We’re planning a Hungry Knife Showcase section for this site. It will be a gallery of Hungry Knife work that’s already been sold or was never intended for sale. I composed this post while digging through our massive art server looking for things to include. Curating, I suppose. Anyway, this is a sneak peek, enjoy!.
I started drawing violent raccoons sometime around 2008. Animals doing human stuff is funny. Raccoons are funny animals. So, raccoons behaving like little criminals is DOUBLE funny, right? Ooh, I thought I was really clever. I was unaware of the Marvel comic books, Guardians Of The Galaxy. A few years later (2014), I was introduced to Rocket The Raccoon while watching the first Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. WTF? I’m like, “they stole my deviant raccoon character concept!” And my friend goes, “this movie is based on a comic from the 1990’s, dumbass.” Dang.
So, Rocket is the OG raccoon and these jokers are unintentional copycats (copycoons?). I haven’t drawn any new raccoon characters since viewing that first Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. I subsequently watched both sequels and I’m a big fan of all 3 films and Rocket the raccoon. Good idea, Marvel Comics.
In 2017 I drew this spider-baby picture (actual title, We Can See Forever) for no good reason other than to get freaky for a while. The spider-baby has that little stickman who’s some sort of Hell-ghoul. The hell-ghoul loves intravenous drug abuse but can’t shoot-up by itself due to some recent life altering surgeries. Fortunately, the spider-baby is a sympathetic leading character and being part spider, also good at injecting things. Unfortunately, everything looks pretty crazy when you have that many eyes in your head, so spider-baby totally sucks at hitting a vein. Thankfully, the hell-ghoul is from Hell and really doesn’t give a fuck as long as the dope goes in.
The message is clear; you can still have a good party even when things aren’t perfect.
Here’s four drawings from a really old Guy Sparger sketchbook. These are all from the art school years; Maryland Institute College Of Art, Baltimore 1987-1990.
Flash forward to 2023, things seem to remain on the rails of the same crazy train. Ain’t that somethin’?
