I was in a Swap in FreakWerks SO nervous! These are major artists! But I am finally after several mock ups happy with my unconventional Super Hero!
Here were the instructions: Based on this idea by Alex Gross: http://www.alexgross.com/mixed-media/index.html Find a vintage cabinet card. These can be found at antique stores, or on eBay. Make sure it's a cabinet card, and not the smaller carte de visite, trading card size. Cabinet cards usually measure about 4¼ by 6½ inches. Please use a REAL cabinet card, and not something printed from the internetz. Alter your card to turn the figure into a super hero. These can be modelled after comic or graphic novel super heroes, or made up. Please be sure to include somewhere on the card, front or back, your name, and the name of your super hero.
The awesome thing was getting help on his story from Judith, Chris, Lindsay, Cindy C and my daughter who totally helped write up the Bio! I feel good about him! Thank you every one!
My very good friend Pallie sent me this guy a few years ago...and although he was SO handsome and ubber cute he just HAD to be my Super Hero...
No matter what I did he wanted to be blue! I did several mocks up but he is the only that wanted to be made! I had him several colors, several different ways...but he wanted to be blue!
Bicorn (also known as Burrowing Bicorn, Bicorne) is a mythological creature with two horns that has the reputation of devouring kind-hearted and devoted husbands, and is thus plump and well fed. His counterpart is the Chichevache, which devours only obedient wives and is therefore thin and starving. The Bicorn is a tremendously quick burrower, and is notorious for eluding capture. The configuration of the creature's two horns remains a mystery, as when captured, it 'drops' both horns, much as an iguana drops its tail.
Bicornius Commanderous
Bicornius was born in Transylvania but relocated to the U.S shortly after he was born. He was a gifted child sharing a keen interest in alchemy just like his father. He grew up to have a successful career in the CIA as their most ambitious chemist. He was later assigned to the secretive MK-Ultra Project where he synthesized the first aerosol form of blue dot LSD. On a day like any other, Bicornius prepared to replenish the project's supply of the aerosol only this time he accidentally knocked the solution off of the shelf above his head and the blue solution spilled covering over 87% of his body. He was transformed into a bicorn satyr and the blue tint to his skin became permanent. Despite disfigurement he returned to the MK-Ultra lab to continue his work. He became disillusioned however, when he discovered that his aerosol was being used on operatives and civilians without their consent during experiments conducted by his superior.
When he tried to speak out against the gross human rights abuses he was ejected from his position and tortured by operatives under the influence of the LSD aerosol. His superior sent a directive to the operatives demanding that he be buried alive after his torture only, Bicornius, after the accident became immortal and survived the burial. It was then that Bicornius Commanderous rose from the earth and systematically barfed up all of the devoted husbands he had eaten in his spare time and cultivated an army to aid him in wiping out MK-Ultra and the superior nemesis.
With the help of the barfed up husbands MK-Ultra was leaked to Congress and all of the operatives that had conducted the experiments and torture as well as his nemesis were administered the most potent aerosol LSD in existence which rendered them all insane. They routinely shat themselves and obsessively picked at their bodies, eventually tearing off their own flesh and puncturing their main arteries with their teeth. Most of them died but some of the operatives and the nemesis survived and were locked away at the same university where the experiments took place, were experimented on themselves, and were never released.
Bicornius went on to create antidotes for the helpless victims of the MK-Ultra experiments and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is alive and well today and spends most of his time in his underground bunker making some of the most revered pharmaceuticals on the market. He has since given up eating devoted husbands after meeting the corpulent Chichevache of his dreams and released the barfed up husbands to go back freely to their wives and families. The fate of the wives however, is a tale best told on future occasions...
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