Okay, Ed, here you go.
For anyone who doesn’t read the comments under the cartoons, Ed suggested I send Hubris skydiving. I’ve shied away from it so far because I haven’t been skydiving myself, and I don’t like to misrepresent how things should look or do superficial humor about a fun sport- anyone can do superficial gags about a subject. I prefer to dig deeper. The folks who read my family-based strip The Buckets might say I occasionally wander too deep and pass by the poor folks who haven’t raised kids themselves.
Long story only slightly shorter- This cartoon was probably sketched up in 2002 or 2003 as part of a package to show a particular editor how many directions the strip could go. It sat sketched until now. I think it may be shallow- meaning there may be a dozen similar cartoons done over the years, familiar to skydivers as the sort of cartoon that only skims the surface of their hobby without saying anything interesting.
I’ll let Ed say how well I did. Ed- please forgive the fact that there’s no interior of the plane- I needed to isolate the characters’ feet visually, so I purposely didn’t clutter that area. As for any research I did into the harness or the landing gear, the goggles or the jumpsuits… I have no memory of it, so I may have done none. I dunno.
I figure next summer, I should skydive a time or two, then we’ll send Hubris up again. Til then, if you have an interesting point to make about skydiving, let me know it- I’ll see if I can make a funny out of it.
Halloween’s coming. Have you got your costume ready? I sometimes think I’ll just put on all my kayaking gear and hang around. But it’s like dressing up as Sir Walter Raleigh. You get a lot of guesses as to what you are, but none of them are right.
Anyhow- shop you a Joker outfit. Just click on him.
Don’t forget to do Hubris the giant favor of clicking anything on the right hand side over there you like- Google+, or StumbleUpon, and/or VoteHubris. Every little bit helps. No kiddin’.
Poor ol’ Burl. The camping world is all nylon and ripstop now, and the rest of his boy scout troop isn’t there to help him drag those heavy tents.
For those of us who don’t take Pack Mules on our campouts, here’s a tent that looks fit for folks nostalgic for the old Scout Summer Camp:
When I wrote this cartoon, I didn’t think that anyone manufactured an actual ferret tent. One quick trip to Youtube.com lets me know that 1) Somewhere, every product that CAN exist DOES exist, and 2) Everything in the world is now on Youtube.com.
I’m due for a new tent. My old Kelty domolite is old enough to receive social security and is falling apart worse than my knees. My new tent, only a few years old, is a Coleman- the sort of thing you get when it’s going to be filled with cub scouts for a few years. It’s held up beautifully- including a trip to Yellowstone and Moab, but those poor bungie rods are showing their age early. I’m looking at this one and thinking it’s awful pretty. If you want to shop tents your ownself, click on it.
Here’s some more Lord Lionel from way back. It was probably the first real attempt I made at creating a viable, syndicatable feature. If the third one down looks familiar, then you can scroll back through the old ‘other cartoons‘ section until you spot the more artsy-looking version I showed off earlier. 
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s that I often wear running shoes when I’m not running. I just want a running shoe that doesn’t look like it’s been designed by a movie special effects wizard. Right now I’m wearing a pair of Sauconys that looks least bizarre with a pair of jeans that I could find.
Wanna shop some lurid running shoes? Here’s some trail runners to peruse. Click on ’em.
Need some fancy schmancy shades? Shop ’em here. click on the glasses.
Here’s poor Tom again- Carlo put the guy through his paces, to be sure- a different look and situation every day…
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