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A superhero flies through the air, cape billowing. Past cardboard clouds and bird suspended on strings. The flying is seen, in reality, to be bouncing from a trampoline.
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What do you want to be when _you_ grow up?
(I haven’t decided yet.)
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Big frog: Now, what do you young ones want to be when you grow up?
Tadpoles: "a frog!"
"I want to be a frog when I grow up!"
"me too!"
"I want to be a frog!"
"I want to be a penguin."
Tadpoles: "a frog!"
"I want to be a frog when I grow up!"
"me too!"
"I want to be a frog!"
"I want to be a penguin."
We had lunch in Cropredy today at The Old Coal Wharf, where we were hugely entertained by an amazing duo, Rimski and Handkerchief. They performed music hall songs, arranged for Bicycle Piano and Double Bassicle. These instruments appear to require not only the usual musical skills but also quite a lot of athleticism and an aptitude for on-the-spot engineering repairs. I now finally understand the phrase “pumping up the bass.”
Apparently there’s time to squeeze in another cartoon in 2022. I wish you a somewhat better 2023!
For those who don’t know what the comic is about, please see this video
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With the royalties from his YouTube appearances, Crow bought his own nutcracker and moved out of town.
This chap is almost an Invisibule (except we can see his hands.)
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[Horse rider in the Wild West, has a blanket over his head]
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Early poncho prototype
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Early poncho prototype
Inspired by my new job at Oxbotica, writing software for self-driving vehicles. I’m having a lot of fun, learning new things and building stuff. Roll on the day when only computers drive, and road rage will just be something you take a history tablet to learn about in school.
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Idyllic punting river scene. A young woman with parasol and sun-dress is waited on by a robot waiter which is also doing the punting. Ducks look on knowingly. The boat says "Oxboatica."
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Dog (or bear?) like creature with the body of a turtle.
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half a dozen dinosaur hatchlings in a rocky nest, and their mum.
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Conjoined dinosaur(s) hatching from their egg.
Gosh, it’s been a long time. I’ve forgotten how to do all these little steps, so I hope it all comes out in the end.
Google tells me that the email subscription service is (or has already?) come to an end, so if that’s the way you subscribed so far it won’t work in the future. RSS should still work, and for example I use feedly.com for reading content like that.
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1. Itchy, centre stage: "I am a master."
2. Reaches over face and pulls: "of"
3. Reveals cat face: "disguise!"
4. Reaches again and pulls.
5. Now he's an elephant-head. Quite small! Reaching over...
6. Now he's a tiny giraffe-head, reaching over...
7. Now he has a very very small head, a little animal we can't identify.
8. Reaches over and POP! the head comes off: "Oops! Too far as usual"
2. Reaches over face and pulls: "of"
3. Reveals cat face: "disguise!"
4. Reaches again and pulls.
5. Now he's an elephant-head. Quite small! Reaching over...
6. Now he's a tiny giraffe-head, reaching over...
7. Now he has a very very small head, a little animal we can't identify.
8. Reaches over and POP! the head comes off: "Oops! Too far as usual"