Tom Burtonwood

Doom Bear Havoc, drawing, 2002

Between October 2001 and August 2002 i worked at Pearl Paint in Chicago along with many. many other fine, young, crazy, displaced, deranged, artists and art students too many to name…. each day was a constant fight whether the vampires (certain managers) who were trying to steal our souls, the lincoln park trixies casting their intricate wedding invitation faux vellum curses on the hapless paper dpeartment, or the general suck that is retail…. to all of you artists who suffered and suffer still in retail hell  i post this image, of Doom Bear Havoc remember him at 4pm on a rainy afternoon with 2 hours to go, no more breaks, no caffiene to be had, no sonic youth on the stereo and a line of zombies assaulting your counter…..

It’s comedy friday again, time for some really really bad high school pieces from around 1991, that at the time i thought were really cool and “right on” but now i gotta say it’s pretty rough stuff, both conceptually and technically, enjoy….