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Kelly’s hair takes a while to draw. There’s a behind-the-scenes for you. I wanted him to have a cool hairstyle… but maybe if I’d made him bald?
TV shows have to worry about being entertaining, not about what’s going on in the world. It’s why those shows are called ‘Bigfoot Hunter’ instead of ‘Bigfoot’. Those hunters make for GREAT TV, and Bigfoot… well, he’s shy. Shy don’t fly on the TV.
Communication is a skill. As with any skill, you can have different techniques and styles. I think Raye’s differs from Kelly’s. They’re gonna have to work on understanding each other’s techniques.
I’m not a huge fan of the way TV has to hot everything up at the expense of facts. In a perfect world, TV would offer up good critical thinking skills and boost the social IQ of the country. But that stuff isn’t half as engaging as some bigfoot hunter tossing a cake out into a meadow and then whacking a branch against a tree trunk to lure in them ‘Squatches.
Yep, it’s our addictions that’ll send us happily into extinction.
But the documentary about our demise will be whiz-bang, I’m tellin’ ya!
I thought about writing “Don’t you hate it when you catch yourself doing the very thing you hate in others?”
But I’ve been spending time on Facebook, and I’ve just about decided that none of us notice when we do the exact same stuff we hate in others, and for those very special few who DO realize they do it, the response doesn’t seem to be chagrin, but a kind of weird pride.
As a cartoonist, I’d like to thank humankind for being so human.