OK good I am glad to have moved on from the last page. The comments section got a little unpleasant and though I did through some joking comments around, it felt like I was getting most of the anger from people who completely either did not get, or could not take, a joke. Of course the internet’s main use is to misinterpret, call names and freak out. So really I should be surprised we made it to page 55 before the first person called me an A-hole.
If any of you listened to the recent Making Comics podcast with Doug and me, you may have heard me mention my newfound appreciation for George Washington. I have been quite taken with this guy and so I decided to do this piece, which is already sold. But here is a photo.
George Washington: Actual Bad Ass
Oddly I was not even thinking about it being President’s Day, I just felt like drawing this and just so happened to finish it on President’s Day. I am not trying to make an obscure or essoteric statement with this piece. I did not leave it up to the viewer’s interpretation. The message of this piece is simple: George Washington was a bad ass.
That’s that! See you Friday.
Ethan
I love it when the characters actually talk about the crazy shit that just happened to them. Like in the end of Pineapple Express when they’re all sitting in the diner. In most action stories, the characters don’t talk about the events that took place when in reality, they’d be like “Dude, did you see that explosion? That was awesome!”
If you think Washington was awesome, check out Teddy Roosevelt. I was only vaguely aware of what the guy did (and wondered why he got a spot on Mt. Rushmore) when my son did a report on him. Now I think he was the coolest President ever.
What can you say about a guy that gets SHOT in an assassination attempt, and decides to still go deliver a speech with the bullet still in him?
If I had to pick a President that I would want in charge during an actual Bearmaggedon event, he’d be the one!
He also took a campaign photo of him riding a moose across a river. A real moose, bareback.
The best United States presidents ever:
1.) Theodore Roosevelt
2.) George Washington
3.) Everyone else
He also fought Bigfoot:
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/053/1/7/teddy_roosevelt_vs__bigfoot_by_sharpwriter-d3a72w4.jpg
Awesome!
If we have to have someone re-write history to make it relevant to kids today, Ethan should at least be allowed to illustrate it. A re-imagining of Valley Forge with Washington and Minutemen taking the cold in stride in shorts and t-shirts, each carrying their own portable gatling gun while riding grizzlies.
And Betsy Ross riding on the back of a monster truck, waving a sixty foot tall flag with fireworks going off everywhere.
I like the way you think. Betsy is in a star-spangled bikini, of course, and there’s a Dale Earnhardt sticker on the monster truck. As long as we’re doing it, might as well do it right.
When you see hippies running and you know there isn’t a grand opening of a medicinal marijuana store nearby, you know something bad is happening.
+1 will laugh again
Washington, Washington,
6ft8 weighed a F^%&ing ton,
opponents beware…
The man was epic.
You gotta see Brad Neely’s George Washington song.
He’s coming, he’s coming…
… “but it was far back in the land of legends, where instincts find their
true images, that the cry went forth that freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the sun.”
What I Saw in America, by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton quote wins!!!
Incorrect, Nigel! Or at least missing the point. Gogs didn’t just THINK that guy was awesome, that guy IS in FACT awesome.
Dickinson Killdeer is objectively awesome. What people think does not matter.
Also, George Washington was also objectively awesome.
Funny how we all know the guy’s name, but its never actually been mentioned in the comic.
He’s just that badass. His name transcended the comic, beamed straight to our brain pans by the mere might of his ursine destroying rampage.
Now that you guys have mentioned it, I hope he NEVER has his name revealed to the actual characters!
dude. sorry there are some trolls trolling your comments. not cool!
all i can say is i totally look forward to wed and fri because i’m enjoying the story!
keep up the good work, ethan!
if you’re any kind of a-hole, you’re an AWESOME hole!
Haha, seconded!
Aye. Motion carries.
So, in the picture, is George W. riding a Beagle?
The caption on the picture says its a “Beargle”
Haha! That reminds me of this thing I found on Regretsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/70001690/george-washington-zombie-hunter
They have a bunch of notable figures, all action-hero’d.
How could we have missed THIS one?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68690020/abe-lincoln-riding-a-grizzly-old-photo
Where did the other hippies go?
Distracted by a patch of mushrooms or something.
Washington…washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2hj5rLN48
Also, I would buy a print of that Washington piece and hang it in my office for sure! Any chance?
Yes, there is a chance.
Love the art! I like the contrast between the panel looking into the van from outside, and then the opposite view looking out from inside the van. (Was that a sentence? Ack, you know what I mean!)
Compliment comprehended and appreciated!
I want a Ronald Regan riding Wexter or something…
Apparently the message is also that George Washington could time travel – that’s way too many stars!
Obviously, George was a forward thinker.
Apparently far in our future. It looks like there could be more than 50 on that flag (not going to count).
I like how the number of stars is breaking the strict laws of chronology but the fact that he is on a half bear/half eagle is not.
Hey, I keep a car cover just because of the threat of a flying eagle bear.
+1
That is truly an epic picture. I want that as a desktop!
*threw
*esoteric
I’ve gotta be that guy.
Cue the trolls correcting ‘gotta’.
Damn. Throw.
Just heard the podcast. Really enjoyed it. (in fact, it brought me here, which I’m also enjoying right now)