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Date Posted: 18:26:41 11/05/16 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Chris Isaak Luck Of The Draw
In reply to: . . . 's message, "Pneumonia" on 17:39:42 11/03/16 Thu
Mr. Lucky hints at one. Its cover and 16-page booklet feature elaborate, ’50s-retro pen-and-ink drawings, all done by Isaak himself. Some feature an Edward Goreyish little girl that he has drawn so much over the years, he’s considering publishing a children’s book about her, her flower friend, and her evil twin sister who gets into constant trouble with a credit card. “I’ll draw whenever I can,” admits Isaak, who carries sketchbooks wherever he goes and has filled more than 70 with his unusually stylized characters. “Some people go to bars, some people go to games. But I’ll go to an art store on my day off and blow 60 bucks on pens. But I burn through ‘em fast, because I do a lot of drawing.”
How did this surreal sideline start? Childhood, Isaak recalls. Back when he was hospitalized, hovering near death for a full year with double pneumonia. “I was in an oxygen tent, and Catholic nuns would come by and say, ‘He’s still alive! Feed him again!’” he deadpans in his trademark droll wit. “And I had nothing to do, so I drew all the time. And when I got out and went back home, I just kept drawing. We had a woman who lived next door to us who was really ancient, and we’d go hang out at her house and she’d say, ‘Why don’t you draw me a picture?’ So I’d draw for her. She looked like Maude Frickert or something — 100-years old with the black lace dress and black lace collars.”
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- Very interesting -- Anonymous, 22:34:18 11/05/16 Sat