Giving Thanks
Nov03
on 11/03/2015
at 12:01 am
Life can get so bonkers sometimes… so full of our own schedules and self-domintating thinking, that we forget to just sit down and take stock of what we are thankful for and give thanks for those blessings. Often times it is left to “after” thinking… you realize the value of something … after it’s gone. It’s good to count your blessings.
Here’s a few Squid Rows about counting your blessings:
http://squidrowcomics.com/blessings/
http://squidrowcomics.com/pennies-blessings/
http://squidrowcomics.com/thanks-giving/
Amen to that!
By the way, ran into a fellow from Montreal who enjoys your work the other day! Had a pleasant chat about the comic(s). Over coffee, naturally!
Really!??? That is amazing! This fella lives in Monteal and reads Squid and/or R&R? Hot dang!!! And reading comics and discussing comics is a coffee activity!
Glad to bear good news! Incidentally that means you have readers in Quebec and Ontario (me) at the least confirmed. I imagine you have a fair number of Canadian readers floating around out there. We do love us some art and some coffee after all. I mean, what else is there to do in the dead of winter but drink hot stimulants and while away the hours of darkness exercising imagination? Especially when the power conks out once or twice a week on average (this is why my family always have a wood stove…..)
This makes me happy as my Grandmother’s family (and that means mine) is from Canada… Three Rivers, Montreal and Quebec … I am planning, at some point, to do a trip and explore the area… Bourget and La Roche are my family names and I want to go poking around. Monseigneur Bourget worked on the Cathedral in Montreal… and is buried there. I should like to go see! He’s a way long time ago relative.
Related to readers in Canada… I know I have a reader in Saskatoon… but that’s more in the west. Yay, Canada!
Happy, happy…joy, joy…
Indeed! Harold looks particularly happy in panel two… he’s a happy stufftie!
Every time I see Harold, I feel so sorry for the child who lost him. Wouldn’t it be a Christmas miracle if they were reunited in a way that led to Randie getting the perfect Vespa?
Welcome, Florida Matt! The child you mentioned… his name is Harold… because when Randie found him, the patch on his bum said “Property of Harold” … Randie shortened it. I’ll dig up that toon and post a link to it.
Here’s a link to the cartoon… You gave me an idea, FM… I’ll post the “Meet Harold” series everyday on Squid Row Comics.com… because those comics are currently not available at the site where they once called home. THanks for the inspiration!
http://squidrowcomics.com/when-harold-met-randie/
D’awwww 🙂 I really like this strip! Especially panel 2 😀
I’m glad… I remember feeling exceptionally happy when I drew this toon. The funny thing is… I feel EXACTLY like this toon today… I have been blessed enough to travel… and just having come back from a great trip (Harold, too), I feel exceptionally blessed and happy! Funny how life can spiral like that.
…and then Twinkie returns.
Oh, YOU!… Twinkie seems to have found the proper home, dontcha think? Grace and Twinkie need each other. Hmmm…. but what if…..?
Yeah, you do!!!
Yah… you get it.
I am greatly enjoying your new style, Brig. Even moreso as you slowly evolve and polish it.
Thank you, Pete. You know, Picasso said something to the affect that when making art, you go through a part in the process where you feel like you’ve ruined it, messed it up, you don’t like it… only then are you making art… paraphrased, of course.
It has been like this for me. Experimenting is like that. I get what Picasso meant now in this stage of the cartoon life of Squid Row. There are days that I still think, that I am getting it wrong… but then the rain clears and it’s like “Yah. It’s working.”
Well Brig, as I tell the young and just-starting writers at the occasional Writers Workshops that I do:
If you’re hoping to be a better writer in five years than you are now, you must first acknowledge you’re a WORSE writer now than you will be in five years.”
Science is about what is; it may be knowable or unknowable, but it is always immutable.
Art is what can/will/will never be; art is always malleable.
And I think they both work well together to make for a wonderful world.