My "dustpan"...
THE PRIMAL UNION © 1975, © 2003 Keith Halonen
Image area: 37 × 27 inches (94 × 69 cm)
Color ink and pencil on cold press illustration board
What the heck is that? A giant drawing of a dustpan? But wait! What's that in the dust?
Is that Andy Capp? Is that Bruce Lee? Is that Charlie Chan? Is that the Mad Hatter?
This could be the biggest copyright violation ever - if I try to sell prints, that is.
Is that Woody Woodpecker? Pogo? Bodhidharma? Johnny Appleseed?
Oliver Hardy? Dopey? Hopalong Cassidy? What's this about?
Is that King Kong? Swee'Pea? Flash Gordon? Betty Boop?
The Katzenjammer Kids? Conan the Barbarian? Yikes!
Is that Fearless Fosdick and Tricky Prickears, the Freak Brothers
deaf, dumb, and blind cop? That's Fat Freddie's Cat, Fat Freddie Scat!
Nancy and Sluggo? Archie and Jughead? Maybe there's some kind of deep meaning...
Hey, there's *@#* Tracy, and the Feather Buddha, source of the five major Feather Buddha avatars,
each of whom has five avatars of his own. Is that Mandrake the Magician? Barney Google with the
Goo-goo-googley eyes? Is that Dennis the menace? Plato the Parrot? Brer Bear and Donald Duck?
Is that the Little King? The original Superman? The original Batman? Commander Cockroach?
I wonder if there can actually be a novel marketing idea. There seems to be no end to the succession of new mediums, but marketing art on the Internet is more similar than not to marketing art "by hand". In truth, I really don't care whether or not my art supports me. I prefer supporting it, in fact, and that is how I consider my relationship to my art even when it is providing income to me. I conceive it and make it manifest without ever thinking about its marketability. Since my art exists apart from any particular target marketplace any success it meets is icing on the cake.
In lean times, I have done various odd jobs to see myself through. There are a couple archived threads here in the dART Cafe Forum wherein various of our regulars enumerate the many "straight" jobs they do and have done by way of supporting their art.
I really don't expect my art to support me, so every time it does I get a considerable thrill along with the check.
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