...Openening it up, I was happy to find THE VIC COLLECTION!!!
I think I went over this in the previous Megadeth posts, but I was obsessed with Megadeth in the late 80's-early 90's, and one of the by-products of this obsession was the Vic Collection... I used to make everybody in my school draw me a picture of the band's mascot, Vic Rattlehead...For those of you unfamiliar with Vic Rattlehead, he looked like this...
Anyway...Without further ado, here's the complete Vic Collection from circa 1992 (minus a couple exceptions which border on bullying and we try to avoid any negative vibes here...The Friday Night Record Party blog strongly discourages bullying and if I catch anybody doing it, I'll take away their lunch money and give 'em a swirlie so quick they won't know what hit 'em)...
Pink Paper Vic by Katy Weber
This was the first entry into the series...The one that kicked off the whole endeavor..I know this because if you look at the back of each drawing there was a number that indicated what order they were drawn in..I took the whole thing that seriously...
Bruse Vic by Jason Trevarrow
Jason is my brother, although back then he was affectionately known as Pinhead... I don't know if I fully understand this one...I don't know if Bruse means "bruise" or "Bruce"...We have a friend named Bruce, but I don't know if I understand the connection between this picture and Bruce...
Salvador Dali Vic by Josh Timlick
I consider Josh to be a genius on many different levels... Great musician, great writer and as you can see a brilliant interpreter of Vic Rattlehead...I think Josh gets the award for largest number of contributions to the Vic Collection....He was as big a Megadeth fanatic as I was...
Heavy Lines Vic by Artist Unknown
Hmmm, no signature..It's a nice scribbly take on the classic Vic...
Pinhead Vic by Me
Haha...This is where I turned my younger brother into Vic Rattlehead...At the time Pinhead had one o the greatest Turbo-Mullets known to man and I think I did it justice here..I think the best part has to be the Orlando Magic T-shirt and my signature which substitutes an anarchy sign for the "A" and the Flipper "X" over the letter "I"... I was a real Barney Bad-ass...
Why the Long Face, Vic by Josh Timlick
When I was singing Josh's praises earlier it's for stuff like this...A Vic with his head stretched to various lengths...The meaning of this abstraction is probably lost forever to time...
Stunt Rock Devil Vic by Joe Weber
It's difficult to overstate the impact that the film Stunt Rock had on me and my circle of friends...And we loved the performances by Sorcery whose band line-up included a Wizard and Ol' Scratch himself (not to mention a masked, munchkin-voiced keyboardist)...
Vic Hitler by Artist Unknown
Anybody wanna take credit for this one?
Hot Dog Head Vic by Johnny Rection
Johnny Rection was an alias of the late Corey Russel whom was my friend and band-mate in the Deranged Chimpmunks...He was definitely a unique guy...He had the ability to write lyrics so offensive that I've personally witnessed Mothers scream in terror as they heard them...
The Vicar by Jens Heronemus
Oh yea, Jens is my Brother-in-Law now...But he wasn't back then...He's a great artist and you may have seen his work on some of our TA-80 albums...This one almost seems like it could be a real Megadeth shirt or something...I would've bought one for sure...My favorite aspect is if you look to the far right you can see this was drawn on that old school computer paper with the perforated edges like they used on that Judas Priest album cover...Do they still sell that stuff?
Witchcow Boarder Vic by Kevin Davy
Kevin is my cousin! We used to hang out all the time back in the day...So many good memories...I really enjoy "Witchcow Boarder Vic"...I believe it's what they refer to as "High Concept."
Crinkled Vic by Joe Weber
This may be the most crinkly, yellowed, overly-folded piece of paper I own...This was drawn by my good friend Joe (who made that Mix Cd that I reviewed a day or so ago), who was also a member of D.C....His depiction of Vic is excellent...The glasses have a very high rivet count...
Classic Vic by Artist Unknown
This isn't signed...Did Josh possibly draw it? It's very good...The quintessential Vic....
Thick Vic by Jason Trevarrow
Love Jason's portrayal of Vic...Normally Vic is depicted as being wholly skeleton, but this one seems to have only a skull-head and a thick, fleshy body...
No Laws Vic by Kevin Davy
This is one of my favorites...It kind of looks like his head is on upside down...I want to make a sign like the one Vic is leaning on here and put it in my front yard...Alas, I live in a third-floor apartment...
Bicep Bic by Signature Illegible (it may possibly say Jason Trevarrow)
Highpoints: The Anarchy sign with the veiny wings, and Vic's gigantic biceps that look like delicious chicken legs...
A Black Vic by Signature Illegible
I'm not really sure what the intention of this was...Maybe the artist was attempting to add a little ethic diversity to the Vic Collection? Who knows....
The Black Vic by Aaron Ranger
This whole black Vic thing really caught on....
Scribble-Framed Vic by Aaron Ranger
This appears to be a trace of the "Classic Vic" that Josh drew, framed by some scribbles...
Spell-Check Vic by Scott Grant
"Cool Dud, Ausome." I grew up in a generation that didn't really have spell-check...
Shiny-Headed Vic by Tony Jansen
I swear to you, Tony Jansen was maybe the greatest cartoonist that ever lived...A highlight of my pre-teen and teenage years were the countless hours Tony and I spent drawing D.B. & Slice cartoons...We would crack each other up so hard we could hardly breathe...His absurdly cold and manipulative Slice character was his most brilliant creation...The world has no idea what's it's missing with this guy...Just look at that Vic drawing above...
Picasso Vic by Josh Timlick
A good companion piece to his earlier Salvador Dali Vic...
Valentines Day Vic by Scribble Timlick
I'm not 100% sure who drew this...The Timlick part of the name is clear but the first name is seriously just a big scribble...Could be Josh, could be Dennis...I know a lot of Timlicks...This is great though...Our first Holiday-themed Vic...Maybe there's a Pumnpkin-Spice Vic coming up...
Vicky Rattlehead by Scribble Timlick
This is cute, I like this...I'm thinking Scribble Timlick must be Josh...The happy-face iconography strongly bears his stamp....
Mafia Vic by Josh Timlick
I like that the only thing that distinguishes regular Vic from Mafia Vic is that he's a little wider...Pasta is high in carbs, after all...
Watcher Vic by Illegible Signature
I'm not sure who drew this..I'm thinking Josh...I don't really know many other people who knew who the Watcher is...
Ghost Rider Vic by Josh Timlick
Alright, these scribble ones have to be Josh...He had a real thing for Ghost Rider...They were both Skeletons, so turning Vic into Ghost Rider is a perfect fit...
Shrunken Head Vic by Josh Timlick
Close Up Vic by Josh Timlick
I choose to see this as the camera suddenly zooming in on Shrunken Head Vic....
Moses Vic by Josh Timlick
Easily one of my favorites...We used to refer to Charlton Heston as "Charles Intestine" so much that one day I couldn't remember Charlton's real name anymore...I was like, "I know it's Charles something,.."
Computer Vic by Josh Timlick
Computers were a pretty far out futuristic thing back then...It used to seem like their only practical purpose was to play Carmen Sandiego in Mr. Marr's class...
Halloween Vic by Kevin Martin
A pumpkin-headed Vic smoking a doob in honor of Halloween...I wish I would have had this pic a few days ago when I was doing the Halloween post...
Phallus Vic by Name Withheld
I probably shouldn't say who drew this one...After all a prospective employer might try googling his name and come across a Skeleton with a dick for a nose, hairy balls for his eyes and a backwards swastika glasses/earrings combo...To be fair and balanced, he does have a Star of David for his other earring (although I'd lay money down that Star of David was supposed to be a Pentagram)...Teenage boys can be pretty dumb...For a contrast, here are a couple dick pictures I drew back in the day...
Hulk Hognuts and Jake "the Wiener" Roberts...
Thundernuts, Ho!
Random Vic by Illegible Signature
I can't make out who drew this...John Goodman, maybe? It appears to be a variation of the Katy Weber Vic...
Vick Rattlehead Bathomet by Artist Unknown
Don't know who drew this but I dig the Baphomet where the pentagram in the middle makes it look like it has an extra "O"...
Vic 1 Tribute by Suprina Harrod
This appears to be another variation on Katy's inaugural Vic...That was pretty common...A lot of the people drawing these had no idea who Vic Rattlehead was, so they'd just look at what someone else had drawn previously and based their design on that...
Rattle Off Your Goddamn Head by Brett Wesley
Alright...I like this...After the other artist took the concept way past its stretching point, Brett brings the whole thing back to its roots with a simple bad-ass Vic and a paraphrase of a Megadeth lyric...Brett was a real-deal metalhead...I greatly admired him...Look, he had two pentagrams in his signature...
Disco Vic by Kevin Davy
These Disco-Man drawings were pretty popular in my school...During the early 90's no form of music seemed more absurd or outdated than Disco...It's easy to forget that, now that disco is fashionable again...
Basketball Vic by Artist Unknown
I don't know who drew this, but they have the lightest pencil line I've ever seen...When you see the actual drawing it looks like a blank sheet of paper until you squint and hold the paper an inch from your eyes and suddenly a Vic Rattlehead in a basketball uniform magically appears...I had to go through a lot to get this to scan properly...
African Dying Vic by Name Withheld
Alright...This is just messed up...lol...This is by the same gentle, artistic soul that gave us Phallus Vic...Damn, this is really crossing a line...I actually think I remember the genesis of this drawing...We were in Science class thumbing through a pile of National Geographics and stumbled across this horrible photo of starving people swarming with flies...Our teenage minds weren't able to sufficiently grasp such a terrible idea and this teenage boy did what teenage boys do...He attempted to find humor in the horror, cos there's not much else you can do about it...It's not pretty, but that's the dark side of growing up...
Disco Rattlehead by Me and Aaron Ranger
Another Disco Vic. I know the signature says Aaron Ranger, but that's clearly my drawing and handwriting at the top...I believe he just colored it in with pencil, drew the table with the boom-box, wrote "Disco Mania" and signed it...
Stunt Rock Vic by Josh Timlick
Another Stunt Rock themed Vic, this time it's by Josh and he's depicting the Wizard...
Obease Vick by Jason Trevarrow
LOL LOL LOL!!! I love the cake!!
Long Headed Vic by Me
Zero idea what this is about...
Cooleo Vic by Josh Timlick
Manoman, is this funny...I remember Josh used to loudly boom, "I'M COOLIO, YA STANKIN' HO!!!" and we would always crack up...
Bruse Simpson Vic by Jason Trevarrow
Now I'm even more confused over the whole "Bruse" thing...Was he possibly busting on Bruce's drawing style? I'll probably never get an answer on this one...
"Don't Think I'm Shittin' Ya, Folks..." Vic by Me
The exact details of this are hazy, but here's how I remember it...Josh was telling me that there was a substitute teacher in one of his classes who had a giant forehead and was trying to be the "cool teacher" by swearing in front of the class constantly...Apparently he repeatedly used the phrase, "Don't think I'm shittin' you folks..." at the end of every sentence...
Robot Vick by Norah Timlick
This is a new addition to the Vic Collection that I just received today, done by Josh's daughter Norah...Which means the Vic Collection has now spanned two generations...In more than two ways, because I'm choosing to see Norah's Robot Vick as the offspring of Josh's Computer Vic...
Vampiry Vic by Norah Timlick
by Norah Timlick
He's gonna bite 'cha!
Omg jamin! I love this!!! I can't wait for josh to get home from work so he can see them! He still draws almost daily. Norah and Josh will draw together and try to make one another laugh. Perfect daddy/daughter moments :)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome that Josh and Norah draw together! They can make a new addition to the Vic Collection! Lol
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