Zirealism

Jono represent!

Intertran turns that into something about the Three Musketeers, but it only gets about half the words. Anyone read Russian? Hey, maybe it's some other language of the same family, and that's why I can only get half a translation.

The Eugene Ballet will be performing "The Three Musketeers" February 22-23, 2003 with Svetlana dancing as "Milady" while making short work of the guys at the bar.

I've been hearing good things about The Firebird, which they're doing.

I like this kind of Zirealism much better than the other kind.

The Kung-fu ballet looks good, too. You can't go wrong with pyrotechnics. Usually.

I know I'm setting myself up, but I have to ask... What are the kinds of Zirealism? And only two?

There's really only one kind of Zirealism. Sometimes it's absurdly simple, and sometimes it's a bit more focussed (today's). Since the latter is more or less how Zirealism started, I guess that's how a distinction arose. My original comment of liking Zirealism "before it sold out" what just a joke. I was trying to upstage the cartoonist.

Staniel may like the new Zirealism, but tells everyone he was into it "before it got big".

I disagree, Jonas. "Grow, already, grow!" was the kind I like. It had a distinct art style, whereas this is more of a shaky line drawing. This is less shaky but more liney.

Oh, you meant the actual art; I meant the subjects. So there you go. We are in agreement. And how is your mother?

That teddy bear cartoon was a week in which I didn't have access to a scanner. So I had to draw it directly in Photoshop. I am actually deeply ashamed of that particular drawing and feel it is not truly a Zirealism because it was not subjected to my patented and highly confidential ballpoint-scanning process. I was hoping everyone would just forget it. But no....

That's alright, I still find it bizarrely rape-of-innocence-type funny.

What kind of ballpoints do you use? I found one of my original Petey fan comics recently and was thinking about future attempts at drawing.

I'm wondering if the man is on a walky talky of a phone or perhaps its a small recording device.
He looks like the kind of guy that does cliche voice overs.

"The cigar smoke in the club was so thick it was making my eyes sting, the piano player had had too many drinks, and sounded like he was playing the latest in avante garde jazz fusion. I had only come here to see my dame Svetlana, we met a few years ago when she burst into my office after her boyfriend got hit by the local mob... but thats another story. 3 years later I find myself in her club, hired as a bodyguard for the woman I love, the same woman who tramples over my feelings and tears out my heart every night. Thats when she got up on the bar and started dancing, she always dances for others never for me. I hate when Svetlana drinks too much"