Oddly all this pictures have something in common…

War by Ciara P…  

Attack Chimp by Rise Up…

‘Zilla by Me…

The death of modern art?

I’m not quitting, I’m finished…   

Here is a little love for your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.  Here is a little drawing that I did…

Here is one of my absolute favorite drawings of Spider-Man, from Amazing Spider-Man #35 drawn by Steve Ditko…

And then the MOST important Spider-Man work, his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15.  The cover art here was done by Jack Kirby, and the interior art was done by Steve Ditko…

Here is a sketch…

That became a ‘commission’…

Hello I’m your television.  Believe it or not, I have more rights than you do.  America is a free country, well free to me, but certainly not you.  I can do whatever I want as long as I put up a simple screen of text saying something like ‘Mature Audiences Only’ or ‘Don’t Try This At Home’.  With those simple words I am free of all responsibility.  I am accountable for noting.  Don’t forget to set your DVR’s…

"You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair! "

"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke."

Destroy me

‘Not ever rain drop believes they are the reason for the flood’

I steal more from you than anyone else ever will.

They are always watching...

You've been Starbucxed... sharks are a pretty big deal...

Art as a Defense Mechanism...

Sometimes when you try to make art you just try to hard. So I am gonna post some pages from a notebook, they are nothing special. They are in ballpoint pen and sharpie, so there is no going back and erasing just pen to paper and go. Here we go with 'The Freedoms We Fight For'...



The art may be a little different for the next couple weeks here at the Kingdumb.  We may be having some guest artists doing any appearance.  I will be showing some more nontraditional art.  Believe me if your not already coming to the site, I can promise… you won’t notice.  If you do come to the site and love it great… if you hate it great… if it inspires you to make your own art… even better.  I hope you enjoy…

“What if you take me somewhere else, somewhere I don’t belong.  And we hide their till morning?... Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream….”

When mascots take over: ‘Question, do we get reimbursed if the person we save barfs all over our costume?!’

Here is a bit from the end of the movie ‘Seven’ …

I have an amazing fantasy to own Amazing Fantasy #15, more to come...

I hope that what I’m about to say is pretty clear: MOST ART IS CRAP.  I am not excluding the art on this site.  Art anymore isn’t about the art itself, it’s about the artist themselves, or their feelings, but more often than not it’s about a giant size portion of ego.  ‘I’m deeper and better than you and MY art is about how awesome I am.’  Well fuck that. 

Now don’t get me wrong I love pop culture and replicating it is fun and easy, I love comics and movies like everyone else.  But I am so sick and tired of people liking a painting BECAUSE it was done by Van Gogh or Warhol, and not because they allow the art and what the image is to sink into their heart, or mind or loin or whatever.  Again, I’m not saying Wild Kingdumb is the best, or even good, but we are artists that love art and want to not have anything stand in the way of images and design. 

Every time I walk down the street I see hipsters trying to be the personification of cool, I see advertisements telling me without their product I won’t be cool, when I turn on the TV I see shows trying to shove the model for ‘this is what cool is’ down my throat.  We are inundated every minute of every day of a world trying to tell us and show us what is cool and what we should do.  I want to urge you all to take a step back.  Be yourself.  Enjoy art you like.  And try as hard as possible to not be ‘cool’.

Now that you know where we stand I wanted to show a couple of pictures by four separate artists that I think are good, go to their sites, put away your wallets, and just enjoy…

‘Sun Up at Sun Down’ at Rise Up Design:

‘Freckles’ by Dan Hipp:

‘Containment’ by Ciara Pickering:

‘Flower’ by Banksy:

And last but not least a terrible drawing by yours truly, enjoy… or don’t, it’s up to you…

"You met me at a very strange time in my life..."

Here are two sketches from a large painting on, I hope to finish it up here in a couple of weeks stay tuned for more...

I really love Dr. Doom's mask...