Moss Piglet (April 2025):
Westerns
Hey, hey, it's yet another post about a submission I made a few months ago to "Moss Piglet", a small art magazine out of Kenosha, Wisconsin I've been contributing to the past few years. They use a monthly theme for it's publication and this time it was "Westerns". I have to admit that I was not all that much of a fan of Westerns until Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" (1992) (a great movie about how revenge destroys you, IMHO). Sure, there were some other Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns that were entertaining, but most of the time it was a "Skip!" from myself, in search of something which had Robots, or Aliens, or Monsters.
Anyhoo, I was trying to think of something to do with "Draw!" as a shootout comic page, but could only think of the most obvious easel in the street and the two "gunfighters" draw pictures. Eh, very obvious and has been done a ka-jillion times. So, I kept thinking on it and drawing a blank for the longest time... Of course, the entire thing popped in my head fully-formed the day before it was due (my stupid brain just has to wait until the last minute, I swear). In this case, I pictured the panels steering toward the obvious "yeah, yeah, he's gonna draw a picture...", but when "Draw!" is yelled out, the easel spins up a gun shoots down the outlaw on the street while everyone celebrates.
It was an idea so dumb, I will admit that I laughed at the absurdity of it (that's right, I laugh at my own dumb jokes, sometimes; I have to do it since no one else will). Anyhoo, I did it up as a comic page (which is why I figured it would also have a home here on my Comic Book and Assorted Nerdery Blog). And here we are.
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And here is an alternate one that I submitted to "Moss Piglet", which is more Arty-Farty, based on Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" (best known as the painting of a pipe saying "This is not a pipe"). Since "Moss Piglet" is more of an Art magazine, I figured I'd reference the Magritte with the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a Pipe") and then, after a pause, I thought I should have the canvas also say "Ceci est un pistolet" ("This is my gun"), and then the drawing/painting of the gun do the shooting.
It amused me; not that it takes much, of course.
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For those of you interested, here's the link to the Homepage for "Moss Piglet": https://www.krazines.com/
You can also view previous issues online at: https://www.krazines.com/archives.html This one was on the back cover for those interested.
If you're able, subscribe and tell 'em John D. sent you!
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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.
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