The Phreeky Dragon!
...et autre art ancien par Lisa Lees
The Phreeky Dragon is a cartoon character I created while I
was a graduate assistant in the Software Lab at the University
of Missouri-Rolla in 1976. This dragon was scanned from a
1979 acrylic on cardboard done while I was an Instructor in
Computer Science at The University of Michigan-Flint, living
in the RTL Apartments. (That stood for Robert T. Longway, not
Resistor/Transistor Logic :-)
The Phreeky Dragon Press
logo is a dragon I drew in 1979 for a logo to use with my
little Kelsey letterpress. |
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I once doodled an unhealthy amount (it wore the hair off my
palms), but gave it up and put my energy into using words to
tear down the binary gender system and make the world safe
for queer people. Still working on that.
The art, sequential and single frame, which follows is mostly
of a benign nature, but there are a few mature subjects (that
means sex, of course) and some strong language. So don't look
at this if'n you shouldn't oughta, okay?
There are two ways to look through my drawings. You can go
through the full-size images one image at a
time with first-previous-next-last capability, or
see a gallery of thumbnails and
choose which ones to enlarge.
Most of this 'art' has been drawn using ball-point pen (oui,
stylo à bille) on crappy typewriter paper. Hence the
quality and the abundance of little, er, mistakes.
You may be wondering why I have my style sheet set up to make
the background of my pages grey, and the type face Earth-tones?
It's just easier on my eyes. I have the brightness on my
monitor turned down to zero, but large panes of white are
simply too bright.
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Did I mention I live in a cave? Truly; my windows are boarded
shut, and when I look up, I see a bat. There's a snake on the
clock, a hedgehog on the left speaker, and a chipmunk and a
chameleon on top of my XP box. I won't even mention what's
in my bed. Oh, okay: Rizzo, Eeyore, a gecko, a panda,
an alligator and a wholly mammoth. Now are you happy? And, yes,
there are dragons. One is sitting on the photo printer next to
the Cheshire Cat, one is on top the tall bookcase, one is next to
my reading chair, one is... but you get the picture.
(I now live in an abandonded factory; there are no windows in the
room where I have my computer.)
And about la langue Française? To make a long and
painful story short, as a youth I was in and out of private
school, and while in, from a very young age, I was schooled
in French. So I kind of think in two languages, and every
once in a while out pops something in French. (I'm now working
hard to learn to read and understand spoken Japanese, too.)
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The road goes ever on and on... is acrylic on canvas,
done in 1982 in Ann Arbor as a study for a large mural on the
basement wall of the house I lived in at 1505 E. Stadium.
If you want to see what I'm drawing these days, please visit my
webcomic at WizzyWig.net
All art copyright © by Lisa Lees