"A Time to Thrill" on Top Shelf 2.0
Pink Hobo gallery is currently exhibiting a show of Pinewood Derby art cars. Unfortunately I missed the opening, but it looks like it was a ton of fun, as evidenced by this late night race and this eye-popping portrait. My contribution does not have moving wheels, unfortunately, so it had to sit on the shelf during the race. Or maybe Tim and Curtis threw it around like a football. I don't know. Anyway, playing off the ultra-cheesy theme that every car has a story inside of it, I decided to literally fill my derby car with a stream of consciousness mini comic, which you can read more about in the next paragraph.
"A Time to Thrill" is an automobile-themed comic strip I drew on eleven slabs of painted balsa wood. Unfortunately, when I joined all the slabs together to form a car-shaped sculpture, the world lost the ability to actually read the comic.
Until now.
Top Shelf 2.0 -- an online library of awesome mini-comics and serialized comics, updated daily -- has posted the complete comic! Go check it out! And then go check out the actual car at Pink Hobo in NE Minneapolis while the show is still running!
Labels: Online Comics, Pink Hobo
posted by Kevin Cannon @ 9:20 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Kevin,
Looking at your original photo, I thought you had drawn pictures of the car's guts -- sliced open. Like the car was a living being that you dissected or something. With maybe an engine, springs, nuts, bolts, mufflers and stuff mixed in with the organs and stuff. Eew.
I like your idea better.
--David
HA! I read it on the Top Shelf 2.0 site before it appeared on the BTA site! Very interesting concept and of course an entertaining read.
Thanks, guys! David, you're partially right: the color scheme of the sections is meant to look like classic cartoon slabs of steak. I really like your idea about the literal cross-sections of a car. If I knew anything about cars I'd try it!
Hey Kevin, is this piece for sale?
Doc -- Yeah, the gallery price is $400.
yeah that thing is really aerodynamic, you can get a good spin on it and make really long passes.
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