Tracy J. Butler
Lackadaisy Moonshine
Photoshop CS
860 x 968 px (pixels)
2013
Tracy Butler is a 2D and 3D artist for playnet(dot)com, a gaming website which produces original games. She also produces her own original web comic, Lackadaisy, which has gained her quite the online following. She works from her home in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.
"Rocky is a shining blue star of idiotic brilliance. Or brilliant idiocy."
This digital painting shows the cat Rocky, a character from Butler's online comic, Lackadasiy. Lackadaisy takes place in the late 1920s, during Prohibition, where crime ran amok and almost everyone was a part of it. All the characters in the comic are cats and has taken storm to those who have read it. Rocky being a pivotal and very popular character. This painting is the graphic of the back cover the second volume Butler has published into print of Lackadaisy.
This connects to the theme of wild cats because of well, how literally wild the entire thing is. Even without knowing the context of the story of the cat in the painting. At the bottom of the painting is a literal crack in the ground to Hell and the flames lick at the ground. This cat seriously does not give a care about anything or its consequences. Cats can be wild in what they do and how they do it. And this painting certainly takes a piece of the cake. In part though, I chose this painting because I am a fan of the comic Lackadaisy and its fantastical cat characters that bring the story to life. Rocky, being one of the most wild of all the cats in the comic, I felt deserved a place in this gallery.
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