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Sea Fever

By Jimmy Johnson


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I’m not much of a sketcher. I don’t have a lot of doodles or rough drafts lying around my office. So, what is all this junk lying around? But that’s another topic. I attribute this mainly to being a writer first and a graphic artist second. All my life I’ve had a knack for drawing, but it turned out to be a secondary talent. I marvel at the manic impulse to doodle that possesses so many of my cartooning peers. I wish I were more like that. However, every now and then, I turn out a sketch for the sake of warming up, or improving my chops, or—rarest of all—because I feel like drawing something. Anyway, I drew this one last week; I think it was a subliminal desire to be at the beach. I thought I would share it with you.

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290 responses to “Sea Fever”

  1. Nodak Wayne Avatar
    Nodak Wayne

    Nice!

  2. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Janis is in a bikini, but Arlo is looking at the water? I don’t think so.

  3. Galliglo from Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo from Ohio

    A definite keeper!

  4. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Great rendering. My SO has been hinting (hounding) at me that we did to go over to Orange Beach. Maybe we will bump into each other.

  5. Kathleen Bruner Avatar

    Love it! I agree with Bob, although maybe the sea is the only thing that would take his eyes off Janis temporarily. 🙂

  6. TruckerRon Avatar

    Sometimes there are sharp things in your path. Ya gotta watch where you’re stepping!

  7. Sylvia in Ms Avatar
    Sylvia in Ms

    Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I recently visited Savannah and made a trip to Tybee Island (because I wanted to walk in the Atlantic Ocean). Most peaceful time of my life.

  8. Bonnie from Gloucester MA Avatar
    Bonnie from Gloucester MA

    What a great drawing. The details are fabulous. I can feel the heat, the wind, the sand, the spray from the water. I’m ready – let’s go!

  9. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    The little touches are quite nice – the stray lock of hair in front of a reflection in the glasses, the detail on Arlo’s jams – a very nice ‘doodle.’ Of course, the impulse to head to the shore is also there.

  10. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    That beach scene gave me a not-so-subliminal desire. 😉

    Seriously, great rendering; worthy of the cover of “Beaucoup Arlo & Janis”. Say, since the next book will also require some cover art…

    Or even better, one that features Janis in her storied yellow bikini, the one a mere photo of which brought Arlo to tears of nostalgia.

  11. billinbossier Avatar
    billinbossier

    It looks like Arlo sees something that Janis passed by and didn’t see. A shell, a piece of eight? Like the squalls in the background, also.

  12. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    I love the drawing, it is what these Villagers have said! And some of you folks are new … welcome to the Village, or the bunch, or whatever. I’ve gotta tell you that my computer is crashing and yesterday it wouldn’t do a darned thing. Luckily today on starting out I am VERY pleased to actually get on the site! It could conk out at any moment. No family close enough to help just now; I called a guy but haven’t heard back. On Thursday my daughter in Vermont is travelling with a friend to a Red Sox game that afternoon, plans for the friend to drop her off in Southern NH at my house; she wants to be here for Marges’s birthday party Friday evening; her husband is coming from Vermont on Friday, with the dog, we’ll hook up and some or all can work on my computer — maybe they can fix it! But I am not holding my breath.

    Google Chrome, which I have NOT installed, has through some accident, gotten into my computer and used up all the memory, and I tried uninstalling it, but as I already know, never had installed it; cannot get rid of it; my computer savvy is limited. The Google Chrome icon keeps popping into the Taskbar, and as I X them out, another appears. For now they aren’t appearing. I’ll try now to get on yesterday’s site, wasn’t able to see much before this stuff happened.

  13. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    (The friend will drop her off AFTER the game, natch.) We’re just off Interstate 93 — daughter is in Colchester Vermont, near Burlington and Lake Champlain.

  14. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Jimmy,

    Any chance the “doodle” might become available as a limited edition print?
    We would agree to buying a copy.

  15. Brad Avatar
    Brad

    No wonder Arlo is always trying to get Janis to ditch the frumpy winter nightgowns.

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    It would be a great T-shirt graphic!

    sandcastler ™, you are the Google expert. Can you help Charlotte exorcise Chrome from her computer?

  17. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Anyone know if there’s a connection between classmates.com and “visage volume”? I’m in classmates, but not in vv. A highschool friend is on both and recently received a suggestion from vv that she might know a certain person bearing my [uncommon] name. It turned out to be a different person who just coincidentally bore the same name as I, but how did vv figure out that my friend knew anyone of my name?
    Or, does vv have the ability to search email lists?

    Liked today’s drawing, though it seems as if Arlo is lagging quite a bit behind Janis; I’d have been closer! Yet, if only a wavelet or two separates them, he seems to lack some height. Let me not cavil – JJ’s a lot better artist than I could ever hope to be, so carry on and let us all enjoy the products.

  18. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Charlotte, has your monitor been saying bad words? Spinning all the way ’round? Spitting split pea soup at you? Evil, evil Chrome. 🙂

  19. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Mark, I can try, but my domain is Android OS, I only trash about MS when bird has a frustration. My suggestion is to open a file manager program. Find the program folders. Look for one labeled “Chrome” and delete the folder. If this doesn’t work call in The Geek Squad.

  20. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    CME, not familiar with visage volume, it is probably an algorithm that does matching across websites. Today, almost every website is scanned and indexed in real time. They can then be cross indexed based on user interactions. These algorithms are what allow searches to happen in near real time. Also, how search engines feed you a page of options based on your search term.

  21. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Jimmy, I can hear the surf!

  22. Jackie monies Avatar
    Jackie monies

    Jimmy, we are past due for some beach stri and how about revisiting the schooner and sailing?

    I am taking Arlo and Janis and Beaucoup on my summer wide sailing camp vacation from now until end of October and hope to get some new readers with smarts for you.

    They will love A and J.

    Love Jackie

  23. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Denise, or it could be the Canadian’s letting out a sigh of joy for their short summer season.

  24.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Charlotte in NH: Go to your control panel/uninstall program/right click on Google Chrome/uninstall

  25. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Wow, those Chinese are marketing geniuses, aren’t they? Who’d have ever thought to use hot chicks in bikinis as servers to get customers to patronize a restaurant selling (probably overpriced) gruel? Sheer genius.

    http://anthonyrobertpearce.tumblr.com/post/122238668337/bikini-clad-staff-serve-up-restaurant-success