The blog of Richard Thompson, caricaturist, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Today's Cul de Sac, July 5 2011

Alice has a small history of putting together guidebooks (badgers), but this was mostly an excuse to use a music staff nib to draw something. In this case, water. These nibs aren't hard to find (Barnes & Noble has some in their stationery section) but they're of kind of limited value, unless you want to draw something five times at once. Or line a music staff, if people do that anymore. The nib looks like this-

and it can be a bugger to get all five nibs firing simultaneously. Usually getting just one to behave is all I ask.

7 comments:

mike flugennock said...

Thanks to Alice for this valuable public service...and, cool onomatopoeia on the twitching/spinning kind.

David Hagen said...

Wow!
5-pronged nib and back-scratcher!

ShyTimes2 said...

At first I thought that was some variety of spork.

Unknown said...

That looks like a very handy way to do some cross-hatching.

Muzition said...

I'm a musician, and when I write music, I use pre-made staff paper.

My word verification, appropriately, is "singers."

Colin McNamara said...

I noticed yesterday that the comic Speed Bump had a reference to Cul de Sac, and the Buckets is in a storyline that, yesterday, had a kid who looked a lot like Dill show up.

Coincidence?

here today, gone tomorrow said...

Wet grass is kinda creepy.