This is how Green Arrow’s powers ought to work in the comic book. He shouldn’t be shooting arrows- he’s a superhero! He should BE the arrow! Bad guys robbing banks? No problem, here comes Green Arrow in his pointy hat, shooting in through the bank vault door and imbedding himself into the head bad guy, KA-CHUNK!
Have you seen the videos of people slack-lining tandem? It’s nuts. Either they have to be in a sort of lockstep that causes no wave action in the strap, or they bounce around like… well, like a cartoon.
Or like me when I was fifteen and broke my ankle while on a trampoline with a kid that outweighed me. That slingshot action is tough, man. Very tough.
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.
Every so often, I notice that the digital folder that I keep all the Hubris stuff in is named ‘Hubris In Color’. I chuckle. I made that folder when I decided to do the Hubris website, and that I would add color to the comic strips that were, after all, just ‘black and white newspaper strips’… color dailies in the newspaper being things you couldn’t rely on from newspaper to newspaper, it was so new.
How things change. We still ‘dial’ a phone, we still ‘tape’ video… and ‘Hubris In Color’ is still there as a spoof on the old original Star Trek commercials (“IN COLOR!”). And the words just get funnier to those of us who see the cobwebs on them.
PS. I just double-checked to make sure this post would go up correctly and saw that I have an ad for Banana Triangle right there on Hubriscomics.com. I’m glad. I like Banana Triangle. Look and see if the ad is still up. If you haven’t read it, by all means, go check it out. It gets pretty crazy now and then. You might want to start at the beginning.
Hey! I’m back.
I’ve already sent out some photos to the Patreon Patrons of Hubris, but here’s some more:
That one’s a color-enhanced photo of an eroded rockface. “color-enhanced”, in this case, is not the cool NASA kind where they combine visible light, X-ray, Infrared, and other kinds of photos into one super clear shot of a nebula a gazillion miles away. No, this was me sliding the saturation control over a half-inch til the colors reminded me of what we were seeing. This one wound up looking like a baked good gone very wrong on a damp shelf. It’s really a couple of feet of exposed rock in the middle of an otherwise pretty smooth boulder. The boulder was house-sized, and there were a couple of places like this were it looked as if a pocket of gasses or imperfections in the stone were knocked open. Pretty fun.
And here’s me, headed into the vast unknown. Not so vast that they didn’t build a footbridge into it, mind you, but I wasn’t coming back out that day nor the next, so it was plenty vast for me.
And this is the lookout just down from our campsite. This spot is pretty nice for sipping scotch while the sun goes down… except for the fact that, after the world around you becomes pitch black, you become very aware of how easy it is to become one of those stories people tell around campfires. You know those stories. They end with things like “And he took that one… last… step.”
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