This page features a series of transformations based on The Toxic Avenger's skewed visage.  When I obsess over something I tend to draw it again and again.  I think that what I'm trying to do is simultaneously capture/own the thing which absorbs me and understand it through re-creating it.  And re-creating it many many times affords me the opportunity to understand it in new ways.  This one (Oltgasm 295) served as the beginning of a series of transformations loosely based on the Toxie images I had been creating. They are essentially doodles like one might do on a napkin or in the back of a notebook.  These, however, were done on the exquisite handmade pages of a unique steel-bound sketchbook brought to me from Venice as a gift.  I then tore out these sheets and glued them to cast aside cardboard (previously used as dividers for 45rpm records) to make oversized postcards out of them. There is something I enjoy about the intermixing of the precious and the commonplace, the elegant and the clumsy, the corner-of-the-mouth napkin-dabbing of the gourmet and the belching of the all-night diner.
  Oltgasm 298 is affectionately known as Quasimodoltgasm on account of it's resemblance to the legendary bell-ringer. By Oltgasm 299 he had become The Creature-from-the-toxic-lagoongasm. Above:  the milestone Oltgasm #300.  Strange.  Beautiful. Alright, not so beautiful. And finally, the gruesome Oltgasm 310.