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Good times! 

For the non-New Yorker’s out there – in panel three “balloon Kelly” is trying to hail a cab and is approached by a ‘livery cab’.  These are legitimate cabs (well mostly) but they don’t have a meter, so you need to negotiate a price before you get in.  Also, to give you some perspective, the metered cab ride that I took from my neighborhood to this event (in heavier traffic headed downtown than I would get headed uptown) cost about twelve bucks, and I gave him fifteen bucks, so even with a good tip, that trip shouldn’t be more than fifteen dollars.  Livery cabs generally cost a little more, but not double.

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.  Mine blew.  What a shock.  Onto the next, right?

 

Ah, good times. Good times.

Oy. I hope everyone has an awesome three day weekend planned. I plan to write write write. And maybe dinner with friends on Saturday and writing group on Sunday. I cannot wait for three whole days of freedom.

Ah, a wild imagination.  A gift AND a curse I say…

Never felt more claustrophobic in my life. 

And the uncomfortable drama continues…

Yes, the beginning of the actual “serial strip”…I can’t believe it either. 

I hope you all had a good weekend.  It was Adam’s birthday this weekend so I took him out to dinner on Saturday night to Pearl Oyster Bar downtown which was an awesome success (and as a special bonus I had a fabulous Lobster Roll – yay!).  We also went to see a movie that he liked and I loved called Reprise.  It’s a Danish film (well actually it’s set in Oslo, but the director is Danish, so I’m going to stick with Danish).  Nevermind, I just looked it up and it is a Norwegian film, though the director is Danish.  Anyway, it was wonderful.  We also watched a fascinating documentary called Deep Water about the 1969 Sailing Race Around the World – the first ever attempt for a single sailor to sail the world without stopping. The documentary is focused on the sad and shocking tale of Crowhurst, the dark horse English competitor.  The documentary was in no way perfect, but the subject matter was completely riveting.  That was about it, except for cleaning the house and waiting around for pieces of Adam’s birthday present (a new computer) to arrive. 

You know, I started to feel bad about panel four in the middle of drawing this comic, because maybe there are people out there with some horrible disease where they lose their toenails and now there is a revolutionary cosmetic procedure to replace lost real permanent toenails with fake permanent toenails.  And then I remembered that I was trying to draw a humorous strip and so I said, “To hell with sensitivity!  To hell I say!” 

And so here we are. 

Next week is going to be a new experiment on Rabid Lamb Comics in that I had this thing (really SOME things) happen to me on Wednesday that I want to draw a comic about, but it’s just too “epic” (not really) to fit into four panels.  So next week I will be trying out a real honest to gods serial comic strip…meaning it will be “to be continued” onto as many strips as it takes to tell it.  I think it will probably take the whole week to get it all out.  Anyway, that is something to look forward to, or to dread, y’know depending on whether you’re a glass half full or half empty kinda person…

Illustration Friday submission for Electricity! I like how this one turned out, but as usual with how things look in my head, versus how I can get them on the page, it’s not even close to what was in my imagination. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) you guys can’t see how awesome this looks in my head. I’m really enjoying the challenge of Illustration Friday though, it’s giving me a chance to think (and draw) outside the ‘Rabid Lamb Comic Strip’ box… :)

Yeah, honestly…HOW DO THESE PEOPLE FIND ME?!  Why does typing in “How To Be A Good Receptionist” (or Prostitute) lead ANYONE to my blog?!  Sigh.  Sometimes I just don’t understand the interwebs.  But it does make for good comics…

My super secret (and awesome) deadline is today.  And I made it.  Barely.  And I’m exhausted.  But I made it, so let us focus on that. 

Sidenote:  I admit I’ve used the word whore on this blog a few times (okay, okay, with alarming frequency), but I don’t know that I’ve ever used the word ‘Prostitute’…it sounds almost old-fashioned, like if we lived in simpler more innocent times 😉

 

I could have tried to draw a rabid lamb in panel three, but instead I decided on shameless self promotion.  Can you blame me?  It was both easier and more rewarding…a win win!  Whoo.  I’m on a big deadline (must be postmarked by tomorrow) AND I have to go to a work event tonight, so I’m under lots of time pressure lately, but I promise to put more effort in as soon as the deadline passes.  Thanks for hanging in there!

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