^{Rah. Rah, rah-rah.}

Some familiar faces and some new characters. That strip size sounds familiar; is it scrap from some project?

For many comic companies, 11 x17" board was a standard size for board. It fit in an office copier, and a fedex box. But the bristol board was often sold in an 14 x17" size. For years I cut off a 3" strip from every board I used for comics (except when the publisher supplied their own board, like Marvel, DC, and Archie used to) resulting in thousands of these scraps. Even though I have been drawing on the leftover strips for years (I have a big drawer full of such sketches) and you can now buy 11 x 17" pads, I still have lots of these strips left.

My Dad was a Chemical Engineer for a company that made rubber parts for companies like Polaroid and Xerox. Since he was was a salaried executive, he wore basic white shirts with ties every day he worked (long before casual or dress-down days). He had the shirts laundered at the dry cleaners and ordered them folded.

Every shirt came home with a shirt cardboard, 8" x 10", IIRC, glossy white on one side and natural gray on the other. There were hundreds, and as many as he handed out to his four kids there was still a tall stack in a dresser drawer -- 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. We loved using them for all kinds of projects, including backgrounds for the 8mm animated movies my brother and I made. I grabbed a stack after he passed away; probably still up in my attic. Pleasant memories...

Hounds abound.

Dat anteater/aardvark !

Zot!

It all starts with a doodle.

A pen doodle is mightier than the sword doodle