Crowd behavior. There’s probably a university degree you can get in that.
Exhausted disinterest. That’s what you get when you take a university degree in Crowd Behavior.
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Well, We lost Stan Lee today. He was 95, and I’d had a conversation recently about whether anyone could expect him to live a lot longer or a little longer. Of course, variations on that conversation have happened for a decade now. It would have been really cool if he’d made it to 100, wouldn’t it?
He made a big, big figure in the world of comic books, that’s for sure. Even if we’d been lamenting his loss ten years ago, people would still be talking about what an amazing life he’d had. The fact that he added to his reputation and his place in the comics verse all the way up to his last days is astounding.
Salute!
There’s a line in one of those James Bond themes… “If you think you’ve won, you never saw me change the game that we’ve been playing”
Paste, though, isn’t playing logrolling, or even playing Outdoorfest.
You know what game he’s playing.
As I get older, I miss things, and I discover new things.
I can’t really say whether the things I miss or the things I discover have at all been good for me.
They do keep me amused, though, I’ll tell ya that.
I’ve reached the age when business associates often aren’t old enough to remember the great stuff I do. TV shows, Comic Books, Toys.
The new things I discover are the same crap you’ve overheard your elders speak about your whole life. Your body betrays you. Age isn’t a gradual process, but a series of abrupt horrors.
All that stuff, combined with being of an age to pay attention to the news and, like every generation before mine, decide that society has honestly gone into the toilet in my lifetime, leads me toward what should be depression.
Then I remember that I’m a cartoonist. And I draw a funny picture or two. Like today’s cartoon. Then I feel much, much better.
So I might as well share, right?
Oh, my God. Can you believe it’s Thursday again?
Last Thursday, I finished setting up nearly a hundred art files just the way I needed them in order to lay in base colors. They’re for the big project I’ve mentioned is paying the bills just now. Anyhow, by late Thursday, I finally started dropping in colors. There are sixteen scenarios in two training modules. Most scenarios have five or six drawings, but a few have only three and some have ten. One has sixteen. I had, as with every step in the process, high hopes that it’ll skip along pretty quick. And after all, the color’s not the time consuming part, right? I’d hoped to get through, I dunno, five scenarios a day? That’d be nice! I could be done in just over three long days and have plenty of time to prep the files to submit to the client before moving on to the next phase of the project. Maybe have time to work out. Walk the dog. Bathe. Draw Hubris.
Ha. I was brain damaged by the end of Thursday. I laid color into one of the easy modules. Okay, five a day, after this, might work. We’ll see.
On Friday, I started with that one scenario that had sixteen images. It had the most elaborate backgrounds, too, with specific colors for things. On Friday, that was the only one I finished. One. On a day when I’d hoped to do FIVE. So. Problem.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, I didn’t do much else besides those modules and whatever Hubris cartoons you guys saw. That was it. Eighteen hour days, and come Wednesday morning, I still had the last two scenarios to color. And the brain damage. No making meals, no exercise, no walking the dog… nothin’. I drank a LOT of mountain dew. Does that count for anything? The kidney stones will probably count. Saturday, I worried all day that I was forming another blood clot. Couldn’t tell anyone. I lost the power of speech somewhere in there.
I’m writing this on Wednesday. Just after lunch, in a rotten state, I finally finished packing up all the scenarios as PDFs and I sent them to the client. Then I walked the dog and me to the park. Nice park. I missed the park. There were leaves on the trees the last time I was in that park. I’ve listened to over a hundred hours of audiobooks and podcasts since I’ve seen that park.
The final leg of the big project is due in a little over a week from now. Cross your fingers. I think I can get back on my Hubris schedule and do the project, too. Then I’ve got another Con to do.
Then, if you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s ’cause I’ve ridden a bike into the trees of some large-ish forest and might not come out for a few dozen hours.
Have you watched Logrolling competition videos on Youtube?
It’s probably exactly as exciting as you just pictured. I could be wrong. I didn’t take a scientifically large sample when I did my research…
Simple sports.
We need more of those. Checkers. Horseshoes. 52 Pickup.
Troy sent plenty of cartoons this week… and I’m still doing the long hours on the big corporate job, so you get the Vroomba story today.
I’ll do everything I can to be back on Hubris next week! I’m looking forward to it. Kinda like coming home after a business trip.
Here’s Troy’s Holiday Toon for ya.
He also provided the next Vroomba-Poop toon. I’ll load that up tomorrow.
Also, extra bonus- you get a re-draw of an older Old Man & His Dog that we critiqued.
Here it is! Thanks, Troy!
Didn’t want you guys to think that I’d forgotten about you…
