Herbie Mudpucket Portrait

“Critic Darius Feldspar famously called this ‘the hinge of the whole movement."

(Painted from a picture rumored to be Herbie Mudpucket)

• Ralph Rumpelton
  Herbie Mudpucket 
  RR-2026 #471Medium: MS Paint on digital canvas, 575 × 564 px
  Created: 2026
  The Rumpelton Continuity (est. 1976)
  Collection of the Artist

 Herbie Mudpucket

Some insist Ralph Rumpelton captured Herbie Mudpucket perfectly. Others claim the painting looks nothing like him. The truth is impossible to know.

Herbie spent the 1960s and '70s playing bass on countless albums that almost nobody bought, gave almost no interviews, and somehow managed to avoid nearly every camera ever pointed in his direction. The few surviving photographs are blurry, out of focus, or thought to be someone else entirely.

After all these years, memories have faded, stories have grown taller, and eyewitnesses rarely agree on anything except that "he definitely played bass."

Perhaps this is Herbie Mudpucket.

Perhaps it isn't.

At this point, nobody really remembers what he looked like—and that's exactly how Herbie would have wanted it.