Welcome to my nightmare, Art Monkeys.

At our last session, Marlo Marquise posed as Elizabeth Short, better known to the world as the Black Dahlia. The Black Dahlia, like the Black Panther, Black Lightning, and Black Goliath, was an ethnic character created by a writer trying to appear socially relevant. Like Alex DeWitt, she is most famous for being killed and disposed of in a particularly gruesome fashion, thus inspiring a whole generation of women to become horribly dismembered in pursuit of some fleeting glimpse of stardom. But enough of the history lesson! There are breasts to ogle! Take us away, Justin Lussier!

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We’re celebrating the fifth anniversary of Dr. Sketchy’s with apocalyptic flash fiction. Sydney T. Bernstein tells a tale from beyond apocalypse, a vision where ghastly spectres dance and pose and people pay for the privilege of watching, an image pleasing to the lugubrious Dr. Sketchy... The Last Sketchyblog      I was there at the beginning, you know. So much has changed over the years, and yet we endure. When the Lucky Cat closed, there were those who were skeptical that Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School could last. When the Slipper Room closed for renovations, there were those who said that the then homeless Dr. Sketchy would not be around for much longer. When Manhattan was evacuated, there was no shortage of doubters who said that Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School would go the way of so many

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Thank You to everyone who joined us at the Torch Bistro in Punta Gorda on December 1st!

Here is a sneak peak of some of the photos from our first ever Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in South West Florida.



Prizes for the evening where supplied by two of our Local Sponsors: Down to Earth Apparel and Gifts and Mrs McDougall’s Roasting House Coffee.

Special Thanks to Kallista for being our Muse for the evening and also thank you to everyone who came out to support us for our first Dr Sketchy’s event.

Now its time to start planning the next one which will be held on January 5th so please save the

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A nice Southern girl, sporting a pair of cut-off jean-shorts and a flannel tied in a knot, accessorized with a moonshine-filled flask, will get me more verklempt than an auctioneer with a mouth full of peanut butter every time.  Elle Devene of Gilded Lily Burlesque was that Southern day-dream made flesh, something that's all the more beautiful when, if you're actually from the South, you're well aware the reality is often marred by an entire can of Aqua Net and enough make-up inexpertly applied to make you wonder if you're talking

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