Art of the Month: Brett Hamil I
Posted by Ali Marcus[Editor’s Note: RIVET’s expanding blog features now include a monthly art showcase on the first week of every month. As in the print magazine’s Artist Portfolio, the blog feature will showcase exceptional visual talent in all mediums. Please send submissions to ali @ rivetmagazine.org.]
Brett Hamil is a cartoonist, writer, and standup comic living in WA.
1. If you could hang with any famous artist, who would it be and why?
Raymond Pettibon. His work is funny, poetic, anti-authoritarian, and irreducible; all qualities I attempt to emulate.
2. Favorite Seattle bookstore?
Elliott Bay (close second: Magus in the U-District)
3. Who is your biggest artistic inspiration?
George Grosz (close second: Zach Galifianakis)
4. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Chicken
5. Where is the best place to view art in Seattle?
Crawl Space Gallery on Capitol Hill has been showing a lot of good stuff lately. (close tie for second: the Frye and the new SAM)
6. Who are you more like: Calvin or Hobbes?
Hobbes, the bon vivant and skeptic.
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Eh. This wasn’t the funniest comic you could have posted - there were others on Hamil’s website that were more amusing.
Anti-Bush humor is getting kind of old. Everyone is doing it, if you’re going to get anything other than a knowing nod and an eye-roll from the rest of the scouts around the fire you need to come up with something really over the top or funny. Or both.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Calling Bush-bashing old news is really old news. The circle has wrapped around and everything old is new again. Keep up. Also, I am wondering if there is perhaps another reason the scouts are all rolling their eyes at you. BWAH!