Beardy McWeirdy

New Bezeus

2009-03-25T07:03:00Z

Cartoon-a-day #40:

Another Art Sale!

2009-03-25T01:57:51Z

Hi there,

I don't post here very often, because i've been quite busy lately.

However, desperate times call for desperate measures, and so, I'm having another art sale.

As per last time,

big 11X14 paintings are $50
11X14 pen/marker illustrations are $20
9X12 illustrations are $15
Cute little small paintings are $10
Bezeus-ified versions of YOU! $10
Quick Sketches are $5

For an overview of the style in which I work, visit my
Sketchblog
or my
Cartoon-a-day

Email Me For More Details

New Bezeus Strip!

2009-03-09T15:41:01Z

Chicago Neutrino Project: Two More Weeks!

2008-11-06T08:58:44Z

Hi everybody who reads this.

I don't post things like this very often, but I wanted to tell you about an amazing show i'm part of that is literally playing to no one. Tonight we had ONE person in the house.

It's an improvised movie, where the scenes you watch on the screen are being filmed literally seconds before you see them, at real live locations around the neighborhood. It features some of the best, most talented veterans of Chicago Improv, and is playing at Comedy Sportz Chicago, at Belmont and the Red Line.

To find out more, see past weeks, and get tickets, please go to http://www.chicagoneutrinoproject.com.

Neutrino Project: The Instant Movie is playing Wednesdays, September 17 to November 19, 2008, 8 pm at the ComedySportz Theater, 929 W Belmont, Chicago. Tickets $10, 773-549-8080, or Ticketmaster.
The current run has been called a Best Bet by the Red Eye and reviewed by Time Out Chicago and Don Hall.

Philosophy with Jameson Episode 1: Cool with Fuzzy Gerdes and Erica Reid

2008-10-30T17:13:36Z

We shot this in March at House of Gerdes.

Amazing video. I love stuff like this.

2008-10-25T11:36:09Z

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

DRAWING/PAINTING/HELP ME OUT OF THIS BRIAR PATCH SALE!!!

2008-07-21T17:39:47Z

Hey folks, I'm in a royal pickle. I haz no monies. and tomorrow monies come out of my account.

So here's the deal.

DRAWING SALE!

for a mere $20 payable to my paypal account at
colonelernie@gmail.com,

I will draw whatever you want, on

painting (acrylic on canvas) $75
nice stiff bristol board COLORED.-11x14 $20
nice stiff bristol board BLACK AND WHITE-11x14 $15
normal plain paper - 8.5x9 $10

SAMPLES:

fake stuff?

2008-05-13T19:29:57Z

hey, anybody have like... fake lillypads, or logs, or trees, like fake christmas trees, or like some clouds, or whatnot?

just...y'know... wondering.

More Food Updates

2008-04-08T00:26:45Z

So last night after watching TJ and Pete do makemups onstage, I was inspired to try that restaurant they're always talking about, and went to Sonic.

i had a double cheese burger and an extra long coney chili cheese dog. todd had an extra long coney chili cheese dog. jeremy had a double cheese burger.

the people inside were mopping the floor by flooding it with water and then pushing the water around with a mop, kinda half heartedly.

My New Store!

2008-03-24T14:15:12Z

Hey Everybodeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I have a new shop at this place called ETSY, which I'm sure the rest of the world already knows about,
but I just discovered them a couple months ago. Right now I only have a few things up, but I'm working to get a couple others up
quickly, because the world needs cute little puppets, and I need cute little monies.

My shop, where you can find guys like the following:

Oh look! A cute little elephant!
his name is William B Williams!

And we also have the grumpy Señor Buzzybutt, famed in song and story
as the only bee to have faced Señor Walter-the-accountant and have lived to tell the tale!

WEEEEE!

That frog has a me on its butt

2008-03-15T14:17:42Z

don't know what he's doing up there.

PLAYING MUSIC ON STAGE

2008-01-14T09:37:10Z

Hey, I'm playing the feature slot at the In One Ear open mic at the Heartland Cafe at the end of the month!

Come out and see me play! Really cheap, really easy to get to!

My Music Page
In One Ear Open Mic

something I've known for a long time.

2008-01-12T09:32:58Z

bert is it.

This is hilarious

2007-11-30T07:01:51Z

I saw this guy in a show last night, and I found this on his website. For some reason that escapes me, I just can't stop laughing. Warning, it's a bit loud. And it's music.

Scotty Iseri is silly

Um, watch it to the end for the most silly.

CALLING ALL COSTUME MAVENS!

2007-11-07T20:16:51Z

A friend of mine is looking for a coat similar to this one:

and a matching skirt.

Do any of you costume-centric people know any place I could start looking?
My shop could probably make it pretty easily, but I wanted to ask first to see if anybody knew of one already inexistence.

Thanks. Please let me know.

As politely as possible...

2007-11-06T16:54:46Z

I have been asked to ask all of my connections the following question:

Would anyone be interested in appearing in a video for the series Silly Sessions?

This specific one is called "Silly Pickle-Lickin'", and will be made up of 30 or so people, in separate shots, in a completely NON-sexual way, licking a pickle.

This is all on the up and up, no alterior motives here. The first video was called Silly Faces, the second one Silly Dances, the third was Silly Horse Whispering, and this last one is Silly Pickle-Lickin', or something like that.

Anyway, if you're interested or know someone who is, contact Steve Gadlin at steve.gadlin@gmail.com OR steve@blewt.com OR steev@steev.org.

Thanks. And, I promise. On the up and up.

Comin' To Ya! On a Dusty Road!

2007-11-06T16:15:38Z

11-06-07_0233.jpg
Originally uploaded by ColonelErnie.

Post Halloween trip to Walgreens with Greg turn out fortuitous, as we ran into Chicago's own jolly harmonica player, Elwood Blues! just shopping in the post-halloween sale aisle, and I snapped a picture of him! He was reeeal nice. And not at all like an ill-fitting shitty halloween mask.

SEPTEMBER'S BRIMSTONE

2007-09-20T07:31:36Z

Hop over to my sketch blog to see new drawings of pretty ladies:

ANOTHER POSTCARD

2007-09-19T22:14:58Z

with Weeeddiiing GOooooowns

keep 'em coming, masked avenger!

Quotes

2007-08-16T16:31:34Z

"if you hand me a cookie instead of my glasses, I'm going to eat the cookie and then go back to sleep... That's how I roll."
-bmajors

don't usually post things I find on the internet

2007-08-09T07:08:59Z

but this was too awesome to pass up. Found this at flickr. apparently in a window in Glasgow.

Wow, surprisingly accurate...

2007-06-25T05:19:29Z

I draw comics for Blewt Productions, the creators of Don't Spit The Water and other fine shows. A few months ago, I did one of the DSTW character The Interrogator, played by Nick Vatterott, completely based on my memory of what he looked like.

Here is that strip:

And here is a picture Fuzzy took of him last week at Chicago Underground Comedy, in which he is making an aLARMingly similar face. Yes, they are both him. but mine is a CARTOON DRAWING. Talk about rubber face.

Photo taken and originally uploaded by Fuzzy Gerdes

ANOTHER POSTCARD!

2007-06-19T18:07:00Z

With Chimpanzees! And every one is addressed to me!

Crimanittly!! This is getting serious!

I'd bet that even if I packed and moved my home, somehow they'd follow me!

SHEESH!

Recent Projects

2007-06-18T18:45:28Z

About two weeks ago, immediately after getting cut open, I picked up a relatively quick painting commision that was due this past friday. It was for a show produced by Piccolo Theatre in Evanston. Here are pictures of the process:

That was the sketch I submitted to the client, for approval. It was going to be 6x8 ft.

Luckily, a couple months ago, I purloined a piece of green canvas exactly that size, at an abandoned/rundown mall, at 95th and western.(along with a 3 ft. icecream cone, a wheelchair, a 12 ft. steel radio tower, a box of small boxes, and two blue batman boxes)

The green canvas had to be gessod so I could paint on it, so while that was going on, I photographed a model and a toy horse, and used a headshot of one of the actors in the show, and made this mockup:

After the gesso was dry, I took the canvas and my laptop, and went down to my brother's computer lab and used his lcd projector, projected the image on the canvas, and sketched it out in pencil. I took it back to my parents backyard, and spent the next week and a half slowly(i did just have surgery) filling in the image.

Now obviously there's not a lot of detail, but it was supposed to be seen from far away, hung off the Metra platform at Main St. in Evanston, for Custer Fair:

Tagged like a cow. Feel kinda like one with this tongue.

2007-06-08T06:49:18Z

"Bloggers must post these rules and provide eight random facts about themselves. In the post, the tagged blogger tags eight other bloggers and notify them that they have been tagged."

1. I had surgery on monday

2. I used to watch sesame street with a piece of plastic covering the screen, half red half green. while wearing glasses that were the opposite colors. supposedly to help my eyes or something.

3. I have a congenitally incomplete sternum, which makes a dip in my chest, which, when I was 7 or 8, I used to keep things in to snack on. like goldfish crackers.

4. I have always found it easier to carry things straight over my head, with my arm fully extended, like I'm wading across a river with a rifle.

5. Have taken part in winning these awards: Best Picture-Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, two Telly Awards for Commercial Excellence, a Parents Choice Award, and the award for most likely to look like me at age now.

6. in highschool, I had detention twice. Once on the very first day of freshman year, for leaving the lunchroom within the last ten minutes of the period, And once the monday after Prom Weekend, for coming in late because I took my date back to the airport. Never mind the fact that most of my friends just didn't come in at all, and spent the day running around some island in wisconsin shooting frenchfries at eachother with hairspray and toiletpaper tubes.

7. I will crack up, without fail, at any mention of bees. Dangerous though they may be, Bees are the funniest thing on earth. Also, unexpected one syllable rhymes. For instance, yesterday, while dusting,(he's retired, and his days are filled with cleaning,) my dad encountered an insect on the windowsill, and said, without notice, "Ug. A bug." Not funny to many, most likely. I very nearly burst my stitches open.

8. When I was 8 years old, I asked my mother to make me a doll of myself. She did, and I named him Bezeus.

I guess I have to tag others now. let's see... in the interest of trying to double-tag as few as possible, I'll choose fatwetdog, duosiceprincess, drummerchica3, cutedyke, the_jet_set, bradwinkle, bloodybladez, and shaxpur