Hola Night Owls & Early Birds
COUNTDOWN #1
Technically, I think 365 cartoons was yesterday — but who’s counting, right?
So I don’t forget — HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!!!
I say this now, because tomorrow I am taking a day off. After considering the wise counsel of friends & family (they know me to be the stubborn type) I’ve decided to end my cartoon-a-day challenge. It was an enormous task, one that started off as a 90-cartoons in 90-days, and just kept going. Mostly I didn’t want to stop out of fear that I would lose my momentum and grind to a halt. Then I saw the steady progress I was making and really didn’t want to stop.
But, I realized a challenge should have a finishing point, to let the full experience stand alone.
So what does this mean? Well, for one thing, I’m going on vacation. For a day. To visit sunny Salinas.
Oh, wait a minute, I live in Salinas.
What I mean to say is that I will be sending out cartoons every other day. Probably Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays or Sundays. I’ve been missing some important activities during the week that I want to start regularly attending again.
I also would like to start doing more graphic novel work — comic books — another love from my childhood. One thought was to have a completed page once a week to show, and over a 6 or 8 week period, the comic story would unfold. We’ll see.
I’d like to give myself the days I’m off to also spend more time planning and prepping my cartoons, see if I can improve them.
Most importantly, it needs to be said that without all of you acting as my accountability group — I would never in a million years have accomplished this one year challenge.
But let me let tonight’s Essential Cartoon do what it was created for.
I wish you all a safe and restful rest of your night.
Until Monday.
Humor abounds.
Ian S.
Salinas!
P.S.
“No rulers were harmed during the making of this cartoon.”
“Let’s still be careful out there.”