Showing posts with label Muppets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muppets. Show all posts

King Kermit And The Knights Of The Round Table


I don't know my Arthurian legends as well as I should. Truth be told I have gotten it mostly from pop culture — Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court — so David Petersen's renderings of Kermit at King Arthur work well for me. I love Janice as the Lady of the Lake — she's always been kind of mysterious — and Gonzo as Lancelot. (h/t Shane Dingman)

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Knights Of The Nintendo Table
The Creation Of Kermit
Muppet Rawk!


We Are The Future, Bunsen, Not Them



Bunsen Honeydew: Don't give up on them, Beaker.
Beaker: What would you have me do, Bunsen? I've heard these arguments before.
Bunsen Honeydew: That was a long time ago. Mankind has evolved since then.
Beaker: Yes, into us.

(Ken Haeser via XombieDIRGE - thanks Shane!)

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Futurama X-Men
X-Mario: You Save The Princesses, We'll Save The World


The Garden of Muppetly Delights


The original Hieronymus Bosch's painting represented hell and damnation, but the Muppets look pleased. And Jim Henson couldn't be in hell, could he? (Hillary White)

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The Breaking Bad Mashups We Deserve


These are two Breaking Bad mashups I've had sitting around, finally getting to them. Above: Jeff Matsuda, producer and creative director on The Batman, drew a pile of mashups for an awesome Reddit thread. Below, Dann Matthews brings The Muppets into the world of meth, where I'd always assumed they'd been for the past few years.

How The Sesame Street Gang Felt About The Muppets

You just know they had to be a little bitter. Sure, they're famous, but they're not stars like The Muppets. And before anyone points out that they are all Muppets, including Yoda and the Fraggles, when anyone says The Muppets, they mean The Muppet Show. (Brought To You By The Letter A by Ian Abando for the Lovers, Dreamers & Me show)

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Famous Muppet Auditions


Where have the Muppets been since we last saw them? Trying out for some of the most popular TV and movies of the past few years. Sam the Eagle as Don Draper is perfection. (Steve Murray for National Post)

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Beat Down The Walls, Begin, Believe, Behold, Begat


Who wouldn't want to see a live performance of Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem? I've been a fan ever since hearing Can You Picture That in The Muppet Movie. Barring that ever coming true, I will have to satisfy myself with Michael De Pippo's Dr. Teeth concert posters, available at Acme Archives.

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The Ringwraiths Of Sweetums

The best thing about a new Muppets movie coming out is all the awesome Muppet mashups that are surfacing because of it. Viva pop culture revivals! (Dark Sweetums by Justin Hansen for draw2d2's Muppets/Tolkien mashup.

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Iron Maiden Animal


I was never a fan of Iron Maiden but I was always intrigued by their artwork and the character Eddie. So what could make him even cooler? Augie Pagan's Animal Unleashed from his Lowbrow Candy Store show with Dave MacDowell.

Muppet Rawk!


I'm loving the art from Muppett Rawk III. The challenge: "Involve any Muppets from the world of Jim Henson and recreate a favorite album cover of any band of any genre." Here are three of my favourites, taken by the awesome Augie Pagan.

Above: Revolver by Karin Madan



Boys Don't Cry by Aaron Jasinski. Beaker as Robert Smith? Oh god, I want to hear a whole album sung that way!



Muppets Milk by Gene Blakefield. So that means Rowlf the Dog is Flea? Ha!

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Dia De Los Muertos: Jim Henson


"My hope is to leave the world a little better for my having been there." — Jim Henson

Dead Jim is Alex Leighton's piece for the Autumn Society's Iconoclastic Dead show, where artists celebrate someone famous they admire that is either dead or alive in the "muertos" fashion.

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I Want To Believe. Wocka, Wocka, Wocka!


Fox Mulder meets Fozzie Bear. You know? It totally works. I think Janice, the guitarist from Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem would make a good Scully for him. (Fozzie Mulder by Amy Mebberson)

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Maybe You Can Hire The M-Team


"In 1972, a crack vaudeville unit was sent to off Broadway by a theatre court for a joke they didn't tell. These Muppets promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the Tony Awards they survive as Muppets of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The M-Team." (The M-Team by Amy Mebberson; link via Comics Alliance)

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Muppet Babies Meets The Wire


Another awesome Wire mashup from Warren Ellis's REMAKE/REMODEL challenge, this time imagining Bubbles as Fozzie Bear Scooter, Brother Mouzone as Gonzo and Kermit as Omar Little. (Wire Babies by Felipe Sobreiro)

And, because it really does seem a perfect fit, the cops of The Wire in Police Academy, by Mike O'Dwyer.

Muppets + Mythbusters = Muppet Busters


Seeing Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman as Muppets makes me wish the Muppets were still on air as a weekly show. Looking back it was the Muppets and Sesame Street that introduced me to the concept of pop culture mashups and parody. (Muppet Busters by Dane Ault, via Comics Alliance)

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Miss Piggy And The Elders


Art is just coming alive for me since coming across Hillary White. Her latest, Miss Piggy and the Elders based on Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna ei Vecchioni. I'm like all cultured and stuff now.

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