i love the colours, do you have a link to the artist's website?

Yes, Shoboshobo.

The colours are available in all good paint shops

Has he got his finger glued to a big bogey?

You can see more big bogies at the bottom right.

Was that cute Japanese bird, arching her back and tossing her hair, one of the "tons of things to look at"?

French-Vietnamese, actually.

what's her name? she's hot

Fit like was she, loon?

Was she just trying to be seductive or just vainly rearranging her hair knowing she was about to appear on here?

Wow, that is pretty amazing for having drawn all of that an hour before the show started. I bet there's a giant pile of cheap Bic ballpoints outside next to the curbside trashcan.

Catty pussy!!

Nice. I'll add my money to your wager.

i just hung out with mehdi in paris a couple weeks ago...he is a very rad guy and his drawings are always top notch. who else was in the show?
im guessing some of my drawings with him are in the show...he mentioned something about it .

Do I see relief prints? Ick! My arch-nemesis.

stop being a plonker

<3 Shobo Shobo.
hm...is there an oft forgotten Freudian nasal stage?

> oft forgotten Freudian nasal stage?

I was browsing http://www.shoboshobo.com/ hoping to find more sketches of scary, spurting nostril activity, and came upon a completely unexpected image:

http://grogore.free.fr/drawings/23robozoz.jpg

Which I've now stolen and avatarized. Which is probably not something Mehdi Hercberg wants me to do. But I don't care, this image deserves to be seen.

I have been inspired to steal some of Hercberg's heads to make Staredown in the Freak Tent. Coming soon to a billboard near you!

Wow, really great stuff! Any ideas why the works of the rest seemed so forced?

Because mahdy is the only one who is actually clinically insane as picture 1 shows (that's his special care worker keeping an eye on him)

well, i claim, his is no less forced:
http://electrocomics.livejournal.com

i went for shobo shobo's show today, because ulli thought it's for me, and because i saw your entry. well, i was quite underwhelmed by him, too. for those, who don't know this "approach", his work might look interesting, but it's actually considerably lesser than that by his obvious heroes, which are much too visible in his drawings. in fact, i could hardly see anything personal there.
here's my entry about it for the electrocomics.com weblog, with references to the artists he modeled himself on, which are important to know, when speaking about hercberg:

http://electrocomics.livejournal.com

Lordie, 'Depressed Infantilism' is wearing thin. I don't want to regress to a 5 year-old. Make my soul smile, please.

Infantile is the theme for this week. Sometimes cute, sometimes pathetic (as here), sometimes bordeline criminal.

Enough already. Move past the Anal stage and start painting angels again.

The drawings shown here are an another example of the old art school genre, "affected eccentricity".

With a heavy helping of "contrived barbarism". Particularly popular amongst the gullible urbane.

"What did the bad man do to you, Tommy? Show us. Paint us your feelings right now."

"As I expected. Titian's been at it again."

nick is marrying hisae right now, that's my theory

i thought that too! :D

wow!!!!!!