You might picture Tuscaloosa artist

Rich Marcks

and his pals at

standing before their latest piece of chalkboard art and saying, "I think this just might be my masterpiece," a la Brad Pitt at the end of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."

In fact, after a handful of brilliant drawings satirizing SEC football and its larger-than-life coaches, we think they'll find it pretty tough to top their latest work, a spin on Leonardo da Vinci's classic painting of "The Last Supper."

Just in time to celebrate this week's SEC Media Days, they sub Alabama head coach Nick Saban for Jesus Christ and the remaining 13 SEC football coaches for his disciples.

Rich Marcks' chalkboard drawing satirizes Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" painting, substituting Jesus and his disciples with Nick Saban and his fellow SEC football coaches.

Da Vinci's original painting -- presumed to have been commenced around 1495 and commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan -- depicts The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as told in the Gospel of John, 13:21.

Marcks tends to put some special Easter eggs in each drawing, this time notably piling Saban's plate with Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies and other fun edible items for the other coaches. For instance, you'll see a corn dog on the plate in front of Les Miles on the far right.

"We're really proud of this one. It's our biggest one yet," said DCBC co-owner Bo Hicks. "We figured for the start of SEC Media Days, being here in Tuscaloosa with our tongue-in-cheek jokes on our chalkboards, having something that took up the whole chalkboard would be fun and neat to do."

Typically, their drawings take up the center of the chalkboard behind the tap room bar, but the lengthy horizontal piece meant taking up the whole space.

Hicks and company have saved this concept for months now, specifically holding it until the start of Media Days, an unofficial beginning to the new college football season. While it

with SEC football, Hicks hopes people continue to receive it in good fun, as they have with all of the pieces so far.

"I really hope people take it as what it is," Hick said. "Once again, making fun of a classic piece of art and pointing the prism in about how serious a lot people take sports here. We are big Alabama fans. We don't deny that or hide it. At the same time, it's a game. I want people to have fun. Something I say every time we do one of these is this is nothing but trying to have fun and look at the lighter side of something a lot of people think is so serious."

As for any criticism from Christians that might come their way, Hicks said he and his colleagues don't take the subject matter lightly. It's all in good fun.

"It's not poking fun or being sacrilegious," he said. "It's a famous painting that everybody has seen. We don't want to put up chalkboards that you have to have been an art history minor to understand. Most of ours have been something everybody has seen.

"By no means are we trying to shake the tree or be disrespectful. It's kind of funny how serious people take it, but also it's a classic piece of art. It's not trying to be a slap in the face or rude, it's tongue-in-cheek. People should see it for what it is: Something that's funny, and then go about their day."

Another element of the piece that could rub some the wrong way involves their choice for which coach would sub for Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins. They picked current Georgia head coach and former Crimson Tide defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, someone for whom Hicks says he has great admiration. Hicks said he doesn't blame Smart for leaving Alabama for his alma mater, but they needed someone to play the role.

"If we're doing this picture, somebody's got to be Judas," Hick said. "I'm grateful for everything Kirby Smart did here. He is by all accounts a class act. Somebody had to be it. If Lane Kiffin would have left, we would have made it him. It's just a joke."

When they come up with a new idea for the chalkboard, the brewery usually erases the existing piece to make way for the next concept. This time, they brought in separate panels to cover the usual board and plan to auction of the "Last Supper" piece to

, a Leeds-based charity that provides equestrian therapy for children and others in need.

"We wanted this to go for something good," Hick said. "Hopefully somebody will bid on it and we can provide some good, not just providing smiles, but doing some real good for people."

For those keeping tabs, here are the disciples each SEC coach stands in for in the painting: Bartholomew (Will Muschamp), James Minor (Dan Mullen), Andrew (Bret Bielema), Judas (Kirby Smart), Peter (Butch Jones), John (Mike Stoops), Thomas (Gus Malzahn), James Major (Jim McElwain), Philip (Derek Mason), Matthew (Hugh Freeze and Barry Odom), Thaddeus (Kevin Sumlin) and Simon (Les Miles).

When asked how these chalkboard drawings typically come to be in May, Hicks said it all starts with a joke before calling up local artists like Marcks and Ryan Watson, who also bring their respective individual flair.

"We see what they think, then we parse it out," Hicks said. "It's also about letting them take their own creative license."

Hicks said it's a nice blend of people with a decent sense of pop culture and sports and fantastic artists to realize something silly and celebrate college football culture in a unique way.

"We don't have the tools he has to visualize it," he said. "He's not as into sports, so sometimes we have to explain why our idea is funny. Me and Elliott couldn't draw a stick figure."

Co-owner Elliott Roberts agreed, saying the paintings create solid buzz for the brewery and give patrons something else about it to which they can look forward when they visit.

"They've been such a cool thing to have," Roberts said. "It generates a lot of buzz. People like to talk about it and ask what the next one's going to be. It lets us embrace us embrace our love for all things sports, music and pop culture."

The brewery has become kind of famous for its Alabama sports-inspired chalkboard drawings that rest behind its tap room bar, thanks to local artists blending real-life sports figures into famous classical art, including Saban and Bear Bryant and the

Lane Kiffin and

and Saban with Paul Finebaum and

Before the Last Supper piece, Marcks drew

Prior to the new Kiffin piece,

the famous oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by French artist Jacques-Louis David, replacing the French emperor with Saban. He also drew

on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album last October.

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