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%2F11&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, 9 months ago

Uh-oh…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

As i said “yesterday”:

What’s with Pib’s eyes? Could it be that’s not really Pib?
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

That’s not really Dru, is it ? Like the Spink part coming out.?.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

No flicker today.

Dru seems to be appearing in balletic poses a lot lately.

I suspect that the way her hair falls in Panel 2 is to calm editors’ nerves…
emjrn said, 9 months ago

Pib looks almost guilty…Dru must have picked up on it too since she yelled “freeze!”

9CWL

It seems we may be stepping into Amos and Edda’s fantasy.
Bet it will be a good ride. ;-)
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

I suspect that Gweedo Murray has it: the power surge has brought Inkyness to the fore in Dru. She’s temporarily insane!

[EDIT: the dreaded SAS! This is my 2nd, not 1st, post here!]
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

So, can someone ‘splain me what’s going on? Has power corrupted Drusilla (as Lord Acton apophthegmized)?
txmystic said, 9 months ago

Cofusion is the reward for confusion…

what happened to gehenna?
if that’s not Pib, then who…?
We’ve seen Dru lose it a couple of times and attack Roger and Geoff…is this another example of that?

One thing I think is clear from this…without a means to store the mojo, she seems capable of expelling it without being emptied, as we saw when the mojo lamp was involved…
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

G’night, folks.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

txmystic says:

“We’ve seen Dru lose it a couple of times and attack Roger and Geoff…”

I should get attacked the way she attacked Roger and Geoff.

Well, except for crashing through a brick wall backward and landing on my back on a pile of bricks…
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Now You got me thinkin’ that this is an imposter Pib.??.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

The “problem” is not with Pibgorn; it’s Drusilla who reeks of over-the-top demonic behavior…. Philosophical (or maybe theological) question: can a demon be possessed by a demon, or a mixed-descent succubus by an incubus?
emjrn said, 9 months ago

Good night all.
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

thevenbede says:
Well, that smacked me square in the pretensions Skulker
sigh and here I thought I had something fun to offer.

Oh but you did and have. It’s just that we have more topics, speculations and ways
to save the world (either ours, Pibs and/or A&E’s), than we have time to properly
devote to a subject. [PS Loved your flavorful expression!]

Well, there is one disadvantage to using an editor to create posts: One has
to remember to post them.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

9CWL: Edda’s ecstatic fantasy is taking a delightful turn in the direction of Astaire & Rogers. This should be good for a couple of richly artistic “ballroom dancing” strips….
Captain Smokeblower said, 9 months ago

It’s an illusion. The line of Pib’s body is just as shapely as Dru’s, (Well, excluding differences in cleavage anyway.) but Pib lacks the shine Dru’s form carries. It’s as if evil comes with a glossy finish, but good is flat – still not talking cleavage. The vibrant red and black warn of danger (Oh look, Dru shows her fangs.) while the dull green and yellow provide camouflage (admittedly not in the sky) for the harmless.
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Hey stonehenge! I just dropped over to my place. Guess who moved out ? I guess I’ll have to flush that deposit since I can’t return it.
Is UncaAlby’s car faded looking in anyone else’s file or do I need to apply some rubbing compound?
Hroth said, 9 months ago

I was just thinking.

Has the “demonic region” frozen over?

:-)
AliKzam said, 9 months ago

I don’t like the looks of this.
But you know, it’s weird that after Pib got Geoff out of the game, she didn’t go after Dru to make sure se was all right. We didn’t see her until she got sucked up in the St. Sebastian round. Could it be that some of this is still an illusion?
Story Teller said, 9 months ago

bmonk says: “We’ll need the couch, methinks, if Brooke keeps up this level of confusion. Did those extra sections we ordered ever arrive? Have they been Scotch-guarded?

Anyone want to help me push them into place? I think we want to curl them around the hot tub. What do you think?”

Arrived, Scotchgarded and already in place facing the new pool table that arrived just ahead of them. Gotta have a place to repose while watching a game, doncha know.

Well, except for the one that escaped. There’s always a trouble maker in any bunch…
Story Teller said, 9 months ago

TheSkulker says: “thevenbede says:
snert I’m surprised that such a generally erudite and cosmopolitan group as the couchies hasn’t spent more time considering the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

Ah, but we did. A few months ago. Researched it. Discussed it. Analysed it. And reached a consensus on the risk, containment, and proper disposal of same.
[Starting on 10-31-08 page 5]”

As I recall, the unanimous decision was that the only proper way to dispose of DHMO was to make beer out of it…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Ah ha!

http://tinyurl.com/cjjoph

Amos was rehearsing for this fantasy sequence!
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

I knew I’d seen that face somewhere before.

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/Witches.gif

Made it back safely. I’ll do as much work on the interview as I can before I leave for San Diego on Saturday, but as mentioned previously, I probably won’t be able to get a good version up until after the beginning of March. Sorry for the delay, but I’ve got these commitments in Cali.

Here’s a panorama of the Con:

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/ComicConPanorama.jpg
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Story Teller says:
As I recall, the unanimous decision was that the only proper way to dispose
of DHMO was to make beer out of it…

Sounds right to me!
JosephR4570 said, 9 months ago

ccdesanPro said: Here’s a panorama of the Con:
So we’re playing “Where’s Brooke?” instead of “Where’s Waldo?”
damifino59 said, 9 months ago

This is the worst comic I have ever seen……….
tallwoman41 said, 9 months ago

Wow…the worst comic ever?! I have heard confusing, obscure and other not so flattering adjectives but the worst? Surely there’s gotta be a better candidate for that than Pibgorn. Any ideas couch denizens? Nothings coming to me but it’s early.
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

That sure doesn’t look like the Dru that saved Pib from those arrows!
lindavid3 said, 9 months ago

I’m thinking Pib IS an imposter. Didn’t Dru have to remind her earlier that she could have made herself tiny to slip out of the fetters when she was in H*?
GddssXuxa said, 9 months ago

Dear damifino,

Perhaps you should go over to State of the Union. Lots of people being rude and hateful there. There’s really no room for your ignorance here.
Moe A. said, 9 months ago

Good morning all.
TALLWOMAN, no idea, but everyone has opinions, I suppose.
One thing that turned me onto Mr. McE’s style right away is his lack of fear of evolving his characters (case in point, Pib’s face/eyes, mentioned above, I think by Fairport), and how he loves to let them “escape” the frame (Pib’s right toe above) yet without overusing it.
NOW: If y’all can’t make room on the confusion couch, I’ll assume the Lotus on the Confusion Hassock®
Smiles all around,
-MOE hisownself
DeathDealer said, 9 months ago

It’s time to purge the lot of demons!
Summon Geoff with his accordian.
Have him play “Lady of Spain” for an hour or so and see what happens. (Just as long as I don’t have to be there for that concert).
Setebos said, 9 months ago

Can we say “Justice League membership”?
paciii said, 9 months ago

From Yesterday:

chuuckcly says:
@paciii: I had a receipe for gumdrop cookies that started “finely chop 1 pound of gumdrops”.. would that help?

OOOooo… ALWAYS in the market for good cookie recipes… Bring it on!!
Wenthral said, 9 months ago

I’ll throw my two cents worth in.

I think that really is Pib, but I think that spitlock is doing what demons do and has possessed her as means to get out of hell. It fits with Pib not knowing she could shrink and it would be a reason that Dru is telling her to freeze. Not to mention the guilty look on Pib’s face.
DeathDealer said, 9 months ago

Borusa: you have great taste in avatars.
paciii said, 9 months ago

Hmmm…

We still don’t have a definitive timeline of this whole arc. Mom still may not have served dinner yet!!

So, Pib’s been digitalized, crystalized, sliced, diced, drained, skewered, merged, exhausted, extracted, disposed of, carried away, recovered, portaled, returned, a catcher, caught, a target, forgotten, reminded, shrunk, a passenger, enlarged, and witness to a grand maelstrom… and all potentially in the space of 24-48 hours? I’d think she might have cause to shrink from a “Freeze!” command. But what Dru wants is beyond my ken at this point. Back to the Bewilderment Beanbag for me…

9CwL: I hope the concert doesn’t go for too many more panels regardless of how much Edda enjoys the music. I’m impatient. (Thin-lipped, crossed arms, tapping foot…) I want to know what she says when he gives her the ring!! (and if he’ll wipe off the lipstick first…)

(Igor is rather still today; he’s such an empathetic little guy, he thought Dru yelled at him…)
Poms said, 9 months ago
AliKzam says:

*I don’t like the looks of this.
But you know, it’s weird that after Pib got Geoff out of the game, she didn’t go after Dru to make sure se was all right. We didn’t see her until she got sucked up in the St. Sebastian round*.
- Pib did stick around and saved Dru from her fateful fall. http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2008/11/25/ and a couple following.
- I am guessing that the new powers are “corrupting” Dru and Pib is a bit afraid of Dru’s new powers as well.
- Coffee and croissants available. Enjoy
atajayhawk said, 9 months ago

tallwoman41

How about the ones with crude drawings and nothing but sarcasm and insults instead of humor? (Yes, sarcasm can be witty, but that takes–ahem!–wit.) Can’t come up with names off the top of my head as I try to avoid looking at them.
kcboomer said, 9 months ago

Now why is Pib trying to skulk off??
ToniAnne said, 9 months ago

Interesting and amusing… Tallwoman says it’s the worst…but I clicked on her avatar to see what she does like… it didn’t have any…but it said she’d favorited Pibgorn 37 minutes ago! Weird I don’t get that at all. Thanks for the new sections of Couch…ahhh… they are quite comfy especially snuggled up next to you… hmmm gotta have my customblended hot dark chocolate with just a dash of cayenne. Did any one bring some cheese danish?
maeverin said, 9 months ago

yep, bottom firmly planted on the counfusion couch…

i think that is really Pib, but she could sense that Dru is not exactly herself and tried to sneak off before she got fried.
maeverin said, 9 months ago

ToniAnne:

Tallwoman isn’t saying this is the worst comic, she’s responding to the commentor before her who said it was.
papa smurf said, 9 months ago

If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, how does demonic mojo power corrupt?

No better sign that Dru is not herself than Pib attempting to move away. Could Dru not be in love with Geoff anymore?
Michael said, 9 months ago

Are all those long tags really necessary?!?
RockHouse said, 9 months ago

With those blood-red fingers, Dru is looking rather scary today. She looks like she could reach into a body cavity and feast on the innards of those she encounters. Or perhaps do a dramatic exorcism.

What a setup for Thursday, let alone the Friday cliffhanger.

If you want to see how scary a Mideastern succubus can be, Google “um al duwayce”

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Succubus

I first saw this description on Wikipedia, but the section has since been edited out.

More here (looks like a good primer on Persian myths and ancient religions)

Origins and basic beliefs of Zoroastrianism

http://persianempire.info/zoro.htm

Given the nature of the accuracy of information on the Internet, I’m still skeptical about the authenticity of this description of the Mideastern succubus.
bmonk said, 9 months ago

Story Teller says:

“…As I recall, the unanimous decision was that the only proper way to dispose of DHMO was to make beer out of it…”

Errrr, I don’t think I remember quite that conclusion.

On the other hand, I am amiable to being convinced. Can I taste the final product? Is there room for a keg, or a cooler, somewhere by the couch?

charlie37133 says:

“9CWL okay. i am trying to think like brooke.”

You know, that’s exactly where I always get into trouble. Just when I think I know what Brooke is up to, he goes and switches things into a totally different, yet in retrospect obvious, direction.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Are we attracting an unusually large number of people who are either trolls or Just Don’t Comprehend the beauty that is this comment list?
Saucy1121 said, 9 months ago

Dear Dru: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.