Biscuits. And their relationship to world suffering.
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Spring is here!
2. "Draw!" (cowboy draws a pair of secateurs, intending to prune a wall-plant.)
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2. Itchy: Oh. OK. But...
3. Itchy: it's my turn to wear the helmet.
Itchy and Knee are back! Sorry for the long absence.
2. I Don't believe it!
3. I've broken the Panic Button!
Warning to you all: this comic is based on fact…
2. [suddenly...] bz! bzzz! bz! bz! bz! bzz!
3. Toothbrush: bz bzzz bz
Itchy thinks: {hmm?}
4. [Later...]
Itchy: but what can it mean?
5. Knee: it's my belief that your electric toothbrush has become SENTIENT!
6. Knee: I think it's trying to tell us something.
Toothbrush: bzzz bz bzz bzz bzzz bzzz bzzzz bz bzzz bz bz bz bzzz bz
7: Itchy: What on Earth could it be saying?
Knee: Leave it to me.
8: Knee reading "MORSE CODE for Cartoon Characters" (also read "SEMAPHORE for Leprechauns"
9: Toothbrush: bzzz bz bzzz bzzz bzzz bzzz bzzz bz bz bzzz
Knee writing on notepad. Says: GOT IT!
10: Notepad says in morse and text: YOUR BREATH SME??
Our Bed and Breakfast hosts, during our little jaunt to the South coast, were at pains to point out that the shower drain is not blocked, simply slow; and that we could regard the water sloshing around our toes and ankles as a relaxing foot-bath at no additional cost. However, by the time I’d finished washing my hair I was worried to observe that the water level was just above the top of the shower tray.
The shower drains a little more slowly than is usual.
We were listening to a local rock band playing covers, and I was drawing this comic.
A little girl appeared and asked if she was “allowed” some paper and “allowed” to use the coloured pencils. She’ll be a dress designer one day, she confidently informed us.
I drew her drawing as she drew, mostly from memory as she wouldn’t look up until she’d finished (you can also see my thumbnails for Itchy and Knee’s comic on the same page.) Then her brother appeared and wanted a portrait too. He pulled a face, so I drew it that way.
1. I & K come across an object in a field
2. K: what is it?
3. I: It's a cow bell!
4. To K's surprise, I rings the bell wildly
5. CLANG!
6. (A cow appears, with jacket and holding a towel) : You rang?
Diary entry: Yesterday we saw the exhibition of Ice Age art at the British Museum (in London). It was, for me, astonishing. The exhibits are drawn from 40,000 years of human history, yet you can clearly see that the artists were as skilled and as insightful as any today. These people thought just the same way that we do, though their technology was less advanced.
If you can possibly get to London to visit the exhibition before it closes on 2nd June, then go! (Booking essential)
In the picture I’ve roughed out part of the Great Court (as seen from just above my much needed cup of coffee!) and overlaid my thumbnail sketches of some of the objects that caught my attention.
I apologise for the long delay between updates. My excuse is that my brain was empty. Anyway, today the birthday present I bought Karen arrived, an enormous pile of Letraset Pro-markers and she said I could use them…
[Technical Note: It’s really hard to choose colours for real-world drawing as opposed to colouring on computer as I usually do (and impossible to go back if you change your mind.) But the saddest part is that scanning the picture changed all the colours to something else and I had to fix them in gimp afterwards anyway. Plus knowing that they won’t look the same on your screen as they do on mine. Ho hum.]