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.
Draw CrazyAl. That may slow them down a bit.
Just a lucky guesser who could dial fast. Honest.
I like how Hubris can chase off bodies. With a simple question.
Greg I hope your deadlines are haunting you less. Mine are pretty bad right now. Selling a soul for superglue, only if Crazy Al delivers it, within the next five minutes. Gel brand name superglue, three tubes please. Oh and a Black Sabbath gold/black tee size 2xl…
Black Sabbath, gold/black, 2xl … not asking for much, are ya?
Hey Feelz…
You think I want THAT THING?!? AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO IT?!?
No one wants to be ‘it’.
Sounds like a very rewarding gig.
I am sure you can do it, Greg!
and yeah, as I forestalled ELASTIC ATTACK!
With all the blood that gets drawn at any hospital, much less one for children, it’s no wonder a child would have vampires on the brain.
St. Jude? That’s awesome, Greg!
Not St. Jude today. Today it’s LeBohneur. They treat all children for any reason, and so, keep waaaaay more beds filled and kids to entertain.
Draw The Great Stanky Creek Outdoor Galore Festival, and see if any of the rugrats read your strips.
OR draw Eddie.
YOU Mr. Greg, should be knighted.
I don’t say this enough. You are an AWESOME person Greg. You keep an active schedule, have time for fun, charity, your lifelong passion of cartooning and you make it seem easy (We know.. It aint!!) Thank you for all you do. It is an HONOR to be included in your art.
..and JUST so people know… I have NOT actually done this with a climbing wall.
HowEVVVVERRRRRRR…
While I was courting my wife, there was a hangout for the group we all loved, called Spaceplex. This was in the woolly wilds of Long Island NY in the nineties. They had a great setup, arcade, lasertag, 8 ball. They also had some physical attractions like slides, a ball pit and a jungle gym made up of 8 inch rubber bands called “The Web”!
It had multiple levels and the idea was that you (er.. CHILDREN actually..) would climb through the levels or slide through them and bounce a little bit. Me being ME, I found a little known use for them… Testing the integrity of the ROOF! (Well.. almost..)
I would get to the second level, put my feet firmly on the middle band, and start pressing down with my legs. The rubber band would respond by stretching as was it’s design. I got about twelve to thirty feet of air before the band would snap! (*Good GOD did it hurt when it hit you.. I deserved it though!!*)
The staff was corporate, and while they did not LIKE replacing the bands every-time me and my friends would come by, there was no RULE about it.. (Yay corporate dronage!!)
So.. The wife had JUST turned into the girlfriend, and me being me, wanted to impress her by how STUPID I could be.. “Hey!! Watch THIS!!!”
YOING YOING YOING!!!!!
“OH BE CAREFUL!!!”
YOINGYOINGYOINGYOING!!!
KERSNAP!!!!
Karma gets me right in the ass! Literally! Band snaps, hits me in the ass, wraps around my leg and drags me through the web to the first layer.
PANTS.
AROUND.
ANKLES!
And just like that.. Corporate had a new rule about adults on the web!!
So.. yeah.. the comic is accurate..
“Why am I not surprised. I’m gonna die from not surprise.”
We Al’s are crazy.
I once ran headlong into a brick wall and knocked myself unconscious to avoid being tagged
Heck YEAH! Now, THAT’s how ya play!