Man I almost forgot I had this and I was about to forget about submitting it even though I told a couple people on my livestream/broadcast deal tonight that I would!

Let me make it clear right here, right now, I am not a Calvin & Hobbes fan. I never have been, never kept up with the series and the story behind this one is kind of lame, at that.

As you can see on the date-signature it's from 2008 meaning I was still in college at the time, a very anticlimactic time rather, because I had just 'graduated' yet I had some remaining credits needing fulfilled before I was legitimately received as alumni.

I went through the ceremony and all but I still had to go to summer school... totally lame. Anyhow, the reason I did this drawing was for one of the remaining classes I needed the credits for, some multimedia class... sculpture I guess-- something that fulfilled 3D prerequisites, all I remember was being miserable that I was taking a class that refrained me from drawing all together.

Anyhow, the plan for this particular class was that at the end of it we'd have an exhibition of our semester-long class project and I remember all of us sitting around talking about what to name the exhibition. Prior to that, there was a bit of a running joke spinning around the class about this particular one Calvin & Hobbes comic strip.

Throughout the course of this extremely short semester, we often joked about the belief of 'what makes art, art?' and the best way to summarize that question was through this Calvin & Hobbes comic strip ID'd as #19901031 (January 31st, 1990. The date it was created.) The strip goes a little something like this:


Panel 1, CALVIN: Take a look at this. Wouldn't you say this is a great drawing?
Panel 2, C: I mean, can you BELIEVE my teacher didn't like it? She said it wasn't "serious"!
Panel 3, C: By golly, if this isn't serious art, then nothing is! Who set Miss Wormwood up as an arbiter of aesthetics anyway? This is a beautiful work of power and depth!
Panel 4, Hobbes: It's a stegosaurus in a rocket ship, right?
C: See? YOU understood it!

With that said... one of the titles we suggested for the exhibit that would include all of our works was: "Stegosaurus on a Rocketship."

We all laughed about it, knowing we were all thinking back about the Calvin & Hobbes strip, and it was even almost given up upon till I interjected: "Well wait? We aren't going with Stegosaurus on a Rocketship? I had an idea and everything!" I joked.

Suddenly at that point it seemed like a fantastic idea. We all ran with it even though I kind of wasn't serious about what I'd just said... about 30 minutes later this happened. This drawing.

It's funny too because when I finished the flyer, it became a bit of a commodity, even before the exhibit happened I was handing them out to people, expecting them to show up that day... none of them showed up. Actually, as I remember it, I wasn't even handing them out, they were deliberately asked for because they thought the flyer looked so cool. I was pretty much flattered about it all, but kind of discouraged at the same time that no one had come to the exhibition. It was a kind of win-loss-win situation...

This drawing, right here, was the LAST official illustration of my collegian career. My last drawing as a student, done for a sculpture class. I'd not have ended my college days any other way.