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Friday, July 12, 2024

It's the beast in me

 


In his 1958 movie King Creole, Elvis said this great line, "That's the way I was born, under a bad sign. Everybody's got a tale of woe, like I said before. But mine is a classic. It's the beast in me."

That wasn't the inspiration for this "The Werewolf of..." series. I was in the car listening to Classic Vinyl on Sirius XM and heard Warren Zevon's song, "Werewolves of London." It occurred to me it would be fun to do a series of designs with werewolves from less glamourous places than London. Toledo popped into my head. Not that I have ever been to Toledo. But it seems like place you wouldn't want to live. John Denver even had a song about it called "Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio." One of the lines was "Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all."

Sorry if I'm being unfair to Toledo, but it just doesn't seem like a cool place. 

My next "Werewolf of" design was for a place I know much better than Toledo.


People from Boise will dispute it, but there are quite a few creatures from the city who look like this werewolf. The trucker hat is classic Boise. I produced a couple more for Boise werewolves.

I swear this one looks like some of the streets in downtown Boise where there are maybe two  multi-floor buildings.


And this one could be found at several truck stops outside of Boise.

Finally to be fair, I did a couple of designs featuring some werewolves from the Emerald City.


This one could be any of hundreds of characters you see in Seattle's Pioneer Square.  He has the required grunge flannel, cargo shorts and a beanie. And of course there is the Space Needle which seems to be in any image you see of Seattle.


If this one would have been blonde, it could have been Kurt Cobain. But I do think it gives you a sense of the city. Of course, it could be a Portland werewolf, too. 

While I was in a beast mode dictating designs to Artie, I had this idea.


It started as just a bowl of dough rising. Then I decided it should actually look like a Yeast Beast (which sounds like something Dr. Seuss would come up with.).

And on a totally not related theme I created this one which really like.


You probably can't read the tiny type under the "I" but the whole thing reads "I (watched a man on TV who) WALKED ON THE MOON."  And no it wasn't inspired by the new Apple TV movie "Fly me to the moon." 

This was one small design for a man, one giant t-shirt for mankind.










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