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I’ve had plenty of time to think of different ways to sort the teams in some amusing way. I’ve doodled and discarded a lot of long-winded foolishness. After tinkering with ideas for weeks, here I am, making the whole thing into a coffee joke at the last minute… something I hadn’t even been kicking around if my notes are anything to go by.
Sometimes I think these stories are going on somewhere, and I’m just transcribing stuff for you. Stephen King talks about that in some of his forewords and in his book ‘On Writing’- he calls stories ‘found objects’, as though we’re just discovering them.
I’ve gotten too accustomed to my little inking routine- Place the pencils on the light table, affix some low-tack tape, drop down a fresh sheet of heavy drawing paper, take out my lettering pens…
Hold on. This one has no word balloons.
It’s been a while since I did a Hubris cartoon with no word balloons. The last one I can think of was the one with the twisty borders filled with Hubris’ nervous dreamscape. I don’t think that one had a word balloon…
Of course, the concept and layout of that one was different enough that I wasn’t surprised when there wasn’t any lettering to do.
This one took me by surprise, somehow.
It’s been a long day.
Well, here we are again with my favorite aphorism: “It’s the assumptions you don’t know you’re making that do you the most harm.”
That gem was distilled down from a whole paragraph that Douglas Adams (usually more succinct when it came to brilliant observation) wrote in his book “Last Chance To See”. I don’t know if the book is still in print. But if you find any in a book store, buy a few of them. Read one of them, and then you’ll be glad to have the others to loan and give as gifts. That’s my advice. The book’s a little dated. Some of the creatures that Douglas and Mark Carwardine went to see are no longer extant- White Rhinos, for instance. Yangtse Dolphins for another. But the point remains that the book is entertaining, informative and as with any of Douglas Adams’ writing- hilarious.
Remember when digital cameras were pretty new? 4 Megapixels and the like. You’d push the button and it’d be a second before it’d take the photo. That’s fine for the family of twelve who are photographing themselves with MeeMaw’s new Nikon, blocking the view off the rim of the Grand Canyon. But you try to station someone at the bottom of a waterfall you’re about to kayak over. You wind up with a lot of photos of a waterfall, with an occasional blip of color at the bottom edge which may or may not be the very tippy bit of the stern of your boat. Same problem with bicycles, and that’s during the daytime. Nighttime? You’d better have read up or watched some YouTubes talking about how to make it work.
My wife’s something of a photographer now… she doesn’t do action shots. Quite the reverse. She sorta specialized in cemetery sculpture for the longest while. Not a lot of fast-twitch muscles involved in getting those shots.
How many expert problem solvers would be so happy to have solved a couple of problems by not solving them? It’s an art of some kind, I’m sure.
