Pairing Off: Most Graphic Moments Of The First Quarter(1)
By Dave Faries 2009-4-3 9:35:38
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Looking back at our antics--pairing wine with sausage biscuits, Buffalo wings, Arby's and such--we realized that graphic artist Patrick Michels deserves occasional recognition. Each week, after all, we ask him to risk sizable fines--or at least phone calls from copyright infringement lawyers, just to illustrate a blog column. In return, he gets nothing. That's right: zilcho...unless personal satisfaction in a job well done counts for something.
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Anyway, we pause in our weekly attempt to pair good wines with ordinary food to review Michels' most graphic moments, the very best of his illustrations so far. The four depicted after the jump now have a shot at our year end top ten honors.
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Jimmy Dean's Sausage Biscuits
When an artist captures the true spirit of golden age programming, you have to applaud. The values taught on Saturday mornings way back when are all in evidence here. Friendship, for instance. The importance of family, as implied by the dog--and if anything, the puppet adds a sense of good, clean fun. Proper grooming comes into play. And, very clearly, the idea of sharing. Note how the Jimmy Dean character seems eager to pop open his ill-gotten bottle of wine. You just know he'll allow his underage puppet dog friend to take the first swig. So in one stoke of a computer mouse, Michels pays homage to a long lost era. Looking at his work you, too, want to knock over a liquor store and get some kid or canine totally sloshed. And had it truly existed back in the 50s, any kid watching would have learned proper values, growing up to be the kind of adult who happily passed every joint down the line.
From dallasobserver.com