Ahh, a classic. So, I would sit brainstorm ideas for donut drawings in my sketchbook and when I came up with this one I was truly disappointed that it had taken so long to realize this tribute to one of my favorite children's books. It seemed so very obvious once I got there. I was so happy with the little self-caricature "James" that I used him as my icon and avatar for various applications and I would modify and update his appearance as needed.

This one was a lot of fun to do. I loved playing with this cut paper style (so many layers). I went for the cheap laughs with this one and just crammed in every French stereotype I could think of.

This one started as a doodle of the fat Tyrannosaurus Rex I made during a meeting at work. It cracked me up, so I worked it into a donut drawing, suggesting that morbid obesity was what killed off the dinosaurs. Like most little boys I loved dinosaurs. They were amazing because they were these giant monstrous lizards with teeth and claws and spikes and horns and just... awesome. But in all the dinosaur books I had there was always the little sneak-ass dinosaur making off with a dinosaur egg. Well I had to include him in my drawing, making off with a sprinkle.

Ahh, the mighty Donutzilla battling the horrifying Jellernaut. I love giant monster movies and so blending donuts in was an inevitable move. My favorite part for this one was getting a friend to translate "Sweet Pastry Death" for the Kanji on the side.

This is one of my favorites. Not necessarily for the composition but for the subject matter... Zombies and Donuts. This is another early drawing (2004) and I hope one day to go back try something more dynamic.

This seemed an appropriate follow-up to the previous post. I did this one in 2005 and it was not intended as a sequel but it is a redressing of the whole "gut bomb" concept. Naming the countries was my favorite part.

This is one of the first donut drawings I did back in 2004. It's kind of an obscure reference to Dr. Strangelove, and the scene of Slim Pickens' character (Maj. 'King' Kong) and his atomic bomb Rodeo Ride. This is me (a crude self portrait) riding a chocolate, jelly filled gut bomb.