Maybe It Will Happen Today

A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

I guarantee you this world look awful on a shirt

A montage of black and white midcentury advertisement art including: a skull wearing a crown, a little girl praying, a woman putting a finger to her lips and making a thoughtful expression with a ? next to her head, and another woman making a very frowny face while holding in front of her a mask of her own face making a very manic expression. A speech bubble coming from the little girl contains mismatched typography reading, ‘Maybe it will happen today’. This is all on a toned paper background and make to look crumpled and worn.

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

I don't do prints of other people's characters, sorry

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Digital illustration done in a graphite style on a toned paper background. A classic style mermaid seen sort of in profile with her body in an S-shape. Her hair is very long and flowing around in the expected way. She’s examining a human cranium with a hatchet embedded in it. She’s set against a swooshy shape filled with hatched shading. Under the bottom curve of her tail some small lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of a black crowned night heron in profile looking right, with a prominent bright red eye making them look especially expectant. Standing on a rock with green river-like swirly colors behind. The drawing is framed by a simple line, and under the frame lettering reads, 'Maybe it will happen today'.

A digital illustration of Artie, The Strongest Man in the World! (As portrayed by Toby Huss in the TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete.) He’s a white guy of extremely average build with short hair and heavy-rimmed glasses, wearing a horizontally blue and red-striped long sleeve tee, red sweatpants and black shoes. He’s striking one of his most powerful heroic poses, standing on one foot with the other angled out behind, torso angled forward and back arched, arms held up in a big flex with fists pointing outward, and making a cartoony tough guy face. He’s balanced on a pyramid of 3D lettering colored in bright red, orange, and yellow. Behind him is blue sky and sun rays beaming out from the lettering which reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of Artie, The Strongest Man in the World! (As portrayed by Toby Huss in the TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete.) He’s a white guy of extremely average build with short hair and heavy-rimmed glasses, wearing a horizontally blue and red-striped long sleeve tee, red sweatpants and black shoes. He’s striking one of his most powerful heroic poses, standing on one foot with the other angled out behind, torso angled forward and back arched, arms held up in a big flex with fists pointing outward, and making a cartoony tough guy face. He’s balanced on a pyramid of 3D lettering colored in bright red, orange, and yellow. Behind him is blue sky and sun rays beaming out from the lettering which reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration done in a comics-like ink and color style. Portraits of two women flipped 180º from each other somewhat in the manner or a playing card. In the top left quadrant of the frame is a white woman with brunette hair done up in fluffy pigtails. She has pink lipstick and purplish eye shadow. In the lower right quadrant is a white woman with short ginger hair wearing a flower crown. She has redder lipstick and yellowish eyeshadow. Both women have heavy, thick black lines painted around their eyes. Both of their expressions are extremely neutral. The ginger woman is wearing a lime green dress that makes up the color of the background of the top half of the image behind the brunette, and the rest of the background is an intense blue. In the top right and lower left quadrants is loopy hand drawn lettering reading 'Maybe it will / Hap-pen today.' with the second half of the phrase inverted to match the orientation of the ginger woman. There are daisies set within the lettering. This was all because I wanted to draw the two main characters of the 1966 Czech film, 'Daisies'. It's really something and you should watch it.

A digital illustration in a colored pencil style. A drawing of a Polaroid SX-70, a foldable instant camera that some would say is one of the best cameras ever in history. It is silver and black with patches of brown fake leather on some of the body panels. It is unfolded into its characteristic mass of unlikely angles. The camera is set against a background rectangle filled with the colors filled with the colors of the Polaroid packaging rainbow. A photo is protruding from the camera and has developed to reveal only white letters on black reading ‘Maybe it’ll happen today’.

Periodic reminder that I have MIWHT and many other kinds of things for sale as well as a ko-fi if you feel like encouraging whatever seems to be happening here...

All the buying links: octophant.us/buy

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/phineasx

A two-headed masked luchador wearing two different masks: one a blue-green and gold classic design and the other green with a spread-wing eagle design. He's wearing a blue singlet and standing in a slightly awkward but still hopefully sufficiently menacing manner. He's framed in a. gold-colored frame with a blue gradient background with wobbly white lines radiating out around the heads. Lettering above and below the frame reads 'Quizás Suceda Hoy' which I believe is Spanish for 'Maybe it will happen today'.

A digital illustration of a fictional owl. In form similar to a barn owl with the same heart-shaped face but with the addition of feathery owl horns. It has a whitish face and belly and its wings, back, head, and tail are shared of deep red with gold spots and details including a gold tracing of its face shape and out to the end of the horns. It has deep, dark blue eyes and is perched on a branch. Next to the owl on the right is an hourglass the glass of which is housed in a slightly ornate gold structure with an organic viney motif. Most of the sand is in the bottom of the hourglass. Above that is some gold interconnected, art nouveau-esque lettering set inside a rectangle with a red background. The lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

MIWHT (Owl), an art print by Phineas Jones Gallery Quality Prints

No one asked but there's a print...

A digital illustration of a fictional owl. In form similar to a barn owl with the same heart-shaped face but with the addition of feathery owl horns. It has a whitish face and belly and its wings, back, head, and tail are shared of deep red with gold spots and details including a gold tracing of its face shape and out to the end of the horns. It has deep, dark blue eyes and is perched on a branch. Next to the owl on the right is an hourglass the glass of which is housed in a slightly ornate gold structure with an organic viney motif. Most of the sand is in the bottom of the hourglass. Above that is some gold interconnected, art nouveau-esque lettering set inside a rectangle with a red background. The lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the Coconut Crab. It’s a beefy articulated tank of a beast: heavy and strong-looking claws and long legs emerging from under a roundish domed carapace, with a vaguely comical head segment and two long antennae amid all that. Colored in shades of brown and blue with linear striations along all its limbs and spots on its carapace. A speech balloon with a very long tail that wraps around one of the crab’s legs reads ‘maybe it will happen today’. You should look up some coconut crab images soon.

Digital illustration of the heroic goose from Untitled Goose Game. Goose is all white with orange feet and beak and everything is rendered in flat simple shapes. Goose is standing next to a stream with greenery and blue sky behind, proudly holding the coveted shiny bell in his beak. Handwritten lettering in the sky reads ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

It’s whatever helps

A digital illustration done in black and white graphite style. Toshiro Mifune as his unnamed ronin character in Yojimbo. With both swords prominently on view in his belt, he has his arms pulled inside of his black kimono with one hand coming up through the collar to stroke his chin as he gives some sharp side eye to the right, scheming. In a text box in the upper right corner is what I sincerely hope is an accurate Japanese translation of ‘maybe it will happen today’.

Translation came through my friend who used to be an English teacher in Japan. Best I could manage at the time. I hope it still is at least comprehensible.

A digital illustration of a bunch of three-dimensional, chunky-serifed letters going at different angles. The letters are being surrounded/clutched/supported/penetrated by a lot of fat, shiny tendrils in a number of different candy colors that are twisting around themselves and the letters and this is all riding together out of a bluish fog at the bottom of the frame. The letters are being held such that the still spell out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of a bunch of three-dimensional, chunky-serifed letters going at different angles. The letters are being surrounded/clutched/supported/penetrated by a lot of fat, shiny tendrils in a number of different candy colors that are twisting around themselves and the letters and this is all riding together out of a bluish fog at the bottom of the frame. The letters are being held such that the still spell out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A time-aged photo of a bowling team posing behind a display of bowling balls and pins. From left to right, we've got a long-haired white guy making a 'hell yeah!' face and probably hearing REO Speedwagon in his head. Then there's a pretty girl with straight long hair in a pink shirt very consciously doing a posing for a photo face. Then a black guy in a blue polo to prove everyone here is cool, next to the oldest dude on the team with longer hair and a 'stache in a peach-colored bowling shirt. Then a girl with a cute bob and sunglasses in a floral shirt, and finally there's Ed who there isn't a lot to say about. Below the ball display is a wooden sign with tracks for placing movable plastic letters. In the top left it reads 'REDONDO BCH.' and top right is '1975' and between those is the mysterious phrase 'MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY'.

Digital illustration done in a rough ink style and shades of red. It’s Tim Curry as the big devil man from Legend. He’s all red wearing raggy black garment that still shows off all of his chest. He has a pair of absolutely massive bull-like horns on his head which is thrown back laughing and fists on hips, simply delighted as he contemplates the red lettering next to him which reads ‘Maine it will happen today’.

Some digital hand lettering swooping out into extruded 3D shapes from the right to left and angled down a bit. It’s colored in very mites tones of grayish-blueish-pinkish with some faint yellow glow behind. Of course it reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.