I Can’t Stand Scooby Doo
By Mark KaufmanThe passing of Iwao Takamoto reminds me of how much I hated Scooby Doo. It’s unfortunate, but read any obituary of Mr. Takamoto and first and foremost the highly overrated (yet popular) Scooby Doo heads the list of achievements. I prefer to remember the man for directing the animated version of Charlotte’s Web, […]
Rejected!
By Mark KaufmanHere are some thumbs from a fresh job for a magazine article on taquuerias. Unfortunately these ideas were all rejected. Which proves that even with the power of Lucha Libre/Frida Kahlo/Day of Dead imagery you can’t win them all. The end product came out well, but just without the stereotypically myopic small mindedness […]
Death of Gerald Ford
“History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”— Ambrose Gwinett Bierce By Mark KaufmanMy latest contribution is a piece on the Death of Gerald Ford on the cover of this week’s Stranger. See it here. And read the article by Paul […]
Squirrel Fluff
By Mark KaufmanI have been busy, busy, busy since before the Christmas holiday, Working through the night, weekends, and holidays. As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil’s playground. Here’s a small piece of I don’t know what that I did for The Stranger in Seattle. As soon as I have a free moment […]
Wacky Packages Turn 40
By Mark KaufmanIn one of my last posts of 2006 I wrote about UBU Web, the repository for Avant Garde art and sound for the last 100 years. So I want to start off 2007 with the fact that Topps Wacky Packages are now in their 40th year! The first set of Wacky packages diecuts […]
Happy Friggin’ New Year
By Mark KaufmanWell that’s it for me in 2006. Was it a good year? As always in some ways yes, in some ways no. And as ever there are no resolutions for the coming year, just the same old hopes and dreams, and a sincere wish for a happy and productive 2007 to all. Cheers.
Creepy Ted Haggard
By Mark Kaufman Here’s one of several new spots I just completed. This gives you an idea of the kind of work I get asked to do. Ted Haggard’s Anus Resolutions for 2007. Strange as it seems (and creepy to boot) this was for The Stranger’s resolution/regrets issue, where oddities of 2006 (like Ted Haggard’s […]
UBU WEB WoW
By Mark KaufmanHappened upon UbuWeb today. A marvelous repository of Avant Garde film, sound cuts, art, poems, typography, manifestos and more. According to the fine folks there UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. From my perspective this is what the internets was made for. […]