This cartoon from July, 2002, was drawn during a period when I was using felt-tip pens. As I’ve stated before, I finally concluded that I don’t like to draw with felt-tips. My result, it seems to me, is always an uninteresting and bland line. It is possible to achieve a certain “sketchiness” with a felt-tip pen that can be aesthetically pleasing, but having never been a “sketchy” kind of cartoonist, this doesn’t seem to benefit me much. My pen work has never been great, and it concerns me more and more that my lines, now drawn with a pen nib and India ink, look cruder than ever alongside so much work that is being turned out on digital tablets these days. I’ll just have to live with it, because I cannot see myself ever going completely digital with my drawing.
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Ghost and I just ate at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant in Tulsa. He had beef pho and I had a spicy beef pho. It was 3 p.m. so we were only customers, quiet peaceful and good food.
We got up to leave and I had noticed two younger men eating in back wearing black aprons and speaking Spanish. They were the cooks!
Talk about cultural appropriation!
What I had was pho bo kho, a spicy beef soup. So good and I told Ghost it made me feel so good, like fuzzy and happy. He said instead of Jewish penicillin it was Vietnamese antibiotics.
It is truly comfort food.
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Want me to describe my gallbladder surgery for my petrified gallbladder which atrophied totally and quit working by age 37?
Jackie, that sounds a lot like a neighbor’s husband. When she divorced him she said she’d shed 160 lbs of useless flab.
Gallstone sufferers:
I’m glad that you live today.
My wife never had a chance to meet her grandfather because he died of gallstones in 1936.
It’s hard to believe now that something like that could ever kill anyone.
Trucker Ron:
Good quote – thanks for posting it.
It was a new one for me.
Oh, I can believe a gall bladder could kill you!
Mine was so painful and I was nauseous and threw up almost 24 hours a day for awhile.
My employees,put a large floral industry garbage can under my design table, saying “Here, throw up in here. You are wasting too much time running to bathroom. We will never get the orders out on time if you don’t just keep working.”
Jackie, your employees’ solution sounds like it was somewhere between desperation and tough love!
A friend in our neighborhood had her gall bladder out about 2 years before laparoscopic surgery came along. She was left with a 10-inch scar and a sponge that had to be retrieved a few weeks later. That was, of course, almost fatal.
Wanna see my monster scar? Looks like I got sawed open with a chain saw!
Hi Villagers! I am still around, but spending lots of time playing with my beautiful granddaughter. They are staying with us for a couple of weeks and having a new baby in the house is interesting since the last time it happened was 29 years ago.
On the subject of gall bladders, I had to have mine removed when I was 29 and that was definitely before laparoscopic surgery. Huge scar (though happily no sponges left behind) that got stretched further by pregnancy. If I had ever thought of wearing a bikini that ended all such hopes.
And I think I mentioned that Husbands’ kidney cancer was found due to the doctor ordering a CAT scan to find out why a really bad kidney stone wasn’t passing on its’ own. Sort of an odd blessing in disguise. He is doing well and nearly back to his normal routine after having the kidney removed, so all is good here.
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Good to read that, Trapper. Blessings.
Good morning Villagers….
Picked up the two kitteh makers from vet yesterday. Brought in the little black feline, and yes, she was pregnant…again. Too hot for her outside, and she seems content, but the other two inside cats just..don’t..like her. Lot’s of hisses. Still have three kittehs to catch. Need to call vet though, on the male I think they left one of his gonads hanging on! That is if I can catch him again. The best time to catch them is feeding time early in the morning
Jackie, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours 🙂 When I had my hysterectomy, in the same surgery they removed my gall bladder (they made two or three incisions and moved my gall bladder and laid it on top of my uterus) and then also removed my appendix!! I felt like one of those hollowed out, chocolate Easter bunnies. I had something like 25 staples in me…and it was not a nice experience it taking those out either.
Baby sister and family going to Myrtle Beach for a week…they’re leaving today…._itch 🙂 I said I had an itch 🙂
Well, need to wrap this up…I started this post at 7ish this morning…we had rehab today and I went to $ General….they are building a new $ General store…bigger and better.
…and look who I ran into this morning….he must have been starving back then to have taken on this role…too funny!!!
later gators….
…oops, forgot to post the link….
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Wow, Jean, that is good news on your husband….and I love the smell of newborn babies. Enjoy, as you well know, they grow up too fast. Unlikely to have grandchildren, but that’s fine…I couldn’t afford one!
My goodness Jimmy has stirred up a hornet’s nest in his current arc. I kinda like the arc and the comments, even though a few comments have a tendency to drip a little acid. It will be interesting to see where he goes with this.
Who has commented? We are all comparing scars and stones.
In Gocomics, read the comments there, lively give and take on the current arc.
Oh my cat, ursen, The Dark Side is all riled up…over 100 comments. I believe JJ has opened a Pandora’s box. The current arc is somewhat glum, but heh, a hundred years from now, who’s going to give a …. care 🙂
Paul R. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb and its sequel, The Population Explosion, brought him a lot of money and fame. They were both full of apocalyptic predictions which, fortunately, haven’t come to pass. Will they yet happen as he predicted? Or was he just tuned in to the fears of the times and cashing in on it?
Just checking – has there been any news about the After Dark book from the kickstarter campaign?
Debbe I quit reading comments after 60, the acid was getting ankle deep and they were drawing knives.
This should go with Jimmy’s current series: http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2017/07/11
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2017/07/07 Fantastic idea!