#105: Letting go
Hello drinkers,
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a splash of whatever that is, and you’re all set. I think. Maybe. I didn’t read the recipe all the way through.
Anyway, this week’s cartoons see a down-on-his-luck-dog and a very flighty funeral.
Going by group,
Chris
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Caption: “Just leave it running.”
Even good dogs have bad days.
And sometimes you just need a drink. Plenty of drinks. Lots of them, in-fact. Maybe you even want the bartender to leave the bottle.
Or, the hose.
A little artist’s note: A nice and simple one for you. If this is a riff on barflies, then is this a dog fly? Ignore that. Don’t mind me.
Visually, this one is pretty simple, but it has a few key details. In my initial versions, I did it without the background, making the foreground, the dog at the bar, the only thing to focus on. But, the more I looked at it, the more I realised that, while it might be enough to simply include the dog, it didn’t really feel whole. So then I added the old-school bar background to really cement the dog’s location.
All I know is I wouldn’t want to be that dog.
Caption: “Close family are now invited to mourn via group one.”
What happens when a pilot retires from this world?
And how much of the airline world does he take with him? Are there snacks? Maybe a film or two? And, for mourners, is there a queuing process?
Because everyone wants to be in group one, right?
A little artist’s note: And as I add this cartoon to the newsletter, it occurs to me that this is my second queuing cartoon in so many weeks. My second! I didn’t even know I had more than one queuing cartoon. But, here we are. Queues in all their glorious goodness.
This one, and last week’s queuing one now that I think about it, come from the same batch. Well, maybe not the same batch, but certainly in the same suite of batches. Drawn last year, it was not long after I had returned from a work trip to the US where, for worse of for better, I spent quite a bit of time in airports doing, you guessed it, queuing. Because, if we were to boil down exactly what airport travel is like, the running thread is probably going involve some sort of queue. Or, many queues.
It’s also a bit dark, sorry.
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