RIP Blackie

Today I went to the vet to have Blackie euthanized. Her tumor was getting too big and it was getting in her way. She had trouble cleaning herself properly. She was prone to tumors, so another surgery for her was out of the question. Even removing it now would have been risquy considering Blackie was quite old for a female rat now (nearly 2 years old).

Here are the pictures from our last playtime yesterday.

McCain/Sirkowski 2008

VJ Jetley alerted me that there was a John McCain political ad on the site. I've checked into how to block a particular advertizer and it's pretty complicated. Someone would need to copy the link properties and send it to me. I really doubt anyone is gonna take the time to do this (I wouldn't). In any case, if you don't use your web cursor to activate the link to the ad banner*, I won't be getting any money from 'McCain for Prez'.

But to nullify any good publicity he might have got on my website, McCain is a fucking wanker. Sure, he served his country and got tortured in Nam. But maybe the Presidency isn't the right place for someone who's still suffering from PTSD? And that ad banner in question. I imagine McCain is refering to the bill/motion/whatever by both houses of Congress that would force Bush to accept a withdrawal date for the troops before he can get any military funding. McCain thinks that Bush should get his money, no questions asked (that worked well so far, right?). How appropriate that McCain wasn't even present during the vote! If he thinks it's so important, where was he when had a chance to say 'nay'? (I think he was on the set of the Daily Show, making jokes about kicking puppies. No, seriously.)

*I'm deliberatly not using certain words to avoid an alert from the Gewgle Ad Bot.

Todd Goldman likes Chip Wass A LOT!

3rd Todd ripoff of Chip Wass (found by P78M of SA).

Stuff is moving at the moment, but Shmorky can't talk about it until Monday. Let's hope this time Todd finally gets a clue.

More hypocrisy in the Bush administration

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias likes Central American prostitutes. He's likes them because when you do it with brown people, it's not really sex, so he's not cheating on his good Christian wife.

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

..On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the “Pamela Martin and Associates” escort service “to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage.” Tobias, who is married, said there had been “no sex,” and that recently he had been using another service “with Central Americans” to provide massages.

Tobias was the Bush administration's AIDS czar. The job of an AIDS czar is to spread AIDS across the globe by telling people not to have sex and when they do, don't wear condoms because it makes baby Jesus cry.

Did Tobias wore a condom when he fucked latinas up the ass?
Via Pandagon

Eva and Blackie Moogles

Uh... I dunno. ^^;

Another day, another of Todd Goldman's theft

On the left, the FreeBSD Demon from Marshall Kirk McKusick. On the right, Todd, of course. Pay attention to the design on the shoes and the position of the tail.

But the head is different, right? Yes, but that's only because he plagiarized the head from somewhere else. On the left, a drawing from Chip Wass, an artist Todd has already plagiarized previously.

The kitty of course is from the Neko computer program. As for the fire, I don't remember where I saw it, but it's also traced from another source. Did he steal the marshmallows as well?
More on BoingBoing.net

Todd Goldman just keep sinking lower.

Remember Todd Goldman, the pedo who sends porn to children and happens to be a serial plagiarist? Just when I thought the guy couldn't sink lower, someone found out that Todd Goldman's most famous piece was traced as well.

The one on the left was created for a 1999 Intel ad introducing the Pentium III.
The page with the character
The commercial
Goldman's company was founded in 2000 and that shirt came slightly later. He changed the head, but the rest is obviously traced.

Jesus christ was is so hard to draw the kid's body he had to trace it? I bet he traced the head from a source we haven't found yet.

If you have a blog, a livejournal or whatever, talk about this, link to it, copy/paste this. Todd's lawyers are sending cease & desist letter to people who are exposing him (I didn't get anything; I'm probably not big enough to get noticed by lawyers). But they can't attack everyone, so the more people talk about this, the more it becomes impossible for Todd Goldman to fight back.
Digg it!

New Miss Dynamite AMV

A new anime music video from Sheven, "Don't Make Me Wet".

Todd Goldman the pedophile plagiarist is also a douche

This is from a Wired blog.

Once upon a time, I was strolling with two people down at the Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles. We passed a gallery with giant windows, a gallery packed to the gills with the most insipid, offensively dull paintings we had ever seen. We stood in awe that this person had conned someone into giving them an entire retail space to soil. There were paintings of lamps that looked as if they had been done by "getting old ain't so bad" greeting card illustrators. Mr. Bill-like cartoon faces, with no perceivable expression or appeal, stared sightlessly off white canvas. Seemingly random depictions of household objects bore zany witticisms scrawled atop.

"Jesus wept," someone said, "this shit is TERRIBLE."

Instantly, he was upon us. The artist himself, lurking at a nearby cafe table and supervising the reactions of the gallery's passerby, leapt to his feet and verbally laid into us. Sputtering and red, he demanded to know what we had said about him, if we knew who we were dealing with, and who the hell we thought we were. We pointed and laughed at the poor crazy man who couldn't draw, and went to a movie.

And that batshit insane motherfucker turned out to be none other than Todd Goldman. Jesus christ, what a prick!

Digg it!

Re: Convention sketches

Yesterday I promised an auction for a bunch of sketches I made at the convention. Well, someone bid faster than the speed of light. Which means the auction is over before it even started. Sorry. I'll auction some new stuff next week.

Todd Goldman tries to erase the past

The lawyers for Todd Goldman are sending cease & desist e-mails around the Net to people who have exposed him as the plagiarist he is.

We have acquired articles posted on your website which contain defaming, derogatory and malicious statements about Mr. Goldman. Therefore, we request that you immediately remove these article from your website, as well as any subsequent articles and/or URL links of this nature regarding Mr. Goldman. Further, the hosting of such statements and/or URL links about Mr. Goldman is actionable defamation and libel that has caused irreversible damage to his character. (as seen on Fleen.com)

Goldman seems to have decided to act like a douche. He has still not paid Shmorky has he had promised. You want diffamation, asshole? Fine, TODD GOLDMAN IS A PEDOPHILE! When people first tried to contact Todd Goldman over his act of plagiarism, an auto-reply from Todd sent a link of pornography to minors. It's a fact! Spread the word on your blogs and livejournals. He can't sue everyone on the whole Internets.

Hat tip to Micheal Gilson.

Convention sketches.

4 new sketches, drawn at the Montreal Comic-Con. Too tired to do anything else tonite, but I will be selling those pics online tomorrow (as a package). First buyer, first served.

Montréal Comic Con - Sunday April 22nd

Just a reminder, I will be at the Montréal Comic Con this Sunday. Other guests will include David Finch, Serge Lapointe, Clément Sauvé and Éric Thériault. I will be selling Miss Dynamite Special Edition, Faster, Dynamite! Kill! Kill! #1 and 2, Sex Sells, 6 different framed color pinups and Miss Dynamite, hentai and Starship Titus originals.

Sunday 22nd April
From 10am to 5pm
DIRECTIONS: PALAIS DES CONGRES
By Metro: Take the metro (subway) to the PLACE-D'ARMES station, located under the Palais, and follow the signs.
Walking: The building of the Palais takes the whole block surrounded by Viger Ave. (North), Saint-Antoine Street (South), Saint-Urbain Street (East), and Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle (West), an extension of De Bleury Street.

Miss Dynamite's surf song

credit to: Mister Jerus
(you have to imagine a surf song)
If your feeling kinda down theres a place i know a sleepy little bay called guantanemo in cell 29 theres a real mean chick but you know she knows how to pick a lick
Guantanemo chick
Guantanemo chick
Guantanemo chick picks a real sick lick
Yeah everyone knows guantenemo chick
The guards toes are a tapping there jamming in the sand she's even set up her own terrorist band
{chorus
She'll make your rock harder then you have in your life but if you get to close she'll slice you up with her knife
{chorus
So when the walls fall down and the guards are dead guantanemo chick will still be rockin your head
[chorus chorus end]

The Genesis of the Pu Sisters

Someone asked me where the idea for the Pu Sisters came from recently on the forum. Since the answer was pretty detailed, I thought I could share it here.

The Pu Sisters' creation is peculiar. For year, I don't remember how I got the idea, I thought it would be funny to have two characters named Pu Tang and Pu Nani. That's where the concept stopped for years, two name puns.
Sometimes, when this pun would came back to my mind, I kept thinking that as good and original a joke can be, eventually, someone's gonna have the same idea. And when that happens, since you haven't exploited your concept, well it's too late, there's nothing you can do. The worse thing you can do with a good idea is to sit on it for too long. (For exemple, wasn't the airplane invented almost simultanously by the Right Brothers and some Italian guy? Not really on the same level as the Pu Sisters, just an exemple. ;-p)

Things changed when Tom Fulp talked about maybe making a Miss Dynamite video game last year (A new game, not the first side-scroller project that was aborted long ago.). I didn't want the game to be about celebrity killing. I wanted an all Miss Dynamite cast. And since I lacked "know" female characters, it was a good opportunity to create the Pu Sisters. I've created many characters over the years, but very few are known to the general public. Most of them are crap I created in high school anyway. So later, since there was no new devellopment with the video game and the characters were already created, I was just as well to use them in the anime.

Now as far as the characters themselves. I know some asian cultures put the family name first, like in China (Unless I'm mistaken?). So the same first syllables of Putang and Punani could be their family name. They would be asian, but I didn't want them to be Chinese or Japanese so they would be different enough from Blackie (especially the eyes). So I opted for a South-East asian look.
Dunno if I did good since some people think they're black. (that pic has nothing to do with the Pu Sisters, except the name of the picture is "Pu Sisters", just a funny coincidence.) Their exact country of origin is still unknown. They could be Malaysian, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Filipino, etc. Same goes for their religion and their origins. So then I decided they could be a sort of inverted image of Eva and Blackie. A bosomy asexual angry bitch and a small chested sex maniac. But that probably lacked a bit of originality since they would basicaly be Eva & Blackie negative clones. So I kept Pu Tang with big breasts, but made her more serious than Eva, more focused, professional. And unlike Eva & Blackie, I made the Pu Sisters care for each other, because I knew everyone would think of lesbian incest. XD So I made small chested Pu Nani the kid sister brat the serious Pu Tang could look after. And I didn't make Pu Nani a pervert since she was young and uh... that would be wrong. XD I also don't know what's Pu Nani's age. I created her as the youngest sister. She seems to be 'develloping'. I didn't know how young Mizura could sound in the voice acting, which made her sound even younger, which I liked. The contrast is even better. I guess she could be an early teen?

That's pretty much it for now. I think it's the first time I create characters so fast. Them and Sister Wulfia Focka.

Here we go with the fucking hijab again, part 2

More information about the Tae Kwon Do team who quit a competition because the girls were asked to take off their hijab. The team in question is affiliated with the Montréal Muslim Community Center. It is not a civil, but a religious organisation, whose aim is to promote Islam. Shi'ite conservative Islam to be precise. Not extremists, but not very tolerant either (On their website they explain that all Sunnis are ignorant and racist. Look who's talking!).

So without falling into conspiracy theories, it's not impossible the Montréal Muslim Community Center would have declared forfeit and used the kids to create a controversy. There's something very fishy here.

Here we go with the fucking hijab again...

A Tae Kwon Do coach pulled her team from a competition in Montréal because the referee asked the girls to take off their hijab, the Muslim veil women must cover their heads with.

Here we go again. Quebecers are racist, blablabla! And again, the feminists are either gonna be silent or take the side of patriarchy. Yeah, yeah, I know, free women are also free to cover themselves in shame. And the old tired argument "I know a Muslim girl who wears the hijab and nobody's forcing her". Yes, and George W. Bush is a compationate conservative. e_e If you want to claim you're forced to wear it because God told you so, start by proving that God exists and then you'll have a point. Why didn't the coach just act as the adult supervisor she was suppose to be, tell the girl to take it off and quit bitching. If your god wants you and your team to lose a competition because of a rag, then your god is an asshole and you should spit upon the face of its creation. 'the fuck that deity think he is bossing people around like that? And are 11 years old girls even supposed to wear the hijab in Islam? I thought little kids were exempted, even in backward places like Afghanistan.

Enough with the goddamn snow already!

Are they killing the art of satire?

Start by watching this country video and try finding out if it's real or satire.

Ok, when she starts singing about the troops "shooting" on her ass, breasts and face, you can figure out it's a satire of the Support the Troops meme. But for the first minute, until it got freaky, could you really tell? It seems today if you want to satirize wingnuts/chickenhawks/prowarjesusfreaks, you need a big red stamp that yells THIS IS SATIRE! Otherwise, how are you supposed to know?
Compare this with the videos of white supremacist Michelle Malkin (yes, she's asian, but go figure...).

Is Michelle Malkin on drugs? Probably. Is this satire? No it's not. I think at this point to believe that George W. Bush is a great president and that the USA is winning the war in Iraq, you have to be mentally ill (interestingly enough, scientific research has shown links between authoritarianism and mental illness). So maybe this is why it is getting increasingly difficult to tell the difference between satire and a genuine wingnut rant.

YOU COMMUNIST ELITE LIBERAL FAGGOT! YOU ATHEIST FUCKS REALLY WANT TO MUSLIMS TO WIN I'LL LAUGH WHEN THEY CUT OFF YOUR HEAD AND FUCK YOU IN THE ASS BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!1111

The Hentai Pimp Welcomes our Muslim Perverts

A Moroccan study published in early 2006 in L'Economiste shows [that] 56 percent of young [Moroccan] men admit to watching porn on a regular basis.

And that's only those who admit it.

Google Trends provides a way to demonstrate how difficult it is to banish forbidden yearnings from the heads of Muslims. By entering the term "sex" into Google Trends, one obtains a ranked list of cities, countries and languages in which the term was entered most frequently. According to Google Trends, the Pakistanis search for "sex" most often, followed by the Egyptians. Iran and Morocco are in fourth and fifth, Indonesia is in seventh and Saudi Arabia in eighth place. The top city for "sex" searches is Cairo. When the terms "boy sex" or "man boy sex" are entered (many Internet filters catch the word "gay"), Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are the first four countries listed.
Der Spiegel

The Islamists, just like the Christians before them, have already lost the culture war.

If you live in a country or you know someone who lives in a country where the government blocks access to smut on the Internets, here are a few link to defeat or circumvent censorship.

Todd Goldman caved in!

Wow, that happend faster than I thought! Check here for the previous post about how Todd stole art from Shmorky.

From Goldman's publicist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

POST POP-ARTIST, TODD GOLDMAN, CONTROVERSAL PAINTING

CLEARWATER, FL, April 11, 2007- Popular post pop-artist, Todd Goldman who has made a career of making fun of the world with his sarcastic commentary and cartoon icons, has mistakenly used the design of an another artist in two of his recent paintings. Todd’s painting, “Dear God, Please Make Everyone Die”, was inspired from a drawing he received unbeknownst to him belonging to an underground web comic artist David “Shmorky” Kelly.

In addition to painting, Todd designs t-shirts for his clothing company, David & Goliath. Todd and his design team create and receive thousands of design ideas every month. It’s no secret that Goldman creates a lot of his painting ideas from his t-shirt designs. Goldman says “I made a judgment error and didn’t research the background of this particular submission. “My intention was not to copy Mr. Kelly. I have never seen his work before and would never intentionally knock-off someone else’s idea.”

Goldman has issued a formal apology to Mr. Kelly and has stated that he will not be using his design again in the future. As a gesture of good faith, Goldman has pledged not profit from his mistake. He will instead donate his proceeds from the painting directly to Mr. Kelly or his charity of choice.

First of all, how did he trace over a picture by mistake? By the nature of this press release, it's obvious Todd didn't fear being sued. What he feared was the damage to his reputation. He's supposed to be an original artist and now people are discovering he's a shitty poser who can't even draw a stick figure properly.

When this scandal was blown in the open, a lot of people were sceptical Shmorky could get his due. The justice system isn't very protective of intellectual property when you're not a millionnaire like Todd Goldman. But it seems what made the difference today is the Internets. Had something like that happend 20 years, there wouldn't have been much to do. It's also encouraging to realize that the indie web-comic community has power. Nobody took Todd's side, NOBODY. Usualy when there's a scandal, there's always someone to take the asshole's side (just look at Bush and Cheney). Even people who had problem's with Shmorky took his defense.

This isn't over though. Todd can't create for shit. He stole from a lot of other artists, so we'll have to keep an eye on him. And so many other artists do the same, especialy post-modernists. Let's hope they all think about this lesson.

Canada is a fascist nation

I bet you didn't know that, right? I didn't either...

And did you know that the birth control pill is creating a "global cultural warming" that will flood us with sin? Over ten minutes of batshit crazyness.

Todd "Goliath" Goldman is an art thief

Perhaps you've seen some of Todd "Goliath" Goldman's 'art' before. There's a line of T-shirts called "Boys are gross; throw rocks at them". Pretty fucking stupid, it's a kind of post-feminist trash worthy of Paris Hilton. Todd got rich selling art on all kinds of crappy merchandize. Now about a week ago, it was discovered that one of Todd's paintings exposed in a Los Angeles gallery was plagiarized from Something Awful's Shmorky. It's a total rip-off.

As a result, plenty more plagiarism on Todd's part was discovered. Todd's reaction so far seems to laugh it off. He probably think this is just Internet nerds throwing a tantrum. But this story is gaining traction in the web-comic community. Now the LA Times is getting interested. People are angry. And Todd doesn't know what he's getting into once he's got the Goons on his back. Todd's been even caught plagiarizing Disney. Someone's gonna be in deep, deep shit.

Here's the thread on Something Awful forum. Here's an article about it on Juxtapoz.

More pinups of Twiggy and the Pu Sisters

French-Canadian Transformers

Upon request. :-)

I tried finding the France french version, which is horrible. You think anime is poorly dubbed in english, you've never heard the dubs from France.

And for Easter...

...something completly different.

The French-Canadian version of the GIjoe theme. Because I can. XD

3 new color pinups

3 new color pinups of the Pu Sisters and Twiggy Rickenbacker. For those who haven't bought the Faster, Dynamite! Kill! Kill! manga (that 99.9% of you out there ;-p) Twiggy is an anti-terrorist CIA agent on Eva's tail. She will probably make an appearence in the 24th episode of the anime.

A little roleplay

Let's say you're in the British Navy, patrolling the Persian Gulf in a tiny rubber boat, when suddenly big Iranian metal ship surround you with RPGs and heavy machine guns pointed at you. What do you do?
a) Nobody fucks with Ameri... uh, I mean, the Queen's Navy! Like a fucking Spartan, you open fire on those Persian fucks (even though you're not sure in whose waters you're standing), start an international incident that could lead to World War III and finally let one retarded president get his war with Iran. Tonite you dine hell, with a RPG rocket up your ass.
b) Lower you weapons, surrender and negociate a solution that won't worsen the situation further. Once you're freed, live to serve the Queen's Navy once more.

What would you do?

By the way, I'd like to tell a few cable new (pseudo) military experts to suck a bag of dicks. I dunno whose salad you had to toss to become an officer but to call these captured Brit sailors, and I quote, "stupid, disreputable and dispicable", you're one sick dumb fuck. I'm looking in your direction, MSNBC's Colonel Jack Jacobs.
Edit: Turns out Jacobs got some "severe head wounds" in Nam. Makes sense.

More emoticon plagiarism

Pinups of Pu Sisters and Twiggy

Apparently, some foot fetishists like the way I draw feet. So sometimes I get commissions from them. X-D It's a bit weird and I don't get it. But as far as fetishes go, it's pretty mild, so I don't mind taking those commissions. Although it's a bit weird from me, since I'm used to concentrating on ass and boobs. I don't do disgusting stuff like gore, scat, etc. I accepted a puke commission once, I felt nauseous drawing it, so I'm not doing that again. :-/

Blackie's ninja costume + fanarts

Sorry, haven't updated much, feeling a bit down lately. Here's Blackie in her old latex ninja costume.

Also, 2 new fanarts.