This Day in Drabble History: June 14th, 15th & 16th
1982, 1990, 1996, 2009, 2014, 2020
Hi everybody!
I have a little catching up to do, so here are strips from today’s date, yesterday’s date, and Saturday’s date.
June 14, 1996
June 15, 1982
I did a few bagpipes strips in the 80’s. I liked the gag of Patrick playing them all the time. I guess the bagpipes were too hard to draw. Sparky would be ashamed of me for giving up a good recurring gag because it was too hard to draw. Think of the detailed musical notes he drew whenever Schroeder played the piano. What a lightweight I am!
June 15, 1990
Norman and Patrick came across a suspicious package and thought it was a bomb, so they notified the bomb squad. Seems reasonable. It was actually Ralph’s priceless baseball card collection.
June 15, 1996
June 15, 2009
June 15, 2014
June 15, 2020
I made a couple of mistakes here. First, I obviously smeared the exclamation mark in the last box. Can you spot the other goof? I wonder if it’s only obvious to me. OK, here’s the goof: The lettering in Wally’s thought balloon looks fairly normal. When Wally (or Oogie or Bob) has a thought balloon, the lettering is usually different that when the humans think or say something.
June 16, 1990
Hard to believe my work has never won any awards.
June 16, 2009
Thanks for reading!
—Kevin Fagan
I hate to be oppositional, but I believe your work did earn a trophy by all of us Drabbleites. 🏆
😉
That smeared exclamation mark looks like something a lefthander like myself would do. I always have to ink from right to left, and even then I still get pencil smudges all over my palm.
In college I bought some left handed spiral notebooks bound on the opposite side and I thought I was so very clever. Until I attempted to take notes on the other side of the page and once again the binding dug into my hand. I think left handers need top bound notebooks.
I always love the summer strips where Ralph displaces all the pool water! 🤣