Gustav Carlson
@backwoodgoat
Ozarks based comic artist. Creator of Backwood Folk, Tourist Unknown, and Eve of the Ozarks. backwoodfolk.com
Fun project from earlier in the year. Pinpoint, a local pinball bar, had a pirate themed pop-up and commissioned me to do a comic setting up their concept. Originally posted in three panel installments through their various social media accounts. Had a blast on this.
Been drawing to books on tape. And nothing reminds you quicker that you are in the arena of tie-in novels like an author remembering and referencing Mulder’s fear of fire that lasted approximately one episode of the tv show.
If you've enjoyed my haunted Farmer's Market comics you should stick around and stay awhile for the full comic series! Backwood Folk follows the lives and afterlives of the residents of Po'Dunk, AR. Catch wind of hidden gossip of the hereafter before issue 3 hits later this year www.backwoodfolk.com
Backwood Folk Issue 3: BARK OF THE WOOD APE should be coming quite soon. Easily the biggest Backwood Folk story yet as bigfoot hunters descend on Po'Dunk to find the mysterious Pink Eye, and Bert uses it as an excuse to take Cub camping. Here's a cover and an early page!
Welcome back to the Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market! Lilian Vaughan would like to remind all visitors that pasteurized doesn’t mean straight from the pasture.
Welcome back to the Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market! Drop on by and try a free sample at Sissy’s Hillbilly Honey. Po’Dunk has always had a history in sharing its local honey and maybe it always will!
Welcome back to the Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market where you might never wanna leave! Drop by Gilly’s booth if you *really* wanna stick around.
Not a fan art guy by nature, but I am an appreciator of fictional small towns. So I drew some Widow's Bay residents.
Come on down to the Po'Dunk Farmer's Market where you can find produce, dairy, and now even literature! Local writer and noted gossip, Agnes Hoot, has a booth with her self-published novels.
Had never seen 1977's YETI: GIANT OF THE 20th CENTURY before. Mostly a Canadian King Kong rip-off, but they really make some choices with their Kong sized Yeti. Biggest hair, most likely to cut a wrestling promo, and almost certainly most likely to tell you what he's -uh- into.
Many kids have the playground or a treehouse. I had the tire. Not a complaint I loved that tire
Apologies on the self indulgences. Still like a few of them it turns out.
Just managed to finally unearth an ancient hard drive and locate a whole treasure trove of lost art from the original run of the Backwood Folk webcomic all the way back in 2010ish. Might lose my night to this one.
Ever want to eat a burger with a bear? Drop by Po'Dunk's BURGER BEAR for burgers, dogs, and the bear!
Haven’t drawn the big guy in probably a decade. Turns out drawing Godzilla is a lot like riding a bike. At least I have to imagine. I don’t know how to ride a bike. Maybe it’s a little like drawing Godzilla.
If you dug that new Defunctland but were like “what’s Branson’s whole deal”, I’d recommend Faith, Family, and Flag by Joanna Dee Das. Great read and great explainer on Branson’s whole deal and history.
Fishing on the Buffalo River this year? Better be careful out there! I hear the Catfish Hands are really bubbling up this season. CATFISH HANDS a new and free THESE GHOST TOWNS ARE FULL webcomic short! Available now at www.backwoodfolk.com/catfish/
On top of Backwood Folk #3, I've got some more ghost story webomics cooking! Each looking a little more contemporary this time.
As always I definitely recommend the print edition! Beautiful edition filled with a lot of incredible writers from across several generations of Arkansas writers and poets.
Director Bob Corn on the doomed set of NIGHT OF THE PINK EYE 3: THE SECOND NIGHT. Based on Po'Dunk's resident cryptid, the Pink Eye. Learn more about the creature and the film series it inspired at The Pink Eye Research Center (attached to the Lost Comfort General Store) www.backwoodfolk.com/perc/
Check out the first two issues of my continuing comic series Backwood Folk! It follows the lives and afterlives of a small mountain town in the Arkansas Ozarks where even the dead still gossip. Available now in giant sized print issues or more budget friendly digital issues! backwoodfolk.com
Lilian Vaughan and her son Cub tend to the herd that composes Upper Buffalo Saanens Farm.
The Po’Dunk Farmer’s Market began in the early eighties when George Vaughan’s famed truck, Baby, died on the way to the already bustling Fayetteville Farmer’s Market. Local legend has it that he gave up on his journey right then and there, opening up shop in Po’Dunk instead.
Had a hand on this one last Friday! Was a lot of fun, and especially had a lot of fun putting together this little poster. Still can confirm that this is the most Arkansan movie ever made.
Backwood Folk is the story of a haunted little town where people really do stick around and stay awhile. You can download the first two issues of the comic series for just $7. That’s almost a hundred pages of Ozark haints, immortal goats, and creatures in the woods. backwoodfolk.itch.io
I can even tell you which Godzilla toy I was looking at to draw this.