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Published: 2007-03-04 09:12:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 2354; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 31
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One of my favorite literary characters of all time. A crabby, old, dirt poor, sci-fi writer named Kilgore Trout from a number of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novels.I've been trying to continue doing something a little more abstract from my normal style. I based my image of Kilgore on Vonnegut himself, and a couple of Vonnegut's prints.
According to Vonnegut Kilgore trout died in the year 2004. The epitaph on his tombstone says, "Life is no way to treat an animal."
Edit: Shit, and now the world has lost Vonnegut himself. Sad day.
"So it goes."
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Never read, but never forgotten.
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Thank you very much! Glad you enjoy it. Kilgore Trout is one of my favorite literary characters.
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I think the same!
Only a month ago I was introduced to the universe
of Kurt Vonnegut. I red Hocus Pocus and then
Slaughterhouse, and it's an awesome writer, one
of the best USA authors I've read.
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Oh really? That's great. I think that Trout had some of his greatest moments in Timequake and Breakfast of Champions. Breakfast of Champions was really good.
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Kilgore Trout is my hero. Thanks for this awesome picture of him. It definately captures what he's all about.
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haha. Well your very welcome. Thank you for the kind comment too.
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My dad, who introduced me to Vonnegut, said that, (eh-hem,) "Way back when, Vonnegut wrote under the alias 'Kilgore Trout.' And then he started using him as a character in his novels." I'm not sure if this is true, but if so, then... well... then nothing, because the Mr. Trout is already pretty blatant self-mockery, so depicting him in Vonnegut's image already makes the most sense. 
An awesome pic. His rubber boots are love.
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Yeah, I don't think that Vonnegut ever actually wrote under that alias (he invented the character after he had already become a somewhat established writer), but Kilgore definitely became an alter ego. So your argument still works. Everybody wins.
Thanks!
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he is one my top 10 all timebest characters in fiction, he is so funny and he's..amazing especially in Breakfast of Champions
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haha. Yeah. Especially in the end. That was great.
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I have a question over him though
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Well...I'm doing a project....featuring him and i'dlike it if a vonnegut read could...help me clearly understand his behavior toward people, his outlook, how he acts and what he thinks...alot clearer.
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I think Kilgore's character actually changes A LOT! He seems almost different from book to book. You'd probably have to do an analysis of him concentrating on a single story... not trying to analyze him in the entirety of Vonnegut's books.
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then pleasde, I've not read them all really...do enlighen (btw it is a video project)
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Hooo boy. I really couldn't tell you anything all too insightful to tell the truth. I did most of my vonnegut reading more than five or six years go. I do remember that he would go from a humanist in one book, to a total anti-social jerk in the next. I think it just depended on Vonnegut's mood at the time, considering Trout was somewhat autobiograpical for Vonnegut.
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HMMmmmm I can do that, like an imitation Vonnegut, I'm going to pose in public as Kilgore Trout for a series of video projects
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Hoo boy. Sounds ambitious! Best of luck!
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Well it is only one...then i mmake my own kilgore or tony clifton
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nice portrayal, very much like the image Mr. Vonnegut painted in my head
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That's great! I'm glad to hear it.
Thanks for the fav too!
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Ahhhh, I love Kilgore Trout! Is it odd that I aspire to be him? I'm okay with being filler-space in dirty magazines.
Well done. This is simply awesome. :]
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Well thank you so much. I have to admit that I admire him quite a lot too. I have a special place in my heart of semi-destitute old guys that spent their whole lives chasing a dream that never really panned out (Skink from the Carl Hiassen books, and The Emperor of San Francisco from the Christopher Moore books are two other Trout-esque characters that I admire). Probably because I'm afraid I'll end up like them some day.
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this is the first Vonnegut-related artwork i've seen on DA. I like his hand
I love how Vonnegut will start rambling about one of his sci-fi stories midway through a paragraph.
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Thank you much. I looked up Kilgore Trout not long after I uploaded this, and there are only a couple of other Vonnegut related drawings that I could find.
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ha ha. Nice. Thank you very much.
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Yeah, that guy is seriously fantastic.
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Nice style, different, but really good.
Man I wouldn't like to run into him in the streets, he'd probably have a go at me for being young and then lecture me on something from his day.
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No, he'd probably just start screaming about the air being poison, or something along those lines.
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It's well done, and you definitely have the abstract thing down.
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Thank you much man. Glad to hear it.
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Ohhhhh man.
His flesh = AMAZING.
Meaning his face and hand.
All that texture is so awesome :0D
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Thank you so much. I was wondering if it was perhaps a bit much, but I really liked the outcome.
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Oh no not at all.
That's what makes it so rad!
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THE BEST SCI-FI WRITER OF ALL TIME
you have good taste
and good style of art <3
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Trout or Vonnegut. Either way I guess it's sort of the same guy.
Thanks much!
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either one :B both are awesome.
though perhaps Vonnegut had a more fruitful career.
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h aha. Yeah. Definately more fruitful. Although, being fictional, Kilgore doesn't exactly need money.
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haha! yes, also a good point
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I've never read any books with this character in, but i like him already. The ink stain and the delicate coloured fish are my favourite bits.
That epitaph rivals spike milligan's.
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Trout is a bit of a main character in both Breakfast of Champions and Timequake. I really heavily recommend Breakfast of Champions.
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i'll definately look out for it! need some good brain crack
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That would probably be a pretty good discription of Vonnegut's books.
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