After a couple of days of looking at Slug Signorino’s drawing of worms escaping a hapless surgery recovery, I discovered that he snuck his signature in with the worms (Well, a worm creates the “S” and the rest of the letters in Signorino are squiggles)! Cool.
What’s next? Ninas?
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And of course, the reference to Slug Signorino’s clever incorporation of the signature into the illustration immediately brings to mind Hirschfeld and his Ninas.
For those of you unfamiliar with Hirschfeld, he is a famous american illustrator who portrayed stars in the US entertainment field (starting with Broadway artists but eventually wielding his pen to portray movie and television actors, musicians, etc…) After his daughter was born he started hiding her name (Nina) in his drawings and after 1960 his signature would be followed by a number that indicated the number of hidden “Ninas”.
An example of the hidden Ninas can be seen here.
Illustrators: Al Hirschfeld
Look halfway through the page at the drawing with “Ninas” outlined in red (as an example, this was of course not his practice.)
The Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd. which sells his art has some images online. A typical Hirschfeld drawing is this one:
American Popular Song: Great American Songwriters - featuring Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, George & Ira Gershwin, and Duke Ellington
I have a framed Slug original (a portrait of myself in a skimpy dominatrix outfit with a whip, of course)and I was disappointed for the longest time that he hadn’t signed it. Six months later I found his signature; letters skipping through the picture near the bottom.
Link, please. 
Don’t have a homepage and not sure how to link to a jpg… Oh well.
Come on JillGat, don’t leave Colibri hanging! Just e-mail that scanned Slug Signorino drawing over to Shayna and have her put it on the people pages toot sweet.
Colibri ain’t hangin’ (at least in this sense). I already sent it to him, and now you have it, too. - Jill
What, the rest of us don’t count? Or would that violate the “no porn” rule?
Waitamoment… What “No porn” rule? I thought it was the “No-porn-except-for-SDSAB-members” rule.
Does Arnold at least have permission to forward it to Shayna?
By the way, the illustration last week also had an extra signature, in amongst the “lorum ipsum” text. Does this maybe mean that Slug really does like pain itself? This might also explain his portrait of JillGat.
[[Does this maybe mean that Slug really does like pain itself? This might also explain his portrait of JillGat.]]
Hm. There are a couple of ways to interpret that…
The wheels are in motion. Patience, grasshopper!
Dunno about Slug. But in the drawing it looks like Jill has been trying out the amatory techniques of the female praying mantis (as she proposed to do in another thread).
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For those who requested it, here is my Slug portrait:
http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/jillgat.html
Well, Jill, at least Slug captured your good side :D.