The Last of the Ohio Sketches....

` This was a very difficult period for me, by the way, what with having been tortured by a mad doctor and locked up by more mad doctors! (No, I'm not joking with you!) It all happened in August and September of 2003... or was it 2002? I don't remember now....

Anyway, I don't think I indicated anything of this in my sketchbook, as I was too messed up to draw at all for a while. Anyway, this first sketch was a while before that ... it was the bedroom of a nerdy guy, practically the only person I used to hang out with sometimes. It was partly a storage area, so it was filled with all kinds of stuff.
` So, I decided to replace much of that with my own filler; a reminder to watch a sitcom Beware of Dog - which was too stupid to survive on the Animal Planet - and the label of a kind of Raven's Brew called Deadman's Reach - our fav!


philsbedroom Ah, another sketch of things, Phil, and his family dog, Hoochie, who I heard the other day had to be put down due to heart failure. This is partly because of a very stupid and crazy family member's very stupid and crazy actions.
` Let's just say, we learned that leaving a dog in your car in the hot sun for hours because you said you were taking the dog to the park when you were actually going to have sex with some chick is very bad for your dog's heart!
` Please. Please don't give animals heat stroke by deliberately locking them in your vehicle when it's humid and ninety degrees outside! This message from the Be Kind to Animals or Else League.


atphilshouse Er... more of this. And a Katie!


stuffandwhatever And now, we have... Smoothieness! Unable to be inspired enough to draw at all for the longest time (probably because of the mad doctor incident), I decided to start drawing the food packaging of my time.
` In eighty years people will be blown away, right?


tropicanasmoothies This was my attempt to capture the very last of one phase of Yoplait containers before they went extinct! Andy Warhol, eat yer heart out! It even has a Gourdy and some kind of dragony thing!


yoplaitwhy Oh yeah, and I drew it sideways in respect to the next page, which has more of the same themes going on as previous drawings. And at the top you can see that this girl crumpled my book, thus smearing it. I'm not sure I deserved that, but whatever!


goodearthchaietc Oh yeah, and I also made note on this page that Blackie the Dull Boy had died (I mentioned him in last post). And ironically, in this case, I had been urging my mom to take him to the vet for months, and she just ignored me, and at the time I don't think I had any source of income to pay for it myself.
` Finally, one day I saw two thick runnels of green pus pouring out of his eyes and I said, "Aha, mom! This is what I'm talking about - he is very sick!"
` And she responded by saying, "Aw, he just needs his eyes cleaned again," and got a paper towel!
` Though I hate to say this about her, this is exactly the crap I had to put up every time I had a serious medical emergency - instead of taking me to the ER to get a look at my broken bone, etc. she would just look away like I was embarrassing to her and not help me at all.
` Anyway, by the time she took him to the vet, it was too late. His kidneys were beyond hope.

Next up we have sketches of stuff going on at the house of the girl who crumpled my paper - her nephews playing video games and such, her cool chair and pillow, and as for the Chinese coin things (attached to bracelets)... well, it's too weird to even begin describing!


emilyshouse Oh, and at her house were lots of DVD movies.... How do you like what I did with Monsters Inc?


goaway Er, yeah, not sure I'd like to run into those blokes at midnight! Anyway, this must have been the time that Phil's mother found this really great stumptailed cat named Figgy - Figgy the climbing and talking kiggy. And you know what else?
` He wouldn't stay still for me at all! As you can probably tell, it was extremely hard for me to draw him....


figgy1 Oh well. Anyway, he was strangely humanlike and always did strange things like walk on his hind legs and suck on his paws - and sometimes suck on his paws while standing on his hind legs (upper left)!


figgy2 Oh God! Do you recall how I described Blackie the Dull Boy's having gone insane from being declawed? Well, let's call this bad boy Yuki the Very Dull Boy. Such a neurotic mess, always trying to grab you with his nubs and bite, even harder than Blackie!

yuki Well, that's truly the last of the Ohio Sketches... stay tuned for my first Washington Sketches!