For those of you who have so far resisted the siren call of following @ftgcomic on Twitter, here are some of the sketch requests from ECCC that we’ve been tweeting from time to time!
Abe Lincoln holding up a platypus on Pride Rock
Victor von Doom, Otto von Bismarck, and the Realpolitik of Poker
William Shakespeare, a Killer Whale, and a Hobo Out on the Town
Benjamin Franklin and his Traveling Companion, Psyduck
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Okay, this week was the nexus around which my students’ mid-terms, jury duty, our upcoming 500th episode, my daughter’s school deciding randomly to shave an hour off each day, two doctor’s appointments, and a massive backlist of sketches from ECCC have all decided to converge. To deal with the last first, I’ve combed through my immensely unsophisticated system of sketch filing and have found that I have addresses for the following sketch requests. If you know you requested something but don’t find it on the list and would still like it, then send me a note with your address and I’ll add it on. I’m going to try to finish four of these a day, but even doing that it’s still going to be ELEVEN DAYS until I’m done, so some people might be waiting a couple of weeks but I shall try my best to get them out as fast as possible. Here ya go!
1. The 10th Doctor and Theodore Roosevelt: Rough Riders
2. Theodore Roosevelt: Space Cowboy
3. Chthulhu and the Loch Ness Monster Dance-Off
4. Elizabeth Bathory and Bender: Kill All Humans!
5. Shakespeare, A Killer Whale, and a Hobo Out on the Town
6. Benjamin Franklin Vs. Wizards!
7. James K. Polk Riding a Triceratops
8. Random Surprise from American History
9. Bismarck playing chess with a corgi
10. Bunny Smoking a Cigar
11. Abe Lincoln Holding a Platypus Aloft on Pride Rock
12. 2 Attendees as a Geisha and Samurai
13. Zombie Marie Antoinette Tea Party w/ Dinosaur
14. Albert Einstein and a Platypus
15. Benjamin Franklin and Psyduck
16. Theodore Roosevelt on Applejack
17. George Washington axing a zombie
18. Professor X, Loki, and Victor von Doom playing poker and flagrantly cheating
19. 10th Doctor Who in a Speak Easy
20. Benjamin Franklin dicking around with an iPad
21. Charlotte Bronte punching Jane Austen In The Face
22. Hitler riding a T-Rex Wielding a Lightsaber with a Nuclear Explosion in the Background
23. A Very Presidential Taft who is Not a Mangaroo
24. Eleanor Roosevelt Giving a Medal to Ma Hunkel
25. Napoleon Fighting a Bear
26. Velociraptor Emerging from the TARDIS
27. Genghis Khan vs. Tophatted Russian Bear
28. Cage Match: TR, B. Franklin, Lincoln
29. Captain Mal and Eddard Stark : Battle on the Capitol steps
30. Historical Slime King
31. Shakespeare Dicking Around with an iPad
32. Roy Orbison and Louis Pasteur’s First Batch
33. Galileo/Alien Space Battle
34. Tesla Emperor Palpatining Edison
35. Dali’s Moustache Upkeep
36. Lady Godiva and Eric the Red
37. Abe Lincoln as a Zombie Eating Thomas Jefferson
38. Tesla vs. Pikachu
39. Lorax Lady getting eaten by zombie Lincoln
40. Samurai Darth Vader
41. George Washington and Dinosaur Sharing Milkshake
42. Attendee Riding Giraffe in Victorian Garb
43. Gothic Medusa
44. General Patton Wrestling an Octopus
45. Steampunk Uncle Sam running Hitler through with a sword.
So, yeah, a few. Which means I best be getting to work!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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If you’re joining us new from ECCC, welcome, and if you’ve been here all along, then hello once again! We had a tremendous time, and as those who follow us on The Twitter know, the commission requests were in all ways what we’ve come to expect from the creative and wonderful folk of Seattle. I’ll be posting more of those on Thursday, along with sharing several of the other rad things from the show.
In the meantime, though, here is an interview that I did at ECCC in which we talk about Ayn Rand, Lincoln’s Ass Whooping Hat, and Witch Doctor, among other things – I don’t actually hear my own voice all that often in a recorded format, so it came a something of a surprise to me to learn that “just sort of” is apparently my cadence regulation phrase.
There will be more to speak of as regards Kinsey later – but in the meantime, I’d like to point you to one of my favorite books, The Modernization of Sex, by Paul Robinson. Robinson was my senior thesis advisor at Stanford back in the day, and this book should be required for everybody thinking about an academic career – his insistence on clarity and simplicity in academic prose, his crusade to pare down ego-stroking jargon coinages, and his humor are all at their best here, AND you get to read about early studies into American sexuality!
– Count Dolby von Luckner