Happy New Year and a big, fat Hubris welcome to the new readers wandering in from Sinfest, SMBC, Eerie Cuties, Oglaf, and Girls With Slingshots!
Here’s the next page of the Alder King story. Enjoy!
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Back to the Alder King today! I hope you’ll agree with me that the art style I used here doesn’t remind you of Hubris. It was a departure from The Buckets and my advertising cartoons, too. In fact, I don’t even think it looks much like comic book art, but there you go. It is what it is. Four more pages to go. You might have a Grand Canyon Diary update before it’s all done. What with Hubris and all the outdoorsy stuff, you might not see the end of the scary trees for a while.
Here you go- the first page of The Alder King, by me and Adam Shaw. And Goethe.
Creepy, ya’ll.
A long time ago, in the 1700s, anyhow (Is that a long time ago for you? It is for me.) Johann Goethe wrote a poem called ‘Der Erlkönig’. I learned about it when I was in high school, taking German classes. The poem has that dark mystical heavy metal downer vibe that any good high school boy can say “Oh, hell yeah” about. Anyhow, we translated it for class or something and I thought it was pretty cool.
Skip forward, and the local cartoonist association is putting out a second selfpromo comic book. I trotted out Der Erlkönig again, and had to retranslate the whole mess without the benefit of having taken German in about thirty years. It’s not a long poem, y’unnerstand. Adam Shaw and I drew the thing up as our inclusion in the selfpromo comic. It was fun. I hope Adam wasn’t disappointed by the inking style I chose on the thing. I went for a woodblock print feel, but I may have made the cut lines too blocky or too small. You look and decide.
It runs five or six pages, and I’m going to spread them out here between Hubris comics.
This first image was a teaser page. I don’t even remember if it ran in the comic. It may have just been a thing I put together. Whatever the case, I present you now with: The Alder King by Greg Cravens and Adam Shaw-
I (and Jay Schiller) got a cartoon in ‘Best Editorial Cartoons Of The Year 2012 edition’ (which has 2011 cartoons in it, so it can’t come out until the end of the year, but nobody’s going to buy a book that says 2011 NEXT year, ’cause it’ll look like last year’s cartoons, which this is, but…. sigh, you get the idea)
So, if you’re in a book store… remember those? Big building, rows of bound paper thingies everywhere… yeah, those. If you’re there, find one of these:
Then you have my permission to scribble ‘Greg Cravens- Page 145’ really big inside the cover and move it to the shelf marked ‘Autographed Books’. And then buy the other copy they have. Then, you can look on page 145 and see this cartoon:
You may think this is a spoiler… “Oh, I’ve done seen that cartoon now, I don’t need to buy that book no more.” Ah, but the book is filled with HUNDREDS of editorial cartoons on all manner of subjects and with a wide ranging catalog of art styles and political leanings. My cartoon is just to whet your appetite. Imagine having all those cartoons you can scan (leaving the cartoonist’s name and copyright IN PLACE) and share with one or two of your best friends over the Emails on the InterNets. It’s the new version of what they had when I was a kid- when you’d go to the barber and there’d be bawdy cartoons that had been crudely lettered and quickly photocopied, handed around, and finally taped to the wall to collect a fur of dust. Everyone would get a chuckle over it for years until it disintegrated. The Internets Emails is like that! Only the crude lettering and poor quality photocopying has been replaced by high-tech digital theft. And they don’t last years. It’ll be interesting to see if the Internets can last years, what with all the Spammeners and Hackerers. Speaking of which, I’ve been mugged in England/Budapest/Nigeria. Can you wire me $1,600 real quick?
Anyhow, the book is full of stuff you’ll want to show like-minded people you know. And full of stuff that’ll anger you because of your politics. It rolls both ways, giving equal time to open-eyed people like you and me, and also to that other gaggle of people- the ignorant self-deluded, brainwashed tools.
If you’re REALLY Internets-minded, you’ll want to avoid the non-digital bookstores altogether and virtually go to PELICAN PUBLISHING for your copy of the book. I don’t think Pelican has embraced the Kindle and the NOOK, yet, but you never know. Feel free to check out their site. You’ll also discover that the PAST FORTY YEARS of ‘Best Editorial Cartoons Of The Year’ are still available. Buy one on a friend’s/fambly member’s birth year. Good gift.
And for anyone who trolls this site regularly, you’ll recall that I’ve put some MoreOnTV cartoons here before. Including the one that made the book. Look how interconnected the InterNets is.
Some of you have found your way to Hubris by way of Dave Kellett’s DRIVE strip (it’s great, isn’t it?) because of me entering Dave’s DRIVE poster contest.
For those of you who didn’t see that, here’s the poster design I did and the alternate that I like better. The humor in the alternate is, I think, better suited to the spirit of the strip, but that might be something I’m bringing to it myself. I be likin’ the snark.
Are you ready? We’re entering into Election Year- The longest, most divisive, most insulting year we’ve all seen in our time. Of course, we expect all our prospective overlords to behave in rational, adult, coherent ways…. BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAHHHAHAHAAA! I’m sorry. I can’t even WRITE that with a straight face. The Ungoverned are going to %$#@ on us and tell us it’s raining, and they’ll be baffled when we don’t sing and dance for the rain. The sorry SOBs are going to tell us that their own personal buddy God sent them to us, and they’ll merrily believe that we’re heathen that deserve hell when we don’t share in their delusions.
That said, I reckon I’ll kick aside this soap box and toss another Big World cartoon atcha.
Here you go! Flapdoodle saves the day in six pages. I have a much longer Flapdoodle story that’s more entertaining, but have never had a venue or opportunity that drove me to draw it. It’s a lovely script, and maybe now that I love doing Hubriscomics.com so much, I have a reason to complete the work and show it to you guys. For now, though. Wander back to down the site again in a couple of days and we’ll continue with The Grand Canyon Diaries. And please remember to Vote Hubris and give us a Google+, a StumbleUpon, a Tweet or whatever you got. Share the fun, yeah? “Thankyuh, thankyuh ver’ musch” as the King is popularly said to have said.
Oh, here we are at the Penultimate Page – where we compound the issues and further stymie poor Steve’s ambitions… That means we’re ready to resolve the action! Tune in again on the very next Non-New Hubris cartoon day and see!
Page 4, in which the conflict is revealed, and the writer Steve has to admit that his dreams look a lot like everyone else’s dreams.
