Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 9 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%2F2%2F2&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/
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

Dru finally gets her cigarette. To be fair, though, Tom’s smoking, too.
jimbo1949 said, 9 months ago

Tommy Torq: He’s but a shadow of his former self
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

What a way to go…

‘Night everyone! See you all tomorrow.
tallwoman41 said, 9 months ago

9CL-bit of an O. Henry moment eh?

C’mon Dru…go get Pibby!
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Tommy makes such a cute little talking pile of ashes.
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

Love the sketch, Sir. Thanks!
Fly Guy said, 9 months ago

Do you smoke after sex? I don’t know,
I never looked.
paciii said, 9 months ago

Yup… Roasty toasty hosty!!! And Dru hasn’t lost any of her pumped up mojo!!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Pib: incinerated TomT looks about right, and Drusilla looks like one satisfied professional succubus!

9CWL: quasi-Gift of the Magi, at least! Wonder what Edda sold/bartered/pawned, and why?
emjrn said, 9 months ago

Well, Tommy still has most of his teeth….but most of everything else is gone. (heh heh heh!)

Dru, you did a very good and thorough job.

I bet Tom thinks so too.

I doubt Tom ever thinks of exactly the right word. ;-)
otpu said, 9 months ago

ccdesan says:

We’ll have two separate copies of the raw interview to work from, plus two audio backups - one digital, one analog. Call me paranoid.

CCdesan:

I’ve been working in IT and such like for forty years and if there’s one enduring truth I’ve learned it’s this:

“I know I being paranoid. What I don’t know is; am I being paranoid enough?”

otpu
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Something rather like a burnt match, there…
otpu said, 9 months ago

Tom got his ashes hauled?

otpu
Mikkail said, 9 months ago

Ok - I do not know about anybody else - however, how’s about a petition to get the sketch colourised and desk-top sized?
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to develop an Edgar Allan Poe-short of thing about TomT’s teeth: you know, as in Berenice?
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

I wonder just how many megatons of ommmphhhhhh Dru delivered?
Fly Guy said, 9 months ago

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Do NOT have the sketch colorized.
paciii said, 9 months ago

One last comment before I crash… Don’t know if anyone has recommended “Looking For Group” but it only took 3-4 hrs to do the archive. Interesting story and well fleshed out characters (I especially like Richard!) Also, excellent tongue in cheek parodies of stuff like StarWars and such.

http://tinyurl.com/2pkyzm
paciii said, 9 months ago

9CwL: Finally, Amos is on the move… but what is Edda thinking?
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

For me it was October 6. Though I was lurking before & reading from almost the beginning-@ c.c
Adrienne Gormley said, 9 months ago

Tommy’s made an ash of himself? ;)
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

I don’t think many will agree about coloring the sketch Mikkail, as I believe, the idea of the sketch being present in the first place is to show a link in the creative process from Brooke’s brain to finished result and besides, we’ve found that certain details are very clear in the black and white scribblings that become hidden in the final colourised version.
Lunatic_fringe1 said, 9 months ago

When Dru “kisses” you, you know you have been kissed!!!
.
If they are out to get you, your not paranoid just careful.
Mikkail said, 9 months ago

I have to agree with Gweedo Murray as to the purpose of the sketchs, and normally I would not suggest such a travesty, particularly given BMcE’s thoughts on b&w vs colour - there was a discussion a while back when a few 9CWL strips were coloured by redactors prior to publication. However, as this particular sketch is not part of that process, I feel it would make a very worthy addition to the other desktop pics. Of course, it works well in b&w anyway… Gomen nasai - there is no intention to offend anyone.
RockHouse said, 9 months ago

For those of you not familiar with metro NYC, Cos Cob is a village in the town of Greenwich, the first stop in Connecticut once you head northeast out of New York state.

There are no townships in the three southern New England States. Every square inch is incorporated into either a city or a town. There is no easy way to annex a neighbor.

While there are earthquake faults running through New York City (and also Boston), volcanic activity is nil.

http://tinyurl.com/cxuyur
http://www.nyc24.org/2006/issue2/story03/index.html

http://tinyurl.com/5m64c9
Heavenly said, 9 months ago
At least she left him with a smile on his face…
- ;)
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

I think I like this look for Tom a lot better.
Bogy said, 9 months ago

So…What did Edda sell to obtain the silver box?
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

Night, folks.
BJamesB86 said, 9 months ago

Looks like Edda has her own surprise for Amos.

As for Drusilla,

:D
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

@otpu: Yes indeed. My left ring finger taps out “Ctrl-S” with the speed of a wartime telegrapher.

We learn…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Today is Groundhog Day - commemorating the Discovery of Sausage.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Repeating a comment i just posted over at CdotC:

Ummm - today is the first time we’ve gotten a view of Edda from the side in that mandarin-style dress.

GRRRrrroowwwllLLL!

EDIT: Perhaps the dear child could be persuaded to pace vigourously in her anxiety over Amos…
fatuncle said, 9 months ago

Oh, my. If that’s the result of Dru’s undivided attention, I hope I never attract anything more than her casual interest!
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

fairportfan says:
Skulker: thought i had replied to your last e-mail; i’ll check the new one
and send a reply by tomorrow.

It’s possible tat the problem is at my end. AT&T has a SPAM filter that I
cannot control nor even see what it rejects. I do know of some instances
of it rejecting valid mail but there is not much I can do. Their regular
support comes from India - impossible to understand & they don’t know beyond
2 + 2. To get anybody who knows anything its $60 or so an hour - to FIX
THEIR PROBLEM!
WoodGracie said, 9 months ago

9CWL: okay who was it that guessed that this was going to happen? Was the story “The Gift of the Magi?” Very good!

On topic-This reminds me of an old joke:
“Do you smoke after sex?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never looked!”

Tom can now answer truthfully “yes!”

Edit: okay I wrote this right away before reading the comments…sorry to repeat!
WoodGracie said, 9 months ago

The word?…how about HOT!

good nite all.
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 9 months ago

Yeah… I feel like I need a cigarette as well… OO What a way to go… ^^
jml58 said, 9 months ago

The three best things is a whisky before and a cigarette after.
They forgot the whisky before.
NebulousRikulau said, 9 months ago

Re:9CwL,
Whatever Edda needed to do to purchase the box,
she still has all her fingers.
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago

paciii7223:
I caught up to “Looking for Group” last week. Richard is the best part of that series.
“Girl Genius” continues to amaze me with the level of detail and storyline.
“Sequential Art” has an interesting storyline but resembles many “Fanboy” attempts to do an “Homage” to the many original comics out there.
“Brat Halla” is a gradeschool production of the Norse legends. I wonder what ‘inshadowz’ thinks about it.
Anyol'tomcat said, 9 months ago

Perhaps Edda used some money she made as a ballerina to purchase the box–will she give up her career? Hope not.
stuntman200 said, 9 months ago

RockHouse says:

While there are earthquake faults running through New York City (and also Boston), volcanic activity is nil.

….well until now that is…! Have you checked recently, and if you had we wouldn’t have heard here in blighty any way. The country is covered in 2.5 cm snow (possible 15cm in the southeast and London)

EDIT: Stop press it could be as much as 30cm in some places!!!!

and the whole place has almost ground to a stop, the only news on the airwaves is that we’ve had a bit of snow and that London Transport has ground to a halt. Glad to be in Birmingham realy…

9CWL - I think Edda has brought the antique silver case for Amos knowing how much the the said joke book means to him, and like the shop owner she thought it just perfect… Amos on the other hand realy knows how much Edda means to him, and is prepared to pay the price…..SIGH….How romantic is that? Its making me go all weepy!
fatuncle said, 9 months ago

@Joe_Minotaur

I just love Richard in Looking For Group.

I haven’t worked out the meaning of that name…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

RockHouse says:

“While there are earthquake faults running through New York City (and also Boston), volcanic activity is nil.”

Edwin Corley, a 70’s writer who basically wrote an alternate history of the US and the world (beginning sometime in the 60s or 70s) - the best of which is The Jesus Factor which cheerfully postulates that the atomic bomb doesn’t work and never did (Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the contrary notwithstanding … and makes it hang together) - did a book titled The Genesis Rock in which a volcano does come up in the middle of Central Park. (The solution to the problem, though not very plausible in terms of the mechanics and physics of the setup, nonetheless involves an act by the entire crew of a US Navy vessel that, as a Navy vet, i like to believe might actually happen … and which i hope i could take part in were i one of that crew. The Birkenhead Drill ain’t in it…)
pwbritt said, 9 months ago

Looking for group…as in “I am in a MMORPG and I am “looking for a group” This is the call of a solo RPG player who is looking to party with a group for adventure.
Zmaster2112 said, 9 months ago

bell3rose1a says:
私のホバークラフトは鰻でいっぱいです
(Watashi no hobākurafuto wa unagi de ippai desu.)

My hover craft is full of eels.???? I crawl under the confusion couch and watch the squirrels.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Speaking of comics featuring MMORPGs - Cheer, a spinoff from The Wotch has a sequence that begins when two of the characters (high school girls who used to be male jocks till they crossed the Wotch and got changed into cheerleaders) are in each others dreams. It begins at http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20080721, advances one strip, then continues at http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20080908, getting sillier as it goes.
tharrisl said, 9 months ago

fairportfan says:

Today is Groundhog Day - commemorating the Discovery of Sausage.

Ya godda hav heart!