Just Like You Wanted

As I continue to be TRAPPED BY WINTER, here’s another older piece for the historical archives that never made it online…

This drawing is part of a series that also includes “Bad Things Happen (to Kids That Fuck),” “I Finally Understand All Those Straight Edge Songs on the Radio!,” and “I Work Hard for the Money.”

Originally, they were all one large drawing, but I liked them better in smaller pieces so I cut the page up into four differently-sized segments.

Visually, they don’t look quite like anything else I’ve ever made. Part of that is because they’re ink, not paint, but there’s a reason they don’t even look like my other ink drawings. When I picked the drawing up and looked at the back of the paper, there was a ton of bleed-through – and it looked really cool. I liked the back of the paper better than the side I’d colored. So I flipped the paper over and redid all of the black outlines on that side. And then I wrote out all of my text. Which, in this one, says…

“You made it into my art. I guess you affected me. Just like you wanted.”

It’s about a girl I was dating pretty casually but who was really into the idea of getting me very emotionally invested in her – even though she wasn’t particularly invested in me. I imagine that had something to do with her bipolar disorder. In any case, as the drawing indicates, she did ultimately succeed in fucking with my emotional well-being.

BULLY FOR HER.

7×5-inch prints of “Just Like You Wanted” and the other drawings in this series are available in the webstore. Send a message for current availability of original drawings.