I was trying to draw a picture of my mother for the mother’s day occasion but I screwed it up and did not finish in time. I am still am not done but this is the general “idea.” I was concerned enough about it to seek approval in advance of putting it on websites. I had also pondered replacing the baby with a fish but as I had already drawn the baby when I thought of that I asked about that also, and was told that I should keep the baby. It seemed to me later that the baby wanted spaghetti, or maybe lo mein, or maybe nothing if that looks like nothing.

oh fleeps I forgot that there are two extra pages with kumquat that I MEANT to draw and add in somewhere before this point. so I will definitely have to do that and amend the page numbering accordingly. OR show it later as a flash-back scene but i never established that flashbacks exist in this story except briefly and narrated by a character and this part isn’t that. I could NEVER make this comic strip as a profession.

another bit to mention, when rendering this page, the first order of business was to check the previous page these gnomes appeared on, 3-49, so i could be sure of what lines from the script they had already said, and i found their dialog quite hard to read. i recall being concerned about its legibility before but i am surprised now that I then allowed it to be that bad if i was concerned about it. and it got WORSE across just the eight frames on 3-49. Thus I spent some time fiddling with that and it SHOULD be improved now, but i initially drew that page AFTER cleaning up text on older pages than that, at LENGTH, for printing. how could i still produce such unreadable letters and leave them that way?
in editing that text i have forgotten whatever distinctions i originally intended for the two gnomes’ letter styles, but legibility is probably more important than that. As long as the speech container baubles are distinctly colored and or clearly identify which figure is meant to be emitting them it isn’t necessary for the letters to look different in each.

ANYWAY

page 3-65 of that is tentatively the last page of this section and available. this page has loads of problems but seems legible enough for the moment.

ironically elpse could probably join this club since biv also hates dumb little critters yet loves clobbering [th]em, but alas is cursed by looking sort of like them, and by occasionally getting followed by the worst of them
i identified “rootkit and pipkin” a few pages ago without having a plan for what they looked like or what they were going to do, though the essence of this scene has been around a while. i have also an old idea of an antagonistic duo that are always referred to as a pair despite one of them only ever standing around and doing nothing, maybe not even speaking, but I am not sure if this is the place to use that, if anywhere there is. that is the real reason the last frame is vague; I am not 100% certain of what figure is being shrouded there. i HAVE sketched the next page with one in mind and this shape presently correlates with that, sort of, but I might change it!

a perhaps needless clarification: I do not hate religious people. I hate when religions themselves seek to control people with threats and encourage them to hurt each other, which as far as I can tell all religions do, and I have no respect for that.
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this time of year i see manishevvitz products more prominently at the grocery store. i recognize the name because some dumb late night show(s) I used to watch would make jokes about “drinking manishewitz” –because as the wise philosopher Adam Sandler once pointed out, “so many Jews are in show biz”– so I knew it was some kind of wine that you have to drink if you get jewish. But apparently Manischebbitz isn’t the wine itself but the brand which sells the wine, and they have stuff other than that because in Connecticut and theoretically other places, it is illegal to sell wine in a supermarket, and the Manicshevorlet company thus needs some way to remind Jewish people that they have to go buy the Manischewbacca wine at another store before it’s too late.
Thankfully i am not afflicted with religion so I do not suffer such a fate. Religion is like diabetes for your personality. The authorities want you to endlessly pay for and suffer through dumb traditions that you will never be free from, be too busy worrying about what rules you might violate to consider if the rules have any practical purpose, much as pharmaceutical and food companies pay off the american diabetes association to recommend insulin and disgusting splenda that they can charge whatever they want for rather than recommend eating fewer carbohydrates so you never stop having to buy insulin and splenda from them. maybe that is a stretch of a metaphor but the important thing is that unfortunately seeing Manishevitz reminds me that it could easily have been Manishnemitz.


(trashover is a sorriday in which there is a lot of trash going on and you want it over. manishnemitz is one of the leading suspected causes)

When you are serving manishnemitz, don’t bother opening the door and pouring a cup for Elijah since you know he isn’t showing up. a shut door also discourages more fuzzy imps who now think they are welcome from entering.

if i see a bottle of manishnemitz at the store, i smash it on the ground! it isn’t fair to the store staff who have to clean it up but the store itself should never dared to have stocked it. what a horrible idea. what’s next, manishdope? i don’t mind telling you, I REFUSE to drink manishnemitz. i won’t even drink womanishnemitz. I don’t know what the difference is in that context but more people want me to draw men than women characters and the men ones are usually designed grosser and fetishier.

the worst part about manischnemitz wine: it isn’t even kosher. if it is made by dumb imps, particularly ones with pig noses, there is no way it is “clean.” do you think people drink manishewitz because it tastes good? it probably tastes awful! you just HAVE to drink it. i bet 4 out of 5 sederers say the WORST part about passover is having to drink manishewitz, you just DO because it is kosher and a gang of rabbis will pull themselves out of your hats and circumcise your fingers if you don’t drink it, and you ALSO have to wear hats. I learned that from Fiddler on the Roof. That is almost as scary as laser wolves.

and i worry if someone at the supermarket hears me mumbling about manishnemitz and thinks i am being anti-semitic. no i am only anti-nemitic. i realize this is anti-semite fluorish season to give slightly less-right-wing-creeps something to point at as an excuse to keep equating middle-east-except-israel-residency-or-ancestry with terrorism and continue not being held responsible for decades of trooping, shooting and looting wherever they feel like over there and causing such a disaster that leaving and letting the goshdang taliban come back seemed relatively prudent long enough for them to do it and wash their hands of it, but I am here to talk about something much more important, how a brand of wine’s name sounds sort of like that of a cartoon character that I draw.

And i can’t just THINK about manishnemitz, *I* need to hear me complaining to know how it sounds and to stop thinking about it. But I also had to remember it so I could tell you about it. Very important.

a recurring and stupid problem.
this is not the new comic strip page that I threatened last time! That is complicated. It will be better than this. Still probably underwhelming. But building it is complicated.

finally back to lerd,

another of the very old 2003 monsters, redrawn at ten times the size with slightly more competent animation.

marginal progress, major reminder of how stupid my life is, which I do not need, because I do not forget.

the movements of the tail appendage do not match on each angle, but they do not have to, merely not look terrible, and only the back facing one does, along with the arms, that look more like a low-impact exercise than a motion to pull the body along a floor but it looks better than the old version, to me, and inside that game the old one looked fine so I will be impressed to see how this ends up being worse.
the mid-section is a different color now but I can palette-swap it to green in-game. And I can also NOT palette swap it to green, in case you were wondering why I’d bother to discolor it at all. the colors only need to be distinct, not specific.

keeping the color zones distinct and mapped to indices on the game’s 256 color “palette” means they can be changed separately from each other, to colors which are not necessarily on the palette but for the purpose of preparing this example quickly they are.

There was never a reason for lerd having four breast orbs before, as it only had two arms. maybe it looks unique but I don’t want people to think I have a fetish for bare cartoon breasts considering how much other fetishy junk I have attached to my name in the intervening years. ALTHOUGH if, as today’s commenter suggests, having just two makes the problem worse, I can change them back or try something else entirely.

i will start the next non-snake comic strip page next. probably. you might think i have spent some of the long period since posting the most recent page figuring out what is going to appear on the next page but you ought to know me better than that!

4-16-2024 whoopf i forgot i have a website this week. fortunately it is rarely remembered in general. i have another redrawn old dumb monster to show, when i get around to showing it.
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maybe too much greebling for the amount of content here. i felt mentally drained after the stupid animation and posting it to all the websites, and sought a sketch that I could computer paint over. and that was too much, so I went after this one instead, which was also too much, but since I had already dumped two days on the first one I stuck with this. the stages of production as far back as I have proof of can be viewed over there since I lack the energy to deal with them here. Yes that is an obnoxious paywall site. Somehow or another 11 or 12 still people actually pay me small bits monthly through that, out of pity or whatever other reason, and I will take that. This particular post is “unlocked.” Others are not, more so the people paying money don’t feel slighted than because I think anybody wants to steal them.
I believe it to be the picture that made me realize I was not cut out for water-color painting on physical media. I will sketch and resketch elements for ages to get them in functional balanced positions and next I will be reluctant to place colors that I might change my mind about. And so this lingered unfinished for years but still with blue tape on it as if I thought I might finish it. Obviously I FORGOT most of that when I decided to bring it out for this. At least five years had passed. It was supposed to be straightforward and mindless, and mindless often means irrelevance. but there are also always stupid challenges that need to be thought about that most people would not encounter. what is this thing swimming in? anything i want. but what then IS that any thing?

only THIS part is truly mindless.
obviously, the dope is awful. the dope is scum. nobody is denying that. yet they also will not take steps to do anything about it. the GREEN dope in this picture, does it think i will think it isn’t a bad dope since it isn’t blue? what a horrid dope! just look at those ears! it is JUST as bad as every other dope. i doubt it even KNOWS what color it is! maybe it even thinks it IS a blue dope! but i do not want to say anything appropriately abusive to it since i don’t want it to look at and smile at me.

really stupid idea i had years ago but only believed i had the means to execute this year and it still took longer than was remotely reasonable.
years before that I messed around with ripping my own spc music out from super nintendo games, and observed that I could play save states from the emulator “zsnes” as if they were spcs, even though sometimes there was stuff wrong with them, such as tunes playing with the wrong instruments loaded. That is is how I ended up with the screwy mario paint music which reminded me of dopes. somehow or another i ended up with a version of this options screen tune from the super nes game sparkster which only had this single sound channel active, and it made enough of an impact on me that I continued to dwell on it for long afterward. I thought for certain it must be an error, but the snes plugin for winamp allowed me to disable individual sound channels on a properly created SPC of the tune, and indeed that corny organ is in there just like that, buried under the audible instruments. I hadn’t run winamp in years but I had to dig it out again to export the different layers of the tune for this dumb cartoon. Imagine, if winamp had only been more shoddily coded and unwilling to run on windows 7 this whole mess might have been prevented.

the yeep and meteor were added late when I realized someone might assume this was just a dumb loop of the first pose and turn it off early if I didn’t show something else non-cyclical happening. they need to see that it is a dumb longer sequence than that.

but i also have to consider the organ grinder’s situation: you are trying to encourage people to give you money but then some dumb DOPE comes along and starts doing some STUPID DANCE. it is hard ENOUGH to attract customers when your only skill is spinning a handle to make corny music come out of a box, but NOBODY is going to come with a DOPE there, even WITHOUT the horrible dance.

what are you looking at? me? do you think i am going to bail you out of this? it is not my fault that the music is corny and decided to degrade to its base corniness. if YOU choose to degrade and TRANSFORM into a regular dumb old corny animal that should not be my problem.

a pointless drawing in which nothing happens showing bulma from the early dragon ball comics and unfortunately nemitz from stupid garbage comics. it didn’t seem worth fussing too much over since i never finished the comics and the anime based on them apparently was largely skipped in the US in favor of the Z episodes and more people are familiar with that but i am not and i refused to become more familiar with them without finishing what happened before that story, which as stated I never did. i TRIED but i got the books as gifts, and eventually the gifters forgot which ones I already had, and I am too cheap to buy my own books, AND the various torrents i found are highly irregular, mixing in various inconsistent fan-translations (some with MIRRORED artwork) which were probably in circulation long before the official printed ones I was familiar with amidst bits OF the official printed release.

what the heapdedeep, I know much more about dragon quest than dragon ball, which is also illustrated by the lately dead Akira Toriyama, i should have drawn some dopey monsters from that. (just not healie) (ALSO I forgot I mentioned the Journey’s End Motel and it made me laugh harder today than when I wrote that)

with that in mind i added the annoying blue thing on the left, which appears in the first dragon ball chapter but also is cognate with the “vampirus” monster from dragon warrior 2.

Vampirus, perennial adversary of the Phantom Force

although vampirus is of course best known for participating in the decoration of a worse lizard’s apartment.

with that in mind, get those dumb vampiruses OUTTA HERE

I think you will definitely need to click on this in order for the text to be legible. apologies for not making it permanently unlegible!

when I show nonsense like this, it is crucial to not make viewers uncomfortable and think I am looking for [ity compliments or trying to intimidate them into sharing posts that they don’t want to, and resenting me, since the character in these dumb comics on many occasions shares my experiences but is not meant to “be” me. As much as I have dwelled on why they do or do not, I have never asked somebody to share one of my posts! And I do not reckon I will. Hopefully changing the character to the jerk fish form I have used a few times before limits that somewhat. I only call its usual shape a “snake” because before I did people would call it a worm, and worm is an extremely vague animal name. Earthworm seems to be implied, which is an entirely different phylum from snakes and other commonly anthropomorphized animals, lacking what we think of as faces and limbs entirely, and non-annelid “worm”s are even further from that, and I am not comfortable with that manner of inaccuracy.
also the “normal” comic strip has not been cancelled. I do not know that I have ever cancelled anything. except for minor works like “goldilocks and the berenstain bears” which only existed on school computers when I did not have a home computer, I have been thoroughly unable to cut my losses in life, creative-ish or elsewise or elpsewise (though never nemitzwise since nemitz is highly foolish).

one of those funny things I sometimes find, possibly deliberately left in a conspicuous place so I will see it, while sharing a home with a child who attends a public school. I do not understand why this duck considers itself fully dressed in a coat and a stupid hat but requires swim trunk garb otherwise. A snorkle however I consider a valid fashion choice.

As always I take issue with cartoon duck as rendered by someone who has never seen non-cartoon ducks. Perhaps this is what a turducken looks like in the wild.

good job saving water, but can we talk about your toothpaste wasting? You shouldn’t even HAVE teeth, dumb bird!

more importantly, what is in this duck’s toilet, what did this duck EAT that smells SO bad that calls for both nose pinching and this worried expression? this is why they shouldn’t have teeth. they have no self restraint.
you might feel compelled to go further and declare that ducks should not have toilets but plainly whatever is in this one is an environmental hazard that transcends conventional natural disposal.
the duck dresses more appropriately for space travel but has obviously stole someone else’s body.

the company who put these out have rather a slew of unscientifically drawn characters who want children to think more realistically, and also shouldn’t have teeth.

And ALSO mess around with toilets but this one seems more in control about it.

that’s great duck. Now we know has breaking into homes and neon-coloring people’s toilet water lately. I thought this garb was foolish but “wendell” seems much less afraid of toilets while wearing it, with and without buttons, not even enormous toilets with unfathomably complex plumbing.

according to videos too many of which seem to have been uploaded by the same guy, wendell rather resembles the 3d character used to market toilet duck products in countries which thankfully, to my knowledge, aren’t this one, but more because this is an extremely lazy design than because Project Energy Savers LLC ripped off SC Johnson [a family company].

there is also another package with the duck again, more consistently dressed but still utterly dismayed by excremental affairs. This is a coloring book, yiokes

fiddle deep feep enough about toilets! that’s probably why the original artist quit and got replaced by a terrible adobe illustrator hobbyist. note that penelope/wendell wearing a wig and false eyelashes is wasting water in this picture.

in yet another booklet, wendell flagrantly mocks the no shirt no shoes rule, and is talking about toilets again, concerned that one of us might be drinking out of it. the sole human being i have seen up this point looks uncomfortable with the size discrepancy here. Even the medication bottles are at unnatural scale. Why am I worried that they contain unsolicited stool samples?

in another picture the duck has seemingly stolen a human body’s proportions to wear a space suit, but if the duck is so substantially larger than a human, who was this space suit made for? Why is the american flag emblem on it backwards? Ultimately this does not matter since the space suit isn’t tethered to anything and this duck is going to drift helplessly and die in outer space if more competent parties do not intervene.

Leaving this interloper free to waste water and whatever else

this is getting too dangerous for me.

this has been going on for years

2024’s edition is yet un resolved

some bits i forgot to check on until just now, not worth mentioning since I can fix them silently later. the point of this was to change things that other people WOULD notice.
I think it is superior to the old version, though possibly only because it is a substantially less compressed video. back in 2006ish I considered it secondary to the swf version. now websites will not play the swf version at all so this is all there is

and even the swf is huge now due to all the “brush” lines in it rather than the ugly “pencil” lines with bucket fills from before.

I fixed some of the issues but then I remembered that I need to re-match the beet herald (internally known as “lactorp” but i never truly decided on that)’s mouth to the re-recorded audio even though some of those mouths I only drew a week ago since the replacement “it’s heeyah”s I only recorded this week.

LATER! I made more changes, including text outlines like the other two videos. There are still some pencil-tool-drawn objects remaining, maybe they can stay. but after repeatedly being disrupted by hearing it I realize I need to re do the voice right before “come look, come and see” again. It no longer sounds like greegorp, the character with big glasses, but it doesn’t sound like this character looks, either. oh what a life, oh what a house.

yet later i recorded it to sound more nasal. I hope that is all.

another unfortunate appearance by the dope vending machine

i would ask who was paying nemitz but i know it isn’t necessary for someone to be paying nemitz for mit to be doing something this stupid.

in the sketch it is a generic imp but when digitally handling it I was trying to warp it into the first imp I ever showed getting angry at a dope dispenser. However back when I drew that (several years before the video) I was less diligent about having a creature appear consistent between two frames, and more recently wondered if this creature was likely to be recognized by anyone even if I did come to an ultimate compromised between its two shapes. The important thing is that it disapproves of dopes. I do not think having a tantrum is going to solve the dope problem, OR the nemitz problem, but I never claimed it wasn’t stupid, just smart enough to not want dopes.

I read too much weird garbage about people who I do not understand

i inadvertently rather like the little red-cloaked creature

regarding some distressing imagery I have mostly had on my hard drive since 2012:

Tails HAS to stay outside. Tails is not ALLOWED in the house on Christmas.

it is imperative to keep tails as far away from your drink as possible, especially if tails is wearing a bowtie.

do not exert yourself to help tails out of peril, no matter how corny his facial expression gets; tails can FLY and is just doing this for attention.

do not follows tails’ instructions. tails is not a member of the technical support team. Tails has been cursed for his deeds and imprisoned inside the computer. If you do what he tells you there is a risk of transferring the curse to yourself. if you must talk to tails do it by telephone, away from your keyboard, or at least while wearing protective gloves that prevent precision key presses.

be sure to keep those gloves on when disciplining tails since foxes, even meeply ones, are known to carry rabies.

trying to gain retribution against tails by blocking his vision in an aircraft will needlessly endanger yourself and not affect tails since he doesn’t look where he is going anyhow. also as has been previously noted, tails can FLY without aid of a vehicle.

tails is not even authorized to pilot mine carts.

also do not respond if tails attempts to pull you over in your own aircraft. tails flunked out of sky patrol academy. if he shows you a badge it is counterfeit. regardless of the lettering on display,

tails is in fact illegal in japan. do not be fooled!

tails also cannot dance. reports are yet unconfirmed as to whether he will steal your money but I think it is safe to assume that you should not give him any.

ALSO unrelated to tails but if you listen to that song, cut it off after the second verse; that chorus is NOT good enough to hear twelve times

and as weird as the video is, Will Vinton studio isn’t creative enough beyond the novelty of using clay to to do anything but simply animate mouths in increasingly creepy ways if there are no further written instructions.
is there anything else to be concerned about?

no I absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge this