Check out these magnificent wood burned engravings of Homer and Flanders: These are on sale at eBay right now, with an opening bid of $20.00. There are also ones for Ralph, Lenny, Disco Stu, Mr. Burns, Comic Book Guy, Apu, and Moe. The seller’s user name: 78scorpio. (Though in this case it would appear that you don’t need to beware of Scorpio as he has a 100% positive feedback rate.) Here’s the description: For those of you not familiar with the wood burning process this is how it works. I take a picture and trace it onto the piece of…
Category: Fan Made
That Sure Looks Like Flanders
I lack the necessary familiarity with European sports to know what to make of this: That’s a German flag on the right, and there are other yellow flags with lion shapes on them. Presumably this has something to do with cycling. All I know is that it rules.
Etsy FT-EPIC-W
“Hugh, there’s something I want you to have. My dad gave me his cufflinks to wear on the day I married Marge, and they brought us good luck. I couldn’t imagine a happier marriage. We don’t have many traditions in our family, but it would mean a lot to me if you kept this one alive.” – Homer Simpson “Well I’d be honored, to . . . wear . . . those . . . things.” – Hugh Parkfield Stop everything you’re doing and look at this: The attention to detail is stunning, from the feet to the cravat to…
The Awesome Power of Simpsons Quotes
One of the most widely acknowledged great things about The Simpsons that it is quotable in the extreme. Quoting the show in regular conversation is part and parcel of being a Simpsons fan, either reciting lines that apply in the situation or just randomly because they’re funny. If you grew up with, or just spend a lot of time with, someone else who does the same you can sometimes have whole conversations that are literally nothing but Simpsons quotes and when you do so it gives you that warm feeling of knowing that someone else loves the same things you…
Bart Bucks
This afternoon boing boing had a link to a page with a bunch of drawings people have done on currency. There’s George Washington with an iPod, Andrew Jackson as King Leonidas, and Queen Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. There’s also el Barto: Clicking on the source link at that page took me to Flickr user ChukD. He’s got quite a few of these including an actual Bart Buck: He’s got a bunch on there, with characters from Goofy to Batman to Dr. Zoidberg. Check it out.
Crowd-Sourcing eBay Merchandise
Yesterday I came across a wanted poster for Grandpa Simpson for sale on eBay. As is my custom when I find eBay Simpsons stuff that doesn’t totally suck I linked to it on our pathetic Twitter feed. I thought most of the text was too small to read (image at right), but then Ryan W. Mead (sometime commenter, Twitter follower, and all around good guy) came through in a series of tweets with the text. He has better eyes than I do, a better monitor than I do, or both. Bravo. Full text is below (it’s pretty amusing): Abraham Simpson…
Nameless Here Forevermore
“Lisa that wasn’t scary, not even for a poem.” – Bart Simpson My favorite tag to use on this site is the “Fan Made” one. I love nothing more than seeing the different ways talented people use Simpsons to create cool stuff. Sometimes it’s just some little drawing somebody did on their computer, sometimes it’s epically awesome. Today we have a painting (or should I say paintings) that are way on the “epically awesome” side of the scale. Behold the real life Marge as Lenore painting: The Dead Homer Society accepts no liability if your monitor just exploded from “triumph…
Reading Digest: Fan Made Edition
“But you can use me, I’m good! I built a lot of things around the house, the spice rack . . . the birdfeeder . . . the gymboree . . . what was that? Ah, who cares.” – Homer Simpson We’ve got lots of fan made Simpsons stuff this week, from YouTube videos, to Lego statues, to unsourced artwork. There’s also a political divide I feel no hesitation to take sides on, some excellent Zombie Simpsons hate, Aurora Indianalis, a clever New Zealand marketing ploy, and plenty of usage of all varieties. Enjoy. Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and…
Who’s This Guy? (Updated: Nailed It)
Recognize the guy at left? He appears in the the Simpsons character poster and SimpsonCrazy cannot identify him (he’s just to the right of Kang). All they know for sure is that it’s not Gunter/Ernst or Chase/Pyro/Gyro. The poster only goes up to Season 9 so it’s not something from the depths of Zombie Simpsons. Whoever he is, I don’t think he has any lines or I’d have remembered him by now. Dave and Mad Jon were also unable to think of who it is. It’s not Burns’ personal trainer from either “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes…
Simpsons Writer Buys Cool Simpsons Artwork
Joseph Cavalieri, he of stained glass Simpsons fame, sold one of his works to long time Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons writer John Frink. We got a press release: After seeing Joseph’s work online, John and his wife were particularly interested in purchasing “Il Momento Della Morte” (The Moment of Death). Mr. Frink lives in LA, and was visiting New York during the holidays, so a studio visit was arranged. Immediately after his airplane landed at JFK, Frink, along with his wife and three children, rented a van and stopped by Cavalieri’s studio in the east village of Manhattan. Here he…
Sistine Simpsons
I saw this on the NoHomers 20th Anniversary thread and while more people will likely see it there than here it simply needs to be given as wide an audience as possible. Behold: How much more cool could this be? None. None more cool. This was drawn by Bill Mudron and his Flickr page has a version of the image that tells you who each guy is. I only knew like four without clicking (including Groening and O’Brien, which are pretty easy.)
Snow Homer
This is awesome enough to stand on its own. Presented without further comment:
Weird Batch of eBay Simpsons Stuff
Oh eBay, you make it so easy for people to sell the most entertainingly oddball stuff. First up we have this wind up Maggie novelty item that, according to the seller, “WORKS STILL”: Next on the block is this rather frightening looking “walking” Homer robot: That thing looks like a cross between Homer and that stupid robot FOX has on during football. The combination of the distorted, semi-muscled torso with the blank stare and strange grin on the head is really unnerving. Finally, how about some novelty Euro notes with Simpsons characters on them? There’s a 20 Euro note…
Homemade Simpsons Rings
There’s nothing quite like repurposing Simpsons crappy merchandise creatively. Etsy member davidgieske has taken Simpsons figures (along with a lot of other stuff) and mounted it on jewelry. Neat. Click here for these and other similar items.
High Art Simpsons
“Indeed. Marge you find the inner beauty of your subject and bring it out for all to see!” - Professor Lombardo Check out these fan-fugu-tastic Simpsons renditions by David Barton. He’s done them in the styles of famous artists. Here’s Marge in Vermeer’s “Girl with Pearl Earring”: The necklace instead of the earring really makes it. Then there’s Groundskeeper Willie, van Gogh style: When a man this intense says ‘Ach! Keep off the grass’, man, you’d better keep off the grass. There are two more at the site, one of Apu as Salvador Dali and a Rembrandt style Homer. Check…
Simpsons Sand Couch
“That’s right, Dick. You know this year everyone’s abuzz about one thing, the absence of Mark Rodkin . . . oh wait, there he is.” – TV Announcer Awhile ago we found a guy who’d done elaborate sand renderings of the Simpson family. Now, at a sand sculpting competition in Portugal someone drew the entire family on the couch (via): You can see a few more images at this gallery link for the 2008 festival (when the theme was Hollywood). Awesome.
More Simpsons Stained Glass
A while back we posted about an artist named Joseph Cavalieri who makes these surreal and very cool stained glass images with Simpsons motifs. He was nice enough to send us an email with pictures of two new pieces he’s created. If you want to see them up close and personal (and you’re in New York City) there’s a gallery show running until December 20th, directions here. Here’s the first piece, “Funerale di un’Amica (Funeral for a Friend)”: “But you know, my mom says god never closes a door without opening a window.” – Bart Simpson ”No offense kid, but…
Sweet Sideshow Bob Painting & More
“Ah very good . . . fabulous . . . oh, even better!” – Professor Lombardo See that rather awesome Sideshow Bob painting to the left? It can be yours for the low price of just $25 provided you live in Toronto and can pick it up. This listing led me to http://www.loverazor.net which is the artist’s blog. There are several other Simpsons paintings on there including a tattooed Homer (note the Stonecutter symbol on the forearm), a tattooed Burns (great dollar sign on his neck), and – my favorite – jack-in-the-box Homer from “Treehouse of Horror II”. There’s a…
Choral Simpsons in Tucson, AZ
There’s some kind of choral rendition of Simpsons stuff being put on by the Tucson Chamber Artists this weekend: "Marge, you make the best pork chops / Mmmmm, pork chops," they’ll sing in Homer’s homage to his beehive-haired wife. Little Lisa swoons on "I like Langdon Alger / He is very quiet and he enjoys puzzles" while Marge sweetly intones "I love you so much, my little bitty Barty" in Paul Crabtree’s "Five Romantic Miniatures From ‘The Simpsons.’ " "We’re going to enunciate our texts really well so you can understand the words," said the TCA’s founder and music director,…
Homer Guitar!
“Hey, cherry ax, Bart dude.” – Otto This Homer guitar is simply too cool to be part of today’s link dump. Instructables user captainserious created it from a leftover guitar neck and some wood. (The full list of the steps to create it are here.) What makes this thing really impressive is the fact that it’s a dead-on Homer drawing. I’d be impressed if someone just drew that freehand, much less made it out of wood and painted it. Mad Jon is the resident musician around here, but would it even matter what this guitar sounded like? I mean, you…