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.
160 responses to “Horizontal Pop”
Happy birthday, Laura.
Ghost and I are going to wellness center to exercise. He is walking two miles on treadmill in about 45 minutes. I am riding recumbent bike for about 15 minutes and recumbent stairsteppet for 20 for now. I can’t do any exercises until my physical therapist approves although she did say I can walk on treadmill if I don’t fall.
I am so impressed with Ghosts weight loss. He has dropped 25 pounds and a lot of inches since coming here.
He is looking good but he says he has more to lose.
Not gaining myself but not losing either. He eats less than I.
The talk about dictionariesand encyclopedias reminded me of how much I loved to read them as a child. I gained a rather large vocabulary going through the dictionaries. We had a Funk&Wagnell’s two volume set. I was fascinated that words had origins from other languages. It’s one of the things that kept me reading and learning.
I remember celebrating my 20th birthday watching the moon landing.
Laura: HB from GR6. ?
? s/b 🙂
Oops,it launched on my birthday. I just remember being glued to the TV watching all the coverage of our first journey to another object in space. It was so exciting.
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. I had a really great day.
I think this is a hoot: https://babybowsandbullets.blogspot.com/2017/07/goodwilldatenight.html
sounds like they know how to have fun cheap. Man, she got him an ugly outfit. I don’t know how even Goodwill took that stuff!
Mark,you are so right about that outfit. I thought I would go blind . It clashed so much.Goodwill probably thought someone would buy it for a costume party.
Mark:
“Horizontal bop” is a slang term for sex, as is “rock ‘n’ roll,” etc.
Laura I remember my brother’s 21st birthday was on July 21st 1969 and he was in the service. My Mom wrote a letter to him saying that she would have never believed that Man would be on the Moon on her son’s 21st birthday. Ironically she and my Dad lived near Wapakoneta, OH when my older siblings were born and that was the hometown of Neil Armstrong.
I have experienced many of these –
http://cheezburger.com/2759941/these-cats-dont-understand-personal-space
Good morning all. Ghost and I on way to Tulsa for my annual supposedly mammogram.
Ghost said “Why? Don’t you trust me?”
He takes good care of me.
Old Bear we have 3 cats and 2 have never understood personal space. The crazy making part is that all 3 are “talkers”, one is actually a yeller. No peace at all. If one isn’t talking and walking on you, another is. The worst habit is we have one cat who waits until we are settle in to stream a program, then gets up on the kitchen table and starts doing laps on it. All kitchen surfaces are off limits and she knows this, she does it anyway, all it does is get her banished to the utility room, yet she does it anyway.
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Any attention is good attention
We have 6 and they all communicate very well whether verbal or not.
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20228508_1500928223278751_3195907578004174320_n.jpg?oh=56aeba40e62d746326a9f46be2bf9953&oe=5A0D1D31
I took Jackie to a diagnostic imaging center today for a mammogram. Ironically (or perhaps not), I noticed that every staff member I saw at the center was remarkable busty, except for the receptionist. He wasn’t.
Good morning everyone. It’s going to be a scorcher here today.
Good morning Villagers..
GM OB 🙂
Temps going back into the mid 90’s today.
RE: Hoizontal bop….somewhere in Bob Seger’s songs, he uses that phrase…must research.
Been not so serene here, but I won’t bore you with the bathroom details about it….poor Dad. Saturday was a nightmore…I cannot stress to him the important of fluid intake. I keep water and sweet tea next to him every day, and every time I go by, or am sitting there watch TV, I says…….Drink some water, or tea Dad…but I’m not thirsty…then I get up and hand him one of those glasses….sigh.
Last week of rehab…..another sigh.
Im’ sure you’ll see this cute…talk about Pavlov’s theory 🙂 https://streamable.com/lownv
later…
Smigz!!!!!?????
Good morning back at ya Laura…….
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2017/07/17
I really enjoyed today’s strip. I have yelled at the garbage-men for years. They always lose the tops and often the containers are everywhere. One time my neighbor stole my container and I had to politely ask for it back.
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