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Am I supposed to mourn a hateful man when he dies? Certainly Antonin Scalia could be much worse (consider Osama bin Laden or Ronald Reagan), but the negative impact he had on the lives affected by his jurisprudence was not minor. The next jurist to replace him will most likely be better and join in the effort to undo the damage Scalia has done. So when I envision him in a pit of boiling piss and pissed on by demons and those he has wronged, I think his punishment will last only as long as the public feels the effects of his work in this life. That seems suitable enough to me. Then again, I’m an atheist, so corpse kicking cartoon is all I have. If there is another life after this, I hope things go better for the man’s soul.
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“Laundry.” February 14, 2016. Penbrush in sketchbook.
I launched a new webcomic strip today. Or I should say, I finally gave a name and a home to a sporadically produced collection of single and multi-panel strips featuring a cat who talks to a cartoon version of myself. The name of the cat and thus the name of the strip is “Fetch”. You can find it here: http://mooretoons.com/comics/fetch/
Why Fetch? Because a fetch is a wraith, a spirit, a supernatural figure who often acts as a person’s double and in some tales presages death. (Read more about it at Fairy Beliefs – Irish Folklore.) After wracking my brains out over an appropriate name, my friend Aubry, who knows from Irish folklore and how I think, suggested the name. I love it. The cat is meant to be a manifestation of the thoughts lurking in my subconsciousness, the kind that bubble up and disrupt my day, derailing me from my appointed task; or alternately reminding me to do something important; sometimes a trickster, sometimes a call to my conscience. Sometimes a pain in the ass. Anyway, don’t expect a faithful reproduction of this folkloric figure; the cat has its own personality, that the name and the allusion seem to fit.
Other critters will most likely make an appearance. I have a menagerie of animal symbols representing facets of my psyche that I want to bring out into the open, turn into cartoons, and generate humor with.
Most of the strips have been drawn using Paper by 53 — much like many of the drawings you will find in other galleries on this site. It’s very handy to create a finished looking drawing using nothing but a Bamboo stylus and an iPad. I will also use more pen, ink and brush tools, because I favor those more than digital methods. I’m no snob, but I get more of a kick out of what a brush stroke will do to a drawing.
I plan to produce one strip a week. Life may disrupt that, but now that I have a home and a name for the cat, I feel more motivated. It feels more real.
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