Cartoon - All My Dreams

I just spent a very pleasant evening at IKEA -- doing nothing but read books in Swedish, and sit on the furniture. I don't read Swedish, so now I should probably learn. I tried out every interesting couch, bed, chair, living room, apartment, and kitchen possible. Took a very careful look at everything from knives, candle lanterns, to stuffed toys. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Head is a House

I've been reading about Dada at the open reading we have every month. I've never considered how Taoism, Zen, and Buddhism could have influenced Dada. I had one of those realizations that was starkly obvious -- Dada is simple, yet hard to define, it eludes easy categorization, pointedly rambunctious, even mysterious or illusive, but why? How definable is the Tao, or when you try to capture it? Where is the gateless gate? Did Dada really 'die out' as a movement, or has Dada ideals and methods been appropriated by other art movements that are more easily objectified and made into "-isms"? Is Dada lurking, sound and well, under the camouflage of other conceptual and philosophical activities? Of course! I see it! Ba ba Dada! La la Dada! Hoo haaa haa! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Calling for Bashō

I've been doing some meditative and spiritual work, and I see that one of my greatest defects is 'inflation' -- making my thoughts, feelings, and ideals much bigger than they really are. This tends to influence everything I do, even how I look at people, and how I problem solve. I also tend to be a 'yes man' to hide my stubbornness. There's a fair amount of insecurity running around in the back of my head, too. Well, the good news is by knowing your flaws, by being honest what motivates you, you can start to relate to defects differently and catch them earlier when they run amok. Anyone willing to do this, even try to get honest, I've seen them become so much happier. Bashō believed we can also get to this by embracing nature, and lowering the importance on 'personality'. In the end, we are home everywhere we go, and I'm happy thinking that. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Meteor Vacation

I've had it. After reading my 10th, or 24th news bulletin, about another surprise meteor being observed in different parts of the world, and how big and awesome it was -- over the past year and a half -- I'm getting all paranoid. I don't remember having so many reports on meteors. It could be that with all the proliferation of dash cameras and camera phones, people can more easily record them fireballs in the sky. But if you were an astronomer and you realized we are going to be smashed by a cloud of space rocks, and we can't do anything about it, I'd probably agree not to talk about it if there was no way of escaping it. This is me being jovial and cheerful. Not being paranoid. Have a nice day. Even if the world ends. It probably won't. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Robot Story

I hope all you robots out there are having a great day today! If you need any oil or a quick charge, come on by, and I'll see what I can stuff in your socket. CM Evans Cartoons

Art Dada - "El Diablo de Laguna Beach"

September 29th

Getting started

 

 

 

October 2nd

Installation

Just finished a new scarecrow sculpture for a gallery nearby on the PCH. "El Diablo de Laguna Beach". Initially I got stumped on the prospect of building the form of the scarecrow, or integrating it -- it turns out to be a structural issue, and hit a number of discouraging dead ends. Then the work literally built itself in the explosive 'Dada' way -- it came out quick. Dada n'est pas mort! Vive Dada!Made of recycled foam, cardboard, shredded notepapers, tape, and epoxy. It is taller than 6 feet in height. If you're in the area, go see it and vote on it for the competition!

AIR Laguna Gallery -- 658 South Pacific Coast highway, Laguna Beach -- between Legion and Cleo

Cartoon - Party with the Birds

Party with the birds! At dawn and at dusk, my home -- everyday. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Really

All kinds of things happen to me in this life, and all I can do is appear to be 'normal' when I have bizarre jokes running though my head. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Let Me Illustrate

I'm gone like a kook with some patterns and color here. Color can be hard to get into a cartoon. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Poor Baby

People are rightly totally unsympathetic when I cartoon like this. Because the Universe sucks. Those who agree with me know what I'm sayin'. I'll go adjust my attitude now, by inventing a new sport, or doing something constructive -- like drinking 50 glasses of water. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Depressed Star Wars

I've been listening to a lot of French Café music from the 1950s on an old iPod I just found. I think about things like this, simultaneously. Who does not get depressed when they read about the results of researching depressed people -- especially when the results indicate that it is more depressing than previously thought? And everybody knows the 'unshielded thermal exhaust port' is uncovered on the Death Star, and open to the sky, without any overhanging obstructions...so why didn't the Rebels just bomb it from space? Or if bombs couldn't be used, just charge directly down FROM space over the exhaust port, rather than going down a skinny equatorial trench where you have no room to maneuver and can be shot at and ambushed from behind? And, never mind! CM Evans Cartoons

Non Cartoon - Random Drawings from the Files

I have some deep files, and I've been going through boxes that were inaccessible for a few years, just come to light, so here are some drawings of the non-cartoon variety. I have an interest in the mechanics, or methods, of 'auto-generation' of symbols and language. I've played also with random letter generation, via matrix and diagrams. Also, I've always loved maps, and I was always making new maps of worlds and places to discover.

 

fig. 1

 

Mystic tablet, of a series of tablets, designed to generate language and symbolic combinations automatically.

 

 

 

fig. 2

 

Map from an adventure story/ plot I was fooling around with in the late 1980s, or early 1990s.

Cartoon - BigLegs

Two cartoons in one day? Only if you ask me out on a date. No? I was just kidding. JUST KISSING! What? I didn't say anything. No, not what you thought I said. Asking you out on a date? Why, thanks but no. What is your sign? Leo? Cancers don't complement Leo. Because? I don't know. I'm shy.

**********
*********
*******
*****
***
*

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Big Room

Only happens to me once in a great while. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - BM Hobbit Farewell

Most of the time is really easy for me to post text with a cartoon I'm putting up here, and today was going to be one of those days where the words just effortlessly flowed off my fingertips, to the keyboard. The post would be witty, not to snide, nor completely off the wall. You'd smile, roll your eyes, or laugh, when you read the post I was going to write. You might have even shared it with a friend. But this did not happen today. I screwed it up. So blah blah blah. My bike tire has a flat. CM EVANS CARTOONS

Picture - A Cartoonist Laughing in a Tree

OK -- here I am -- laughing in a tree. Have you ever tried cartooning in a tree? Good luck! CM Evans Cartoons

Picture - For Some FRONT is the new Back

A picture, not a cartoon. I can't get this figured out. XXXOOXXX CM EVANS CARTOONS

Cartoon - Trio Shoe Store

I wonder if I go to the Succotash Justice Law Center, the Sewing Marine Company, and the Cupcake Insurance Group, I'll be able to eat a legal meal, get my torn pants fixed with nautical strength thread, and insure my pound cake -- all in on afternoon? Well, at least I don't have to wait for 'the other shoe to drop'. I have an extra one! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Old Fashioned

Yep, in the 'olden days', when ya had a hankerin'* for some gal or guy, and phones didn't exist, and electricity was mysterious, you'd sit down and write them a post card. But post cards were invented after phones, though, so never mind. I was thinking about a telegram. No I wasn't.

CM Evans Cartoons


* Hankerin', Hankern', Hank-er-un', Hankrin', Ben Franklin', Hunkerun', Hunkrin'

Cartoon - Roll Over, Erwin Schrödinger -- Your Cat Story is Stupid

"Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the life of Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 — January 4, 1961), a founder of quantum physics who used cats to explain things long before Internet cat videos became cool."

Nice! And here is mine. Happy 147th birthday, Schrödinger, or 233rd birthday -- or however vastly old you'd be, if it was possible you'd be alive today. Or even want to be alive today. Which always confused me, on how they keep celebrating birthdays of certain celebrities and famous people, as if they'd still be alive now.

And I also wondered how long you'd realistically be able leave any normal cat in a box, before you'd basically know the cat was going to be dead, no matter what simultaneous state it theoretically be in. You know what I mean? Cats fuck with everything. You can't blame the cat.

Not to be overly critical, but I think Schrödinger's cat story is stupid, and it always was stupid. But professors have been telling it for so long to students, and expecting them to know it, we pretend it makes sense. Why not a baby with a flamethrower, or a walrus with a hand-grenade?

Well, nevermind! Drink up! Three cheers to Erwin Schrödinger! Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger, alive! Yes! Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger, dead! I heard he was master of Kung-Fu too. Too bad he didn't give us some snappy Kung-Fu analogies.

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Denmark

I have a friend staying in the city of Aalborg, and being jet-lagged, he has some questions about Denmark. Knowing nothing about Denmark I tried to help him out, about some of the countries' customs, building regulations, and geological situation. He said that there are many modern Danish brick buildings, and I told him that these were 'mock' brick Danish buildings -- because bricks are illegal in Denmark. Bricks are prohibited, because a brick might fall on someone and they'd get hurt. He remarked that the city is very flat, and I told him Aalborg sold most of its hills to San Francisco, during the gold rush in California. Those where the days! I think he's asleep now. I'm glad to be of service. I guess, in a pinch, when someone is jet-lagged, I can be an expert on just about anything. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Funny Cartoon

Here it is -- the perfect apology message for all of you who innocently go on a blind date and get drunk, or you drink too much, and it isn't anyone's fault specifically (or the bartender's) -- and a bunch of things go down, but you manage to get home with the date anyways, and you get lost in the house and can't find a way out while some small dogs chase you unmercifully around, while some stuff gets broken and you pee in a small bathroom that is full of shoes and dresses. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Genie

Sometimes we don't know a good thing until we mess it up. Or, this is just me.

CM Evans Cartoons


PS.

Shout out to my buddies from Macedonia. Latvia -- you too -- you're amazing. If there is a pretty girl in Latvia, and you like my work, let's go out.

Bar Sketch

This is what a bar looks like at about 2.00 AM -- when most people there are drunk and rotating around in circles in the center of the room, or else making out furiously in the corners & under tables.

At "The Pikey".

Cartoon -- A Scoop of LA Zeitgeist / Midnight LA Cartoon no.3

One more -- yessire. Very very upstanding.

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon -- A Scoop of LA Zeitgeist / Midnight LA Cartoon no.1

A scoop of LA zeitgeist.

Drawn at 'The Pikey' on W Sunset Boulevard. We had a good old time.

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon -- A Scoop of LA Zeitgeist / Midnight LA Cartoon no. 2

Another cartoon drawn at 'The Pikey'.

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon (s) - Forget & Big

As an artist, I prefer my work to speak for itself -- so speak, work -- speak!

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Spic n Span

Ok -- Now how often does this happen? In drawing this, I confess, I was a bit worried about getting the push brooms drawn right. But see, they came out just fine -- big and awkward.

Some people joke that when you start to really get your life together, it is like stomping on the brakes on a runaway truck. The first jolt is when the truck stops. The second series of jolts, is when all the crap that is in the back of the truck flies trough the air from the back of the truck, to the front of the truck, because you stopped.

But you know, I've been building my life back for over three years, so not much shit is flying from the back to the front that I forgot I had back there.

CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - How Did Your Blind Date Go?

Here is an example of a cartoon, before I edit it

and then afterwards.

Howard Hughes, though admirable, is not a very good subject to break out with pretty girls on first dates, especially blind dates, nerdboys. I suggest you try topics like bar décor, if you are in a bar -- hobbies, or humorous observations. I you especially daring -- oh, never mind. I was going to say tell a joke, but you'd just be better off encouraging her to talk about what she is interested in.


CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Tesla Monopoly

I think this could be a good thing. I mean, an 'enhancement'. It would be hard to insure. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Good to Go

Three cartoons in one day. I think I'm gonna post 400 more cartoons tomorrow. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Bowling Chains

This just happened. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - My Way

I had a hernia operation this month, and look what happens. Very few cartoons. Horrible! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - King of Idiots

Someone is moving into an apartment nearby here, and every time they take a load down the moving ramp, it sounds like a bucket of chains being dumped on a steel floor. People are laughing, slamming doors, and singing too, telling jokes. The sun just came out. Happy Friday! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Fish Costume

Pick your battles, and costumes. CM EVANS CARTOONS

Cartoon - Going on Vacation

I have a few people in my life who will do this for me. I'm appreciating this. The cartoon looks all wavy because I drew it with a blunt pencil on a book, not because I'm having a stroke or I'm crazy. Well, I am crazy. CRAZYGOOD I think. If you point out how I'm ignorant or silly I am, I promise I'll listen. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Crowd Source Me

I heard how they were gonna crowdsource the digital recording of the mayor of Toronto smoking crack. Then I had my own ideas for crowdsourcing. I started with 'Crowd' and 'Source' separated, and gee, I though that was so funny, I didn't correct it. You could crowdsource me to get the two words together. But see, I do it all on my own. CM EVANS CARTOONS

Cartoon - Getting Over

I have dust in my eye, or a hair in my eye, or the nation of Spain in my eye. This morning I overhead someone talking about how wonderful Portugal is.

Portugal rocks! You can chill in Portugal. All the homies are in Portugal, the get DOWN there man, serously! Some of them are way cool, in Portugal.

You say 'Portugal' and I think 'Spain'. You say 'Portugal' and I think 'Barcelona'. I think I'll go grab all my money, and get to Spain on a red-eye, and have no money for the rest of the trip. CM EVANS CARTOONS

Cartoon - Qyeneist Je is Kekis Ke

Qyeneist je is kekis ke -- blah chungs sammolite blah blah, blah tobbouis chresher blah -- keosi blah
chroupsole blah. Whoo keism whoo, whoo, la la. Blah veroiu blah, meep, whpoo, da da da da da. Neep neep, boing, schwing -- tap tap, bleep. Blah sjemu blah wyhens woie blah, zwhooop, zing, zap, pop. Meep meep, meepo, zeepo, shoopo -- querty; morro borrlo barrlo, wherlo. Zinga zinga-dinga brillo, zero, mopes. Hungo que tobrillo zoundcaper Soundperant pants, verguilo -- chump fenaisus, billi pops mom throughsm. Bagel and cream cheese. CM EVANS CARTOONS

Cartoon - Okeeee

 

OK -- just working things out in diagrams, now. They save me time, rather than writing about this. I understand the concept: In diagram  no. 1, you surrender, and become less selfish and fearful. And most of the time it works for me. But I can be very stubborn. Thus, diagram no.2. Oh, well. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Like and Like

I learned if I take my time, in the right time, in the right way, there's lots of sides to anything -- just like there's lots of sides to a tree, a sunny day, or an opera. You taught me this -- thanks!  CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Go Figure

Here is a bit of brilliance I found on an electronic clipboard:

Note we didin’t take a section of the seq – see if it still misbehaves like this:
No XDCAM presets
User picks NTSC H.264, AAC 48 khz – gets 2 asserts they   – rendering now is grey and scattered
User picks to “Embed in output File” – app asserts, they
User trims the export to be just after the CTI line indicated in the Export Settings preview timeline – app asserts – user it
Exports inprocess - -app asserts – user 
Media Encoder: Error compiling movie. Unknown Error.
Queue
Assert
AME launches
Assert
Exporting completes

I am a poet, no doubt.

CM Evans Cartoons

PS

I had a dream that I was hanging out with a few Nordic gods -- Odin being one of them. All was fine, until this big creature -- something out of Star-Wars, pissed off Odin, so he killed it by jumping through the monster like a Odin-projectile. I remember thinking in the dream, wow, messy, and I guess a God can kill things by jumping through them. Never thought of it that way. Then I wake up.

Cartoon - Relaxed

Whenever I get blue, I remind myself that cartooning is better than ballancing ice-cream cones on the CM Evans Cartoons tips of my fingers.

Cartoon - Here It Is

Here it is. I figured this out today. Not just about me, probably everybody. Okay, fine! This does nto have to do with you. You're different. No, I'm not bringing this up because I ate all the ice-cream. CM Evans Cartoons