{"id":40145,"date":"2023-03-01T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=40145"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:21:26","slug":"monster-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/01\/monster-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Mash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some things never change. I used to work on class projects in my bedroom studio in my parents’ house while a 13-inch black and white TV set played trash. Last night I was sketching for fun while watching trash from roughly that era. It was 1979 and NBC executive Fred Silverman thought it would be a great idea to give one of television’s iconic detectives a crime solving spouse. So they got 24-year old Kate Mulgrew; gave her a 10-year old daughter and had her go through the motions of sleuthing out homicides in stories that felt like writers had them sitting around in a desk drawer gathering dust.
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Episodes of Mrs Columbo <\/em>are available to view on TubiTV<\/em>. I watched a couple episodes as I penciled the two guys struggling with the Frankenstein monster above. I never watched the show in its initial run, but I remember television critics at the time deriding it as being a creatively bankrupt knock-off of a better show which it was. Upon watching it I was relieved that Kate Mulgrew didn’t effect the voice and mannerisms of Peter Falk. It just seemed to be a generic murder mystery television series, and it was perfect background noise to sketching.<\/p>\n

I am continuing my sketches in my now nearly depleted Out of This World<\/em><\/a> sketch pad. Seated on the couch and sketching in small, cheap sketchbooks as trash plays on the television is how I wind down my evenings.
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Some things never change. I used to work on class projects in my bedroom studio in my parents’ house while a 13-inch black and white TV set played trash. 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