“The Three Wise Men All Chip In for a Nice Satellite Dish”

Assignment for Illustration Friday: Wise.

Owl? Too obvious.

Wise, as in smartass? Too snarky.

So I went with the wisest of the wise, and I’m ready to start Christmas early, too!

Hey, maybe I should make this up as a card for Cafe Press! Or not. I’m loving the colors here. I don’t know whether the clothes are quite correct. Costumers needed on the set!

As far as the right hand on the first wise man, it’s backwards. But that meant good luck in the olden days.

I wrote the post below last February in my Griffith Park Blog. It’s a popular post, so I thought cartoon people would like to take a look at it, too.

I just couldn’t believe this article in the LA Times and many other papers today.

But for one day.  this Sunday, nearly a dozen cartoonists of color will be drawing essentially the same comic strip, using irony to literally illustrate that point. In each strip, the artists will portray a white reader grousing about a minority-drawn strip, complaining that it’s a Boondocks rip-off and blaming it on tokenism. “It’s the one-minority rule,” says Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha). “We’ve got one black guy and we’ve got one Latino. There’s not room for anything else.”

Let’s respect syndicates like King Features for not allowing registered and copyrighted characters and cartoons to be uploaded, I really do, but it makes my life as a comic reporter much harder. However, came across this blogger who has some very cool comic book covers for you to ogle and enjoy. Blondie is written and drawn by two very feminine men, I assume.

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When I’m in the hood, I usually have my hair pulled up or back in some very non-Sarah Palin do, and little or no makeup on. Clothes are a crapshoot, too. Sometimes they’re too short, too hole-y, or strangely unfashionable. Comfy would be a good description.

I went to an open house at a neighbor’s house this weekend, and the host said to me, “Oh. Donna! I didn’t recognize you at first. You…have makeup on! You didn’t have to do that.”

I think there were a lot of mixed messages there.

Prison Break had a very intense episode this week.  The title,”Greatness Achieved” apparently refers to my favorite character, Brad Bellick.  Formerly a very scary, mean prison guard in Fox River, who delighted in throwing together newbies and hardcore homos, some viewers hated him because he MAY have killed a cat belonging to one of the inmates. I am pretty sure that was never proved.

Wade Williams as Capt. Brad Bellick. RIP. Photo from Wentworth Miller Fansite.

But because the super writers of Prison Break knew what a gem they had in the actor, Wade Williams, they found ways to keep him around in all the next seasons! Bellick was fired from the prison after the boys escaped, and he became a freelance bounty hunter chasing them. His team up with Geary was brilliant, and so funny! Then he got thrown in the Panama prison, Sona, along with everyone else. When we saw him there at the end of Season 3, he was on the floor, beat up and filthy, with only a diaper as clothing. Obviously he had been raped. The boss of them to the lowest of them. That’s drama!

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