✨ A Consistently Bad Treasure ✨

1635 French caricature of the corpulent Count Matthias Gallas (1584-1647), an Austrian soldier of some renown in the 17th Century … yet another example of the belly in wheelbarrow theme through the centuries.

Some of Bob Ringwood’s masterful concept art for Batman (1989).

Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in 1933′s The Secret Life Of Henry Vlll

Concept art from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Anyone who grew up in the 1980s will remember the short but intense ninja craze. My brother used to make shuriken from tin cans. They were well-crafted, too. My brother, little MacGyver.

The famous 1982 LONG DISTANCE KISS poster, by Syd Brak.

In Holland, where I live, the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in 1971—it was also the first in Europe I believe. All before I was born though. The franchise sort of disappeared then and came back in the mid-1980s, which I do remember, vaguely. It all seemed very new, very American.

Rembrandt, Portrait of an Elderly Man, 1667

Birdy 2 by Rolf Ohst (2016)

The great Orson Welles, a fat man with style and grace … the ultimate compliment for a fat man, I believe, is to be told he is looking more and more “Orsonian.”

Round House 74 inch bib overalls, as big as they come, proudly made in Shawnee, Oklahoma …