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New Print: HELL IN THE HAM-CHAMBER
PLEASE, SHIELD YOUR EYES AND PRESERVE YOUR SANITY!
Some years ago, on a suffocating August night here in Ol’ Virginny, my good friend Jhonen V. and I, having recently eaten our fill of filthy meat and raw terbacky, retired to the porch of my crumbling Antebellum mansion to watch mosquitoes drain our blood and reminisce about the old times. Between puffs on our corn-cob pipes we spoke of many things, but, as was our custom, the conversation soon turned to our mutual friend Rikki S., and his terrible ways with Ham.
HERE IS THAT CONVERSATION IN FULL.
Soon after that fateful night, Jhonen began to fill a FLICKR SET with etchings of the Unspeakable Thing, as if by forcing strangers to render the hateful image again and again he could somehow exorcize it from his agonized mind. (As to his ultimate success or failure I cannot say, as the coroner’s document remains painfully elusive on all matters immaterial.) I, for my part, returned to the darkest corner of my decaying ancestral home and crouched there in the stultifying shadows, swaying and staring, staring, EVER STARING, and thinking only of the Hams and the Furnace and the hateful Thing that would one day bring both of them to me.
I crouched there for 2 years, 10 months, 3 days and 13 hours… then someone commissioned me to do this drawing for fifty bucks.
“WHATEVER,” I said.
And then Rikki colored it, it being HIS Ham Chamber and all. I think we can all agree it’s pretty hideous and disturbing and you wouldn’t want to be stuck sitting next to it on a bus or anything, but man… Not sure it was worth dying in a madhouse over or anything. But ha! I guess that’s just how it goes sometimes.
Crazy stuff, man!
Get your own HAM DEMON PRINT, signed by me and the Mr. Ham Demon himself, Rikki Simons, right about here:
PLEASE, SHIELD YOUR EYES AND PRESERVE YOUR SANITY!
Some years ago, on a suffocating August night here in Ol’ Virginny, my good friend Jhonen V. and I, having recently eaten our fill of filthy meat and raw terbacky, retired to the porch of my crumbling Antebellum mansion to watch mosquitoes drain our blood and reminisce about the old times. Between puffs on our corn-cob pipes we spoke of many things, but, as was our custom, the conversation soon turned to our mutual friend Rikki S., and his terrible ways with Ham.
HERE IS THAT CONVERSATION IN FULL.
Soon after that fateful night, Jhonen began to fill a FLICKR SET with etchings of the Unspeakable Thing, as if by forcing strangers to render the hateful image again and again he could somehow exorcize it from his agonized mind. (As to his ultimate success or failure I cannot say, as the coroner’s document remains painfully elusive on all matters immaterial.) I, for my part, returned to the darkest corner of my decaying ancestral home and crouched there in the stultifying shadows, swaying and staring, staring, EVER STARING, and thinking only of the Hams and the Furnace and the hateful Thing that would one day bring both of them to me.
I crouched there for 2 years, 10 months, 3 days and 13 hours… then someone commissioned me to do this drawing for fifty bucks.
“WHATEVER,” I said.
And then Rikki colored it, it being HIS Ham Chamber and all. I think we can all agree it’s pretty hideous and disturbing and you wouldn’t want to be stuck sitting next to it on a bus or anything, but man… Not sure it was worth dying in a madhouse over or anything. But ha! I guess that’s just how it goes sometimes.
Crazy stuff, man!
Get your own HAM DEMON PRINT, signed by me and the Mr. Ham Demon himself, Rikki Simons, right about here:
…there is no word for how… weird, strange, obscure, etc. that this is. But most importantly, HOW GOOD IS IT AT FREAKING OUT THE LITTLE KIDDIES?
This is vital information that I require!
I dare you guys to make an Internet Meme out of this image.
“Hell in the Ham-Chamber”. Sounds like the title of a Pay-Per-View event.
ahem…..
As the aforementioned COMMISSIONER, by virtue of whose $50 this drawing happened in the first place, I hereby graciously offer to relinquish all claim on this intellectual property in exchange for a complementary copy, to be autographed by all contributors (I can provide my own, of course).
‘Cause, like, Rikki done some awesome colors there. An besides, I was gonna color it myself! What’s the point now?
Ok, folks, move along. Never mind the troll. It’s quite harmless actually.
Aw, ’s no biggie, he just gets a bit grouchy when it’s time to hibernate.
I was just telling my boyfriend about the Ham Chamber conversation, which I printed out as soon as Jhonen posted it back in the day… and I pulled it out and forced him to read the whole thing. Now at last I can show him the true horrors of such a creature.
so full of win ;-D
Is there any chance these might be back in stock someday?
Oops… I didn’t realize it was sold out. Sorry about that.
It’s back now, though!
Augh, sold out again.
Any chance of more, or shirts?
Nuh uh! It’s still there: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39527861
Probably no shirts coming for that one, unfortunately… All those colors would cost BILLIONS!