Make your mark

Somehow I didn't know about Tim Biskup or Charlie Harper, which seems a bit unfair to me. Biskup there looks a little familiar, kind of Nickelodeon to me for some reason, but I'm not sure. It isn't Home for Imaginary friends either, although I thought that as well. He's just well plugged into the collective unconscious I suppose, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's good that he seems to think so too.

Both guys go nicely with the kind of new retro thing people seem to be into now, people like S. Britt and the like. I think people our age want to tap into the resonance they felt when they themselves read picture books. Pictures are never quite alive in the same way as those were, for most people anyway. There has to be something more there than just the icky nostalgia thing. But maybe not. I am certainly not idly slicing these things up and pasting them all over any plain surface I can find. They make me happy in a deep and instant way, in a much different way than someone like Jasinki does, although he makes me very happy too.