BEHIND THE BLUFFS Notes from Ye Olde Drawing Boarde #4
THE FORD CLINIC TOON WAS FUN TO WRITE AND ILLUSTRATE. I WANTED TO DRAW SOMETHING WITH GERRY FORD BUMBLING AND STUMBLING AND I WAS ALSO WORKING ON A TOON ABOUT HENRY FORD’S MODEL T AND THE ASSEMBLY LINE, AND LOOK WHERE IT GOT ME? NOWHERE.
OKAY, THE IDEA WAS ‘HOOVERVILLE’, WHICH WERE NAMES GIVEN TO THE SHACKS AND HUTS THE POOR PEOPLE LIVED IN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. WHAT DID THE FISH SAY WHEN HE RAN INTO THE WALL? DAM! WELCOME TO MY WRITING PROCESS. ADHD ISN’T ALWAYS A BAD THING. HOW ‘BOUT THEM STEELERS? YOU GUESSED IT. I WAS WATCHING THE MUSICAL HAIRSPRAY. I KNOW. I KNOW. NO MORE MIDNIGHT SNACKS BEFORE GOING TO BED. I WAS ACTUALLY READING A BOOK AND FOUND AN OLD PHOTO FROM ART SCHOOL THAT I WAS USING AS A BOOKMARK. OH, THE HAIR STYLES AND HAIR COLORS WE BEATNIKS WORE. I REMEMBER FROM SOCIAL STUDIES WAY BACK IN GRADE SCHOOL THE TEACHER SAYING, ‘THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA IS THE ONLY MAN MADE STRUCTURE VISIBLE FROM OUTER SPACE’. BEING A GENIUS AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 8, I SAID TO MYSELF, ‘STORE IT, COR. STORE IT. YOU’LL NEED THIS FOR JEOPARDY SOMEDAY OR FOR A COMIC STRIP.’ WHAT DO YOU KNOW? I THINK I THEN WENT BACK TO SLEEP AND SUCKED MY THUMB FOR THE REST OF THE CLASS. Thanks again, gang, for reading the Bluffs and writing your comments. :)
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