Archive for December, 2009
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Alas, I’ve been dipping into the past, looking back before I have to switch gears in the New Year.
This character is Pudgy. He also hails from my first comic strip, Wabbit Hutch. He’s also seen action in a bunch of other ‘toons I’ve created. He’s been compared heavily to Opus from Bloom County, though he was invented before that strip hit the big time… so it was purely circumstantial.
Pudgy has been one of my perennial favorites, so it’s a warm bit of fun for me to bring him into Entities-R-Us for a shtick.
Somehow, I managed to tie it into the paranormal field. It’s a amazing what you can connect when you open all those internal filing cabinets at once.
Enjoy and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YA!
Tj
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I was instigated to be a little creative and drag back a couple old characters from an earlier comic strip called Wabbit Hutch. I’ve mentioned before that Arno looks a lot like Radar, a character from that era. Here you can see how close he is.
Merv also is related to Punk, another from the strip. You can see the similarities. Merv, of course, has stopped smoking and has gotten a slight bit more intelligence… leaving the Jar Jar Binks-ism behind.
Arno has Radar’s energy, but is not much of a chick magnet. I guess we all come into new lives with different goals… Poor Arno.
Tomorrow’s cartoon also resurrects and old favorite of mind, one who is probably the best character I’ve ever created… and more like my crazy self than all the rest. And yes, he loves cookies!
Enjoy some Auld Lang Syne,
Tj
I love google… proved I was right in my spelling of Jar Jar Binks AND Auld Lang Syne. I had no idea I could spell the last one! WhoOOHOOOO! Spell check doesn’t even recognize that! HA!
Today’s cartoon reflects a discussion I had with a yoga teacher of mine. I admitted that I thought my higher self had a wicked sense of humor and would think it was cool to send me off on insane, treacherous journeys… into the nastiest of circumstances. My life hasn’t been that bad, but it’s been bizzarre and often frightening at times. I’m not a fan of dangling off cliffs, etc.
I think about this concept in regards to my cartoon characters… There I am, putting them into the WORST possible senarios… Yet, they rarely complain. I just gave Arno some awareness… I may pay for my actions later when he decides he’s had quite enough of my antics.
Don’t ponder this too hard. You might blow a gasket.
Tj