Sometimes a gag will come to me fully formed. Sometimes I'll get a spark of an idea that I will have to massage for a while until I like it enough to draw it. Sometimes I'll sketch out an idea that doesn't quite work, leave it alone for months or years, and then return to it with new eyes and find a way to make it work. (And most of the times, my ideas are so bad that end up discarding them forever without seeing the light of day.)
The gag above came fully formed and I liked it well enough to draw it when something unusual happened: I revisited a fully formed gag after it's completion. The result being that I came up with something new that I like much more. See if you don't agree below.
My problem with the original gag is the unlikelihood that a Cub Den would serve up something "green and mold" at a Blue and Gold Banquet. I mean, even the most disorganized Den would serve something better than that--like Little Caesars five buck pizza, for example.* But a Scout Troop, on a camp out, in a crock-pot: that I could totally see.
*I speak from experience. Little Caesars five buck pizza is exactly what our Den served a couple of years ago.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Bike Area 3
I don't know what Elder Van Dyke is complaining about, that is a very stylish helmet.
(Click here for this week's Deseret News featured strip.)
(Click here for this week's Deseret News featured strip.)
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Bike Area
When I was transferred into a bike area on my mission, I bragged to my new companion about my mountain biking prowess back home. I then proceeded to tumble over my handle bars through a little wooded area while traveling between our place and some apartment buildings we were going to tract. In my case, pride literally came before the fall.
(Here's this week's Deseret News comic strip.)
(Here's this week's Deseret News comic strip.)
Labels:
Mission Bikes,
Missionary Monday,
true story
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Family Reunions
Monday, June 4, 2012
Another Place to Read My Work
A couple of weeks ago, deseretnews.com picked up this very comic strip. Every Monday, the website will publish another strip following Elder Van Dyke through his mission. With the Deseret News, I'm trying something slightly different than what I do here. I'm publishing the strips in somewhat chronological order.
You can check out the first three strips here, here, and here to read what happened when Alex Van Dyke first received his call. Then make lots of comments and share it with your friends. (I want to make sure they don't cancel the thing on account of lack of public interest.)
Now here's a strip for this website:
You can check out the first three strips here, here, and here to read what happened when Alex Van Dyke first received his call. Then make lots of comments and share it with your friends. (I want to make sure they don't cancel the thing on account of lack of public interest.)
Now here's a strip for this website:
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