When talking about giant six foot tall birds, who would forget to mention that their heads are a lovely bright blue?
Kelly, I guess.
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After camping out, there’s always something to complain about.
My back hurts. I can’t find my clean clothes. There’s toilet paper all over the tent. It’s not enough toilet paper to be useful, considering what I’ve been eating this weekend.
Fuss, fuss, fuss…
You can tell when things are winding down at the ol’ Outdoorfest, can’tcha?
Everyone welcome FeelinForYa back to the Hubrisverse. Not just in the comic, of course, but (even better) in the comment section! Glad to know you’re still here with us!
I’ve been kinda quiet here lately, and that’s a shame.
Fact is, I’m scrambling around getting ready for the inaugural NCSFest in Huntington Beach California.
It’s a big ol’ street fest full of cartoonists. We’d be happy for you to drop in, if you’re in the neighborhood. Or even if you’re not, for that matter.
One of the things I’ve been doing to get ready is this:
It’s the book that covers the stories just after the first Stanky Creek OutdoorFest. Click on it if you need a copy, of course. After the NCSFest, I may be updating it with some extras- so this might be the first edition of the third book that, one day, will be highly sought after by avid collectors of all things Hubris. Or not. You decide which one has a higher chance.
I also did a new Buckets book (The Buckets is my newspaper cartoon, in case any of you didn’t already know that. I bet you did, though). I’ll put a link to that somewhere, too. Eventually.
So… this is becoming the longest Friday ever! By my reckoning, it’s been going on since July of last year.
That’s a longer Friday than that one in college when you went to that Thursday night thing and had to take those tests all hung over and then you had dinner with your parents and your aunt, and had to act all cheerful, then you had homework and a shift at work… Woo, that was a long Friday, but nothing like the first day of an OutdoorFest, by golly!
You remember elementary school, and the “seesaws” or “teeter totter” or whatever they called such things in your area, right?
Ohhhh, those were dangerous toys, those were. cracked heads, cracked chins, cracked coccyxes…
You don’t get those much any more in playgrounds.
Pretty soon, playgrounds are just going to be padded platforms surrounded by rubber mats that say “No Running” over and over again, and in the middle of the platforms, there’ll be outlets to recharge your phone… I mean electronic tricorder multifunctional toy/tool.
Standing in a kayak is a pain in the butt. I’ve tried, and it doesn’t usually work.
There was a guy back in the 90’s who used to stand-up kayak down the Ocoee river. He also used to wear a wooden helmet and PFD that said, “The Next Big Thing” on it. It was very cool. I’m sure he’s a Stand Up Paddle Boarder now- and possibly invented the activity.
Doing Kayak Fu standing in a kayak… now THAT’s the next big thing.
I video’d myself drawing this one- in that stop-motion sorta video, so it only takes, like, 28 seconds to letter and draw the whole thing. It’s nuts. Anyhow, it’s available to see if you’re a Patron of Hubris at Patreon. It’ll show up in your email inbox and you can look at it.
Or you could go looking around online, I guess. It’s out there somewhere.
Anyhow, I penciled really quick because I was afraid the video would be boring if I didn’t move along. I had fun making all the decisions as I inked instead of working them out more carefully in pencil first.
One of these days, I’ll pencil a whole strip slow and easy and video that for you while I talk about the aforementioned decisions made as I draw. That’ll be fun. Patrons will know when it’s ready. It’ll show up in your email.
Amazing that Durnell can hold conversations between himself and an inquisitive crowd, isn’t it?
