“The Walking Dead” Family Tree: How the AMC’s Dead Yourself App Turned My Cousin Cheryl into a Regular Francis Bacon

Dead Yourself Family picture — In Los Angeles, summer of 2012. Left to right: me, Ritchie, cousins Cheryl Murphy and Sandi Black. Who knew that Cheryl was the family artist?

So Ritchie has been trying to get me to watch AMC’s Walking Dead for a while. I told him I wasn’t interested in this whole zombie thing and that I don’t even understand why it’s a thing at all, culturally speaking. Then the other day my cousin Cheryl from L.A. sent me this picture using the Dead Yourself app:

I thanked her for sending the picture without recognizing us. When I finally did two days later, I was hysterical. Poor Ritchie looks like a burn victim and I look like I’ve had the mother of all relapses. I started to send Cheryl pictures to Dead—you have to admit, she has a certain flair for this sort of thing. I told her she should have been a tattoo artist or a nail tech who paint Mount Rushmore on a big toenail. I’m so proud of her! Her work reminds me of naive but promising Francis Bacon.

francis-bacon-1 — Francis Bacon’s “Figure With Meat,” 1994

Cousins Ricki and Marv Glassman, Cheryl and Sandi’s parents.

4 Comments

Cheryl Murphy

February 22, 2013 at 3:54 pm

It was my pleasure to “dead” everyone! If any Stargayzing fans or their pets would like to be zombied, I’d be happy to oblige! xoxo

David Munk
February 25, 2013 at 9:06 pm

Hi Cheryl, Your creativity was a great inspiration to me! Keep up the work. Have you thought about expanding your subject matter to include forest creatures and farm animals?

Sandi Black

February 23, 2013 at 1:40 am

You two are literally “feeding” each other’s habits on this one, but I love it. xoxo

David Munk
February 25, 2013 at 9:04 pm

Good one!

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