Obi Wan Curtsinger

I have been having both idea problems and real-life rat problems recently, and decided they’re pretty similar.

T-shirt design I thought up for Cairo a lil’ while ago. Didn’t make the cut, so I’m posting it here now.

So apparently “entartete musik” was a German term for degenerate music or something during the Holocaust. So when the Nazis labeled Django “entartete musik” but still allowed him to tear up the Paris Jazz clubs? That’s knowing that music is more powerful than a regime. And that must have kept a few Nazi officers up at night (besides the ones that were secretly dancin’ the night away in all those Jazz clubs).

greyhound envy!

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer. This book was all the rage in middle school. A great adventure story stitching together sci-fi and traditional African Shona legends and culture. Very deserving of the Newbery Medal that it got.

I think this would be a fantastic story! Apologies for all the copyright infringement going on here.

My small tribute to Moebius, who just died last week. One of the greatest (and yet so hard to find English translations of!) graphic artists of our time.

Found this old comic in a junk shop in the back of my mind.

So this old photo of Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai takin’ a smoke break on the set of one of Kurosawa’s early samurai films has been floating around the tumblr landscape for a little while. While I was sketching from it last week, the title of Michael Chabon’s book of short stories popped into my head, and even though the stories have very little (but arguably some) to do with samurai warriors, I think the image would make a great cover for the book. Bam!