Gossip Trading Cards: Deranged Lunatic

Whenever Gary Busey shows up to an event or agrees to an interview, you can expect an erratic tempest of nonsensical utterances, unsettling glares, unpredictable outbursts followed by bear hugs and then more unpredictable outbursts, and best of all, the spewing forth of didactic gibberish through a mouthful of clattering teeth. How can you not love (from a distance, of course) the crazy that is Gary Busey? I've decided to get back to work on my Gossip Trading Cards series, a collection of trading cards based on the diverse archetypes found in the world of celebrity gossip. I've already completed cards for Lindsay Lohan and Papa Joe Simpson, and many more are to come. Medium: Colored pencil and ink scrawled in sketchbook while riding in car hurtling down I-5 toward Los Angeles.

The back of the card includes one of my favorite Gary quotes. Find more of his wisdom here.

Comments

[Erik]

I've long enjoyed Gary Busey and his huggable looniness (just so long as he's hugging someone else as he strikes me as the kind of person that hugs hard and shakes hands hard enough to leave impressions). Nicely captured, especially the consternation of not being able to relay his point at maximum volume!

[Karin]

Was he this nuts BEFORE the motorcycle accident in 1988?
Who cares ...... your interpretation is spot on! I love it even though his teeth scare me.

[Sloth]

You drew that in a moving car???? It's that one terrifying eye socket that gets me the most.

[EVA]

You have to say the whole thing in the damn question or it doesn't make sense. It's dyslexic.

:-) Your whole text is dyslexic..it's dyslexic!

I love me some Gary!

[EVA]

P.S.

Just a suggestion... but maybe you could set it up so we can register for your site and then just sign in for comment use. So you don't have to approve every single one. Just a thought :-)

[Dr. L.]

Head injury + metal plate in head + drugs, (lots o' drugs) = Gary Busey.

[midevil]

Brilliant, 14.

[scungilli]

poor man was assimilated long ago by the aliens he hosts ... take a close look at those "teeth" ...

[Demon Kitty]

The most memorable things take place in a moving vehicle ... I always happened to be in the passenger's seat while the car was merging into traffic .....

This is going to give me nightmares. His fucking teeth have that skeletal - "near death" look.

It makes me want to go get a metal plate put in my fucking head so maybe I will forget the image. Good God. I agree with scungilli.

That image of Jennifer Garner seeing Gary Busey and immediately turning her back. I never like her anyway, I don't know why. I'm glad he slobbered all over her, even though I was mortified. This is incredible 14. It scares the shit out of me.

[seabiscuit]

He reminds me of Nick Nolte, but with more random loveable wackiness.

[Cyclops Kitten Natividad]

I think we've finally figured out who writes all that wacky spam "poetry" we've been puzzling over for years. It must pay ok, cuz he's not acting anymore, is he?

Fuck, this is one scary piece of art. GAH!

I find more warmth and humanity in Gary's ravings than I do in La Cruise's gibberish.

[lynnster]

One night at the House of Blues (circa 1994) that man showed up and proceeded to creep the holy Hell out of me and a bunch of other people. I will never, ever forget it. Let's just say this: Gary Busey + large quantities of cocaine* + a harmonica = UNSPEAKABLY TERRIFYING (as-in "OH-DEAR-GOD-DON'T-LET-THE-SCARY-MAN-HURT-ME!!!!") HORROR

Just trust me on this.

*(Allegedly -- but it's a safe bet, as he ODed on smack two days later)

[Selenite]

Great work, especially in the eye area and with the skin tones.

[Viper Tetsu]

Gary Busey, my ass. He's Frankenstein's Hippie Monster. "Friend goooood... Cocaine gooood...Nimble vagrancy of foresight baaaad..."

This be exquisitely, excruciatingly brilliant.

[sara]

YAYYY!!

I'M SO GLAD YOU USED THIS ONE!

it's ridiculous, and amazing.

i've got a new crop of creepies to send you soon... so look for them!

<3

[14]

Send them Sara, send themmmmmmmm! I need a fix. You have the BEST photos ever.

xoxo
14

[Demon Kitty]

So good to see you Viper!

[Finicky Holli]

That is the scariest F***ing thing I have ever seen. Except, of course... for the real thing. awesome. You're an amazing talent.

[Viper Tetsu]

Good to be back, DK. Good to be back.