Several of you expressed interest in my remarks about drawing with a felt-tip pen versus drawing with a pen point dipped in ink. More specifically, a lot of you wanted to see what I meant. This made me think further on the matter, and I will share some of those thoughts next week. Today, unfortunately, there isn’t time to do justice. So, I am posting two cartoons, one from 2010 and one from earlier this year. The first cartoon, the former, was drawn with a not-inexpensive high quality felt pen. The other was drawn old-school. The difference is subtle, but there is a difference. Look over them, if you’re interested, and we’ll talk about it next week.
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Ruth Anne, start mailing him citrus fruit. Get him out of that sloppy peaches habit and get him a new home. Could work?
Coming of Age Day in Japan. Familiar with a few cultural ceremonies for an individual man or woman, usually younger, in recognition of physical puberty. But had not known of a national holiday to recognize modern ideas of full adult responsibility. Makes you think Japan puts a little more pressure on the need to mature. You got a whole country looking at you kid, sorry, sir.
Closest thing we have is register your eighteen year old life with Uncle Sam, make your vote count, go have fun at college, laugh at drinking laws, and put it all on government guaranteed student loans. Good old fashioned vote buying. Puff-puff-pass. Cheers!
Excuse me while I go put my grump away. C’mere boy; who’s a good-boy; in ya go. Darn thing gets out every now and then. Rant does not reflect on every young person, just too many of them.
Apologies, source was Wikipedia, On This Day… column. Linked article goes on to say, they too are succumbing to drunken new adults mocking the only 69 years old national recognition of tradition.
I just got back from the “new” gocomics site. It looks almost exactly the same now as it did when I first saw it, over twenty years ago. However, the comments section seems to be gone.
Over 200 comments too many to scan for comments on new Gocomics. Biggest take for me, can’t find comics Sherpa. Although Ruth I did see your comment form Sheriffs office in Georgia. Yup we could do with that kind of attitude where I am too, I might even vote for that sheriff.
ursen, there have only been a few opinions on the revised GoComics. But I’ll add mine.
Really tried to stow my grump and give the new UClick/GoComics a go. My window shopping of LinuxOSes has made me more comfortable with big type and large icons(GNOME2->GNOME3), so put aside the visual. Only one-twelfth the alphabet available per pageload, more scrolling required; teaches patience and finger exercises. More advertisements to wade through, everyone earns a living. But when I realized that all added up to a data use expenditure of 3 or 4 times more than any other day; I had to dump it. I’ll try again on Saturday to verify it as site-based not OS, browser, or ISP related. Doubt it.
Separately, in the days of wood pulp based media platforms, it was a normal thing to clip a favorite and post it on your cubicle wall. A really good one might go out in the ‘hallway’ by your ‘door’ under your name-tag. I confess I have continued that tradition by snipping a favorite to center on my desktop. Arlo and Janis lounging in the cockpit, tiller in hand, under sail, remained there for several months. Could almost smell it, the way a landlubber would. Gives a quick mood lift when switching windowpanes/tasks through the day. My understanding of copyright has been (massively simplified), free use for personal entertainment, but the moment a registered element is involved in gain of any value to yourself or others; permission and payment are required. I suppose you could argue that increased productivity of a happier workforce is value added. But that was not the traditional view decades ago. Or my doctor’s office would have been paying out big time. Local hardware store too.
UClick has taken on the task of further enforcing image protection. I could do a lot of manipulating the browser and harvest an image to use, but it ruins the enjoyment and is just a pain. Maybe different experience for registered users.
Jimmy, if you’ve read this far, are you complemented when a fan has your art clipped out? Or is that seen as a loss of revenue?
When I looked at GoComics this morning, I saw no change. After reading the comments above, I just looked again – big change!
My doc and I had our annual shrug-fest this afternoon. Five minutes talking, examining, going over labs…ten minutes documenting. Welcome to the 21st Century. But all is well…I’m apparently still his least interesting patient.
GR6, an adventurous life, skillful enough to not have a fatigued frame. Well done young man. Hope you remain so ‘dull’.
Old Bear mentioned common sense, a couple days ago. I saw on a refreshed Wikipedia, On this day… 10-Jan: Thomas Paine shared his version of Common Sense with colonial America, published 241 years ago.
Offered up, I’ve linked to Lost on Time before. This time the subject is Cubism. Not my favorite style, but significant all the same. Martin Smith submitted this commentary, again with an English education and from the view of his favorite hobby, chess. A natural subject for a genre that came to be called Cubist. It does not try to be authoritative, but I enjoy interpretation outside the mainline. Some names are well known, others required a re-introduction.
http://lostontime.blogspot.com/2017/01/chess-in-art-chess-board-cubism.html
For me, William Roberts later piece from 1930, so late-Cubism as a refinement of the original, is more digestible than the earliest examples; but still carries the emotional weight of a storyline in its bolder colors. Warning, the last example from the post-freelove 70’s does not use Blondie’s Opaque Bubbles for either party, consume at your own risk.
Martin Smith and Justin Horton are members of the Streatham and Brixton Chess Club, and were primary contributors to a blog named for but separate from that group, before branching out from club details last spring. A link to the archives of that page is listed, and well worth a look; if you have an interest in alternative views of British chess and all things even loosely associated with it. Martin remains in London, a little south of the Thames, with a young family, if I recall rightly.
Yay, Ghost! Long may it continue so!
That is refreshing to hear Ghost. Do NOT get shot. But if you do will you put me on list to nurse you? I have never had a chance to absolutely spoil anyone other than a dog or cat.
Ghost Kitty begged some chicken breast from my salad bowl. I am making chicken dumplings with mushrooms to feed my workmen tomorrow. They didn’t get fed today.
Had an enormous chopped salad that had lots of spring mix, spinach and a half dozen spring lettuces, kale, radicchio, broccoli, carrots, red lettuce, cherry tomatoes, yellow bell peppers, pecans, walnuts, cranberries, croutons, crispy onions, crumbled pita chips, blue cheese, chicken breast. With dijon dressing.
It was delicious and most of chopping was in the bag. Am I only one who loves kale?
Morphy,
The “View source” option available by right clicking in your browser (Chrome at least) opens the HTML page for the comic. For today’s Arlo & Janis, line 43 has the necessary info to actually find the image. (Maybe the paste below will work)
Look for the line that has “content”. That gives a web location for the actual image. You can copy that image and print for the bulletin board or your office door.
Paste didn’t work…. I’ve eliminated the brackets for HTML definition, maybe this will show.
meta property=”og:image” content=”http://assets.amuniversal.com/537f8030b4b9013429ec005056a9545d”
Have the chicken broth and mushrooms boiling, already picked out bones. Dumplings are fast food to me you make for comfort food.
Forgot to buy a new scale tonight, will get one tomorrow when I go to Walmart for meds. This is week I try to behave responsibly.
If you copy the URL portion to the browser command line, it will load the image itself on an otherwise blank webpage. That copy of the image can be printed directly (or saved for desktop display).
Here’s the URL alone for Jan 9, 2017 :
http://assets.amuniversal.com/537f8030b4b9013429ec005056a9545d
Got the chicken and dumplings cooked, waiting now for them to cool enough to store. I make fluffy biscuit dough dumplings from real biscuit dough, no canned biscuits or slime tortillas. Yuck!
Three pounds chicken breast, box of fresh mushrooms, half and half subbed for heavy cream. Salt, pepper, a little herb de Provence, a little nutmeg.
Eaten in large soup bowls or deep soup mugs, no plates.
Steamed veggies which is what I will mainly eat on side.
Went to go comics and I actually like it. Am going to bed with my phone or tablet and read A and Janis tonight. I like the categories.
Am disappointed there is no gardening, baths, boats, sex, pokies or nudity nor lingerie categories but I suppose this is supposed to be family friendly site?
Anyway reading looks like where I am headed. Maybe I will open some wine to accompany the merriment.
Am disappointed no one noticed Ghost being outed except Ghost.
Some may not understand the vital importance of providing security for state beauty contest winners.
I searched gocomics.com for “bath tub” and got lots of cartoons, but none were A&J’s. That’s just wrong.
Yes, it is a 24 hour seven day a week job which includes chaperones of the female sex who double as beauty consultants, bodily protection, a friendly and sympathetic shoulder, drivers, fetchers, gofers and a million others things not excluding moral fiber and guardians of the unimpigned unsullied reputation that goes with each winner so long as she wears the crown.
And Ghost is the glue that holds entire house of calling cards, dance cards and autograph cards together.
Very important.
My oh my. Clemson has upset Alabama.
Are we upset? Happy? Undecided?
Does anyone here like made from scratch fluffy chicken and dumplings?
What about New Orleans style baked shrimp, crabmeat and eggplant, baked in the eggplant shell?
Think I must be feeling cheery which has nothing to do with football. Haven’t felt like cooking in a loooong time.
Not sure workmen eat seafood?
But the eggplants were on sale for $1 each and the perfect size for that dis. Logic of a food maven. Guess how much crabmeat will be?
Great game, and husband and two guests and I were all rooting for Clemson. Woohoo! Sorry, Mark, but unless you’re actually from Alabama, most of us root for the other guy. We don’t like Saban, and we’re tired of Alabama.
Nancy to my knowledge while Mark went to Alabama and has a degree I do not believe he ever attended a game.
I am not sure Mark has ever attended a football game of any kind.
But I am with you, I find Sabin a prig and don’t like his attitude, so I would have rooted for Clemson too.
Quick, everyone go read the new daily. Do we have a crisis brewing with Gene and Mary Lou or did he just have a stroke?
On GC to read comments click on little balloon under strip.
4th item from left – between pushpin & shopping cart.
They sure did NOT streamline the use of the site. Way more clicks and mouse work.
Can it be navigated without a mouse?
GM Debbe
Greetings Mizz Charlotte
Just tried the new gocomics site and liked it. I hold “ctrl” while clicking on titles, said action placing the respective titles on different tabs at the top of the page. When I have about 15, I begin looking at them, x-ing out each used page [which causes the next to appear]. This is a lot easier than what I did hitherto.
So the ghost story above was truth?