There’s “Assisted” and there’s “assisted’. They both start with “ass”.
I don’t know if that’s significant, but it’s absolutely true.
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I remember the original Scooby Doo cartoons. In my head, the villain was always somebody pretending to be the Ghost of somebody. They didn’t chase Blackbeard, they chased the ghost of Blackbeard. They didn’t have an alien space pilot, they had the ghost of an alien space pilot. It was kinda weird. I believe I recall that one villain was the actual grandson of Dr. Jekyll, who turned into the ghost of Mr. Hyde, which didn’t make any sense at all.
My favorite episode, though, was the one with the robot, which I think was actually a robot, and not the ghost of a robot. I would have been just as happy if it had been the ghost of a robot, though.
And then, they invented Scrappy Doo. Too bad.
Gonna go draw at the children’s hospital again today. Pictionary. The hospital has a sort of in-house TV studio (much easier since the advent of digital cameras and iPads. It’s nuts. Anyhow, I draw stuff, and kids and their families call to the studio from their rooms (which they are heartily sick of, I’m sure.) and guess what I’m drawing.
Kids are, I dunno, psychic or something. Seriously. I’ve gotta have, like, thirty things to draw figured out because it’s a forty minute show and ten seconds into each drawing, they’re already calling in. Last year around halloween, I had four lines- FOUR- on the board and the phone rings. Kid says “Vampire.” Right.
You know what the four lines were? You know what a ‘greater than’ sign is? Kind of an arrowhead? Yeah, I had two pointed up for the tips of the vampire’s pointed ears, and two pointed down for the collar on his cape. That’s it. Four open ended triangles at the outside edges of the board. First guess. six seconds. Vampire. I drew the rest of it just to prove to everyone else that the kid was right.
Psychic.
You didn’t think I was gonna let the Tag end, didja?
Eight. Eight cartoons finished today. Seven Buckets cartoons and one Hubris. You’d think things could move more quickly than that. I always do.
My wife does something similar. Her weekend To-Do lists are usually stuff like, “First, Dismantle window in dining room. Put up wood in it’s place. Disassemble window, strip and plane all wood pieces. Clean glass. Condition wood, stain interior wood, primer and paint exterior wood. And, then, second…”
Stuff is just easier said than done. Except talking. That’s the same said as done.
CrazyAl is a fun guy to draw into the strip. You guessed that, didn’t you?
Writing you guys into the cartoon is a little tricky. I don’t have your voices in my head- not like Paste’s and Bob’s voices are just kinda ‘there’ when I need them. So… If and when I draw you into this mess, and it doesn’t exactly SOUND like you? You have my apologies. Show your friends anyhow. They’ll think it’s cool.
The Fill-In cartooning proceeds apace. We’re that much closer to the new book!
Ooooh, you get to preview the color and everything today!
