I said I would finish my thoughts about pens. A felt pen doesn’t work as well for me as a dip pen and India ink, but I do not mean to generalize. In the hand of many talented cartoonists, a felt pen can render wonders. I think of the best felt-pen art as loose, with bold lines, interesting textures and rich shading, marvelous to behold. However, having come of age in the prime of Peanuts and Beetle Baily and Hi & Lois and BC, I guess I’m more of a line guy. I think my educational background as a reporter and editor played a part, too. When I started, many years ago, I thought of the drawing as a necessary evil, a means to a greater end. This was a mistake on my part, but I have learned and developed. I’m proud of that, but it’s all moot anyway. Young cartoonists starting out today draw with a digital tablet!
140 responses to “Finish Line II”
What is old is often new again. LP records have made a small comeback as have other products. Cartoons on TV and the movies “look” more real, but just don’t have the magic of the old days.
Yes, Janis, I am going back to a sports bra too. Those wires hurt like the devil with repeated arm movements.
Oh no! Thank you anonymous about the Mustang. That is same listing error that made me go down to my local dealer thinking it was a convertible but it was actually a coupe. This is getting frustrsting!
My bra rubbing is not only thing hurting today after going to gym last night and then leg lifts after I got home. I am so out of shape! Shame on me!
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Cranach is too early for later more realistic portraiture. A good portrait of Streep would be something else. But the picture is also a grim reminder of what we do to ourselves to be fashionable, or socially acceptable. Consider, during the last couple of decades, a group portrait of a president or a governor and his top male officials, all civilians. Buncha penguins. And we still often speak of the military as our ‘uniformed services.’
And women, more or less voluntarily, in stiletto heels.
Peace,
Some older cartoonists use digital tablets – Brooke McEldowney (9 Chickweed Lane, Pibgorn) has used one for years. Conversely the fairly young Nina Paley (Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, The Hots), after years of doing digital animation (Sita Sings the Blues, Seder Masochism), recently picked up pens again and has enthusiastically embraced analog drawing.
Today’s is wonderful…thanks Jimmy!
Oh Jimmy, we need you more now than ever! I pray the Village gives us sanctuary.
The large dealer in Tulsa I contacted last night about the convertible that was a coupe has done a locate for me and found a 2016 black on black on black with same equipment. I have appointment for 5 p.m. tomorrow with them.
Didn’t some movie cowboy ride a horse called Diablo?
You know Ghost that Oklahoma has a professional basketball team named the Thunder?
Jimmy, cuddly winter picnics in front of the fireplace can’t be beat. I like to char hotdogs over the fire, make potato salad, spread out the picnic quilt, and pop open the Asti Spumante. (Never have figured out what wine goes with hotdogs. Anyone have any ideas?) Arlo’s is much more romantic-looking than mine.
Jackie, headscarves are coming back! Pair them with oversize sunglasses and you’re good to go. With your love of accessorizing, you’d be perfect for it.
Adult pair at Decorah N. nest. One flew off just as I arr. Peace,
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Just read the funniest post from one of my acquaintances who used to do a nature show live with a red tailed hawk. He said she thought he was her mother and walked behind him like a Chicken, would poop on anyone who got too close to him.
On a spectacularly doomed vacation trip my late husband killed a red tailed hawk who flew into windshield. I got a little hysterical, crying and begging him to turn back and abort trip. Nat I’ve people consider this a horrible event, a bad portent.
It was and it was. I love red tails.
Yes, but does Victoria’s Secret make a “sports bra”?
Ghost, offered as potential outerwear:
https://www.victoriassecret.com/bras/sports-bras
Several ‘sports bralette, minimum support’ items. Seems oxymoronic. Marketing is strange. [1 new word / dictionary.]
Peace,
If they did they would not fit. I require a 42DDD or 42FFF, at best a 40DDD.
Victoria’s Angel’s are petite sprites. I am working on it. I can do this, I have before.
Going to gym in a little while.
I was just wondering why Arlo seemed so interested and pleased by the reveal. I’ve never seen a sports bra I would consider to be “lingerie”. But then, I lead a rather cloistered life, so who knows what I’ve been missing.
Yes, there are some advertising like that. They seem designed for very young, firm, small, pubescent women who aren’t doing much floppy exercise to begin with.
Perhaps he wants Janis breasts protected so no one notices her jiggling?
“Fashion statement”, in other words?
That may possibly also explain why I’ve seen some females that appear to me to have never been within six city blocks of a yoga class wearing yoga pants.
Seems doubtful to me that Arlo’s smile has anything at all to do with “protection” of her boobs.
Two obits in one day. Church custodian’s wife, cancer, she was in hospice. Also beloved education prof emeritus, Parkinson’s [funeral this Sunday afternoon at FLC; I expect a crowd.] Appropriate overcast day.
Peace,
Jimmy, your last line contains the word “moot” which has as of just yesterday been a point of discussion with my husband and I. We use it as you did, to indicate there is no use in “discussing” it because it is no longer an issue. But I looked it up and the dictionary defines it in exactly the opposite way, “open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful:” (I don’t see how doubtful fits in with the rest of this definition) So my husband and I are discussing and debating the societal meaning of the word moot.
Moot comes from point of law. Look that one up. I am in bubble bath and water has gotten cold.
Jackie, maybe some of these places are near you. All are in OK and all have iris.
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