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Hi. My name's Rob Schamberger. I'm that guy who paints rasslers. And other stuff. Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.

Whether it’s her elaborate entrance attire or her overall presence, I’ve found I enjoy making paintings of Megan Bayne. There’s a stature to her that gives me a lot to work with, tapping into the superhero comics that originally inspired me to make art as a kid. There’s a lot of directions I can go with the paintings!

She also fits right in with all of the painting studies I’ve done recently of statues. Statuesque beauty, right? A few days before I started this portrait I had done the above statue study of a Roman funerary figure and the techniques and colors I’d used for it seemed perfect for my approach with this painting of her. I actually kept it displayed on my drawing board while I was working so that I could look at the problem solving done on it and apply those discoveries to my new work. It all connects!

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Rob’s Art on ShopAEW
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Rob and Jason Arnett's novella Rudow Can't Fail!
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Rob’s prints and shirts at Pro Wrestling Tees
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Katy’s book Oldest Kansas City

Last week I found out that not only was there an I Love Lucy comic strip in the mid-50’s but that it was written and drawn by the great Bob Oksner. While not a household name, Oksner did a ton of licensed comics work back in the day, most notably DC’s Jerry Lewis comic. He also had a run on Shazam! that’s stood the test of time.

Looking at these, I can’t help but feel they were an inspiration for Jaime Hernandez of Love & Rockets fame. It’s there in the DNA with the wonderful acting, the deceptively-simple line work and the pitch-perfect minimalism. Also, what a gorgeous way to depict Lucy’s signature hair, right?

The writing is also in line with the tone of the show, of which I’m a lifelong mega-fan. Katy and I were together for a few years and I was flipping through the channels and landed on a TV Land marathon of I Love Lucy and there was this slow dread creeping across Katy’s eyes as I started quoting the dialogue of every episode and giving in-depth factoids about each one. Somehow it’d never come up in the four or five years we’d been together at that point that I held all of this arcane knowledge.

But even I didn’t know that this strip existed! What a delightful find. Just LOOK at the body language in those silhouettes in that next-to-last panel! Gah, it’s so great.

You can see a lot more of the strips in this post. They’re wonderful.

Last week I made my own taco sauce from scratch and I had no idea that taco sauce could be this good. I bought some from the grocery store a couple weeks ago, having not had any in a long time, and found it to essentially just be watered-down tomato sauce mixed with vinegar with the tiniest hint of seasoning. But then it hit me: VINEGAR. I MAKE MY OWN VINEGAR. I bet I can make this too! So here’s what I did:

I put them all in a small pot together and lightly whisked it together over low heat. I brought it to a low simmer until it thickened just a bit, around 20 minutes. And that’s about it!

I let it cool down to room temperature in a glass mason jar with the lid off, then put the lid on and stored it in the fridge.

I’m having a lot of fun with these homemade vinegars, taking the mindset that anything that would pair well with a meal would also work great as an ingredient in the meal. IPA’s go wonderfully with most Mexican cuisine so it makes sense that it would be so tasty in a sauce.

Love you more,
Rob