Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

If you would like to

‘favorite’ the strip,

(and maybe the sketch, too), simply log in and click on the ‘Favorite’ star directly above the strip. Mr. McEldowney very kindly asked for us what purpose is served by favoriting, and this was the answer:
I asked my editor at Gocomics about the purpose of “favoriting” a strip. Her answer was this: “‘Favoriting’ allows people following you to see what comics you like. ‘Favorited’ comics also show up under your profile, and allow us to see what comics people are enjoying.”
Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
Brooke

ccdesan has been kind enough to provide several resources:
Pibgorn in-depth background info, strip history, synopsis of story arcs, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/Pibgorn.html

9 Chickweed Lane in-depth background info, strip history, synopsis of story arcs, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Chickweed/Chickweed.html

GoComics comments posting guide to special formatting: italic, bold, indents, large fonts, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html

fairportfan has samples and a guide for converting 2D comics to 3D and for “flicker” comparisons:
3D conversions of a couple of Pibgorn panels, go to:
• http://electronictiger.net/stereo/dru.htm
How to Commit 3D - quick-and-dirty guide for stereo images:
• http://electronictiger.net/stereo/demo.htm
Index of “flicker” images:
• http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick/
Flicker Picture Tutorial:
• http://electronictiger.net/avail/how2

Joe_Minotaur has a number of fan fictions based upon Pibgorn and TV police dramas:
• http://home.earthlink.net/~joeminotaur (start reading at the bottom of the page!)

Free registration to participate in a forum dedicated to Brooke McEldowny’s work:
• http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=568 [link to forum]
• http://marmoe.livejournal.com/34590.html [for registration assistance]

Brooke McEldowney info at:
• http://officialpibgorn.livejournal.com/ [Brooke’s Pibgorn blog]
• http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/ [Brooke’s Chickweed blog]
• http://www.wuky.org/tonicarchivesvisual [WUKY NPR interview (audio)]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_McEldowney

Come one and come all, de-lurk and join in!
Add your own voice to our great, joyous din!
Just one bit of wisdom ere joining our game:
Read the comments! All of them! Or you’ll miss something! (Shame!)
(No trolls need apply.)

Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009%2F1%2F28&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
An index of old 9 Chickweed Lane strips, 2001-present, can be found at:
http://www.comicstriparchive.com/9_Chickweed_Lane/
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Dru has the last word, and she’s kickin’ butt and taking names! You go, Dru!
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

Today’s Pib is so great - the backgrounds make all the difference in the world.

For Tom’s sake, I hope Hell has a good dental plan.
fatuncle said, 10 months ago

Tom?

Run.
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

ccdesan said:
For Tom’s sake, I hope Hell has a good dental plan.

They must. He keeps getting his teeth back.
emjrn said, 10 months ago

I wonder what the sponsor’s “word” will be?? I have a feeling it will be more action that word!
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

I’m looking at a little blue box with a question mark (=missing graphic), just as Joe_Minotaur is. Oh, well…. At least I’ve got the sketch.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

–And just as that was posting, up came the finished art!
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

I see the sketch, but not the finished strip.
Oh well. Dru has a very important message for T.T.
Lampblack said, 10 months ago

One bare-knuckled message from the mother of all sponsors. Like the Mighty Hulk used to say, “It’s clooobbbering time!”
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

We could have Dru start by shoving that microphone way, way down Tom’s throat….
His “word from sponsor” would be something like NNGGGGKKk-aaakkk!
txmystic said, 10 months ago

We’ve seen so many drawings of Dru lately that accentuate her…ahhh…assets. And just when we think she cannot get any hotter, we get this delightful silhouette…
AliKzam said, 10 months ago

Yay, Dru!
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

@Sisyphos - you missed with the stale cookies! Nyah, nyah, nyah!

::vaults over couch, past the pool, and races for the door::

AAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! Who was it that let those squirrels in????
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Actually, that’s Incredible Hulk, and, while it was the Thing, he’s from the Fantastic Four…
Simon_Jester said, 10 months ago

Brought to you by Dovercliffe Dentures.
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

LampblackPro says:

One bare-knuckled message from the mother of all sponsors. Like the Mighty Hulk used to say, “It’s clooobbbering time!”
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I’m pretty sure that was the stone guy in Fantastic 4, as the Hulk was all grunts and growls for his clobberin’ time.
EDIT:
Maybe it was the hulk ?
http://tinyurl.com/cgj7qk
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

@Lampblack: I got what you meant immediately - but it was the Thing (from X-Men) that used to say that…

And his sister…
http://www.collectedcurios.com/She_Thing.jpg
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

Time to reclaim some of last night’s lost sleep!
Bogy said, 10 months ago

We might have another dropped mike.
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

Good night, margueritem!
Good night, ccdesan!
Good night, fatuncle!
Good night, emjrn!
Good night, GEE1A!
Good night, Joe_Minotaur!
Good night, Lampblack!
Good night, txmystic!
Good night, AliKzam!
Good night, fairportfan!
Good night, Gweedo Murray!
Good night, Simon_Jester!
Good night, Bogy!
Good night, mojitobaby!
Good night, MathProf2!
Good night, GrumpyOldbear!
Good night, Sisyphos!

Good night, John Boy!
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

MathProf2 says:

Brooke seems to have an antipathy for men holding microphones.

I hope Brooke’s attitude towards people with microphones does not keep ccdesan and I from interviewing him at the NYCC.
mojitobaby said, 10 months ago

It’s “Hulk smash”. Drusilla, on the other hand, annihilates. Classily.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

(slips on dashing squirrel, falls in pool, climbs out again, sputtering)–
Next time, fearciuil!
MathProf2 said, 10 months ago

Brooke seems to have an antipathy for men holding microphones.
txmystic said, 10 months ago

g’night fearciuil…and per usual, thanks again for your tireless boilerplate efforts!
GrumpyOldbear said, 10 months ago

@margueritem- would you post that bread recipe? Sounds delish.
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This weeks “Friendship bread” is Apple Rhubarb w/raisins and walnuts. Tea is PG Tips or Yorkshire Gold.
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Off across the threshold into horizontal mode.
4deerinmyyard said, 10 months ago

“It’s clobberin’ time!” is indeed the eloquent and resounding battlecry of one Mr. Benjamin Grimm. However, as Mr. Grimm is not a mutant, he does not meet the entrance qualifications for the X-Persons. Wotta revoltin’ development this is, such misinformation being bandied about (by all save Fairportfan, who bandieth not). As for the Inedible Bulk, er, Incredible Hulk, what he mostly says, if memory serves, is “HULK STOMP!” Or, for variety, “HULK SMASH!”

EDIT: And Mojitobaby also bandieth not.
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

Goodnight fearciuil !

Nice to see the hotplate back where it belongs.
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Goodnight Fearciuil
Goodnight Mary Ellen…
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

One more thing, then I’m off … I thought this was interesting.
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Neat-o pic, fearciuil; and if you take it into extreme closeup, look at all those hot lights on the network lightpole across the way! ‘night, now!
paciii said, 10 months ago

Sisyphos says:
Neat-o pic, fearciuil; and if you take it into extreme closeup, look at all those hot lights on the network lightpole across the way! ‘night, now!

YUP, I second the “neato”

Igor’s concerned, we haven’t seen Pibby yet…

I think (as has been mentioned already) that we may have another mike hit the floor…

And Amos had best get his rear-in-gear and get to the hall!!

Night… Yuck!!! Who left all this squirrel & cookie mess??? I guess it’s CannonBall Cleaning time [[splash]]… There… Where’s that “wet floors” sign??
Anybody see it?

Not snowing yet (2AM) Sigh…
4deerinmyyard said, 10 months ago

@ Fearciul: That is amazing! Now I have to stay up past my bedtime playing with this picture.

Overheard at the Inauguration: “Are you cold, Mom?” “No. I’ve got history to keep me warm.” (forgot my source for this; sorry)
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

@Fearc: Very neat pic viewer. Certainly the closest I’ll ever get to our President…

Nytol!
erwins_cat said, 10 months ago

But what’s become of Pib?
baslim_the_begger said, 10 months ago

Hell’s a poppin’ !! (or soon will be)

fearciuil: Mahalo! I love the expression on W’s face, even though he appears to be clapping his hands.
It looks like Hilary is checking out that Bill is really clapping,
and a few rows back from the middle justice in the first row, there is someone who bears a resemblance to Obi Wan Kenobe.
I’m still looking for the guys with the stingers… ;^)
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 10 months ago

Scary… hot but scary…
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

While there abren’t any Big Changes between sketch and finish today, there are some interesting small things, so i made one.

For all the flicker pics so far:
http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick

The panorama of the Inauguration reminds me that CNN and Microsoft collaborated with a lot of amateur photographers, and used a relatively new MS program called PhotoSynth to produce a panorama combining literally hundreds of photos from all distances and angles.

The difference between a PhotoSynth panorama and a regular one is that you can move around inside the panorama, and view different photos taken at slightly different times and angles - it’s sort of like the mosaics i was fooling with a while ago, but instead of making a big paicture out of thousands of little unrelated pics, it makes a huge pic of many related phots, all of which are available to see separately, and which lets you view the event from many different angles.

You have to install the PhotoSynth app (i doubt there’s a Mac version), and it works with IE and Firefox, but not Opera.
Check it out at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

Hey, where did the squirrels come from??
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

Say good night, Tom.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Here’s a 9CL-related (i guess) thought - an article about a British Medical Journal article about a painful condition cal;led “cello scrotum”: http://tinyurl.com/cjyflx
bigchiroal said, 9 months ago

“fearciuil says:
One more thing, then I’m off … I thought this was interesting.”
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Neat-o pic, fearciuil; but Dick Chaney in his wheelchair reminds me TOO MUCH of Dr. Strangelove!
bigchiroal said, 9 months ago

“fairportfan says:
Here’s a 9CL-related (i guess) thought - an article about a British Medical Journal article about a painful condition cal;led “cello scrotum”: http://tinyurl.com/cjyflx”
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There is also a side-splitting paragraph on flatus that was slipped into the 13th ed. of The MERCK manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (Le Ptomaine the famous stage performer indeed…)
Delawarebob said, 9 months ago

“Hell hath no fury like a Woman Scorned … ” W. Shakespeare

Poor TT. On second thought, GO DRU!!
CarolinaGirls said, 9 months ago

Oh, it’s on now!! But where’s Pib? and who is Mr. Slawdecker?
Hugh B. Hayve said, 9 months ago

I hope Dru knocks a few of those tiles loose..morning all! (:>)
jmd4lsu said, 9 months ago

Is this still the “Lena” story arc or did I miss a segue?
pibfanbrux said, 9 months ago

To Bigchiroal: LOL that was exactly what I thought when seeing Cheney sitting there in that chair!
Tee Hee, let the games begin!! Go Dru.
And Amos, GET A MOVE ON!!

(Back to lurk mode, too afraid of flying squirrels and what have you around the couch at the moment!)
tharrisl said, 9 months ago

fearciuil says:

One more thing, then I’m off … I thought this was interesting.
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

That is the biggest teleprompter I’ve ever seen! Hyper-Inflated?