In this week's Sumner Files: zebra centaurs. tinyurl.com/j2fhhxbu #sumnercrane

It feels a little wrong to post about art at this time. But it's what's keeping me sane. So, here's the weekly Sumner Files, on a major #sumnercrane masterwork, dated 1989: The Shopping Centaurs.
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This week on the Sumner Files: the first new audio podcast episode in some months. I spoke to Arto Lindsay again, now in person, after we'd looked through the #sumnercrane archive (in which Arto is well represented, incl. drawings he did for Jack Texas) for a couple hours. tinyurl.com/4tt3f2wv

To finish up the series on #sumnercrane and childhood, a few stories on adult Sumner's interactions with the children in his life via art. tinyurl.com/3jwv3ajt

In which I show drawings of musicians by child and teenage Sumner, and consider the confluences of music and visual art in his early life. bit.ly/48dE9yB #sumnercrane

In which I show some of Sumner's childhood drawings. I consider the influence of comics on his work, and the way youth and age met in it, figuratively and sometimes literally. #sumnercrane tinyurl.com/4vdaacmc

In the early 80s, #sumnercrane, Rudolph Grey and Arto Lindsay all signed the name Jack Texas to their visual art. Sumner and Rudolph did works based on comic book panels by Sumner's hero, artist Bob Powell, including a couple of Powell's "Cave Girl" character. More here bit.ly/49d6hTq

New on our podcast site: the first of a new series, The Sumner Files, that I'm doing on my uncle, the artist and musician Sumner Crane (1946-2003). This is episode zero, where I explain what it's about and why I'm doing it. deep-convection.org/2025/02/18/t... #sumnercrane #mars #nowave