Flintstones vehicle art
Illustrator Patrick Owsley has been showing some of the excellent Flintstone's style guide art he's been working on. Here's a police truck he inked from pencil drawings by Mike Fontanelli and Mark Christiansen. The Flintstones vehicle art (Patrick Owsley)
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...These are great! However, he's not the only one who understands the whole logic behind the world of our one and only Stone Age family:
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer/STONETREK.html
What the hell is it? The Flintstones vehicles and appliances were always gags based on some interpretation of an actual extinct beast. But this is more surreal. Look at all those legs! Is it a mammal, is it an arthropod. Yikes!
I hope you won't think I'm out of line saying this, but... yabba dabba doo.
I'm thinking prehistoric silverfish.
It was while writing some 'clockpunk' of my own back in '95 that I realized The Flintstones technology is actually in its way analogous to steampunk and clockpunk.
OMG, I lurve The Flintstones.
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"It was while writing some 'clockpunk' of my own back in '95 that I realized The Flintstones technology is actually in its way analogous to steampunk and clockpunk."
..."Stonepunk". Boingers take note: *I* coined the term here first! Yabba-Dabba-Nyah! :-)
Sorry to burst your bubble, OM, but stonepunk has already come up a couple of times on BB - a quick search will turn up a few results.
initially I thiought it was a mash up, using Flinstones and corporate logos.
As the creature looked to me like the INfogrames Corps Armadillo logo.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, OM, but stonepunk has already come up a couple of times on BB - a quick search will turn up a few results."
...Yeah, but since nobody's copyrighted it, I'm claiming ownership. You owe Boing Boing three-tenths of a cent - or whatever equivalent in Bedrock currency - to help their operational costs each time you use it. Oh, and don't read the term out lout, either :-) :-) :-)