stopped celebrating our part in the natural order and instead started worshipping ourselves and declaring ourselves as separate from everything else on the little planet we've made it our business to fuck up as much as possible.

These are the thoughts of a hypocrite by the way. I'm pretty sure my shoes are made of real leather and I had fish I bought in a supermarket for supper. So fuck me and fuck the lot of us. At least we also learned how to make death metal.

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The awesome Dragon Head Catterpillar sadly turns into a fairly mundane butterfly. Like someone who peaked in their teens.

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As a young man, I was the dark, brooding type. I had an ambition to one day write Batman comics that would reflect my inner darkness. Nowadays this is all I've got.

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Adam West's Batman was the kind of guy who'd treat every day like a joyful holiday.

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I thought these would be more fun to draw than they actually were. Very little joy involved.

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As a kid I found the grotesque jailor Terry Gilliam played in Monty Python's The Life of Brian utterly hilarious for saying the above line out of nowhere.

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The Salmon of Knowledge is a legendary fish from Irish mythology. It was said whoever caught and ate it would gain ultimate knowledge and insight. I decided to give it a more humble neighbour, the Otter of Doubt.

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A fun little Monday comic strip about a Grackle and a Fox living together.

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A friendly reminder.