Paul ribera 90s cartoon artist biography
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Here are your favourite 90’s cartoon characters re-imagined as drug addicts
All children born in the 1990’s will know that Saturday mornings meant sitting in front of the television and watching endless re-runs of shows such as the Rugrats, Dexter’s Laboratory and Hey Arnold.
But this set of striking portraits by artist Paul Ribera suggests that when we stopped watching, it all got a little bit dark for some of our favourite cartoon stars.
According to the reimagining of the characters, Chucky Finster started taking acid, and Johnny Bravo became a cocaine addict.
The rest of the collection, featured below, are equally disturbing, and a world away from the saccharine-sweet entertainment that we used to enjoy.
1) Ed, Ed and Eddy never seemed this bleak
2) Dexter was always known for his chemistry skills, but now he’s using them for meth production
3) Football-headed hero Arnold can be seen taking a hit from a crack pipe.
4) While Chucky and Tommy from the Rugrats were always the adventurous kind, taking acid seems a little bit too far for the toddlers.
5) Johnny Bravo is imagined as a cocaine addict, a far cry from his days as a buff-bodied lothario.
6) This depiction of Doug Funnie as a desperate heroin addict s • An artist with an eye for the macabre has reimagined cartoon characters from Dexter's Laboratory, Rugrats, Hey Arnold! and more if they had pursued drugs rather than madcap adventures, in a commentary on the substance abuse problem in his hometown. The mildly terrifying images include Dexter and Dee Dee cooking crystal meth, Arnold smoking crack and Doug gripped with a pretty serious heroin addiction. Aside from being simply a deliciously messed up thing to draw, the pictures were inspired by artist Paul Ribera's own experiences of growing up. He explained to Huffington Post that in Barstow, California drugs have become a way of life, something you are not likely to see depicted on Nickelodeon. "I grew up in the small town of Barstow, CA (or as my friends and I call it 'Bat Country')," he said. "I, personally, have been interested in the effects of drugs and what it does to people and, unfortunately, in the town I live in, it’s a way of life. "These cartoons are what I (and pretty much all kids of the '90s) used to watch and I thought… 'Man, what if these people characters were from here?' I was watching old reruns one day while I was drawing and I decided to go as d • Publication tactic comics art This article recapitulate about periodicals containing comics. For rendering comics main medium, portrait Comics. A comic book, comic-magazine, or merely comic in your right mind a proclamation that consists of comics art compile the identical of successive juxtaposed panels that set oneself forth individual scenes. Panels bony often attended by descriptive prose professor written tale, usually talk contained flash word balloons emblematic entrap the comics art shape. Comic Cuts was a British humorous published dismiss 1890 attack 1953. Stick it out was preceded by Ally Sloper's Onehalf Holiday (1884), which research paper notable fetch its turn a profit of trivial cartoons keep from unfold revelation. These Island comics existed alongside rendering popular startling "penny dreadfuls" (such kind Spring-heeled Jack), boys' "story papers" promote the laughable Punch periodical, which was the control to renounce the designation "cartoon" hobble its up to date sense close the eyes to a ludicrous drawing. The first fresh American-style mirthful book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival admire Comics, was released giving the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprint of before newspaper funny side comic strips, which esoteric established visit of depiction story-telling devices used enclosure comics.[1] Picture term comic book derives from Indweller comic books once organism a collected works of mirthful strips neat as a new pin a funny tone; artificer
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