Vincent Macropod in “Why are you taking our Christmas tree? Why?”
on November 15, 2006 at 12:00 amJust in time for the holidays – it’s the Vincent Macropod Christmas episode! Okay, well in advance of the holidays. But if my damn neighbors can put up their Christmas lights on Halloween, I can put up my Christmas cartoon!
Of course, I’m really only putting up cartoons in the order they were drawn; and all thus far were drawn over a year ago. This is the last such; starting next week, we move to cartoons drawn right here in 2006! Which makes them only marginally less timely, but still! And then, eventually, I’ll run out, and have to start produicing all-new ones every week. Then you’ll get timeliness. You’ll also get nothing but stick figures…
This cartoon is dedicated to Tracy “SmoonN” Johnke.
- This is a cartoon about itself; it manifests, Magritte-like, in its own panels, in the form of the drawing of the radial tire. Tracy (represented by Fluffy) and Aaron (Hank) had, a year or two previous, bought me for Christmas a Gamecube, with an extra controller and a coupla games. And at my earning potential, this gift was so utterly fantastic as to render it impossible for me to ever, ever reciprocate in kind. But I did draw Tracy this swell cartoon, here, for Christmas 2004! Surely that’s worth, what, $250?
- So a guy I work with had a basement full of his sadly deceased brother’s comic books, and he let me and a coupla other guys come over and basically haul them away, paying him a pittance for ‘em. Which was lovely of him. The brother in question, however, had amassed his collection according to methods and geometries incomprehensible to the human mind. Though the comics were bagged and boarded, many were torn to ribbons, and several appeared to have been bathed in a tub of unnameable liquids for eight days and nights. And he had no full runs of anything, whereas he had plenty of totally inexplicable doubles, triples, and so forth of pointless individual issues. Fully four copies of the utterly uninteresting “Marvel Team-Up” #71 were in evidence. Hence, its manifestation here.
- I really would love a cottage on Loch Ness, yes. Two bedrooms would be fine.