Modern Vespa

but then again, I did do it in the mid-seventies...dug it out of a box in the basement and scanned it for posterity...Obviously, I wasn't nearly the 'classy guy' then that I am now.

Not bad!

A little R. Crumb, a little Clay Wilson, any one remember when Fat Freddy got his moped? "I'm gonna make it into a chopper..." What else is in your basement? R

Oh man, that is great. Youv'e got me thinking Cartoons hehe

(wonder if I stall have those stoshed somewhere...)

Harv

Good one

Great that you kept it! Now march back on down to the basement and bring us other treasures! (You can frame this one for your office and hang it next to the old concert posters that are surely in the same box!)

A little Gilbert Shelton "Freak Brothers."

That's great!

nice contribution

8) cool flames! I will do that to my new Super 250 hahahaha!!!

+1 on the Freak Brothers influence, and on wanting to see MORE!

There was only one other 'Cap'n Clapp' panel cartoon, and that one is too raunchy and un-PC to show publically anymore. I even hesitated to post this 'Cap'n Clapp', which is tame compared to the other one.

I have almost zero scooter-related art in the ol' archives, especially the vulgar, crudely drawn, fun stuff like this, that's why this one stood out.

Though not at all funny, containing no scooters, and much refined in execution, I resurrected the basic style in this 2002 'Bike Night' poster, all drawn with ink on frosted mylar....(I still have the original art, and a bunch of the printed posters). The 'insider poop trivia' with this poster, is that I drew-in my own Hayabusa, and 'Bigfun' was what it's custom license plate read.

This is great! Very R. Crumb-like. You have great talent.

Thanks! That poster from 2002 was the last ink project I did. Though I can still do it, I've wandered off into digital illustration in the past several years, and even then, it's almost exclusively original electric guitar concept illustration for my guitar line, some examples of that artwork (and others) can be viewed here...
http://www.coroflot.com/John_Backlund

Ooh, very cool!!

-Mel

I like your Bike Night Poster, and your fantasy art. But where is your Scooter Madness design available? R

It was available on Cafepress for about six months, but I've recently
removed all MC related items from my 'store' there. I may make it available again in the future, but not on Cafe press, they're just too expensive for these things, and there's little to nothing left for the original artists. Cafepress isn't worth messing with unless an item is intended to be a non-profit in the first place.

I'd rather just sell the design and the rights to it to another party than go out myself and spend a bunch on getting it traditionally printed..I really don't have the resources to do that sort of thing right now.

Thanks for showing us your work. Great talent, fantastic imagination!

Cheers,

Bob