I've been caricatured...again!
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Posted on: December 16, 2006 11:19 PM, by PZ Myers
This one is a Carl Buell original.
Thanks, Carl!
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You look very calm and serene in this portrait.
Posted by: Stanton | December 16, 2006 11:30 PM
That's just the sedative kicking in. Getting PZ to stay still long enough to pose must have been a herculean task, otherwise.
Posted by: John Wilkins | December 16, 2006 11:40 PM
But I want you to know, that the next day that spot in the buttock where the dart went in? It hurts like heck.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 16, 2006 11:52 PM
Hey now.. that one looks like you.
Posted by: beepbeepitsme | December 17, 2006 12:05 AM
Pose? Pose! I wish. All I had was an "elf head" and that tiny profile photo to work from tonight.
Posted by: Carl Buell (OGeorge) | December 17, 2006 12:07 AM
Get that sucker framed and hang it up in your office.
Posted by: FishyFred | December 17, 2006 12:35 AM
No- that's not a caricature.
A good caricature should be insulting and it should hideously distort your worst features into an obscene parody of a human being.
If anything- that picture makes you look like a nice person.
Let's put the grotesque back into art shall we? After all, 'tis the season to stab loved ones in the back.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | December 17, 2006 1:20 AM
Oh- and Carl, you're very talented. Don't mistake my misanthropy for criticism of your technique.
Just use your powers for bad in the future OK?
Posted by: Christian Burnham | December 17, 2006 1:21 AM
It's a very nice picture, but as others have noted, it's not much of a caricature. There really aren't any distortions, except for a very minor emphasis on the lower half of the face and a de-emphasis on the top half.
I mean, really, is that a visage that will strike fear in the hearts of creationists? Something a little more Davy Jones-y might suffice.
Posted by: Caledonian | December 17, 2006 1:37 AM
*random racket*
Gosh, PZ. Mr. Buell makes you look almost....saintly. My vast army of undead android creationist-squirrel hybrids all genuflected when they saw it. At least I think they were genuflecting. There were a lot of chittering sounds, that's for sure. But you know, like they say, they *are* nuts.
Two drawings in one day, that's gotta make a fella's head swell a fraction. What next, Leroy Neiman?
Oh, wait, I forgot. All Neiman's pictures of celebs seem to look the same anyway. For all I know, you've already been immortalized. For that matter, I may be famous, too.
Hmmm. I seem to be channelling Andy Warhol today....SH
Posted by: Scott Hatfield | December 17, 2006 1:43 AM
If it was a caricature, he'd have a huge head, a huge nose, and would be driving a dune buggy.
Posted by: Rey Fox | December 17, 2006 1:46 AM
Exactly. He looks like a human. How much more hideous and grotesque could anything get! :-D
Posted by: SEF | December 17, 2006 5:28 AM
That's a very nice portrait. Where's the squid like in the other picture?
Posted by: Unstable Isotope | December 17, 2006 7:50 AM
Hey, George, any chance I could get a new avatar?
Posted by: John Wilkins | December 17, 2006 8:08 AM
PZ, I'm picturing this hanging on your office door, with a caption:
"So I look like a nice guy. I still get to decide your grade."
Posted by: Hank Fox | December 17, 2006 9:30 AM
Christian and Caledonian: I haven't done this in a long time. You should have seen my Nixon and Kissinger back when I actually did cartoons for newspapers 40 years ago. PZ did something for me that I wanted to thank him for, so I hid the tentacles beneath the shirt and tie! Next year, all the flaws will show...ya gotta bait'em in with "nice". A better (larger) photo would have helped too.
Scott: Damn! I can't get the vision of "undead android creationist-squirrel hybrids" out of my mind!
John Wilkins: Absolutely! I'm very good at morphing white gorillas.
Posted by: Carl Buell (OGeorge) | December 17, 2006 9:39 AM
Just to be clear. Tentacles are NOT flaws! I'm just saying that should there be a next time, the gloves come off.
Posted by: Carl Buell (OGeorge) | December 17, 2006 9:47 AM
I was thrown by the tie for a minute. How often, PZ, do you actually wear a tie?
Posted by: Karen | December 17, 2006 2:16 PM
No, but my wife is always trying to get me to dress more formally, so it will have her approval.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 17, 2006 2:19 PM
Carl: Your work is fantastic. What a treat it would be to see an artistic rendering of my vast undead army by your hand!
However, I must give credit where credit is due. My creationist-squirrel hybrids were but a response to PZ's legions of undead cyborg-squid half-breeds.
Hmm. I sense a low-budget SciFi Channel production in all of this. Perhaps Bruce Campbell could portray one of the squirrels. Would that be casting *against* type? I think Beau Bridges would make a terrific PZ, for that matter.
Wistfully...SH
Posted by: Scott Hatfield | December 17, 2006 4:53 PM