sketch of the week no. 63

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Get ready!! the next panel's comin' at ya, comin' strong (but it's not finished yet).

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I've heard that if you are going to do anything, spend a lot of time thinking up strategy before you leap.  Nightpumper seems to be adopting this philosophy even though time is of the essence here.  "look before you leap" might take second fiddle to "a stitch in time saves nine."

sketch of the week no. 62

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As we progress on this distorted version of a peregrination we realize that it is so distorted it's possible that it has now attained prevertedness!!  How does this happen?  I long for days gone by when Nightpumper was in the setting that he is supposed to be in.  It's almost like a bad acid trip the way it appears right now.  Can Pumpy ever get back to where he belongs?...or will he go even farther into a other worldly abyss of solipsism?

sketch of the week no. 61

Another one drawn at the airport, lot's of time between flights.

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I just don't know what to say anymore!! This whole thing with Nightpumper is getting out of  control!  All we can do is make educated guesses of what is going on.  My guess is  an alien attack is going on at the same time as the hailstorm!  ...but my guess is as good as yours!

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What's wrong with this picture??? The elements of the latest story line are in place: Nightpumper making a fast break to get out of the golf ball size hail....but something's out of place. Hmmm.....OH MY GOD! He's out in hillbilly country now!!! How could I make such a mistake! He should be in the west side of Santa Cruz!! Sorry about that, I'll see how I can repair/correct this panel, but first I need to take a nap!!

sketch of the week no. 60

Dog in the wilderness.

E ticket ride

I don't know how old you are but if you are a old as I you remnember the E-tickets you got at Disneyland. the E-ticket was the best ticket, you could go on the bobsleds with an e-ticket....I just can't say enough about it! Sure, you had the A thru D tickets that would get you on the Mr. Toads wild ride 'n such but it was the E-ticket that was "da kinde" ...if you know what I mean..So here I am getting all down in the dumps over this divorce thing but you know, I shouldn't, because I've been blessed with the E-ticket of life. If I muck it up by marrying certain people all I can do is blame myself. I bet you have an E-ticket too! Here's a link I would like you to click on: http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm and I'll throw in a sketch that I did while in the throes of "depression light."

To whom it may concern

I'm taking (yet another) break from cartooning. Had a court hearing and it just puts me in a place where I don't want to do anything until the bad juju wears off...and who knows when that will be?

the Sketch of the week will continue on as usual.

-emikk