Posts Tagged ‘Dee’
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A second wing flapping moment I’m proud of. :)
I wonder what it is about going down river, that there MUST BE A WATERFALL for any story to be exciting.
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Dee is a lot more scared than she is in later strips. Perhaps parental separation anxiety was more acute back then. Hrm.
My, but Dee is strong in panel #3.
I liked playing with this concept, that to make someone bug off, you participate with them (unwittingly to them) to build their deliverance. :)
She totally looks like a muppet, to me, in the third panel (and I openly admit that the Muppets have been a big influence on me).
This strip came from the idea that something coming back like a swing actually is a complex concept and requires some foresight. Blake was the obvious choice. :)
This strip easily could’ve been Vachel/Dee as a rose/botanist, bunny/taxidermist, kitten/bulldog, candy/young child, etc etc. Pick something cute and harmless and find what hunts it.
But I think the net makes this choice the best. :)
“see ya, toots.”
snort.
Also, that’s the problem with taking on others emotions, when the “others” emotions change you’re kinda at a loss. :)
My favorite part of this strip was coming up with things a kid would promise to do, to convince a parent to let the kid keep an alligator.
This strip also begins the ongoing tension between the alligator and Blake.
The idea for this came to me when I was thinking about how kids like to bring pets home (though usually, fortunately, they’re small things like caterpillars). Alligators seemed more Dee’s speed.
And I never stopped being amused by the blurred line of animals and sapient animals. The Alligator is merely an animal, until Ted addresses him in the last panel.
I like that Ted sometimes gives himself an out and doesn’t carry all responsibility on his shoulders (and I also wonder if that it purely a whistle of “I’m pretending like i saw nothing” or if there isn’t a bit of glee in it).
I also like that Dee is just placidly doing her thing, and also that she serves tea to the teddy bear.
Ever since I began swimming as a kid, I’ve always loved how clear everything is underwater, and how surreal it is to see the bottom half of people underwater and the top half obscured by the water’s surface.
I’d say this strip was half inspired by the joke, and half inspired by me wanting simply to draw it.
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