Another Thursday, another meeting

Yesterday's Pumpkin

Illustration Friday : Trick or Treat

Quickie for Illustration Friday

Here's an early morning Flash doodle.

Wooden Tail, Glass Eyes!

I relish the older tales for children, when the skin of civilization was not so fat, and the grinning skull under the face was more plain and evident.

One of my favorites is "The New Mother" by Lucy Clifford. Here's a summary on Wikipedia, but the story is short, and you can read the whole thing here.

And here's a sketch I did about a million years ago of the new mother.

Interesting Stories

"Say, Anne, won't you tell me a story 'fore I go to sleep? I don't want a fairy story. They're all right for girls, I s'pose, but I want something exciting . . . lots of killing and shooting in it, and a house on fire, and in'trusting things like that."

Thus says Davy in Anne of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Much has been said about violence in video games, but the mistake is hand-wringing over external influences. Davy here expresses a core principle of manliness in a novel written by a female in 1909. As long as there are boys, there will be cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, rough-housing, horseplay, violent videogames, and all around general trouble.

Jack-o-Lantern

This happy fellow was carved Saturday evening.