My First Cartoon? 1985
Added 2023-08-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTCHumpaford the Duck, by Chris Onstad, age 10. Birthday Card on Piece of Paper, 8.5"x11".
My father unearthed this little "piece of history" last Thursday while going through a box of things my beloved Grandma Marva had saved.
Perhaps the earliest champion of what she recognized as a marginal and unwilling ability in art, Marva once caught me clumsily drawing some of their yard plants on a sheet of typewriter paper and promptly drove me down the hill to buy me a Mead Academie drawing pad at Long's Drugs. What followed were a couple shitty sketches that looked like they were fretted over by a kid whose nervous system was awash in Clorox and bee stings. Sensing that the continued practice of art would simply lead to commensurate unhappiness, I soon abandoned it.
My appetite for sustained discomfort and inaudible feedback would not rise up again until I began Achewood, many years later.
Scholars will note that I clearly owned at least one The Far Side book, and had taught myself to draw speech bubbles by examining Garfield strips. To this day I still have not solved how arms "go around" the body.
Comments
Maybe I don't have a good frame of reference, but this handwriting seems *shockingly* neat for a 10-year-old. I'm impressed!
Patrick Goussy
2023-08-28 15:00:41 +0000 UTCthe multiple connections between the various phrases in humpford's thoughts indicate a disordered consciousness, perhaps a time-out-of-joint state of mind, likely responsible for his hamlet-like reticence to take decisive action.
Charles Richter
2023-08-27 22:32:05 +0000 UTCI live in Portland and yet even I have not heard of “hot goat yoga.”
Chris Onstad
2023-08-27 21:56:33 +0000 UTCIt’s interesting to note that while Humpaford owns a hat, he chooses not to wear it on this occasion
Chris Fleitas
2023-08-27 21:54:18 +0000 UTCThis should be revisited. Humpaford meets Ray at hot goat yoga.
Michael Akey
2023-08-27 19:04:51 +0000 UTCIt’s pretty good I mean it’s decent at least.
Nicholas Williams
2023-08-27 18:42:24 +0000 UTCI can smell the 80s looking at this. It's precious though.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-08-27 18:25:05 +0000 UTCThis is so stinkin cute
Jacquelyn R Walters
2023-08-27 17:37:26 +0000 UTCThe Far Side Eyes are a nice touch. It gives the duck an air of indifference.
A Cloth Map
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