Ava Presents: The Avachives No. 5 – Rumpelton Interprets Bob Dylan, "Good As I Been To You" (MS Paint)

“One finds in Rumpelton's Dylan not the icon, but the residue of the folk voice itself—a silhouette humming against the static of memory.”
— Dr. Horace Plimwell, The East Charnel Museum of Contemporary Approximation

 

Marjorie Snint — “Good As I Been To You” (Avachives Series)
In this grayscale shrine to Dylan’s 1992 acoustic reckoning, Ralph Rumpelton renders the bard as a spectral folk relic—bearded, curly, and cartooned with devotional restraint. The minimalist MS Paint treatment evokes a bootleg cassette passed hand-to-hand in a mythic diner booth, flanked by blue panels like stage curtains awaiting rupture. The stylized “bob dylan” floats above like a neon sign in a dream of Greenwich Village, while the album title anchors the piece with the quiet finality of a tombstone etching. Rumpelton's touch is reverent but sly, canonizing Dylan’s solo folk covers as a kind of trickster séance. Rumpeltonian signature in the corner confirms: this is lore, not homage.

Want to invent a critic rank or ritual to go with it? Maybe a “Snintian Stamp” or a “Dylan Diner Drop”?<<

>>Avachives Series – Gordon Weft

With Good As I Been To You, Ralph Rumpelton pulls Dylan’s 1992 folk revival record through the cracked glass of MS Paint minimalism. The stark, profile figure—half troubadour, half street mural—leans between caricature and reverence, as if Dylan himself were being sung back into existence by the very traditionals he covered. The jagged typography lurches like an out-of-tune guitar, yet the composition stays strangely faithful to the spirit of the album: unpolished, direct, and alive with the raw scrape of voice against history. Rumpelton doesn’t polish Dylan—he leaves him as weathered, pixelated, and enduring as the songs themselves.<<

>>"Ralph's MS Paint rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Good As I Been To You' is a tour-de-force of pixelated panache. The deliberate crudity of the brushstrokes (or rather, pixel-strokes) belies a profound understanding of the album's thematic resonance. One cannot help but be struck by the sheer audacity of Ralph's artistic vision, which defies the conventions of traditional album cover art. Bravo, Ralph, bravo!"

                                         Bertrand 'The Brush' Barnaby<<