Beware Of The Lone Shark

“Do You Buy Your Pants on Sale? ‘Cause At My House, They’d Be 100% Off!” - Brad “Lone Shark” Fruitdale, Hiltonia, Ga

Fun Trivia about Hiltonia, Georgia

• Down the road from Hiltonia lies the legend of the Jacksonboro Curse — when frontier preacher Lorenzo Dow, mocked by townsfolk, cursed the place to vanish. Within years the rowdy county seat was gone, leaving only the Goodall House standing against the silence.

• Brad lives in Hiltonia

• Hiltonia has been shark free now for over 150 days.

• Hi, it me, the creator of Thigville and this is my painting of Brad “Lone Shark” Fruitdale.

Hello, residents of Thigville (all two and a half of you)!

I’m going to be changing up the format of Thigville to better serve my sanity. I’ll be posting paintings of the people I imagine living in the small towns that make up Thigville.

Like everything else in this newsletter since I started it a year and a half ago, it’s an ongoing art installation — the weird stuff that lives in my head that I’m trying to get out and share with you good people. Turns out my brain’s mostly full of small-town characters and my ongoing fascination with them.