comics and art: religion, parenting, modern life. i do a lot, it’s all here: linktr.ee/owencyclops
Joined September 2016
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Strong recommend. I have it on my office wall – can happily stare at it for ages!
Jun 1
always many new people to reintroduce myself to.
if you're new to my operation, i run a small theological art studio. here's the most popular project i've done: a traditional catholic liturgical calendar. i'll show you in this thread.
in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com
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My kids bought me this for my Birthday and framed it. It is beautiful!
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i’m in a target store that has a CVS pharmacy inside it. this is like a strangler fig tree i saw in the everglades that had wrapped itself fully around a neighboring victim tree and choked the life out of it, leaving behind only a few elements of its dense core
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Feb 6
my friends, it is time:
in conjunction with @avemariapress and a new book they released, i spent the last few months illustrating the entire structure of the summa theologica, by thomas aquinas.
in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com/
can i show and tell you, in this thread:
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Mar 8
packages have been going out for a while now, adding this sweet photo here:
Feb 20
may God bless the moms with beautiful homes who send me pictures of my stuff like this, so i don’t have to use photos i took on the floor of my messy studio
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tiny footnote here as someone asked: there is a typo or two in the images above. due to the timing of the release, i posted these images before the final editing (which was just text cleanup). we fixed all those before shipping any out.
thanks. some reviews:
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Jun 12
at the supermarket, i say, “what kind of nuts do you want?”. my son, 4, grabs macadamia nuts. its like $14. im broke (artist). i say, “alright, thats the most expensive kind of nut, really. but if you want me to buy them, i will”. he puts them in the cart. i give them to him for snack for a few days - he never touches them. eventually, i say, “hey buddy, no big deal, but you did ask me to get these expensive nuts for you.” he pauses and then says, “…well, i got them for you”. explain why am i living with a tiny jewish comedian.
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i feel very obligated to let all the nerds know that there is a free game like geoguesser where you guess the location of origin and time period for art and historical artifacts. really high level:
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Jun 12
off the record i got 70k points on my first run and i am open to obtaining the data of what the average score would be like among people here. odd mix of aesthetic sensibility and historical knowledge.
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Jun 12
sometimes when people talk about alternatives to public school i consider that i was so disconnected from elementary school that i wrote a report about steven spielberg, dressed up as him (this was part of it) and gave a presentation about him but never watched any of his movies
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Jun 11
studio note: forget if i mentioned this but speaking of cosmic wheels - i crossed over 800 sales on etsy (cool, thanks), so i put a 10% off sale there and in my personal shop.
hope your week is unfolding well.
Jun 1
always many new people to reintroduce myself to.
if you're new to my operation, i run a small theological art studio. here's the most popular project i've done: a traditional catholic liturgical calendar. i'll show you in this thread.
in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com
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Jun 10
no theological implication here but it’s interesting that the story that later became ‘little red riding hood’ may go back to the time and place of Jesus’s birth:
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Jun 10
ten minutes into a little kid crying because angels have wings. “i don’t want the angel to have wings”. sorry man, i was not involved with that. “take them off”. i absolutely cannot. told him some people view them as symbolic or metaphorical. didn’t help.
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Jun 10
perhaps this is a second commandment thing. perhaps this child was meant to be a lamenting prophet of some kind
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Jun 10
gonna wrap up the religious cultural jokes thing here with a personal favorite. not exactly a joke but a lot of zen stuff is joke-esque.
there’s a buddhist master teaching his students. he starts a new line of questioning: every day, he sits them in a circle, and asks each one, “what is the essence of buddha nature?”. one student says: “spontaneous liberation”. “just words”, says the master. “awareness knowing itself”. no, says the master. every day, each student gives a new answer, and the master dismisses them all.
one student has been watching all this. he wants to impress the master with his insight. so he goes down to the lake, gets a frog, and hides the frog in his sleeve. then, he goes to sit in the circle for questioning.
the master comes to him, and asks “what is the essence of buddha nature?”. the student produces the frog from his sleeve, and presents it in his hand. “no,” says the master: “too intellectual”.
Jun 9
alright the jewish joke went over well, here’s my favorite muslim joke:
two guys are walking in the desert. one is holding a broken umbrella. it starts raining. guy turns to his friend and says, “why’d you bring a broken umbrella?”. friend says, “i didn’t think it would rain”.
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yeah man let me just check my portable cube sundial (german, late 1700s)
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my favorite academic analysis of german culture (ogden nash):
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national aesthetics and aesthetics of a people are so strong they even come out in basic color selections. look at the german flag. these colors just make sense for the german and teutonic vibe. imagine germany having the colors of the irish or french flags here. wouldn't happen
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