Jamie Douglas Little Devil

 I liked fellow Richmond artist , Jamie Douglas' little devil so much, That I drew it myself on an envelope and sent it to him!!

Imitation is the finest form of flattery. 

Skull ACEO

(c) Ralf Schulze

One of the art cards in a big batch started in April.       Really didn't do anything else to this.
ACEO is "Art Cards, Editions & Originals". The size is only 2.5" x 3.5" (same size as a baseball card!)  Mine are always originals.

This is only watercolor and ink on thick watercolor paper.

bizzaro face

2016

A Photo of Friends

painted over painting

I recently found the last two sketches of my friends and I from 1988 or so.  Of course the sketches transformed them into comic characters!

Fun stuff!
All the drawings are on 14 x 17 sketch paper.
I even started a painting back then based on this photo, but got frustrated and painted it over with something else.
I just found the scan of the old photograph of the painting I painted over!

Zombie Thriller Terror Postcard #4

The last of these from 1988.  That was a good year for me.
This is, naturally, Dinky Doo in a slightly scary pose.
4.25" x 7.0".

Have you guessed the 2 things about these "Zombie Thriller Terror Postcards"?
1.  They are actually Zombie Filler Terror Postings
2. I made them all on one 8.5" x 14.0" piece of paper!

Zombie Thriller Terror Postcard #3

Yet another from 1988.  Found a stash of old originals.... oddly, many are too big for the scanner!
Here is of course, Dog*God at his meanest!
4.25" x 7.0"

Zombie Thriller Terror Postcard #2

Another back from 1988.
Larry the Leper looking a little Vampirey
4.25"x 7.0"

Zombie Thriller Terror Postcard #1

Way back from 1988.
This one is Chuck the Zombie, an occasional friend of Dinky Doo.
4.25" x7.0"

The Wonderful World of Dinky Doo! (two)

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

Another fine page from Dinky Stories #2.  Nothing to do with Tallix, but a little to do with current events of 1986.
This is the 2nd page of "The World of Dinky Doo"  ---  The first page was previously posted HERE

Dinky Doo Finisher: Small Talk

Here is the last of the Dinky Doo - Finisher pages in Dinky Stories #2 from 1986.
This is the MiniComic That inspired me to create Tallix Funnies!

Dinky Doo: Finisher

Another one page comic from Dinky Stories #2!
The inspiration for TX Funnies!
I am naming names
Mr.Q.C.is Jerry Tobin.
FatBoy is Richard Johansen.
And Mr. Finn is Vinny Nardone!

Almost 30 years ago and still full of Memories!

Cover of Dinky Stories #2

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

I was working at the second bronze sculpture foundry of my career Tallix.  This place was really cool.  I was also very much into mini-comics and mail-art at the time.  So I combined things and let them flow. 
This 16 pager was all my art except one page by my pal Ralph M. and a drawing by Dave Herman on the inside cover contents page (he also inspired 2 of the 3 Dinky Doo: Finisher pages.
I will post the other 2 pages of Dinky Doo: Finisher here soon.
The response to this comic inspired Tallix Funnies!

Dinky Doo Finisher - New Bit

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

Another Dinky stories page.   I love how nearly spontaneous this looks, yet I am sure I stressed a little over some of the details.

All good.  I've got new ideas in mind,
So don't think I'm just filling this blog up with old minicomix pages - day-by-day.

They are good filler - since I can only post my art.

had some hardish times lately  that kept me away from art; with power out on Sunday the 15th and work stress during most of the week and then frozen pipes recently...

Dinky the "doo"

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

Back cover of "Dinky Stories #2"
I did some playful "blind" drawings of my characters back then in 1986.
This i did with my eyes closed and then added the circle and outlining and cross-hatching.
Purely for fun.

The World of Dinky Doo is Nuts

(c) 1986 Ralf Schulze

Another page from my sophomore effort at a mini-comic back in 1986 - DINKY STORIES #2.

This page is so silly.  I noticed that I forgot Dinky's arms in the bottom left image!  OOPS!

I must have been high on Dinking.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth to everyone.

Stupid Stamp Strip

(c) 1986 Ralf Schulze

This is from my minicomic, Dinky Stories #2.  Three carved rubber-stamps and some word balloons! (with subtle embellishments)
I was 26 years old and this was my sense of humor then. 
I still think it is funny.
The last panel is a rubber stamp of Dinky Doo, the "poortagonist" of the minicomic.

In the Beginning there were Fools

(c)2000Ralf Schulze

great old comic panel that never saw the light of day.
Starring Mr. Suburbia and Dinky Doo, aka "The Fools"

Why I Have No Ears - Stinky Poo 1989

(c)1989 Ralf Schulze

Back in 1989 I did a lot of comix and had a character named Dinky Doo.
I also used speedball or crow quill tips on a dip pen to ink the comix.  I am a lefty and push my drawing utensil and sometimes when I used a ink pen, it would splat and mess everything up.
I did a bunch of Stinky poo comix and let the splats happen for the fun of it!
This one has never been published (Ha, published! Like my printing out 50 copies of a minicomic was a publication).
If you look close at the 2nd panel, I used an "oops!" rubberstamp I have!

Post: Every-Other-Day 2015

Happy New year to all and welcome to my new-years-resolution-style-posting-rules:

Okay, On a whim I decided to post something every other day this year in response to my pal, Hal Weaver's vow to post an Image-a-Day!  there is a slight difference and I think I have a disadvantage, but that;s okay.
Hal will post an image a day.
My blog was started and continues to be only My art (old and New).  But now with a slightly new challenge of posting something every other day!  This is really good to get my creative juices going, so I sat down and started and continued some works in progress for a couple of hours.  But I did not finish anything. not to worry.

  So I will post some of my Illustrated Christmas Cards of the past to fill this initial void.

My apologies to anyone who is sick of Christmas stuff.... I don't care . . .  I don't have may folks looking at this blog.  It is mostly to get me to make more art and get it out there!


So, here is a rubber stamp I carved of Frosty the Snowman gone Fishing.  I did it on one of those silly "BigMistake" erasers you could buy for $1 in the 1990's.   It's about 4.5" tall and I added some fish on the sides using a rolling stamp I bought!  I sent a bunch of these out to friends, back in 1995 (+/-2 years) as postcards for Christmas!

approx (c)1995 Ralf Schulze

Richmond Zinefest!

I will have a table at the Richmond ZineFest On Saturday October 4th.
With some of the same kind of cool Stuff you see here!  {except the lame old Laptop}
Click here for More information!  Click around for details as to where the Zinefest is at!
If you are seriously wondering what I have to offer , please check out the "labels"and click on 1988, 1989, 1990, and maybe 1991 also etc. to see my older stuff in advance! 

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