After Justin sent me Gasket, I both figuratively and literally lost it. It took three years to figure out where it had gone and I just found it this weekend (it was hidden inside a World Civ text book, that class was so boring). I spent the day laying on my bed eating snacks and looking at these fantastic creatures with their almond shaped eyes and pupils as dark as licorice gumdrops or maybe even two lumps of coal for some. Then I decided my friend has got to see this zine. An hour later, he has lost it.
Justin b Williams is typed into that google box. Sweetness, here's his blog. We correspond through email. Swip swap, snail mail correspondence and...
Hey!
The left one is about three brothers who lived in an empty hole and built a machine named water.
Why the long face duuuudes?
I cant stop thinking about this little neighborhood of fucked up kankles.
I actually brought this drawing to the hair salon to get the side-swiped do. What a total cartoon babe. She probably ties her shoe laces around her ankles and then into a weird knot and chews three pieces of grape/ sour apple gum while watching the tv show Ghostwriter and taking notes then falls asleep with gum in her hair and has to get it out with an ice cube. Justin explains his own hair style here:
Boy handwriting.
And a cool bonus! A Great Big Stillness, Justin's collaboration with Luke Ramsey.
If you wanna know what hes making now, this is his email!
MAGGIE LEE
i think this is my favorite so far of the zines. the colored ones are great. really i like everything but the coke bottle man. he doesn't seem to fit in.
Posted by: elliot | 23/03/2009 at 17:46
my hairstylist already thinks its crazy that I bring in pictures of my ideal haircut from magazines so I cant even imagine what she would say if I brought in a cartoon. But man, she does have some cool hair.
Posted by: yertle | 23/03/2009 at 17:48
Wow, that there is some really out of hand writing! How old is the guy? 12 or something. Quite like the first two drawings but the others not so much.
Posted by: slanty writing | 23/03/2009 at 17:52
my favorite one is the one on the left of the "Why the long face duuuudes?"... its probably the most simple one but I think its cool.
Posted by: vetsetjetbet | 23/03/2009 at 17:52
POP
this stuff is really insane and beautiful. long live artists who subtly act as an advertisement for the only the best drugs
Posted by: anonymous | 23/03/2009 at 17:53
you can get gum out of your hair with an ice cube?
Posted by: tim | 23/03/2009 at 17:53
I like the longfaces, I drew something pretty much the same as that when i was younger. Starting to think I should have stuck with it so I too could write some zine and be all cool, and have a private spirituality.
Posted by: god in my grill | 23/03/2009 at 17:54
has nobody made any new art in the last five years?
its like david shirggley bumped into barry mcgee and that was the fucking end of it. everybodys shit looks the same, i have two friends with this EXACT same style, and it looks fine, but please understand its totally totally unoriginal.
oh well people need something to talk about.
Posted by: barry shriggley | 23/03/2009 at 20:21
I agree with dude above. The shit is cool and all. I like it but after seeing other artists with the same shit, it's kinda like alright, alright, we get it.. now what?
Posted by: aaay | 23/03/2009 at 20:34
These drawings are great. Every time I look at the (black&white) drawings I have an incredible and super intense urge to color them all in.
Posted by: aaay | 23/03/2009 at 20:54
theres an episode in ghostwriter where they have to save someone who is stuck in gum with a giant block of ice!
Posted by: ghostwriter | 24/03/2009 at 09:23