Li’l Skin Horse
Shaenon: Remember when I did a kiddie Valentine’s wallpaper design a couple of months back? Here’s my sketches of the characters for that. I like Li’l Unity the best.
Channing: I just have this mental image of Tigerlily looking at the artist’s note corresponding to her and shaking her head sadly. Perhaps she is saying “Damn” as well.
This is the sort of thing I love about reading the Narbonic commentary on the re-runs. The backstory, and byplay of how the arc developed.
LICD does this as part of their books – and has reduced me to giggles more than once w/ the interactions between the writer and artist.
No baby helicopter?
I think at that age Nick was still just a drone. -_^
(TUNE: “Little Deuce Coupe”, The Beach Boys)
It’s the Little Skin Horse …
Got a Sunday to fill!
Well, Sunday’s coming and we need a page,
So we’ll draw the characters at younger age!
With notebook paper and and old Bic pen,
We’ll post some scribbles for a Sunday again!
It’s the Little Skin Horse …
Got a Sunday to fill!
There’s ballerina Tip, little Ginny too,
And there’s Tigerlily with an afro ‘do!
Unity jumps, she pretends she’s flyin’!
And below is Remy with his right-hand, Brian!
It’s the Little Skin Horse …
Got a Sunday to fill!
Now Sweetheart’s nervous, ’cause she must behave!
And Marcie’s got hair like the girl from Brave!
And Chris with presents that he never gave …
And one more kid (who’s got a cool Jayne hat now!)
So Nick is scowling, with his kippah on,
He prob’ly wishes he were better drawn!
The fans go crazy, and they flip their lids
When the cast of characters are drawn as kids!
It’s the Little Skin Horse …
Got a Sunday to fill!
Wow. Just wow.
I just heard that entire parody sung by the Beach Boys in my head. *standing ovation*
A few weeks ago I came across a book of 39 rolls of 35mm black & white film. I didn’t want to pull them out of the book to identify them, so I flipped through and I recognized one particular strip that I knew I shot while in high school. So I took them to the university and started scanning them: $5,000 Nikon scanner, 4,000 DPI scans, 25 minutes to scan two strips of six frames.
And I actually found strips that I shot in high school. Which would date them at 1978-80. And a frame of the receptionists/secretaries at my chiropractor’s office in ’85-88. I now have photographic proof, taken by my own hand, of big hair. Wow.
Heck of a lot of memories queued by that film.
DOWNSIDE is that I can’t find the negatives for most of the photos I shot back when I had a film camera. Norwegian fjords taken from a submarine sailing out to sea, Pompeii and Vesuvius when we pulled into Naples, Minoan ruins from when we visited Crete…. The colour goes off too for the older film. I need to play with them someday in a photo editor.
I DID find the negatives for my wedding (15 years next Wednesday that poor woman has been married to me) and Alaska honeymoon and scanned them w/ the little filmstrip scanner 2 years ago. WAY fewer photos than I had imagined, considering that my cruise to Hawaii 4 years ago came back w/ almost 8K digital photos – before we deleted the blurry ones.
Color negatives keep pretty well if stored somewhere dark and cool. Even faded ones can be restored by utilities in most scanner and graphics software apps.
I like little Virginia myself.
I just have this mental image of Tigerlily looking at the artist’s note corresponding to her and shaking her head sadly. Perhaps she is saying “Damn” as well.
Hey, Sesame Street used to be hip. I mean, they had Herbie Hancock on!
Also, Li’l Nick’s dangly hat is just adorable.
Yeah, Jeff, these kids are stylin’:
I was just reminded (while looking him up on IMDB) that Moragn Freeman was Easy Rider on The Electric Company. *Morgan Freeman* helped me learn to read—how cool is that?
… I want little plastic chibi figurines of the Narbonic and Skin Horse cast now.
I second this!
What, no plastic R/C helicopter for Nick?
….though shouldn’t Li’l Unity actually be a whole bunch of different kids?