Mad About Cartoons

BG final for current stroy corps cartoon

2011-10-28T20:34:00.000-07:00

Bob Camp and me

2011-09-29T12:46:00.000-07:00

art directing a little 9/11 thing for the Rauch Bros

2011-09-09T09:12:00.000-07:00

http://rauchbrothers.com/video/explore/john-and-joe/

rejected development art

2011-09-03T20:45:00.000-07:00

from several years ago for a TV pilot

in progress rough

2011-08-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

ruff for one of my million projects right now. based on a storyboard panel by Stephen De Stefano

2011-08-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

When I did one of my first Mad parodies it was a dream come true. I always wanted to do the Frozen Disney joke and here they were giving it to me. At the Time Jeffery Katzenberg was suing Michael Eisner so I added a joke from Slaughterhouse Five and had Jeffery trying to assassinate Michael in the background. Mad asked me to remove it and make some other changes. It think in this case the inkedpage ended up better.

heads

2011-08-12T22:29:00.000-07:00

more previews

2011-06-28T23:47:00.000-07:00

currently

2011-05-16T22:24:00.000-07:00

a background that comes the closest to my fine art...

My Osama Mad job

2011-05-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

Mad censored me a bit, but never as much as the Osama parody we did. Not only did Sam Viviano (the Art director ) make me make all the changes here… as further punishment, he cropped in on the panel cutting out almost everything else on the censored page. He was outraged I put all the visual jokes in the background, quote” We had the same problem with Will Elder.”

way back when

2011-04-03T16:16:00.000-07:00

tiny paintings for a art show in a cartoon style

Samurai Jack development

2011-01-25T21:25:00.000-08:00

I did a little development for SJ for Genndy back in the day-- He didn't like what I did, but I had fun.

Pages from Wheezy Witch

2010-12-25T15:01:00.000-08:00

from a Harvey comics parody I wrote for Stephen De Stefano back in the day for Hellboy JR

Mighty odds and ends

2010-12-04T17:48:00.000-08:00

warm ups

I may have even posted one of these- I'm including some roughs and some rejected titles.

Upcoming Storycorps cartoon

2010-11-19T18:12:00.000-08:00

Speaking of Ren And Stimpy--

2010-11-16T19:02:00.000-08:00

Hey Scott has a blog! he painetd the bottom one.

http://animationbgs.blogspot.com/

Stephen and Me

2010-11-07T12:14:00.000-08:00

There were many hands helping me with the Ren and Stimpy cartoon Sammy and Me from Bob Camp an Jim Gomez with the story to the reason the cartoon looked pretty good was the major lifting done by Stephen DeStefano who's cleaning up my shitty doodles on the storyboard made it shine. If you look close you can see a little of my drawing here and there, but the majority is him. He was also nice enough to do finished out drawings for key acting moments because the studio took layout away from me on this one as they were closing out the cartoon forever and it became all about the budget. We stared the trick everyone routinely does now to get around the loss of layout, over drawing the boards.

What is a Beat board?

2010-10-04T20:58:00.000-07:00

Beat Boards are sketches for the stroyboard guy to help them with gags, posing, direction elements and in my case some art direction. this is for the Mighty Bee: Space Evaders don't know why the first frame won't open , but the rest do.

Frank

2010-05-11T11:02:00.000-07:00

There are only two legends who own the name Frank. Frank Frazetta is the one I will always think of first despite a fondness for Sinatra music.

new project for PBS

2010-05-08T15:57:00.000-07:00

Painting Backgrounds directly for these guys-- http://rauchbrothers.com

We all work for StoryCorps: http://storycorps.org/animation/

Layouts are drawn by old Ren and Stimpy comrade Jim Smith. The main character is missing for the backgrounds, but you can guess how he is framed I bet.

last MB cu

2010-04-20T21:15:00.001-07:00

second to the last

2010-03-23T10:33:00.000-07:00

the first of the last Mighty B gross close-ups

2010-03-05T13:47:00.000-08:00

from a board sketch by me redrawn by the amazing Miles Thomson and painted by me. I'll quietly burn them off like they are doing with our new shows.

Monroe The first episode

2010-01-10T20:17:00.000-08:00

Back in the late Nineties I was hired to do a new real time strip in Mad magazine with TV writer Tony Barbieri called Monroe. I'm posting the first pencils and the final art. So many changes were made, I re- drew it entirely. I really didn't want to do Mom as clean cut as the editors wanted, so over the years I slowly evolved her back to this version. They never noticed. Monroe got fixed up for the better and evolved more later. I loved that he got real time older until they stopped the aging in his teens. Tony and I were looking forward to him as a young man. The strip was the love of my cartoon life for a long time, we were breaking ground every episode. Then Jenette Kahn The publisher who green light the strip and wanted Mad to have a harder edge left DC and the Paul Levitz conservative years toned the strip down and turned it into a job.
Have fun comparing the pages

Old Mad Sample page

2009-12-24T17:20:00.000-08:00

Here is a sample page I did for Joe Orlando back when he thought he had some pull with Mad--- He was really disappointed with the result, but when he retired, they hired me anyway. Joe could be a fun funny guy when joking around in his office, but he a sadistic fussy controlling side I thought came from his own lack of security as an artist of distinctly C level. Looking back it's not the greatest page,maybe it was me...

Titles titles titles

2009-12-07T11:13:00.000-08:00

so many shows. When will they see the light? Ask Nick. EddieTrigueros/ Cary Yoest did the drawing for the middle one.

Title time

2009-11-22T15:51:00.000-08:00

another title card

2009-11-16T17:23:00.000-08:00

2009-11-09T18:36:00.000-08:00

Mighty B Halloween Special

2009-10-17T13:59:00.000-07:00

Find it, watch it, talk about it, write Nick and say you love it. No I didn't do the art above.

Background Preview and teaser

2009-09-15T16:38:00.001-07:00

Hi all....please spread the word. Trying to get this teaser out to as many
people as possible. Here's what to do:

Go to http://www.nick.com

Video will automatically start playing in the top right corner

Below the video are thumbnails of other video selections. Scroll forward
(using orange triangles) until you see Bessie, and click on her.

When our video starts playing, click the "RATE THIS" button directly below
the video screen. Rate 5 stars!

Please forward this to anyone and everyone!

Thanks!

B news

2009-09-02T10:37:00.000-07:00

Watch out for new Shows in September. I'll post a teaser reel soon. Here are some more titles to get you excited. The quality on the show has gone up on every level as the players involved have become more seasoned, the characters in the show have evolved. The Awwwsome title card is based on a sketch by Eddie Trigueros from a fantastic Katie Rice board. We miss you K!

2009-03-28T18:29:00.000-07:00

final (with a layout re- draw by the legendary Cary Yoest who is doing amazing work on the show) the rest are all me.

Here is a special preview for you all of the title cards being done for the up coming Mighty Bee episodes. I've included some roughs to give you an idea how the choices are made. Obviously there are a few that I submitted that I knew were to raunchy for a kids show, but hope springs eternal and it's nice to have a laugh with my semi- indulgent boss Erik Wiese.

roughs

final

alternate with spelling error that will not be used.

final

final

The B is Green!

2008-08-17T17:36:00.000-07:00

Hey Everybody!
On Monday, Sept 8, the MIGHTY B! hits the air with a week of all new episodes, every day at 5pm.
First up, Monday at 5pm, is "Bee Patients" with special guest star Rob Corddry. It's one of our favorites episodes, and we hope you'll tune in. Got a blog? A MySpace page? Signal fire? We'd really appreciate it if you got the word out to animation and comedy fans.
Here's the entire schedule:
Mon, 9/8 @ 5:00 - "Bee Patients" (paired with "Ten Little Honeybees")
Tues, 9/9 @ 5:00 - "Night Howl" (paired with "Bee Patients")
Wed, 9/10 @ 5:00 - 13B "Hat Trick" (paired with 13A "Night Howl")
Thur, 9/11 @ 5:00 - 14A "Apoxalypse Now" (paired with 13B "Hat Trick")
Fri, 9/12 @ 5:00 - 14B "Hive Jacked" (paired with 14A "Apoxalypse Now")

Still not enough? Catch these additional broadcasts:

Wed, 9/10 @ 5:30 - 12A "Bee Patients"/10A "Ten Little Honeybees"
Thur, 9/11 @ 5:30 - 13A "Night Howl"/12A "Bee Patients"
Fri, 9/12 @ 5:30 - 13B "Hat Trick"/13A "Night Howl"
Fri, 9/12 @ 6:00 - 12A "Bee Patients"/10A "Ten Little Honeybees"

Many thanks!

During the last year I have been painting backgrounds for the new Nickelodeon TV Cartoon: The Mighty B." It's about the overzealous adventures of Bessie Higgenbottom (Amy Poehler V.O.) the most dedicated member of the Honeybees a Girl Scout like troop. If not adventuring with her Dog Happy she is often unintentionally infighting with her Nemesis Portia her rich fellow B member to see who can earn the most troop badges. The Show runner/ Co creator/ Director is the Multi- talented Erik Wiese and the gifted Art Director Seonna Hong have been a joy to work with. Here are some small typical background keys for the show. These are still done mostly by hand with sometimes a few adjustments with Photoshop. Ours is the best Ren and Stimpy influnced show to come down the pike in my opinion and are still proudly working in 2d!

The kids behind the show at our "Green light" for the second season luncheon last week. Missing is Larry( layout man extraordinaire) Murphy who took the shot.

Dave

2008-03-12T00:58:00.000-07:00

When I was about 17 I got in touch with Dave Stevens while he was still living at his parents. I imagine I saw something of his art in some San Diego con related thing and was blown away by his perfect inking ability. He was friendly and even thought he was only an year older than me he was already a budding pro having been published in fanzines and having sent samples to Marvel something, I hadn’t even dared to do yet.

He used to ink my bad pencil swipes for comic book store flyers that ended up in the comic book buyer’s guide. I never looked so good. I remember just being in awe of his initials, so perfectly realized from the get go. We inked some comic book jobs together; he and Bil Stout making me look good on my inking jobs for Russ Manning or Mark Evanier when we all did Tarzan comics for overseas comic markets. Often he would come by my studio at my parent’s house just to pass the time in our lonely profession.

When I moved to LA he soon followed and that’s where these photos were taken, he modeled for a horror story I did for Bruce Jones. Not only was he a brilliant artist, his writing ability helped him to grasp every emotion instantly. I’d show more shots, but as an overwrought horror story the other photos would be in bad taste at this point. As thin as Dave was he was in his prime for these shots as Paul Power, Jim Gomez, Dave and myself used to go to the YMCA in Hollywood and train our balls off. Dave wanted to gain weight and would train until he dropped, but then would eat like he was on a diet. We would always goad him to eat hamburgers and he would order tuna salad.

Dave dated my sister seriously for a time, a hook-up that I hoped would lead to marriage, as I couldn’t think of a better brother in- law, but I think he was determined to be a free sprit after his disaster of a first marriage. I never got whole lots of details about it, as Dave was very private about romance and deep personal feelings. He was open with his frustrations with himself and his artistic ambitions and we spent many an hour bitching out everything in the world. We went to concerts and worked at the same studios, He being the one who made great friends I being the one to fuck up and alienate everyone. I’m sure I embarrassed him, but he never lectured me, I lectured him and harangued guys he loved who I thought gave me a raw deal and he didn’t hold it against me.

Dave was slow, but steady with his art, always striving hard to do his very best. On the contrary, he always said he hated working, which used to piss me off, as his ability was so high I couldn’t imagine being down on myself if I had that kind of skill. His big regret is he just didn’t have enough art education as we lived through the time of anti- drawing when conceptual art ruled, there were good artists out there, but It didn’t seem like it to us. I think we both shared that trait that there was so much more to strive for, but you work, you live life and then whoops you’re out of time to achieve that greatness you can see in others, but inexplicably not in yourself.
I used to love dropping by Bil Stout and Dave’s studio on La Brea… that was a place that breathed art.
At the peak of his success Michael Jackson was stalking Dave to draw a comic book about him. One night when the studio phone rang Dave asked me to answer it and if it was Michael to say he wasn’t there. This high voice asked for Dave and I went into my best Cheech and Chong. Dave? Dave’s not here? “Can you tell him Michael called?” Michael who? ” He knows me.” Dave had to run into the other room once he saw where I was going. When I moved to New York to study art seriously our friendship became strained as distance and the very busy phase of his career blowing up with the Rocketeer movie. I stupidly took that stuff personally and after not hearing from him in a situation I thought was important. I decided to get mad at him for 20 years.

I heard rumors about a “blood thing” over a year ago but chose to not believe it. After some therapy for anger management, I decided to start calling some old friends I had beefs with and at least try and make amends. About that time I heard how badly off he really was and decided to get hold of him. I didn’t have his phone so I wrote him a postcard and he was gracious enough to call me. Immediately the years melted away and we had some great long conversations. When he was up to it we had a lunch or talked on the phone, but he would be down often and I wouldn’t hear from him for weeks. Last time I saw him he came to an art show of mine. He looked good considering and was in typical form at dinner. I called to thank him, but didn’t hear back. I’ve been really busy so I didn’t try as hard as I should have to stay in touch, my poor rational is he mostly let me see the good days so I let my guard down. I didn’t think it would happen so fast. I hadn’t processed how long he had been struggling with this thing and those criminals at Kaiser.

I avoided the career info already covered on other news sites, just let out a few random thoughts. If you love someone and have had a fight, please, please call him or her. I’m really happy we made peace, but so regretful of all those missed years.

Horror, I did Horror

2008-02-18T19:52:00.000-08:00

Back in the eighties one of the many things I wanted to do was to draw comics in the tradition of EC horror comics. I'm going to post a big selection of that work over the next few days as kind of a floating portfolio for a director I'm trying to interest in letting me work for him on a dream "horror" project. I've never tried to get much work in live action, closet to that was art directing Space Jam for a few months, but that's another story. If Frankenstein built an artist to work on movies he would have made me for this project. I'm used to dreams going down in flames, but send a prayer on this one for me.

First up is a story I never finished for no other reason I can rationalize other than I lost momentum due to the length plus a series of delays on my and the original publishers part. It's a fantastic story by Charles Beaumont adapted by Mark Burbey and myself. I disappointed myself by not finishing it, but I imagine it about killed Mark. As it was an amazing coup to get the permission to get this story and he was trying to get into comics writing. Sorry Mark.

Bruce Jones did Horror Comics in an EC twist style in the eighties and I was a dream working for him. I was young and raw but he saw something in me, I was a real honor to work for him alongside Corben, Wrightson, Ploog and many other Horror greats. Sadly my work for him was still formative I was just hitting a groove when Bruce sold his titles to Eclipse comics and where my work was improving, the working conditions were fucked.
The editor Cat Ironwood had a big problem with the objectifying of the female form and clamped down hard on the nudity Bruce encouraged. All the nudity you see here was censored. ( but not Corben's in a previous issue) She called me an encourager of rapists as I had a clothed man and a nude woman in the story and so we had a big fight on this job on every level. I re- wrote the story to make it more cinematically interesting (including adding the guns) and that was a tussle with her and the writer. She even got mad with the panel open the last page of the big guy in the empty street. She wanted to know who he was, convinced I was getting something over on her. All my changes were used by John Carpenter in the movie They Live that was based on this story, including the panel of the girl fucking the alien as the end shot. (Another fight with Cat, she caved on cuting it thank God.) Great choice on his part as the writers original ending was flat. Here are a few pages...

Playhouse Poster and Hans Bacher

2008-01-04T14:56:00.000-08:00

I always wanted to do a Broadway or movie poster, my way. When the community playhouse in Sierra Madre asked me to do a poster for a modest budget, I volunteered to do it for free if they gave me total art directional control. The play is about two male actors who play women in a Shakespearian play. I ran out of time to do the lettering so I let them do the type, with minimal suggestions. Working for free makes me realize cartooning isn't dead to me, just art directors are.

Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation (Hardcover)
by Hans Bacher

Order this from Amazon-- The best I've seen on all elements layout.

More Samurai Jack

2007-08-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

Since I didn't ask permission from Cartoon Network to post the SJ partings, the least I can do is promote the new DVD. Scott also sent along a few more of his BG's. Enjoy--

My book

2007-08-12T22:11:00.000-07:00

Information on my fine art Blog. Support my book and I will post much great Clones Wars art by Scott Wills...:-)

http://williamwray.blogspot.com/

Samurai Jack

2007-07-13T21:13:00.000-07:00

Scott and me sort of.

I think Scott referenced my key, but really made it his own this is very early on the first show. I think he felt his hands were a little tied at this point, but quickly took over and made SJ all his own.

Still more Scott

and more me.

More Me:

A few by me.

more Jr.

Scott Wills. Words fail me.

Friends

2007-06-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

Here is one by the great Scott Wills. I twisted his arm to do this one just becasue I wanted to see how great it would be...from a Bob Camp layout. Gator is too.
I'll be doing a Sam Jack post soon. He willl be featured.

unused title card. Bob wanted it painted normal.

Monroe Pencils

2007-04-19T15:30:00.000-07:00

Here are are so pencil examples of the Mad strip "Monroe" I did with writer Anthony Beriberi. This was just a year or two into the strip, Tony had written what I felt was the best script so far and the publisher as behind us encouraging us to push the envelope. I had respect and the ear of editorial for the most part, and had just gotten a raise. I felt privileged, respected and on my game. The only down note on this one was the censoring of Grandpa's Nazi marching pose something that still dumbfounds me with movies like the Producers being as tame as fast food. Sorry about the lack of dialogue and not all of the art in here, but the general idea is there is a costumed themed Christmas party at Monroe's house where he lives with his Mom and Grandpa. The parents are divorced and bring there new flames with them. Hijinks ensue. The hand written dialogue snippits were my suggestions-- don't remember if they were used, my guess in not.

more Uglys

2007-03-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

roughs

I'm sorry I haven't replied to all the nice comments, the honest truth is I'm just spared to thin to personalize the answers on this blog as much as I should . I should post more, but it ends up being the poor sister as I'm busy with my new job at Nick painting backgrounds for The Mighty B (formally Super Scout) and trying to be a fine artist. People know me as a cartoonist but not as a fine artist so I have to give more energy to that I hope you all understand. These are painted with Carton Colur cell paints on Strathmore heavy velum illustration board and enhanced in Photoshop. Funny how one looks like a Kaz drawing. Not my intent.

Can't say what this is yet

2007-02-23T22:58:00.000-08:00

I mean I could, but then I'd have to ask and they might say no, don't post. My drawing and painting with some Photoshop fixes. Another's character designs. Sadly is a one off job. I'd like to do more than the 10 I did.

Super Girlz

2006-12-25T12:45:00.000-08:00

This was a development idea for DC comics that was a bit of fun. The idea was to do the girl hero's as a Bratz kind of deal for animation. As thin a concept that is they it was really nice to work for on this one as the boss was real flexible and it was fun to do cartoon like attitudes of the characters. I looked a bit at Katie Rice and Shane to get a feel for silly big head girl poses, (not my forte) but managed to stiffen the poses a bit anyway. I believe what happened was a bunch of artist were hired to do the same concept. I don't know if the thing made it out of house to be pitched at the networks or was killed internally. It's to bad as I'd love to see a "tween" romance comic from DC.

More Hellboy Jr.

2006-11-29T03:07:00.001-08:00

Here are variations on the Trade cover the editor a flipped when he saw Hitler on the cover saluting. He was mad that I even thought that he would waste his time showing it to him. I was as stunned that he was about someone being offended and he was stunned I didn't get it. Guess he never watched the Hitler (history) channel? Anyone who might be for a moment be offended would instantly see it's deprecating humor. Nobody would have batted an eye, but him, yet he was so sure I was off my rocker for daring to do it. Good taste = fear. Tossed in the layout for another cover painting as well, enjoy.

Hellboy Jr

2006-11-21T23:27:00.000-08:00

As per popular demand here is some Hellboy Jr. sketches... some pencils for the trade, an unused page when The next HBJR book was killed, including the first sketchs of him. The inked page was a gift to Mike. This was a match made in heaven for me, The clout of Mike Mignola and the craziness of me. To bad the editor at Dark Horse and I just couldn't get along. He just so offended by my sense of humor, (he wanted to do G rated stuff,) so he poisoned the well. I'd love to do more the book. It sold well and the trade did really well. In this day and age of Dark Horse desperately needing money, you think they would sober up and stop being so mamby pamby, but no dice.

Men Sketches

2006-11-17T21:44:00.000-08:00

Some for fun, some for Mad ,one for a comission.

Dexter

2006-11-12T00:08:00.000-08:00

The Dexter's lab cover gig was one of my favorite things I did in comics. Here are a bunch of various sketches I did for them. I've also included a pencil spread for a completely penciled out Little Golden Book that was about finding Gerbils of all things. It never saw the light of day, do to golden books being sold or some Damn thing. I was kind of relieved do to the nature of the detail, painting them would have killed me.

Mad Sketches

2006-11-08T14:57:00.000-08:00

Here are some rough sketches to figure out caricatures for Mad magazine from back in the day. I wanted to work toward Drucker's spot, but never got a movie, usually TV and Games shows. When I was in favor there I would have Monroe and a TV parody in the same issue. When Tom Richmond came along they cut me back to Monroe for the most part. These were done for "Survivor" and a made up story "Want if they unfroze Disney" the story I was born to do as I had the same idea for years. It's like a universal cartoon urban legend. I never liked Michel Eisner so that was a joy too. I miss doing these , but what is done is done. I thought about "cherry Picking the best ones so I'd look like in knew what I was doing , but I think artist get more out of the warts and all approach, It's ok to founder around until you find what your going for.

Elvis Impersonator unfinished

2006-11-05T20:13:00.000-08:00

Here is me taking a wack at wacky cartoon style oil painting. This is only a small part of a bigger painting based on an A Greek Elvis impersonator playing at a local park in Sierra Madre. It's funny how if I work in brown tones my stuff ends up looking a little like Glenn Barr. That’s one of the reasons I don't do the Juxpose thing. I feel like I was one of the granddaddies of it, yet no gallery knows it and I don't want to start at the bottom and put in years into selling to get to where Glen is. The subjects I would have love to have done: Mary Blair meets the Flintstones , crossed with Big Daddy Roth, Frenching Robert Mc Ginnis have been done well by others. I'd be coming into a world I helped get started with Ren and Stimpy and seem like a was copping everyone else. That's why I decided to do the modern landscape thing. I wanted to try something new and also work hard at it and learn and explore a different see of my brain.

never made it

2006-10-30T18:42:00.000-08:00

The Beatnik was for a guy who wanted his image to say Jazz. I was so sure he would like it I went to final pencil on illustration board, before I ran out of steam. He wanted an million things added to the pencil so I passed on the job, giving it to Miles. He was smart and suggested three separate images instead of cramming them all in one. What the guy really wanted was Jim Flora meets Tim Biskup. I hate when people come to me and want something else besides my work.

The other was for a CD by and obscure space funk band from the eighties for some small foreign label. Everything went fine until the color stage. They didn't like my black light style color and wanted more detail, my problem was I agreed to do it cheap if they would promise not to try and art direct me. I alread made some samll changes in the pencil to be nice. They lied and pussed for the second time, so I told them to fuck off. I'll take art direction if you have a budget for it, otherwise please don't try to power trip for free.

Korgoth

2006-10-27T18:00:00.000-07:00

What the fuck is AS's problem? Let's do this thing for fuck sake. Aaron's a fucking joke dynamo and funny artist what are they waiting for ? For him to sell a show to NIck?
Why don't they want a hit show? WHY!!??

Amazing Justin Layouts , yes?

Sick of babies

2006-10-24T23:17:00.000-07:00

Yet more babies

2006-10-18T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some more---

More Super babies

2006-10-12T19:08:00.000-07:00

The rough ones were not used for being to "me" and not "cute enough"
the were right of course... they asked for Mary Blair and I gave them me. The rocket one was approved.

Super Babies

2006-09-29T00:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some babies done for DC comics in a Mary Blair kind of style. First two sketches were the find my way the third nailed it. Below is the final painting. It was an odd job it's super babies for clothing catalogs for babies, but not exactly like Superman or other characters yet kind of like them.

Fan Commission Mad cover

2006-09-23T13:46:00.000-07:00

This is a spot for me to talk about cartoons and post my occasional cartoon work that is now done less out of love that the need to finance my foray into fine art painting. Love for cartooning is still strong, it's just that I can't take working for demanding art directors so I do less of it. Here is a commission I just did for a Mad fan. I never got to do a cover when I was at Mad, not even for the one-hundredth episode of the strip, but I'm not bitter. ;-) The client is a family man who deals in fireworks so I had to keep the image/theam family friendly or I certainly would have had the bully sticking the firecracker in Monroe's ass with him losing a few feet of colon.