If the internet has its own singular art form, beyond memes or selective outrage, it’s probably the work of Chris (Simpsons Artist), purveyor of English surreality and the lovingly grotesque. His work is all teeth and fingers and deadpan ick, the kind dispersed across social media and nodded at with gentle understanding. “Simpsons Pictures That I Gone and Done” has 1.4 million followers on Facebook. Chris himself has a million followers on Instagram. His output resembles motivational posters by way of a lunatic. “So what if you have nits,” goes one. “They are just hairy pets.”
But who is Chris (Simpsons Artist), you ask? Beyond the social media avatar that provided him his name – a crude sketch, done in Microsoft Paint, of Homer Simpson with distorted eyes, jutting teeth and a pointy nose – he is largely a mystery, like Stone Henge but a man, or Banksy but not annoying. So we rang him up to ask.
