Pink Panda Y'all

 A young Street Artist gal from Winnipeg, goes by the name PINK PANDA. Met her at some Comic Conventions here in Winnipeg and I just had to have some of her work.  Check it out.

After she's used up a spray can, she then paints on it. I've never seen anything like it, so I had to have one. Then the next time I saw her I got another one.

I WILL EAT YOUR WORLD! It's nothing personal, I'M JUST HUNGRY.

ROMMBU IS HERE!

I just got this in the mail from my friend Chris Chuckry. I think he draws in his sleep.

He is incredibly gifted at conjuring 'fun' creatures, though they can be pretty spooky

at times. Rommbu here is Magnificent. I love the Black Void of his open mouth as if it goes deep into Infinity, as if it could swallow Galaxies whole. But I also love how he seems firmly grounded - notice the green grass he is walking on. Maybe it's domesticated? Maybe it's only a child, always hungry.

Here are a few more of Christopher's Creatures.

http://frogrocket.blogspot.com  

ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT 2018 CHRIS CHUCKRY

Swamp Thing

Here above is a cosmic Swamp Thing painting I did in 1993. And below around the same time are a couple experiments with painting on 5 x 7 inch photographs.

Comic Book Monster Ads

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Spooky Chuckry

CHRIS CHUCKRY

All images copyright Chris Chuckry

CHRIS CHUCKRY says Happy Halloween and so do I. Chris is an illustrator and comic book colorist who has worked for all the major comic book companies. He lives here in Winnipeg. I love his little illustrations and I wanted to share a few here with you. You can see more of his work on a few of his web sites. Start here at Spookeasy !

Below is a set of stickers Chris made from some of his work. He probably still has some so I bet if you asked him, he would be happy to send you some.

Who are you Green Monster?

Here are some fun monster stickers that were wrapped around some candy. I think it was a block of taffy on a stick. The outer packages were hard to open without them ripping to shreds and the stickers inside mostly stuck to the candy. I don't remember the name of the candy nor could I find anything out about them except that the company Dos en Uno is a Chilean candy manufacturer owned by the Argentinian food producer Arcor.

Alter Ego Godzilla

Alter Ego Godzilla - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches

Leading up to my Godzilla weekend, during, and after it, I was working on this painting. There is definitely something different about it. All in it's colors and design and it's play. I'm a play-full guy, but not so much in my paintings. And I think I can contribute this to the spirit and energy held during G-Fest, the G-Fan magazine coordinated annual Godzilla convention held just outside Chicago. I had wished I was there, but since I could not go, I was there in spirit while I painted Godzilla. And I believe that I was channelling the fans at the convention. So this painting in a way, is more of a conglomerate of Godzilla fun. I'm in there too somewhere.

Here is a super fun cartoon that I wanted to share by the master cartoonist Gary Larson.

Rodan Attacks Godzilla Weekend

Godzilla - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 in.

Yes, all weekend right now is my Godzilla Weekend. Movies, Magazines and Painting all weekend long. At the moment there is a Godzilla convention called G-Fest held in Rosemont, Illinois, U.S.A., just outside of Chicago. I was hoping to get out there this year,... but no.

The convention (this is it's 19th year!) is organized by G-Fan magazine and it's publisher J.D. Lees.  He so kindly offered to take a couple of my paintings to the convention for display, so I hope many people are seeing them right now! Here they are now!

These are my first and second Godzilla paintings. This week I've already finished a third and this weekend I'l be finishing my fourth. They are all a bit different from one another, and I contribute this to my channelling efforts of all fans of Godzilla painting, especially right now happening on this weekend. There is a full page color reproduction of my Godzilla painting (above) published in G-Fan Magazine No.99.

Rodan Attack - 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 in.

Here I am right now sporting my new Godzilla t-shirt that my son bought for me last week at Value Village. What a terrific find!....and just in time for my Godzilla Weekend 2012.

One Night Smash

2011 - 11 x 17 in.

There are posters and pictures up all over my studio and a few of them happen to be of my favorite monster Godzilla whom I guess is advertising and overall pretty gong-ho about the bands playing on his tail. The Honhee Honhee poster is from last year and the Perms poster has been up in my studio for I don't know how many years now. 

Year? - 8.5 x 11

2010 - 4 x 9 in.

 2012 - 11 x 14 in.

In this Kings Hotel poster, even though is not Godzilla, I had to take a second look when I saw it today. It's still pretty cool.

Chicle De Bola

These are the funnest monster drawings ever! Aside from the Mummy guy, what's up with the normal names? I bought a bag of these to hand out for Halloween many years ago here in Winnipeg. The gum was from Brazil. How they got here, I don't know. I know nothing more, sorry. Enjoy.

Menko Cards

1 3/8  x  3 1/2 in.

When my daughter brought these cards back from Japan as a gift for me, I had no idea what they were except for being some kind of trading card. What were all these symbols on the backs of the cards? More that just trading cards. Even though these two are from different sets, they share similar symbols on the back. I imagined that these were there to play a similar game but in different ways.

I eventually found out they were Menko cards. They are usually made from heavy paper to heavy cardboard and be many shapes. The images are often from the pop culture of the times, whether it be from sports, anime or manga. They were popular from the 50's to the 70's. There was an even older form of cardboard trading cards called Karuta form a Japanese card game called Obake Karuta of early 19th century featuring monsters from Japanese Mythology.

I think the Menko cards were the precursor to the popular Pokemon card came. The Instructions I post below for playing the Menko game, I got from the net. Why don't you delve into it further as there are many other examples of Menko as well as Karuta cards to be be found. 

2 1/4  x  3 1/2 in.

Players do "Jan-ken" (rock, paper, scissors) to determine who goes first. All players, except the one whose turn it is, lay down one of their menko on the ground.

The first player tries to flip one of the menko over by throwing his own menko at it. If a menko on the ground is flipped over, the thrower keeps it and the loser is out of the game. If no menko flips, the next player gets a turn. Rules vary. In one variation, a circle about one meter in diameter is drawn on the ground. Menko knocked out of the circle are taken. In another variation, players take turns, and whoever flips over a menko first gets to keep all of them on the ground.

Some menko have extra details on them, such as images that represent Rock, Paper, or Scissors. "Gu-choki-pa” (AKA Rock, Paper, Scissors) marks on the back of the menko are played as the classic game of RPS. Players would take out one of their menko to compare with their opponent's simultaneously following a given signal. If they won, they win the opposing menko.

Another extra is "Fighting Numbers". Playing with "Fighting Numbers" is largely the same as Gu-Choki-Pa; trying to outnumber your opponent's menko on certain digits. For example, one player might have a Fighting Number of 58786 on his particular menko and the other might have 96587 on his. If they were dueling with the last digit, then the player with the 7 as his last digit would win and again get the other boy’s menko. There were many more ways to play with Fighting Numbers, but this is just one example.