I must have scanned these back in the late 90′s, when I was still piling on the regular content updates. Eventually, I tired of that practice and most of these were orphaned. They still look pretty good.
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Greetings from La Posada - Winslow, Arizona.
Happy National Train Day.
Auld Reekie (by National Library of Ireland on The Commons)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Monitor’s 1981 LP finally available on CD (w bonus tracks).
Orson Welles removes his makeup on the set of Citizen Kane.
Cinephilia & Beyond has an amazing find: the complete collection of Orson Welles’ Sketch Book: “a series of six short television commentaries by Orson Welles for the BBC in 1955. Written and directed by Welles, the 15-minute episodes present the filmmaker’s commentaries on a range of subjects. Welles frequently draws from his own experiences and often illustrates the episodes with his own sketches.”
All the essential documentaries on Orson Welles, including Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (1960), Filming ‘The Trial’ (1981), The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), Shadowing the Third Man (2004), Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995), With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990), Filming ‘Othello’ (1978), F for Fake (1973), Orson Welles with French film school students, Orson Welles “Its All True” Citizen Kane and RKO, and seven-minute video of a very young-looking Welles (he was 23 at the time) addressing an onslaught of press members on October 31, 1938, the day after The War of the Worlds broadcast.
A futuristic cityscape that Jack Kirby penciled as a gift for Don Heck in exchange for Heck inking some work for him.
Amazing Adventures #39, November 1976, cover by P. Craig Russell
You guys should reform as an art trio!
Ah yes, they are great accompaniments to the music.
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My husband and I lived around the corner from “the Meat Puppets house” on Roosevelt, a number of years ago now. We used to see art like this on the irrigation standpipes in the neighborhood. I wonder who put it there….
I like the one with the big teeth, particularly. Cris’s drawing was amazing.
Haha, these are awesome! Did Cris ever ‘do’ anything with his drawings?
Though this pictures are amazingly unique I think that these can be very surrealistic and a little infant. But still they are great and I admire in every ways The meat puppets art works specially Cris’.
These are Fantastical, even fantasmagorical…ie, they make my puffin fly! I have all the Cris I can find; and I still never get enough. Cris will always rule in my book, and a better bassist I am hard-pressed to mention in my appx. 1000 cd collection.
Guess I am a little infant.
I think I saw a few of these on urinal mats in the late 80s at Mudbuggs in Tucson- or maybe it was the reflections of the music from my mind, the clouds of smoke emitting from an early seventies nova parked in the dirt lot behind the club, or perhaps it was the either bunny who was spraying copious volumes of fumage about the dance floor with bowers of flowers that bloom in the spring!!
Or maybe it was at the Stone Pony in New Jersey where some guy in a wife beater was convinced that Springsteen was gonna jam with the Puppets!!
Maybe Some day!!!!
Peace
Love them. Has Cris ever exhibited?
I remember reading about Cris exhibing something locally a few years ago, but I can’t remember the specifics.
any info on if he is selling anymore art work or a website i could go to?
A dozen more please.
I was thinking of maybe using some of these pictures as inspiration for some stuffed animals or art quilts. Are they copyrighted? Would I need to get permission before using them?
You’d have to ask Cris.
Any way you could post the Cris drawings from Forbidden Places and the Backwater single(and any other official releases)? I would really appreciate it. Later Adam