Lorraine’s expression in the 3rd panel just makes me smile… man, I love drawing her… and not for the obvious reasons either… she’s just a fun person. Her car is toast, she’s wrecked the set and she can still find a smile. My kinda person.
Toon in tomorrow for Part 3!
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Lorraine certainly deserves her nickname now…
Also, love the Silent Sign of Stein 😀
You have the memory of a…. well, better than mine… You remember his last name and I only mentioned it once? Nice… my kind of reader! You can catch me when I rename a character by accident (like the Rhonda/Brenda incident of last year!).
Lorraine is Troubles for sure… 😀
Hah! Elephants come to *me* for memory lessons! 😀
That last panel is positively iconic…
My kind of person too. That smile could light up a room. If you ever do a “Be drawn as an extra in 1977” contest, I am definitely entering, and most likely cheating.
Now that would be a great contest for you Byron. Can you draw human bears??
I grew up watching Yogi Bear, so I think I could swing it!
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That’s either one strong Gremlin or one shoddy built Set. Either way I’m glad it was a wood wall and not a brick wall, faired so much better for the girls. That is a great 3rd Panel, we’ve all been there at some point or another. All you can do at those moments is either smile or cry, smiling always seems to help. 🙂
Well, you know those 70s cars were made out of solid steel and could take down a wall with no problem… especially at the speed the Gremlin was going. A real Studio wall would NOT be that easy to break through, but hey, it’s a cartoon and I didn’t want to kill Robyn and Lorraine in a head-on collision with a brick wall…
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Thanks on the 3rd panel comment, I’m still digging it today even after looking at for a day now. Sometimes when you first finish something you think “Hot damn, I’m the best!” then the next day you look at it and go “What the hell was I thinkin’?” But, Lorraine is easy to look at anyway, so I’m still diggin’ it!
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Lol, Mario Andretti! His name ALWAYS reminds me of those old AFX racing sets in the 70’s Remeber those? Mine never seemed to work right…ironically my Tyco racing sets (which were notoriously crappy) worked great! Go figure…
If you were a kid in the 70s how could you NOT remember those AFX racing sets? No matter what set I had it never seemed to work right. The cars never made good contact and seemed to have no sensitivity in the controllers… they were either wide open or nothing. May have been me…
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No, I don’t think it was you. I think they just sucked, lol. I remember there was a ‘flea market’ a couple of blocks from where I lived and one of the dealers had a hobbystand. He had all the parts and accessories. One of the things was colored tires. Man, I loved putting white tires on all of the cars. I thought they looked so awesome, lol…
That is how you make an entrance! I return home every night like that. 🙂 Panel three is superb!!!
Lorraine does make an entrance normally but this time with a bang… 😉
Really loved the sound effect in Pannel 2. “BAM” just doesn’t have the impending sense of doom that “KRACKA BOOM!” does; nice choice!
I have to “buy” a cartoonist’s onomatopoeia dictionary as I totally suck at spelling out sounds. I can make a ton of them with my vocal chords, but I can’t spell hardly any. I’m looking for a good fart “sound” word, so let me know if you see one!
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Hmm. By putting the word *buy* in quotation marks, I presume you mean you’re gonna steal one? 😛
SHHH!! The Narks are everywhere on the Internet. “Yes” when I put “quotes” around “something” then I mean “I’m” going to “steal” it or something “like” that… And the “qoutes” around sound are there as it’s not really a sound but it seems I’m breaking one of the Ten Commandments of Writing and the ruler is being smacked across my wrist!
Yes, “I’m” being a real “smart-ass” at the moment, but all in “good” fun! Muhahahahaha!
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PSSSSSS: Of course I’ll steal it!
Bwahahaha! Steal This (Comic) Book, eh? Now there’s an olde-tyme hippie concept 😀
And no, I didn’t call you out on the use of quotation marks around the word *sounds* because it was appropriate there – although properly speaking, you should have put the whole phrase in quotes (“fart sounds”). The use of the marks there is warranted because “fart sounds” aren’t necessarily the actual sounds of real-life farts…
Confused? You will be 😛
I call that the “Christmas Story” smile, references Ralphie’s smile to Santa at the top of the slide… usually accompanied by a “bling!” sound effect…
LOL! Which is then followed by “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!” All day-all night “Christmas Story” on TBS or whatever channel. My kind of holiday movie.
In my “neck of the woods” we call that a “shit eatin’ grin” as that’s the look a dog makes after he’s noshed on some ripe cow poop. I’m full of colorful words, just ask!
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