Deutsches Kauderwelsch mit dem Wort "Geburtstag", das geschickt in diesen unsinnigen Haufen von Wörtern und Buchstaben und so weiter eingefügt wurde.
Es ist ein weiteres Geburtstagskritzel im deutschen Stil* für Nutley (N.J.)s Mutter Nr. 1.
(*Der zuvor erläuterte Insider-Witz ist hier zu sehen.)Another semi-super quick no-time-to-plan-out sketchy thing for a sister of a friend in NJ.
Yet another spare-of-the-moment, and unsolicited, donut-themed birthday illo I posted on voice talent extraordinaire Jim Cutler’s facebook page.
Everyday is a perfect day to gorge on cake!
So, it comes as a surprise that one of those days is my birthday... apparently.
A morning Birthday doodle for a resilient designer I used to work with during the, what I call, Classic Bauhaus days.
Oh, and the whole bear + honey + bees thing?
I started off sketching a crude-looking muffin… somehow, a grizzly bear took shape and, well, I couldn’t stop wherever my pencil was taking me.
It's another German-themed* birthday doodle for Nutley(N.J.)'s #1 mom.
(* the previously-explained in-joke can be seen here.)
Presenting a wrapped "mystery" gift tied in a bow, a pizza slice embedded in a generous splattering of purple frosting, age-denying amount of candles, and a handy Pepto Bismol bottle for later...
Happy Birthday, sis!
Just a birthday illo I posted on Jim Cutler’s facebook page - a talented voice actor-type guy I’ve admired since, literally, hearing of his existence via his Serving Donuts podcast (2008-2009). If you’ve ever watched & listened to North American TV & radio, chances are you would’ve heard his voice at some point. Just check out his credits for pete’s sake!
If you can’t tell, Jim’s a big fan of the donut.
Originally penned in 2011, the Birthday Banshee creeps up to its victim on the night before his/her birthday, lights the Four Candles of the Birthdayocalypse atop of a clumsily-made baked slab, and eerily stares at said victim… and stares… and stares… and stares some more until he/she wakes up to an extraordinarily exhausted bloodshot (almost comatose) banshee at the foot of the bed - by that time, the long-extinguished candles would’ve burnt off the banshee’s birthday hat and created a new layer of candle wax over the baked slab. Happy Birthday.
A quick sketch/painting for a friend in NJ, whose hobbies include nature photography, bird watching, et al…
Ahh, it’s that time of year I draw up a special German-themed birthday doodle for my favorite mom (of my fan/friend in New Jersey)(#adoptedmominnutley), continuing on with the in-joke previously mentioned here.
This time, the painfully German traditionalistic eccentricities of this one are coupled with the whole Covid-19 brouhaha we’re all in together at this time.
I ran out of those nifty slip-on PPE things you put on my feet… so I had to make do with discarded Wonder Bread bags.
Blow out the candle and your 3-Ply wish might come true!
Once a year, I take up a pencil and draw up something speeshülly Germanian for the mother of my fan/friend in Nutley, NJ. To understand WHY I do this, it’s briefly explained it here.
Originally doodled May 18, 2013.
A little birthday illustration for my Starlog editorial friend, David McDonnell.
Every May, going back to 2010, I cobble together a German-themed birthday illo for the mother of my fan/friend in New Jersey. Nope, they’re not German — but, they did take me to a German-themed restaurant in Hoboken for Mrs. Berry’s birthday get-together in 2009.
And that’s the (in)joke. Ahh, I guess you had to be there.
If you were wondering, “Happy Dreikäsehoch” translates to Three Cheese High.
Cheese has nothing to do with anything with relation to the person, the day, or the theme… I just needed a long, complicated, funny-sounding German-ish word (“Dreikäsehoch”) and this one fit the bill.
That’s supposed to be me (Bort) on the left. The sentient purple plush critter on the right is "Trunko”, an Ugly Dolls character I picked up at FAO Schwarz with Mrs. Berry in 2011… but I digress…
At left: this is the illustration without the “Happy Dreikäsehoch” titles. Yes, that’s THREE cheese slabs stacked in the background (re:translation).
In 2009, after jokingly badgering me I had to fly from Melbourne (Australia) to New Jersey to visit my (then) newly found vet-tech fan, Karen… and flying to NJ to do just that a few months later… and after one of several guided tours of NYC, Karen (with me in tow)(#typicalaussietourist) wound up at a German-themed bistro/restaurant thingy in Hoboken for Mrs. Judy Berry’s birthday get-together.
The scene depicted below is NOT of that night... just a fun 1st Anniversary illo of (a) that birthday dinner in Hoboken and (b) the first of "Mrs. Berry's Birthday Doodles" yearly installments.
The cast of characters (from left to right): me (in picture frame); Carolyn (Karen's sister), Charlie (Carolyn's fiancee); waiter in stereotypical traditional German lederhosen; Amber (Carolyn's daughter); Karen (fan/"get your ass over to NJ" instigator); and Mrs. Judy Berry (birthday girl).
This illo was drawn digitally in 2010 and is littered with in-jokes for the time. I'd point out and explain each one -- but I don't wanna.