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New original work from the incomparable Ben Olson!

"Shoot Me Now"-- Dimensions 18" x 36" x .5" deep (painted sides). Oil on canvas, from the series "Wait for It".  "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Rabbit Fire" are two of my all-time favorite Chuck Jones films. The dynamic between the three characters and the way Bugs is constantly able to turn Daffy's ill intent on himself makes me laugh every time. From that moment in "Rabbit Seasoning" where Daffy is full of himself thinking he's got the best of Bugs without realizing what he's just said adamantly to Elmer Fudd "I demand that you shoot me now!" --Ben Olson

"Going Up" --Dimensions 36" x 18" x .5" deep (painted sides). Oil on canvas from the series "Wait for It". "There are so many great gags in every film it's hard to pick just one, so I keep painting more from "Going! Going! Gosh!" where my love for air travel meets Wile E.'s love for odd contraptions that he can't get right. The Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner films are such a brilliant use of slapstick and non-verbal comedy that to this day makes me laugh every time." --Ben Olson

Christmas in The Desert, 2016

by Olivia Bee

Ben Olson & The Sandpoint Reader – Those who know, don’t speak, those who speak, don’t know #AmericanRedoubt

[the_ad id=”13872″] I was moving around the “Internet tubes” yesterday and saw a notice where the publisher and primary writer for the Sandpoint (Idaho) Reader Ben Olson announced he was going to do a series of in-depth articles on our American Redoubt movement.  I don’t know Ben Olson, but I find it strange that a small paper would start by announcing his intention to do an article publicly and…

I found a cache of Ben Olson concept pieces and renderings for the Slayer from The Suffering.  You can see the creature’s evolution from his first sketch at the top; he was originally called the Cartwheeler and wore a kilt.  He was eventually renamed because he never actually did cartwheels. 

Getting his head attached via an apparatus was a relatively late addition, and involved redoing the character model.  At the same time he was also made less androgynous because the original, lithe design bothered the publisher.