“I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?” – Bart Simpson “Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m the Devil! And you’ve earned eternal damnation for your lifetime of evil deeds, Bart. Spitting off the escalator just clinched it.” – The Devil Last week I got an email from a friendly guy named Morgan Criger in Toronto: I did a really decent Simpsons Hieronymus Bosch painting in quarantine and I thought it would be right up your alley. And he was right, check out this beauty: You can see these and more at his site: http://www.morgancriger.com. (There’s also a black…
Category: Fan Made
“Invasion of the 60 Foot Homer Simpson Easter Rabbit”
“Okay, that was the sand movie. Now it’ll just take me a second to set up our next movie.” – Miss Hoover A couple of weeks ago, the guy in Britain who does the giant Simpsons drawings in sand e-mailed in with some pictures of his latest creation: a giant Homer Easter Bunny on the banks of the Thames. Behold: You can see more pictures at his site. including a completely different giant Easter Homer and one of Bender. Thanks, Martin!
Drool Worthy Simpsons Art
“Then I’m in the class?” – Marge Simpson “Oh, my dear, there couldn’t be a class without you!” – Professor Lombardo There really isn’t a great deal I can add to these amazing drawings, so I’ll let them speak for themselves. The artist is Tim Doyle; and they’re part of a show he’s got going in San Francisco. You can read all about it (and see higher resolution images) at his website. Click each one for the gorgeously large “original” size. These are part of a larger series, with images of fake places from everything from Seinfeld and Arrested Development…
Dead Homer Society Xmas Gift Guide
“Oyster shells! Hand painted to resemble Lucille Ball! You’ll love Oyster Lucy!” – Moe For the second year in a row we here at the Dead Homer Society are offering this belated and woefully incomplete shopping guide for the Simpsons fan in your life. Just like last year, the idea here is to find cool Simpsons stuff that does not feed the merchandising beast that does more than anything else to keep Zombie Simpsons on the air. Also just like last year, this basically amounts to me doing a search on Etsy and then linking the best results. Still, any…
Australian Simpsons Art Exhibition
Image by Mike Foxall, taken from here. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in Reading Digest that there was a show of Simpsons related artwork in Newcastle, Australia running through October 22nd. Reader Adam (many thanks!) was nice enough to send in not only a link to their page, but also to a gallery of photographs from the opening night. The pictures aren’t all high resolution, but there is more than enough to give you a good sense of what’s there. I was particularly taken by the Monty Burns Dress Up item: See my vest! Unfortunately, I can’t make…
Chart and Art from the United Kingdom
“What about Bart?” – Marge Bouvier “Let’s see, Bart, cart, dart, eart . . . nope, can’t see any problem with that.” – Homer Simpson As the title indicates, we got two reader submissions from the UK, one with a chart, the other involving art. (This ends the rhyming portion of this post.) First up, the chart. Seb Patrick noticed something while watching Season 8 recently. He thought the episodes that began with shows-within-the-show ended up being better than those that just started in the regular world of Evergreen Terrace. Curiosity piqued, he plunged ahead: And for some reason, when…
Forty Square Feet of Awesome
“Our arts and crafts center is, in actuality, a Dickensian workhouse.” – Lisa Simpson A guy named Kyle McCoy is creating a forty square foot image of Springfield from perler beads, which is a hell of a lot of work since an individual bead is less than a centimeter across. Not only is this a fantastic idea, its author is a wise man when it comes to the topic of Zombie Simpsons: “Now, I’m a big fan of The Simpsons. Not the newer ones, so much (sorry Matt), but for its first eight seasons it was the best thing on…
Zombi Simpsons en Espanol
“Hey, wait, if I don’t finish this last bite, you don’t get my soul, do you?” – Homer Simpson Reader Mauro sends in this fantastic graphic of the rise and fall of The Simpsons: I don’t know Spanish, but with design that good, I don’t need to. I’m especially fond of the final image. All credit goes to Eduardo Salles for making this, and Mauro for sending it in.
Wonder-Homer
“Something told me this was a very special, very magical piece of wood . . . that I could make a bat out of.” – Homer Simpson What do you see in the picture below? If all you see is a pile of wood in a plastic bad then you are only partially correct. For at the time this picture was taken, one of those pieces of wood held a bitching carving of Homer Simpson. Click here for the full gallery of images, from unformed to carefully carved with hair on top. I know I say this a lot, but…
Dead Homer Society Xmas Gift Guide
“Human roaches, feeding off each other’s garbage, the only thing you can’t buy here is dignity.” – Mayor Quimby It is the stated position of the Dead Homer Society that the fount of filthy lucre that is crappy Simpsons merchandise is a major reason behind the continued existence of Zombie Simpsons. Merchandise generates twice as much cash as the television show, and the continued production of new episodes has been explicitly linked by people at FOX to licensing revenue. And while one person’s purchasing decisions wouldn’t even register as a rounding error on that mountain of money, why buy things…
Actual Instructions for Drawing Homer Simpson
“Now, using the Lombardo Method, you’ll learn to see everyday objects as a simple grouping of geometrical shapes. Here, we see how two concentric circles, various trapezoids, ellipses – and yes, even a rhombus! – can create an adorable little bunny rabbit. It’s just that easy!” – Professor Lombardo One of my little hobby horses around here is posting videos of people either drawing Simpsons characters or purporting to teach you how to draw Simpsons characters. I find these videos oddly fascinating, mostly because I can’t draw for shit and it’s neat to see how something like that gets done. …
Stylized Simpsons
I found this when I was doing Reading Digest this week, and it is simply too cool not to have its own post. I’ll let The Be Rad Blog explain: I am big on a lot of geeky stuff and when I came across Sound Of Design’s Flickr profile I was in awe; it’s an eyegasmic gold mine. Ty Lettau has created hundreds of minimalistic portraits of characters from a plethora of cult classic geek universes. All are displayed in a minimalistic “Cartooned” fashion similar to the classic media in which some of the characters are taken. The entire “Cartooned”…
Real Life Mr. Sparkle
We all know Mr. Sparkle as a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern that banishes dirt to the land of wind and ghosts. But it is also the premier window cleaning service for homes and businesses in the greater Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN area. Seriously: Obviously the website doesn’t contain any likeness or drawings that might be legally actionable, but let there be no doubt about the name: The name “Mr. Sparkle” is a famous reference to “The Simpsons” (it was the name of a mysterious Japanese cleaning product on the show). Is that how that came…
Sharpening
“Grace, come here. There’s a sinister looking kid I want you to see.” – Jimmy Stewart Springfield’s seamy underbelly gets the MS Paint treatment courtesy of a slow morning at work for reader Robin (whose Troy McClure tattoo is almost done). First, the original: He’s made a game of it, seeing how many pencils he can sharpen in an hour, and then trying to break that record. Now, the remixes: You’re sharpening them all wrong, Seymour. And: All that sharpening has made him hungry and, look, there’s a lemon behind that clock! Thanks Robin!
Folding Like Umbrellas
Via Cromulent Words comes this most excellent rendition of Lisa’s strike song from “Last Exit to Springfield”: In turn, this led me to YouTube’s related videos. Sure enough, there are more: Here’s one with a little Spanish flavor: This guy’s singing voice is remarkably accent free given that he appears to be a native German speaker: Germans love Lisa’s protest song: Piano? Piano: A man with aviator sunglasses has no time to waste. Here’s the up-tempo short version (only 29 seconds): A shirt is not required when you have this kind of enthusiasm: By the “folding tower”? Why not: And…
Still More Simpsons Stained Glass
“Sorry Homer, I was born a snake handler, and I’ll die a snake handler.” – Moe The inimitable Joseph Cavalieri is back with three more haunting, bizarre, and downright fucking amazing stained glass panels featuring Simpsons characters. The three form a coherent set, with Rainier Wolfcastle on one side, Lunchlady Doris on the other, and a oversize Jesus-Moe crucified in the middle. All images used under Creative Commons license courtesy of Joseph Cavalieri, CAVAglass.com. Click on each picture to go to Cavalieri’s site and see a larger image, as well as descriptive text about each of the three. I enjoy…
Vitruvian Homer
“I’ve eaten eight different meats. I’m a true renaissance man.” – Homer Simpson A bunch of landscape architecture students from Florida International University won a sand castle competition in Miami with Homer laid out in Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” pose: Image shamelessly stolen from their Photobucket album, which has many more pictures. Congratulations and bravo, that is excellent. If I ever need a landscape architect (note: highly unlikely) I will ask for an FIU alum. My only complaint is that instead of letting his genitals hang out like in Da Vinci’s original, they covered Homer’s shame with a literal…
Sweet Fan Made Bart Clock
“Eye of the tiger, Bart.” – Bart Simpson Check out what I found on UK eBay: Yeah, it kind looks like Bart’s got the 12 stuck in his teeth, but that’s still pretty cool. The little bit of a collar to make his usual shirt look more like a soccer jersey is a nice touch. And it’s only £3. Now you’ll never forget to pick your son up from practice again.
A Gorilla in Australia
All-star commenter D.N. sent this in and swears it’s real: D.N. writes: I came across this gem in early 2007…I had a residential phone book on hand and, just for a laugh, I had a look to see if there was an A GORILLA in Perth, not expecting the answer to be in the affirmative at all. Needless to say, I was incredibly amused with what I found, and shared said amusement with my Simpsons-loving sibling and friends. I remember checking the listing against the previous year’s phone book, and I’ve checked (almost every) phone books since, and it looks…
Euro-Marge
Check out what a guy named Micky Hulse did to Europe: The Spanish region of Galicia will hence forth be known as Boob Land. (via)