A New Way

Here's a brief peek at what Scott Rideout is up to. These two drawings are part of a series of drawings that will be in book format entitled "A Trap You Can Love," a look into the spiritual pyramid scheme.

Home on the High Plain

A home movie from Millie Cindzer, back from her traveling days. What do you think about THAT contradiction?

Victory: A Steaming Odoriferous Ghost

An excerpt from the script:

...He quickly regains his footing after stumbling into the rift.
HERO:I know you're there.
Silence
HERO:(Quickly turning around) I can hear your breathing, you stark-brained phantom! The portal has been opened, do not feign ignorance of what is to come next. Give yourself up to me lest we both pay the price of your greed!
PHANTOM:(Seeming to come from every direction)You will pay the price...(Chuckles) O! believe me! And the time for recompense is nigh, old friend.
A vast sucking sound reverberates throughout the earthen channel. It's source unclear at first, then gradually centers itself right behind HERO.
HERO: (Swinging his sword) Be done with you, foul shade!
But HERO hacks away at someone other than PHANTOM. Without realizing it he has...

Just a teaser for you and you and you from the brain and foot of Alana Ponui and the hand of Richard Tuggz.

Waltzing Back In

We know. It will never happen again, and that is a hard, reliable and 100% guaranteed PROMISE. It has been over a month since our last post and that is a source of regret, shame and pain. Moving forward, you will see below this a glimpse into the world of a professional narcissist. No, we are not talking about Scott! This man has let his obsessive love for himself spiral out of control. The admiration he so craved has mutated into a hideous serpentine monster which has sallied forth into the third dimension leaving a void in his psyche that needs an occupant. Would you like to move in? The rent is cheap, and there is a backyard. You pay for garbage pick-up and cable/DSL/food/mistakes. It should be mentioned that this a project Alana Ponui has been working on, using the draftsman skills of Richard Tuggz. She made the story clear, but the format remains in the shadows. ("Leave it to Alana," is what her friends all say about her.) It could be a still from a short animation, an illustration for a video game cartridge, a wall projection, a letter to the pope...anything, knowing her. What a card, eh?

FREE THE IRON SHEIK

Another winner by Alana Ponui. Practice your prayers, mouth your mantras twice as many times, and maybe he will be released from his prison of pure energy.

Inchoate Phase, No Mayonaise -"Days of Reality"

As the days become shorter and shorter the spaces between each post seem to get longer and longer, don't they? We don't usually do this, but we thought it might be fun. This is an unfinished painting by Scott Rideout who complains that, "there is never a good seat at the opera." Why are we showing you an unfinished painting you may ask? Well, because we here at FORCES, Unltd. like to think that the creation process is like the eating of an apple from the flower stalk to the remnants of the calyx. the first bite in the northern hemisphere gives you a good basic foundation for what you are about to experience, and as your slimy ingestion orifice travels southward you begin to fully understand just what this apple's being is all about until you spit out the core, belch and sit back satisfied, fully aware of that apple's place in the multiverse. But maybe you grow tired of the apple (and this awkward metaphor) after one bite. You drop it like a stack of junk mail. The carcass of the fruit abandoned, rotting, slowly liquefying and sinking toward the earth's molten core. A smear on the ground is the only sign that it existed at all.

A team up between Scott Rideout and Millie Cindzer

OUT NOW!!!

Adam Hartnett's "High & Outside III" is now available! Two stories written by Adam "Bomb" Hartnett with six B&W illustrations by Scott Rideout. Screen printed cover illustration also by Scott Rideout. This is SOLID people! You may remember "High & Outside," the first. No? Do these illustrations by Scott Rideout ring yer ding-dong? To obtain a copy email highandoutside666@gmail.com or forcesunlimited@yahoo.com.

Career Day

These two goofballs have been wrapped up in a bellicose embrace for page turn after page turn. Grab some cheese doodles and beer, pull up a lawn chair and enjoy the show.

Calendar Girl Starring Jason Priestley

Scott Rideout fiddles out the month of August and we are all wondering when he learned to play the fiddle. The next time you see this will be about a year from now, if indeed, there is a next time.

Slippery When Whet

Another drawing created entirely out of HTML and JAVA code by Alana Ponui. Once again: no ink or paint has touched paper or canvas here. This exists only in the cyberverse.

Half of a Zine in its Entirety

Hello again, Earthlings! It has been so long since we have last not met, so we have decided to bring you something from the future via the past. Here is a short story by Scott "Freak-Hands" Rideout that was half of a zine called "Fortnight of Night." The other half was drawn by Crystal Regan (if you are interested in seeing her half email us atforcesunlimited@yahoo.comand we will send you a pdf.) Not many people have seen these drawings so this is a very rare blog post. FYI: This story became inspiration for part of a comic book series that Scott will illustrate called Ordinary Tales, written by Boring Dan. FYIA: The original size of the drawings/zine = 3.25" x 4" (do you feel like you're watching pop-up video yet?)
FYIAA: We decided to post the spreads as a whole rather than break them up and show each page individually. Hopefully, that doesn't freak you out too much.

WARNING! Circle Around The Block!

Here is a portrait. A portrait of a loser. A portrait of a loser who wins, see? Don't get in his way, because he'll knock your block off! And then he'll take your socks off, while your feet are still in them! and he'll beat you 'til you're feet feel sorry for you. And just when you think you've had enough he'll buy you a nice dinner. Then you might think he feels sorry for you, but he doesn't, 'cause then he sells you to the chef and tells the chef to turn you into HIS dinner! And that is just the first chapter of a long, long tale of pain and rage.

Killing Time (Happy Independence Day!)

Two very fresh pieces from Alana Ponui. She is experimenting with a new method here. These two pieces are entirely made up out of HTML and JAVA code. Each nuance that seems like a physical drawing on actual paper is a well crafted code--the shadow side of our reality, if you will--existing only in the cyber-realm. The first piece is called "Beautiful Mondays" and the second piece is called "Calling All Butterflies."

We Entreat You, Have Another

To all of our followers in Russia and Malaysia we apologize! It has been soooo long since we have posted, but we've got some real humdingers lined up! Here is a new offering from Richard Tuggz. A shameless study of the female human form. A woman so hellbent on exacting revenge that she has honed her dagger skills and donned a weird outfit. And next comes the death of her adversary. Next week: a drawing by Scott Rideout.