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McDONALDLAND JOURNAL ART.....................

......I started my journals because back in the day I was trying to save my marriage by finding the cheapest marriage counselor in the classified section of the Village Voice...after two or three visits my wife decides she no longer wants to go...but because it's such a bargain I kept going solo...at one session it was suggested that I should keep a journal of my feelings...the marriage couldn't be saved but I saved the journals...all forty years worth of em...my journals have come a long way since those early days..a lot more strange and subversive...perhaps I too have become more strange and subversive...these journals became for me a way of looking at the world through a funhouse mirror..where everything was distorted and beautiful...these pages taught me the lesson of spontaneity...to think less and always keep the pen moving ....I think some of my most creative work came from these pages

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MYSTICAL FISH

medium - pen and ink...Pen and ink drawing with some arcane homegrown hieroglyphics in an old ear worn travel jounal and a mystical fish.

MYSTICAL FISH

medium - pen and ink ... A mystical fish in a sea of homegrown hieroglyphics

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CROWD 

BARFLY

medium - pen and ink ....there was a  luncheonette ..since there were no bars in the immediate vicinity the place was filled with factory workers knocking back cans of beer and getting hammered...I went in and started work on this

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BARFLY

medium - pen and ink .....It's better to have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

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Barroom tette a tette

medium - pen and ink...“The lines of her tears sparkled on her cheeks. "I am a prisoner here," she said. I took the chair across from her and watched her cry. I sat upright, one hand on the table's surface and the other around my drink. I felt the ecstasy of a dancer, but I kept still.” 

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NIGHT OF THE nosher

medium - pen and ink ...one night while taking the creative way home from a subway gig I stopped in the Kosher Hut and encountered this horrible visage..he was eating some kind of meat sandwich..corn beef I suspect....and his face was coated with grease and bits of rye bread...he gave me a serious case of the heebie-jeebies

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Andre the giant

medium - pen and ink...André René Roussimoff (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993), best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Roussimoff stood at over seven feet tall, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormone, and later resulted in acromegaly.

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cronos

medium - pen and ink.....I remember drawing this at the public library after  rain put the whammy on my plans to pack up the street gear and gig at the Broadway street fair..I remember the rain

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BIRDMAN DOES MIAMI

medium - pen and ink and collage......“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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MENTAL FLOSS

MENTAL FLOSS

mediun - pen and ink ....Madness takes its toll -please have exact change ready .

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 Bolshevik FRY COOK

medium - pen and ink...Revolution and a sesame seed bun

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ROOTIN" TOOTIN' RASputin

medium - pen and ink.,color pencils.....the holy man is he who takes your soul and will and makes them his. When you choose your holy man, you surrender your will. You give it to him in utter submission, in full renunciation.” – Feodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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HEART OF STONE

medium - pen and ink..color pencils.....Another woman must've broke my heart again...that happened a lot back then

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WHen the going gets weird

medium - pen and ink....this was the title page of a new journal...I lifted the quote from the good Doctor Gonzo Hunter s Thompson

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george

medium - pen and ink ....a homage to the Father of our Country......

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BOOBS

medium - pen and ink...............What can I say??....................................................

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goat boy

medium - pen and ink.......No one says a goat can't be a snappy dresser ...........

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mad dog

medium - pen and ink....lots of crosshatching here...this drawing was from a Daily News article

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french kiss the succubus

medium - pen and ink....another page from a recent journal..I don't know what I was trying to say here but I had all morning to say it

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