More Lee Thumbnails
Shaenon: Some thumbnails from the current storyline. I love drawing cats.
As long as we’re all here, let me note that our Shelter-in-Place special is still in effect, so all Narbonic and Skin Horse book orders from the Couscous Store come signed and sketched by me, Shaenon. There is no better gift during the holiday season than a big ol’ stack of comics.
Channing: This is seriously the time to get ’em, if you are a fan of extra art. If you aren’t a fan of extra art, I don’t know if we can be friends.
Hey David, sorry for the late reply man. Anyway, I don’t think that the butchering applies to just Looney Tunes, but golden age cartoons in general. See, back when they were made there were no rules to being a “toon”, instead all of that surrealism was pure self expression, I think that surrealism was more common in cartoons because it was easier to animate that then it was to make special effects. Heck, characters could even die and just come back by the next episode, like they do now. But after they made Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which I found out was very loosely based on the book) everyone followed suit. Suddenly there were lots of shows where literally being a “toon” was the actual plot. They stopped using actual humor too, and instead everyone just acted like they were funny while making sure that they were doing stuff that was considered “cartoony”. But luckily it didn’t last, we eventually got great shows like Ed, Edd n Eddy, Wander over Yonder, and TAWOG that focused on good writing while using cartoon logic. That just acting like you’re funny rule has been used before though, FOP’s writing was entirely based around that rule, it was the only cartoon that I’ve found actually painful to watch, nomatter which season, thank god that it’s finally over. Anyway the trope where a subject gets reduced to a corny cliche partly because it’s entered the greater public awareness but mostly because the writers let the work depend on it doesn’t just apply to cartoons and sentient eat sentient, it can happen to lots of other things as well, like superheroes.
“Yeah, we’re in a cartoon, and we know it,” is all right.
Okay so first off it occurred to me whether or not if a mechanical sapient lion is more powerful than a biological sapient lion, I mean technically a machine is only as good as the engineer makes it and I think stuff like animatronics can be taken apart with bare human hands so therefore a machine can be physically destroyed by a lion if it’s fragile enough. Second, Daphne has since made links to the lyrics and an mp3 of a thimbles of beer song, however she provided the links in the comment section where I originally brought it up, so everyone will have to keep pressing the prev button.
Here. http://www.panix.com/~daphne/tunes/Thimblefuls_of_Beer.pdf
When I saw the post title “More Lee Thumbnails”, I thought “Dr. Lee isn’t in these strips…”. It took a sec for the light to dawn on me (really I think I just fail to look at the chapter names most of the time).
Relatively private pile of sand is such a great line.