Casey Roonan

Cartoonist. RISD Undergrad. Jacksonian everyman.
“Not the Nazz,” charcoal, 42” x 42”, 2010. A self-portrait. Its genesis lies in an attempt to create an elaborate, 4-foot-tall comic to illustrate the way my mind works, which went horribly awry a couple of days before it was due. The night ended with me scribbling insults to myself out of frustration in the giant ink spill I’d made across all of my pencil work, and the most scathing sentence that appeared on the paper - I decided once I’d calmed down later - was simply: “You’re not David fucking Bowie.” At the time, my hair was still dyed a horrible orange-blonde from my Halloween costume the month prior - an (also failed) imitation of Bowie ca. “Station to Station.” I started this charcoal drawing the following afternoon. -CR

“Not the Nazz,” charcoal, 42” x 42”, 2010.

A self-portrait. Its genesis lies in an attempt to create an elaborate, 4-foot-tall comic to illustrate the way my mind works, which went horribly awry a couple of days before it was due. The night ended with me scribbling insults to myself out of frustration in the giant ink spill I’d made across all of my pencil work, and the most scathing sentence that appeared on the paper - I decided once I’d calmed down later - was simply: “You’re not David fucking Bowie.”

At the time, my hair was still dyed a horrible orange-blonde from my Halloween costume the month prior - an (also failed) imitation of Bowie ca. “Station to Station.” I started this charcoal drawing the following afternoon.

-CR


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