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.
Sea Fever
By Jimmy Johnson
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290 responses to “Sea Fever”
Symply doing what I can Galliglo and Charlotte….back has good days and bad….on the bad I stay home and on the good I’m totally Fargone.
GR6 guessing you have been losing weight or speaking obfustacatoriously (I’ll add it to urban dictionary later like i did “pulling a Mindy”); congratulations on losing Braad….Sand, always a nice place to stop by…..remember if ever you are in central MA, let me know at the web site email or symplyfargone@hotmail.com
Debbe – The radar lied. It rained, but nothing exciting.
AND I lost to the appliances today AND the dog and pony show has gone into overtime with drop in visits expected all weekend! I started my morning with a visit from the comomay president, then this afternoon with a corporation vice-president. Gah! Did I mention the eight pages of product inventories to count?
Lady Mindy, if not bad enough for you already, I’m guessing too many cooks in your corporate kitchen.
Anon. She looks fine to me, except that she’s cut too much subcutaneous fat, perhaps for contest purposes. A little fat is healthier. Peace, emb
Maybe a next waxing and oiling. 😉
Symply – After looking at your website I’m not surprised you’ve been too busy to drop by here. Congratulations – wish you were closer!
Mr. Steed, you’re needed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11699769/Patrick-Macnee-actor-obituary.html
Debbe 😉 Another pretty one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
Symply – glad you are back
Nice bike and yes there are good days and bad and worse days.
Just pray the good days and bad days out number the worse days.
emb
Endeavor Morse said: ” Artists paint what they see not what is there”
I guess painters just paint houses.
Anon. She looks fine to me, except that she’s cut too much subcutaneous fat, perhaps for contest purposes. A little fat is healthier. Peace, emb
I suppose that is what has disturbed me about body builders – there is no roundness
they really don’t look healthy.
Michelangelo’s David has pretty good abbs but he is rounded and proportioned.
Good morning Villagers..
Simply…it’s so fargone to read your postings…glad you stopped in, don’t stay away so long the next time.
Well, The Boss has left for his annual fishing trip to Canada….two week fishing trip. Still love his ex-son-in-law’s snippet “hell, a poor man can’t afford a week’s vacation, let alone a two week!” The Boss and I spoke somewhat on the drama that goes on at work, told me to just keep doing the good job I do, and when he comes back….some heads may roll 🙂 And the ex-son-in-law is still on the payroll.
Indy Mindy, I’m like GR….ya got too many chiefs and not enough Indians 🙂
Has Jackie left already on her furlough?
Ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 😉 it really is another day in paradise…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI
Sandcastler 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5j2LOZH9_oM
Ghost, your 6:28 pm post last night is going to have me chuckling for days. And each time I see the commercial. Or hear the name Brad. Or a reference to beer. Or belly. Or abs. (I already smile when I hear a reference to happy dance, but I may just start chuckling then, too.) (By the way, congratulations on your reason for dancing while happy.)
Mark, at least one generation of British and American boys grew up wanting to be Mr. Steed just so they could be around Mrs. Peel. 😉
Mindy, hugs and prayers!
Jimmy, I’ll remember today’s real-time strip if I ever see one of the feeder-stalking cats feet up under one of my shrubs!
Debbe, thanks for the views into the secret lives of cats.
JJ, great public service announcement.
test – new computer – previous post didn’t show up
Ah yes – I can feel the breeze and smell the salt air
Denise in Michigan, and with good reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxe3ueE9jU
Put your eyeballs back in and roll up your tongue, Ghost.
Jackie is still here but running madly trying to get it all done and put into car and take off tomorrow morning. Ha! A pig just flew by office window again, right through the bushes!
I have no idea what my summer schedule is going to be and it is looking more and more like I will be gone from now until October. I am taking lots of backup clothing and the 10# dog along with the broken foot. He won’t make it easier but it will make me not worry about him.
Will find out where all we are going when John’s schedule settles down and quits shifting on us.
In the meantime, I head for Pacific Northwest, pick up my microcruiser sailboat and go help my hostess with whatever help she needs for a full house of guests.
Oops, just noticed the time and I have a hair appointment in an hour! Take care of priorities here, got nails done last night. Don’t all big time adventurers go get nails and hair done?
Mark, thanks for Mr. Stead’s obit, I loved Partrick Macnee. What a tumultuous life he had! Makes the Birdcage look normal, doesn’t it? I adored Emma Peel too, just bought the Avengers collection of DVDS and haven’t watched them yet. Think I may toss in my suitcase too. yes, I know, I am taking way too much stuff!
Mark, I will have a break in winter when I can travel to Tuscaloosa and I am dead on serious about getting you to help teach me to use technology. I will stay in touch with you all and especially when I need help, as I always do. Love my Village.
Love, Jackie
@ Debbe, Ruth Anne in Winter Park and Old Bear.
I can’t Fargone thank you enough for the king thoughts….Symply feeling blessed!
I don’t recall anything about Mr. Peel, but I would posit that he was a very lucky man.
there’s a whole lot of Pearls Before Swine animations on youtube, Do we need to do a kickstart campaign to get some A&J sundays animated? My brother is in the video production business here in Houston and with him, I’ve met people who can do this stuff
Hey Jackie, how about the retro image printed on the sail of your boat?
Or get those sticky vinyl cutouts made for vehicles with the A&J characters on them. Beats those stick figure versions all hollow.
Mark, A&J car decals is the most positive thing I’ve heard this week. I am depressed over the liberal communists who are taking over the republic without so much as firing one shot.
Jimmy owns his decal rights, think about Watterson and Calvin, of which he gets no money. They are all pirated. I would buy decals if JJ does them.