Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
© Greg Cravens - All Rights Reserved.
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M2MM said, 3 months ago
They could hang Eddy on the wall. He’s actually more interesting. :P
Greg Cravens
said, 3 months ago
Same thing could (and probably was) have been said about Salvador Dali, now that you mention it.
celecca
said, 3 months ago
this is how I look when I finish a painting!
Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago
Is that one of those pictures where the image emerges after you stare at it for a while?
Yeah, I see it now
Eddie! You naughty boy!
cmd13 said, 3 months ago
He looks like a Jackson Pollack painting
Perkycat said, 3 months ago
@celecca
That’s what I was going to say. No matter how careful I try to be, every color gets on me some place or another. Always amazes me.
Number Three said, 3 months ago
This is BRILLIANT!
xxx
whmIII said, 3 months ago
Did it with a paintball gun…?
Comic Minister said, 3 months ago
Impressive Eddie!
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago
Blurring the lines between representational, expressionist, and surrealist!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
Nice how he recreated the paint ball affect without using them.