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This is the cover and back cover to my daughter's birthday party invitation. We are only inviting immediate and extended family so I feel bad that I'm only sending a few of these out in the mail.I wanted to recapture the grungier Sesame Street from my childhood days. The Sesame Street books back in the 70's were illustrated with such a unique group of artists. I still have all of mine!
Now Elmo and Zoe rule all with their neon poppy colors and mass produced clip art illustrations...DAMN YOU ELMO...DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!
I miss all the un-PC characters like Roosevelt Franklin, The Two-headed Monster, Frazzle, Herry Monster, Bruno the Construction Worker, Guy Smiley, Sherlock Hemlock, The sleazy street vendor guy, and that crazed piano player that used to smash his head on the keyboard.
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Very classical look to it, Elmo may be more relatable for kids these days and took the spotlight, but the old monsters like cookie monster and big bird will always have a place in my heart...
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Aw! That's pretty cute! Your daughter is very lucky to have such a talented father!
And I miss Sesame Street the way it used to be! It's not at all the same as how it was when I was younger.... It peeved me when they tried to change Cookie-Monster into the Veggie-Monster!!
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This makes me want ta pull out the old school DVDs. Nice colors on this to. Reminds me of the early Sesame golden books. Also reminds me of Jack Davis's sesame stuff
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I LOVE THE COOKIE MONSTER! This an awesome looking invintation!
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I thought the text said "Guess who's turning on" and I gave it another look.
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Ah the memories. I remember the days of "Monster Piece Theatre" hosted By good 'ol Alister Cookie. Those were the days, when Jim Hensen was still alive and had a hand in Sesame Street.
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I don't remember there too politically incorrect with characters like Two-Head, Guy Smiley, Biff & Sully, or Sherlock Hemlock. But yeah, the Street has cleaned itself up quite a lot compared to itself in the 70's. I mostly blame competitors like Barney, they caught the Muppets with their pants down in the 90's(at least the Muppets who wore pants), especially without Jim Henson to guide them!
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This is one of my favorite pictures on this site. Absolutely adorable.
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I Just Adore Cookie Monster, even IF he isn't a letter of the english alphabet!
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I am amazed at your quality! your stuff is magical!
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you are way too kind. Seriously!
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Yeah, but I get to relive them through my daughter!
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couldnt agree with yer "artists comments" more on this one.
oh and c is for coockie and thats good enough for me.
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hell yeah! I lived by that motto in college too
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I miss the yep-yep aliens! And all the songs they would re-make like Cereal Girl and I've Got a New Way to Walk. And omg, Cecile!
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those guys rocked!! I'm not sure if they are still on the show. i thouyght the two headed monster was taken off, but he was on Elmo's world the other day! I watch it with my little girl.
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I am a huge fan of the grittier look of the vintage Sesame Street books. Roosevelt Franklin needs to come back! He was a street poet and rapper years ahead of the current trend.
Please make more illustrations in the style!!
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I loved Roosevelt. I actually had a puppet of him when I was a kid, I wish I still had it.
I wish they would bring him back, he was so cool. I'd like to draw him.
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Okay, that is just precious.
I miss REAL Cookie Monster
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I bought my daughter a huge Cookie Monster puppet, you can operate his hands (like gloves) and his head. It is pretty cool. I think I have more fun with it than she does.
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Don't make him sing 'Cookies are a sometimes food' or I think I'll have to hunt you down and kill you
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That is sacrilege...God help us all.
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i miss the old too
now all i hear is little kids yelling out elmo and zoey *sigh*
cute though
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One of my daughters first words was "ELMO!" but one was also "COOKIE" so that is promising!
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at least she said cookie haha
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"That crazed piano player that used to smash his head on the keyboard,"
I think you mean Don Music.
BTW, Awesome, awesome artwork. It looks just like the Sesame Street book illustrations from the early 1970's
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thanks man! YES! Don Music! That guy was a freak...a cool freak. there was this shaggy blonde haired hipster guy too that was a singer, I forgot his name. I think he wore little round sunglasses.
Remember Bruno the Trashman?
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Yeah, I remember Bruno. Whenever Oscar needed transportation without leaving the comforts of his trash can, Bruno the Trashman would usually be there as Oscar's personal chauffeur.
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he talked only once, at the end of the movie "Follow That Bird"
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heeey dude this is great!!!
jaja i'm turning 21 in may 24... so i wouldn't mind if you send me one of these just adding a 2... jajaj
amazing, it has movement, life...
congrats man...
have a nice life
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"C" is for cookie ..thats good enough for me...NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
I also miss the sesame street from my childhood. I mean they cleaned up oscars fur...the guy lives in a bin for goodness sake!
But since I live in south africa, we never got it season for season, we got a mised bag, from I think the early 70's to the late 80's . I was born in 86, and learnt to speak english from sesame street. Most afrikaans people from this country can speak english, but because of sesame street, I speak it without an afrikaans accent.
Anyway...enough rambling.
Loving your work. Makes me wanna jump in with watercolours again.
Peaceria.
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thanks man!
Notice how the colors are so bright now on Sesame? that new chracter Abby Cadabby, does not fit with the others...kinda weird.
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that crazed piano player that used to smash his head on the keyboard.
Mary had a bycycle, bycycle, bycycle...
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Hi name was Don Music! HA! i loved that guy.
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Cool stuff! I miss the old school Sesame Street stuff too.
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Hey BoobDan! Great stuff!
I miss the dinginess of the old Muppets, now they are all too bright.
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Thanks! Yeah... This may sound weird but I feel like look less alive now. Before there was something more organic about them that had you believe that they were just fond some where and brought on the show to entertain people. Oh well we still have DvD.
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i think it is the voices, because most of the original cast is either passed on (Henson and Richard Hunt), or doing different stuff...(like Frank Oz being a movie director ect ect...) they don;t have the "life" they once had. But I still love them!
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