Happy Valentine’s Day Massacre Day, everybody! The wife and I, we usually don’t exchange presents today, but our first wedding anniversary was last month, and we decided not to get presents then, but rather, now. What I’m saying is that we’ve gotten one another Valentine’s Day Massacre Day presents. Basically. See? We haven’t exchanged them yet, so I don’t know what I got, and I’m not telling you what I got her yet. Maybe next week. Because that’s the sort of thing you care about.
Ma, look! I’m blogging! I’m blogging!
Anyway, yonder lies a cartoon that has nothing whatsoever to do with any of this.
In summary: Buy the Hellboy cartoon DVD, so they make more of them.
Annotations below!
- So, I draw these things freehand, just putting pen directly to paper without any penciling or suchlike. This is, of course, the reason for the various Stupid Artistic Mistakes you’ve come to expect from your Vincent Macropod experience. And so, for this cartoon, I actually had a completely different punchline in mind when I sat down to draw it. But then, completely by accident, I had them bandage the wrong hand in the hospital section. Stupid! Incredibly stupid! But! I changed the ending to reflect this, and I think this is actually a better punchline than the original. (I won’t tell you the original; I may yet use it.) And so now, whenever I start thinking about starting to pencil these first, I recall this cartoon, and its happy accident, and I am stymied.