I swiped a bit of dialog for today's Cul de Sac (above) from an illustration I dId for Why Things Are at least 14 years ago (below). The small girl in the illustration, who's something of a proto-Alice, is my then-expected older daughter Emma, who turned out to look only slightly like that. What I like best is the drawing Emma's done. I wish I could draw like that all the time. It's probably dangerous to think you're drawing with childlike innocence and immediacy; dangerous only in that you're just kidding yourself. Adult perspective is not so lightly overthrown. But maybe if you think of it as post-expressionism it's okay, and by you of course I mean me. Wouldn't it be fun to draw the whole strip in this style? And by fun I mean for me. Probably less so for you, or for the people who complain about stylistic changes in comic strips.And, seriously, that's a little better than most four year olds draw, if I do say so myself.
7 comments:
Brilliant! I love both versions. Congratulations and please continue with the good work. By the way, when is the new book supposed to come out?
Still funny after all these years!
I can't decide which punchline I like better, but the crayon/carrot comparison does work better in color.
Bhob @ Potrzebie
Mozart was drawing better than that at four, but they assembled a focus group that said representational art was dead and that music was the next big thing.
HA HA when I first read this I gave her an eastend london accent because
"a pony" is cockney rhyming slang for £25
Then I spotted you're not from England
I just love both versions! Excellent work, as always. As an elementary school teacher, I'm a sucker for any of these themes. I'm sure I've had one or two of these types in my classes before.
Hahahahaha
I'm just discovering 'Cul de sac'--WHAT A HOOT!!!! It cracks me up even if I don't read it (I suspect that you're drawing some of family members--you really should have asked them first). :) I know part of me loves Cul de sac so much because I live on one and long for 1/10th of the entertainment in real life here on Ashley Circle. Two Raised-High-in-the-Air-Over-My-Head Thumbs-Up!
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