#18: Dessert, demos, and deep space

Hello weary travelers,

What would you say is the one thing you need right now? If you said that one thing was three cartoons, one about a building gone wrong, another about a musical murder, and a third about running into people in space, then this is the post for you.

Eyes up, shoulders down, and ready,
Chris

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Caption: “I’m sorry sir, we used jello instead of concrete again.”

Construction. It’s everywhere. And with so much going on, mistakes have got to happen.

I’ve sat on this cartoon for a while, but every time I come back to it, it brings a smile to my face. It’s silly, and it’s unlikely to really happen. But it is kind of glorious as well.

A little artist’s note: So, it turns out, drawing a transparent building, surrounded by other less transparent buildings, was a real learning curve. If you’re wondering, and there’s a distant chance you might be, the layers behind the building and for the shading of the building itself are all at around 30% opacity, meaning you can see through them easily. Also, interesting fact, in Australia, we call it Jelly, but in most other places it’s referred to as Jello. So, uh, majority rules, here.

Caption: "No calling card sir, but the killer did leave a bunch of his demo CDs."

I always find killer calling cards fascinating. There’s just something strange and interesting about them.

This cartoon pushes that idea a little further and wonders: what if a serial killer decided that, instead of leaving a calling card, he would leave his demo CD? Because, you know, how else is he going to get people to listen to his music?

Pity about the whole serial killing thing, though.

A little artist’s note: Visually, this cartoon keeps things simple. At one point it also included an actual body, but I felt like the outline left a much stronger impression and I wanted to really show off the CDs. I kind of see this as a spiritual successor to the double bass player’s death a few weeks ago. Although this one is most certainly more suspicious.

Caption: "What a surprise. In all of deep space your friends just happen to be here."

People always pop up where you least expect them. And, sometimes, it’s organised.

I’m always shocked how many times you hear of people who somehow run into their neighbour, or an old friend, while on holiday. This cartoon wonders, will this happen when we’re all in space? It also ponders the question: how often are these so-called-serendipitous encounters planned in advance?

I’ll leave you to ponder that one too.

A little artist’s note: Space. And space ships. Both are damn hard to draw, as you’ll see by the bubbly ships you see in this cartoon. I didn’t really have a plan for what they would realistically look like, but maybe future spaceships will look like this? We’ll have to talk to that UFO guy. But that’s another story.

Thanks for reading MiddleSquiggle!

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