#73: Royalty and Realtors
Hello royal watchers,
If you’ve recovered from last week’s onslaught of weird, here is a much more normal, relatively speaking, set of cartoons.
This week we see a different form of royalty and look at a new spin on real estate.
Buying up big,
Chris
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Caption: “Oh sure, it was a big change from the palace, but I was eating the flies anyway.”
Sometimes … royalty can be a bit strange.
Maybe it’s the inbreeding, or maybe it’s the strange positions of power they hold, but whatever the reason, strangeness often comes as a package with royalty. And when, through some sort of curse, a prince turns into a frog, that strangeness just shows itself in different ways.
Like, you know, already having a love of eating flies.
A little artist’s note: Let me tell you one thing right now, frogs are hard to draw. Because, well, they have so many curves and none of them are really where you expect them to. My first attempt at drawing frogs was some time ago, an attempt which for your sanity I won’t share, but the experience kind of put me off trying it again. Until. Well, until this joke emerged. The idea that the frog prince was eating the flies long before his transformation made me laugh every single time.
So much so, that I decided to learn how to draw frogs again.
Caption: “And now I'm going to evict the tension from your neck, moving it into a rental in your shoulders before convincing it to buy in your lower back.”
Real estate is a tough business.
And sometimes, to make ends meet, perhaps you say to yourself: what else could I do? Maybe you become a masseuse on the side. And then, maybe you find your two worlds, real estate and massage, beginning to merge in a big ole Venn diagram.
And then, well you get the idea.
A little artist’s note: There was a time before we bought our house where my entire world was dealing with real estate agents. And they all had their quirks. Some fun, some strange, all largely unhelpful for their main task of selling you a home. I assume this also comes with the territory. This cartoon, for worse of for better, builds those quirks into something bigger and weirder. Because, a realtor who is also a masseuse? It’s very possible.
Although, given the incompetence of many of the realtors I’ve met, I’m not sure I would want them anywhere near my vital organs.
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