He’s Not So Evil

by gerb1574 on May 16, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Evel Knievel was one of the stranger pop culture phenomena to come out of the 1970s (and this is the decade in which leisure suits were in style and talking on a CB radio was cool). Basically he was this guy dressed in a Captain America meets Vegas-era Elvis costume who would jump over stuff on a motorcycle. Yup, kind of like Fonzie in that one episode of Happy Days, but with a disco fashion sense. The thing I always remembered hearing about Evel Knievel was that he had supposedly broken every bone in his body at some point or other. Knievel’s Wikipedia page says it wasn’t EVERY bone, but that “every bone in his body” thing seemed like the first thing that came up whenever he was discussed, like it was a badge of honor. Like I said, it was a weird time.

 

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A Little Doctor Who Fan Art

by gerb1574 on April 25, 2013 at 5:28 am
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Cartoon interpretation of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.

Proving once and for all how cool fezzes and bow ties really are!

The other night I was getting caught up on Doctor Who. As a nerd who has been around the block a few times, I pondered how the hell we consumed our geeky media in the days before Netflix and the like. One episode a week? Via broadcast television and a crappy hand-turned antenna? Dark times indeed. Best not to think about it.

But as The Doctor, Amy, and Rory embarked on an impromptu mission to kill Hitler (yes, I’m still on season 6) I noticed something about Matt Smith, the eleventh actor to play the lead in the long-running series: the man has no eyebrows. Oh, I’m sure they are there, but they must be wispy things not even my HD TV can pick up. It’s kind of like finding out that The Enterprise’s sensors, powerful though they are, can’t see everything. His actual brow is quite prominent, though, and lends itself well to caricature, and so was born my first piece of Doctor Who fan art. What do you think?

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Stuff On My Desk – Plush Star Trek Alien

by gerb1574 on April 11, 2013 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Blog, Stuff on My Desk

He sells you alcohol, he doesn't have to be pretty.

Surely the most aerodynamic of all Star Trek aliens.

Star Trek plush toy tag

A ferengi with delusions of grandeur. His dreams of greatness are Gorn with the wind.

Star Trek alien The Gorn

“Am I rockin’ this ascot or what?”

 I have stuff, and some of it is on my desk.

Just to show how cool my workplace can be, I came in one morning to find this guy on my chair. My friend and colleague Shannon (check out her awesome diet and exercise blog Sweaty Girl) had found him at a flea market then beamed him directly to my cubicle. Yup, I’m a Trek nerd. This is, of course, Quark, the Ferengi barkeep from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the size of whose lobes is exceeded only by his love for gold-pressed latinum. For those not in the know, the Ferengi are a devious race motivated soley by profit, and with ears like those they can hear a penny being dropped a mile away.

What makes this particular Ferengi more devious than most are his delusions of grandeur. If you check out the second picture down you will see that, according to his tag, Quark here believes himself to be a Gorn. As you can see from the following pic of the actual Gorn who beat the toupee off Captain Kirk in the “Arena” episode of the original Star Trek, bad orthodontia is really the only thing the two species have in common.

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Stuff On My Desk – Gargoyle

by gerb1574 on March 29, 2013 at 5:46 am
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gargoyle

Oh man, I knew that convenience store burrito and curdled milk were a bad idea.

I have stuff, and some of it is on my desk.

Is he pondering his lot as a servant to the dark lord, or is that just a “had to poop but forgot my smartphone” pose? I don’t remember exactly where this one came from. I believe he was a birthday gift, and given my love of horror and the fact that my birthday comes shortly before Halloween I often receive cool strangeness like this.

He’s a creepy little schmuck, I grant you, but not exactly the stuff of nightmares. I imagine the other denizens of the nether world must give him a lot of crap. Of course, as is so often the case, I could take him a lot more seriously if only he were wearing pants.

With the wings and bulldog face I suppose he could be the result of some drunken act of gene splicing. A couple of scientists got liquored up at lunch and thought that they could play god by curing gingivitis or something, and the pooper from the pit was the result.

 

 

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Stuff On My Desk – Hawkman

by gerb1574 on March 21, 2013 at 12:01 am
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Hawkman action figure

Egyptian prince? Alien cop? Pervert ornithologist?

I have stuff, and some of it is on my desk.

This particular bit of comic book ephemera has been lurking around my home work station for about 15 years or so. I remember buying this guy three apartments ago from a now defunct toy store chain and he originally perched (see what I did there?) on a drawing table I haven’t had in years. So yeah, he’s been around awhile.

For those not in the know, this is Hawkman, a DC Comics character who first appeared in the 1940s. His back story has changed a lot over the years. Originally he was a reincarnated Egyptian prince, then he was a police officer from the planet Thanagar, and I think he briefly stood in for Big Bird on Sesame Street during a contract dispute. Basically he’s had more reboots than that piece of crap Packard Bell computer I had around 1993.

This particular version of the character seems to have a Native American feel to it, and to confuse the matter further he’s got throwing stars strapped to his arm. Most importantly, though, he is one of the few super heroes out there who wears his muscle tissue on the outside of his pants.

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Gerbil With a What Now?

by gerb1574 on September 24, 2012 at 11:21 am
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Gerbil With a Jetpack

Gerbil With a Jetpack

Gerbils? Jetpacks? What’s it all mean, Buckaroo?

Well, I figure Monty Python’s Flying Circus had nothing to do with serpents, aeronautics or carnival life, and Mad magazine rarely concerned itself with mental health issues, so Gerbil With a Jetpack is just a silly name for a webcomic. Best not to read too much into it.

I’ve been inflicting my doodles on my Facebook friends for awhile, and now I’m going to burden the world at large with my attempts at cartoon buffoonery (carfoonery if you will). For the most part I’ll be making single panel gag cartoons, but I’ll be doing the occasional multi-panel strip as well. What’s the focus? Not sure I have one yet. I like old monster movies, Star Trek, comics, and pop culture in general so there will be a certain level of geekery at work, but you’ll find some more general humor as well. Basically, if I think it’s funny I’m going to hope that someone else out there will agree.

Updates will be weekly to begin with. That’s kind of a wimpy posting schedule, but I’m hoping to upload ‘toons more frequently as I get used to the routine. There are 22 cartoons posted right now (click on the “Comic Archive” drop down in the right hand column), so have a look, and if you see anything you like leave a comment and please share a link with friends if you’re moved to do so.

 

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