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Comments (16)
Note to self: No more mushrooms with the anchovie pizza!
Posted by GarandFan | October 16, 2007 8:42 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 20:42
HEY G
Nice start!
Posted by john Cox | October 16, 2007 8:57 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 20:57
"I miss the old days when shroom-hopping wasn't so competitve."
Posted by Gwangi | October 16, 2007 8:57 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 20:57
"And the Hookah was taken away in response to accusations of doping from the Cheshire team. Back to you, Ron."
Posted by Lizzibabe | October 16, 2007 9:35 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 21:35
"Note to self: toadstool suppositories don't help anything. Oh, and they're too big."
Posted by Howard Tayler | October 17, 2007 1:30 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 01:30
People may laugh at the Blind Fairies Race now, but someday one of us is gonna find that finish line.
Posted by Kevin | October 17, 2007 2:05 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 02:05
"You strive for something like you would see in a Richard Dadd, but some days it's all you can do to climb to the top of a mushroom."
Posted by Terwiliger | October 17, 2007 3:31 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 03:31
"I don't understand. They told me I could fly on 'shrooms!"
Posted by theHonky | October 17, 2007 9:14 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 09:14
"Number fifteen, your time is up !"
/in a '50's british brothel owners bullhorn voice
Posted by Matt | October 17, 2007 10:03 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 10:03
"Right field again dammit ... Maybe I'll join the Wood Nymph Soccer League."
Posted by Gwangi | October 17, 2007 12:00 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 12:00
"I wonder how many people would still eat mushrooms if they knew where they really came from?" One Five pondered as he took his morning constitution.
Posted by Mutt | October 17, 2007 12:51 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 12:51
Let me expand on my suggestion...
"You strive for something like you would see in a Richard Dadd, but some days it's all you can do to climb out of the crap & onto the top of a mushroom."
Posted by Terwiliger | October 18, 2007 12:22 AM
Posted on October 18, 2007 00:22
Here comes a MAJOR whiff.
Hey John--What was on your mind when you put a "15" on the pixie's(?) back?
"OK--I know I got this Hallmark gig by really playing up my creative writing skills, but I am having MAJOR writer's block trying to come up with anything for the new Tu B'Shvat card. Maybe if I get rid of the tree, the little pixie, & the mushroom--& just keep the 'pile'--I can sell it as an IRS Agent Appreciation Day card."
Posted by Terwiliger | October 19, 2007 3:49 AM
Posted on October 19, 2007 03:49
HEY TERWILIGER
Man, this illustration was laying around for AWHILE. I believe I had in mind a small race of fairy-like creatures who recently exiled one of their own. The number idea was utterly random. I guess the number makes him interchangeable and his banishment had to do with an attempt to freely express himself in a society that doesn't allow it.
Posted by john Cox | October 19, 2007 4:53 PM
Posted on October 19, 2007 16:53
"Everything looks much brighter when you're driving that cosmic debris." "Now is that a real poncho, or a New Jersey Poncho?"
Posted by Kelly | October 19, 2007 6:11 PM
Posted on October 19, 2007 18:11
Thanks John. It's interesting to see where different people get their muse(s) from. The story you describe sounds like it would make for a very good illustrated childrens' book or a fable-based comic. Makes me think of the May 7 quiptoon.
Posted by Terwiliger | October 20, 2007 2:14 AM
Posted on October 20, 2007 02:14