It is a very cool and exciting skill, to be able to hop sideways up stairs on a unicycle. Really. Cool and exciting and not at all goofy. I bet Daniel Craig does it all the time, just because he can.
Met a guy once with a bike that was actually a disguised unicycle.
He was a Ringling clown, and his father had made the bike that, as the clown’s routine carried on, became a unicycle after losing piece after piece.
Brilliant.
For those of you who like to invent your own variations on the punchlines, here’s the alternate for Paste’s final comment that I considered to be overused, even if it’s pretty funny:
Paste- “Or?”
I can’t tell you how much I hope you guys don’t mind the break in the action with these black and white cartoons. I’ve been wondering where to find the time to do all the fill-in cartoons for the Stanky Creek Book, and it’s a GIANT relief to see them finally hitting the drawing board.
The Book is coming.
I thought someone might have mentioned before now that I changed the header on the site to rotate through three or four different ones. Maybe it was mentioned, and I missed it somehow? Maybe everyone does that thing with their computer that removes all the ads and backgrounds and stuff, and the header goes with it?
I’m not saying it’s important. I just catch myself hearing all your voices in my head when I do anything on the site now. How you guys got in there, I dunno. The Buckets and the Hubris bunch got in there, too. My skull must be like a sieve.
So, I was asked to purchase an ad in the local high school yearbook.
What the heck, why not.
Well, here we are again, kiddies! It’s the week I usually bail out. I leave you with this nice painting of Santa’s helper, and if I manage something stupid between now and January first, I’ll try to put it online.
At least part of the week will be taken up getting extra strips prepped. I believe I owe you guys four extra ones, since the heroes have stepped up to the tip jar. It’s also waaay past time I get the new stickers made, so there’s something else that’ll keep me from getting any extra sleep during what I like to call Weird Week.
Weird Week is the odd week (in the U.S., anyway) where very little gets done, business-wise. Folks are doing travel, dealing with retail snafus, resting up after binge eating and drinking, and generally not calling up freelance cartoonists much. Which is good, since I’m in the middle of three fair-sized jobs and need a few days to tinker with those, too.
And if you celebrated Hanukkah starting last Tuesday and I didn’t say to have a good one, well, I hope you did. Or, if you’re busy celebrating, I dunno… Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Eid, Solstice, Tax Year’s End, Festivus, Flying Spaghetti Monster Feast, Weird Week, Boxing Day…whatever you do, enjoy! I say “Merry Christmas” ’cause that’s the one I’m doing, but I’m not saying you can’t do your’n. That’d be rude.
This isn’t so much BASED on a true story. This one is as close to verbatim as I can remember.
Okay, a couple of things-
Number One- the front of a unicycle saddle has a handle on it for when you have to hop, or steady the thing, or hold onto it while not riding. I know SOMEONE is going to make a rude comment anyhow. Go ahead, but I’ve already told you. That’s where they put the handle, there wasn’t anywhere else to put it. Unicycle, dude.
Number Two- I don’t actually know if this cartoon is funny. It happened in real life. It happened to me. I was hopping around and riding in the park, and was given a nice compliment. I think the lady was being courteous and complimentary. I also know that us older folks tend to think of ourselves in our younger states, still capable and fit. But having this older lady in the park insist that what I was doing was impressive because she couldn’t do it seemed a little… I dunno… funny to me. Was it also impressive that I could still wear shoes that had laces, while she needed loafers? I bet not. Like I said, I don’ t know. It just seemed… odd.
For that matter, though, I’ve had people tell me that my cartooning amazes them because they themselves couldn’t have done it. They don’t say anything about the style or the humor- just that it’s me doing it and they couldn’t have. Maybe I don’t give off the proper air of confidence… and they assume they SHOULD be able to do anything someone as feeblewitted as I seem to be can do.
I just don’t know.
Oh, and I almost forgot… unicycling really isn’t that tricky. If you have enough sense of balance to walk, then you can probably manage it. If you also have the sense of balance to ride a bike, you’ll do great. The skill sets are pretty much the same- Hold your body upright, lean forward slightly, peddle, propel yourself forward in a continuous suspended fall. There you go.
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