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Christian-Attridge
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[2007-07-09 03:58:42 +0000 UTC]
"Eat Right, Stay Fit, Die Anyways"
(Antarctica)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1340; Deviations: 144; Watchers: 277
Watching: 759; Pageviews: 47031; Comments Made: 3725; Friends: 759
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Paco Alcazar,Helge Reumann,Anders Nilsen,Gary Larson, Tom Gauld, John Callahan, Doug Savage,Mark Beyer, Jason,Don KennFavorite movies: Rififi
Favorite TV shows: Sam el rey del Judo
Favorite bands / musical artists: P J Harvey
Favorite books: Necronomicon
Favorite writers: Roberto Bolaños, Cortázar,Camus
Favorite games: Onanism
Tools of the Trade: Bamboo paper
Other Interests: Film comics cryptozoology
# About me
Writer,dummy pornstar,illustratorSon, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
Current Residence: A place I dont want to be in.
I sit by the roadside
The driver changes the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why with impatience do I
Watch him changing the wheel?
Favourite genre of music: Sad songs
Favourite style of art: Naif
Favourite cartoon character: Sid the sexist,Two Fat Slags, Condorito.
Personal Quote: Eat healthy, stay fit, still die.
BIOGRAPHY
Introduction By Noah Berlatsky
I would like to think that somewhere between full-blown, howling death and a basket of newborn kittens exists a climate where the malice and the mirth can mingle. A couple of daisies on your grave, a little venom in your cocoa, some broken glass in your bouncy castle. This type of polar mixer can serve as an intriguing, endlessly entertaining, true-to-life foundation from which a smidgen of lore can grow. Exaggerate the extremes even a little, and the stories, characters, and places that emerge warp accordingly. It is the recognition and exploitation of this tension that immediately drew me to the work of chilean artist Christian Leiva-Attridge.
At first glance, Leiva's images seem to be rooted in an alternate world -- a world where gnomes travel via saddled dachshund-back and birds of all nations hatch adorned with the heads and hairstyles of every human stereotype imaginable. The bold, precise outlines give his ideas an immediate impact, but it's the aftertaste that really cuts deep. Everything comes with a story. I have never known Christian to create something without a reason for it to exist and an accompanying tale. His pictures are built from the simplest ingredients, ingredients with which the everyman can identify. Leiva documents his every day, every trip, every friend, and every experience within his art to the point where one could line up his life's work, decode the riddles, and have a clear idea of where he's been, how he felt about it, the types of folk he chopped it up with, and what lies ahead.
What does lie ahead? Inevitably, more days and nights locked in his oddball studio, as the "King of Nada" maintains an awesome and inspiring work ethic. Leiva-Attridge is, for all intents and purposes, the real deal. To say he works hard would be an understatement worthy of a bid in the Bog of Eternal Stench. While the public gets to soak in the varied fruits of his labor, he is laboring behind the scenes... intensely and always. The guy is an art machine fueled by wine, beer, and the occasional line of coke the size and shape of his country. On any given day, one can wander into Leiva's studio to find an entire new body of work that did not exist one week prior, complete with a storyline as engaging as the images themselves. The output level is shocking in both quality and quantity.
But, in the end, it's all only as deep as the man behind the drafting table. In an age with fewer and fewer creative heroes worth looking up to, I can say without hesitation that, in this case, the man at the helm of the hand doing the damage is a shepherd worth following. Leiva would probably cringe at a comment like that, as his hermitic and occasionally bashful composure doesn't sponge up compliments well. But, I'm writing this, so fuck him. I've been around the world and met a lot of "artists" who eat, shit, and breathe inside a bubble of self-aggrandizement, armies of yes-men at their sides ready to toot the bugles for every flimsy "breakthrough" they put forth. Leiva-Attridge avoids that typecasting by boiling his intentions down to their most elemental forms: he makes pictures, he makes a lot of them, he makes them for himself, he makes them for the people, and he makes them from the heart. I am proud to say that I look up to him. You should too.
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From the introduction to 'The Mindfuck Chambers, a study on enthopy and falling down'(latinamerican edition) by Levi Roos Meyer
"Christian Leiva-Attridge is one of a very few artists working in cartoon strips — honestly, a very few ever to have worked in cartooning— to have developed a completely unique visual style. We can look at anything Attridge draws and know it’s him by the precision of his meticulous, even lines, the muted but expressive color palette, the simplification of forms that manages to seem both naturalistic and artificial. Any single Leiva drawing codes for an entire way of making cartoons, a language the artist has created for himself from the raw material of panels and balloons."
# Comments
Comments: 423
Happy Birthday my friend....miss your extreme talent and your loyal friendship...much love to you Christian..
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Happy birthday, Chistian.
One more year to remember, one year less between this day and the moment when each of us will die. Time flows flying fast, does it not?
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happy birthday to you from one ghost, to another
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Happy birthday and hope it is a good day for you
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Hey man, appreciate the faves and support!!
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wow thanks a lot for the fave and the watch really great of you to support my work, is spaciale exiting that you like my art you being a great artist, love the desing and the tecnique in your artwork very creative ideas and concepts just fantastic magnificent line be well man an thanks again
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Thanks for looking around my asylum and seeing the inmates ! I appreciate it !
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Thanks for the watch , I hope I end up doing some things this year worth your attention !
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Hey, I moved my account to this
Can you watch it? Thank you~
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Is being dead as boring as it sounds?
Does it hurt, or is it the complete lack of sensation?
I would rather it hurt, pain is better than nothingness.
Is there anything to do of interest on the other side? Or is that why you're doomed to haunt DA? Poor thing
Supposedly everyone thinks he was you.
Horrible mix up.
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I swore I was watching you. God damn it... Well, I fixed that.
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Fancy seeing you here! (Sorry, you're on my watch list.)
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Happy Birthday, Faggot! Are you still dead and buried underground and rotting and being eaten by worms?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Where's the drawing you made for meh? 
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Alright Christian! I have not heard from you! Wtf is going on my friend!?
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Happy Birthday Christian, where ever you may be. 
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It was my fucking honour to put your work in FLUMP, my friend. May you still be a controversial and beautiful bastard in the afterlife. Peace, brother.
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hey man, how are you? are you still alive? hahah
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esqueci que falavas português, christian! hahaha
não é sarcasmo não, quero saber como tu estás. e aí, tudo bem?
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Not as great as i was lead to believe, think ill change to the muslim side, see if I can get me some of them promised 17 virgins.
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Too bad, but stuck with 17 twelve years old for eternity? I would rather burn in hell.
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Wait...Christian's dead? He's honest to god, dead and...Oh my god, this is boggling--I kinda talked to him a little bit after watching him--nothing much but still something...
When did he die? How?
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I am schocked to hear that too..
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Like...I dunno, I mean I'm not saying you can expect that kind of news to go around so quick when its the internet its not like he'll crawl outta the grave and type out 'hey guys, just for the record; I died'
Oh god...I barely knew him. I hope he's resting well so-to-speak but it's like...I really wanted to get to know him.
his brothers using his account and thats just even more...generally ??
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