Water is tricky to draw. First, you turn on both the hot water and the cold and then stick your hand under it. When it feels just right, you plug the drain. When enough water has run into the tub, you sit down, and inevitably you’ll feel like you’re being boiled alive. Water is also tricky to depict. I was getting better at it when this cartoon ran in 1995. The wave in the first panel doesn’t look very convincing, but the foam in the last three panels looks about right. When drawing water (with a pen), less is more. Water is about negative space, what you don’t draw. That’s the way it is for me, anyway.
Wavering
By Jimmy Johnson
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248 responses to “Wavering”
Debbe š A pretty song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0
Been unjunkifying my storage building. I must agree with Arlo than many of us have too much stuff. Even when we don’t think so.
Ghost, six years ago, almost to the day, I had a huge fight with my mother and moved out of the parental domicile and ended up on the door-stoop of The Boss Of My Life with two suitcases, a pillowcase full of bathroom junk, and my dog. I would love to have a pic of what she saw when she answered the door.
Lily luv, perhaps someday TBIYL will paint you a picture of what she saw when she opened that door.
I just realized I used a word that does not exist. Instead of “unjunkifying”, I of course meant to say “dejunkifying”.
Dejunkifying; garbage to the curb!
Did anyone decode today’s strip or did I miss it?
Only the 2nd panel makes sense to me:
I Love You & Can’t Wait To See You!
Be Home Soon!
Ghost, I asked her. She just smiled and said that when she figured out how to paint the tears, she would
Our take on Janis’ text is she is butt-texting. That is the non experts weighing in. Loon is out walking off Englands loss to Italy.
Lily: Awwwwwww.
My guess is that if Janis’s butt texted something to Arlo, it would be a lot more interesting than āRJS TBW PLSG TCEV, OYLā. No matter what that stands for.
Interesting: icash.illinois.gov is the IL state site for recovering “lost” assets held for you in IL.
If you live in IL, work(ed) in IL, or know some IL people, you may want to check it out. I have found some stuff for acquaintances of mine. I suppose every state has a parallel site, but I stick with my birth state of NY (found a few hundred $ for a friend and also for her sister) and IL.
Yup, a totally new topic for today…no piercings or spray tans involved.
1-800-867-5309…….
We haven’t heard anything from Jackie Monies for many hours. I am worrying that things aren’t going well; hope I am wrong about this.
Charlotte: Me, too
Another take on June 14 cartoon,
http://kindofnormal.com/wumo/2014/05/10
GR6, you started this a few days back.
http://kindofnormal.com/wumo/2014/04/18
I’ve had the same thought about Jackie.
c e-p, you should put in for a finder’s fee…10% feels about right. And yes, I believe most states have something similar.
Debbe š BR-549
A more general site for “lost” assets – covering many states & provinces – is this one:
missingmoney.com/Main/Search.cfm
Note: not all states are covered. You need to enter a name & state (even a fake name) and see what turns up. On that new page, in the top rectangle, is a drop-down listing of which states/provinces are covered along with boxes for a new search.
I have no idea how often the site is updated, but my impression is that such occurs infrequently.
Sandcastler, that wumo site has some really funny stuff! I couldn’t leave it until I had seen all the stuff listed except whatever they have from the arrows “see more”.
Good morning Villagers…
Miss Charlotte, I hope you are wrong too…..Jackie has not posted anything since Friday afternoon.
Watched the movie “The Misfits” last night and then the news, and finally saw “Zero Dark Thirty”, not much difference between the news and “Zero Dark Thirty”.
Really liked the movie “The Misfits”….but did Marilyn Monroe always talk in that whispy voice?
Did ya’ll check out that site on the flag….I was telling someone about it yesterday that it weighed 78 pounds!
Gotta go….got to sew a belt together before we start the packer…..
GR š thanks for the earworm….over and over
ya’ll have a blessed day
c e-p, glad you enjoyed wumo.
Ghost dear, I know all about the other piercing sites. NOT going there!
Once, some years ago, we were camping with some friends and Husband had to go back home early one morning to get something, and I ended up going a couple pf tents over to have coffee with everyone else. Our genial host was something of a naturist, and his one concession to the coolish Autumn air was a flannel shirt worn open. He had things pierced that should never have been, and trying to drink my coffee with all that on display was almost more than I could deal with. (To stare or not to stare?)
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in the Village! I hope you all have a wonderful day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GLuydiMe4
This weekend was always a big one in our family; Father’s Day, my Dad’s birthday, and my parent’s anniversary. Daddy would have been 94, and they would have been married 63 years.
Jean, I tell my man if it is on display, it’s okay to look. He just needs to remember it isn’t his playground.