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

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009%2F2%2F13&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

Pib appears to be OK. I think that the newscaster could be Tom T’s boon companion some day, just check those teeth!
paciii said, 9 months ago

LOL!! Can’t wait to see the pilot’s face if they’re still there when the planes arrive…

Igor’s chilly from all of the frost (that’s what he thinks it is) around Pib…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Okay. Dru has managed to escalate the situation quite nicely…
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

“Play it again, Sam…You played it for her, you can play it for me.”
jimbo1949 said, 9 months ago

Wonder if Dru will handle this encounter with fighter pilots as she did the last time
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

“No, Mister Rick, don’t make me.”
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

“A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh…”
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

I think the newsreader is just Generic Toothy Blonde; but I’d really like to hear the sports as done by Randy Andy!
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

I’m saying that’s Marzipan O’Rourke’s sister or something.

Well, that’s an unexpected development. Yes, Pib seems unaffected by the “whatever in blazes it is” that Drusilla is doing, and now we’ve got some global events that need looking after.

Brooke Factoid: Brooke stated very explicitly in the interview that he does the storylines as they happen to ferment in his imagination. A single event can cause a multi-panel digression, and take the story line off in an entirely new direction. Interestingly enough, Brooke uploads Pibgorn to the GoComics website himself… on evenings when we’re all sitting there madly hitting our “refresh” key, staring sweatily at the Minotaur, and wondering why the site hasn’t updated yet, it’s because Brooke is at that very moment finishing up the final details of the strip. So whereas the lead time on 9CWL is a week or so, and submitted in batches, the lead time on Pib is exactly zero.

Ancillary Factoid: Nobody sees Pib before it’s published. Brooke goes by feel as far as what will pass muster and what won’t, but the operators of GoComics exercise a lot of trust that he won’t put up something inappropriate. You may recall there was a bit of a flap with the final scenes of “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and very shortly thereafter, Pibgorn found a new home.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

paciii7223, give Igor a blanky!

__And congrats to evadrepus who recognized that Dru literally meant “freeze” and did freeze Pibby!
Witness002 said, 9 months ago

I have a question, since the center of the tsunami froze in place, and it was coming from hell, does that mean hell has froze over?
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

“As time goes by.”
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

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

9CWL: This is a beautiful Casablanca homage to Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (even with the cute word-play in the last panel). But, as far as its being a reliable predictor of the future course of their relationship, we must remember this, it’s Edda’s fantasy alone! (And isn’t she just as popular arts-literate as can be!) She seems to be trying to work out her own inner confictedness in the context of their true love, yet can’t help backing off from Facing Reality a bit with that joking reference in the final panel–a way of avoiding the Difficult Choice…. Will Amos propose tomorrow, St. Valentine’s Day, in Chickweed-Real Life and Edda turn him down?
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

fairportfan! Make all those …212… into 2002 to fix the links!
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

jimbo1949 says:

“Wonder if Dru will handle this encounter with fighter pilots as she did the last time”

You mean:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021128.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021129.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021130.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021202.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021206.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021207.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021209.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021210.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021211.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021212.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021213.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021214.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/212/pib021216.gif

(For the benefit of those who don’t recognise the outfit and pose, Dru is recreating {in mirror image} the still that contributed greatly to Marlene Dietrich’s fame/notoriety - as Lola Lola, the btch cabaret performer from *The Blue Angel.) {http://tinyurl.com/br9gve}
paciii said, 9 months ago

Sisyphos says:
paciii7223, give Igor a blanky!

Did the best I could… he’s tucked in up to his nose.

Night all!! Happy confusion cliffhanger weekend!! (I know, from the reporter’s comments we all think she hears a jet coming… but what will it REALLY be???)
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Ooops.

I assembled the URLs in a text editor, and i miscalculated on “replace all”, apparently.

Here they are:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021128.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021129.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021130.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021202.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021206.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021207.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021209.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021210.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021211.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021212.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021213.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021214.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021216.gif
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Could Dru have frozen Pib to protect her from something?
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

It’s Firday??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I hate cliffhangers! The agony!
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

Is this weather report coming from Hell?
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

gg015879 says:
I tried making ‘Boston Brown Bread’ from a very old recipe once; wasn’t very good.

gg015879, aerwalt, stonehenge1951 Thanks for the links. That looks like it is
the right stuff. After 20+ years, can I be excused if I didn’t remember exactly?

Quite a spread in prices:

   $4.75+6.95   at   mainegoodies
   $8.90+3.95   at   vermontcountrystore.com and
   $3.27+UPS   at   bgfoods.com
Not cheap but bgfoods may be worth a try.

The internet is great IF you know what to ask. A “black bread” recipe search didn’t
work (although it did turn up an interesting Russian recipe and an interesting site
for German dark rye). Thanks to your reponses, I think “Boston Brown Bread” hit
paydirt! The ingredients sound right and the recipes that steam instead of bake
fit with my memory of extreme moistness. And they steam them in a round can!

These are the pages that look promising. Anything like what you tried gg015879?

Boston Brown Bread (Epicurious, steamed:)
   http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Boston-Brown-Bread-104112
Boston Brown Bread (Cooks, steamed)
   http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,164,149177-228201,00.html
Boston Brown Bread (AllRecipes, baked)
   http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Boston-Brown-Bread-III/Detail.aspx
Boston Brown Bread (Cooks, baked)
   http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,164,151179-229203,00.html
Russian Black Bread
   http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Russian-Black-Bread/Detail.aspx
German Bread & Dessert Recipes
   http://www.germanways.com/Deutsch_recipes.htm
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Witness002 says:
I have a question, since the center of the tsunami froze in place, and it was coming from
hell, does that mean hell has froze over?

Nah. It means that he11 is over froze!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

May I ironically state, God bless our favorite succubus! She is Saving the [circum-Atlantic] World, no less, and apparently using Pib as some kind of mojo-conductor or transformer.
(So,yes, Witness002, I think you could indeed say “hell has frozen over,” with all that that may imply.)
[EDIT Didn’t mean to seem to contradict you, The Skulker; just by coincidence my post immediately follows yours, which came up while I was slow-typing mine, so that I did not see it beforehand!]
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

I am a Bad Person. In a moment of weakness, i finally posted a comment on a cartoon by the nearest editorial cartoonist equivalent to Mallard Fillmore - Chuck Asay.

And it was designed to rattle the cages of the dittoheads who like his stuff. And it’s the very first on his cartoon for today, so i can’t even claim that someone’s right-wing rantings set me off.

I think i may have become a cuisine-challenged bridge substructure symbiont… {http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021218.gif}
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

ccdesan says:
Bah. More testing needed on the italic bug…

Just to add to the possibilities and confusion: a leading “- ” seems to (sometimes)
invoke double spacing. I started testing but now can’t find my notes. Sorry.

BTW http://toons.gotblah.com/ is a daily collection of about 70 strips from around
the world, mostly in English but many in German, Dutch, Norwegian(?), and ???.
Just in case you want to practice your extensive language skills.;-()
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Gweedo Re Wash Post Poll: No registration, just a page with radio buttons to click.
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Igor looks like he’s snuggling in for extra warmth.
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

I am surprised & dismayed. Not a single comment on my suggestion for a Pibgorn Wiki!
[Yesterday, page 3] Anyone willing to share why not?
WoodGracie said, 9 months ago

Just home from work. had to see the cliff hanger, aargh, what is Dru up to and why is she doing “that” to Pib?

9CWL: OH NOOO!!! Is Edda fantasizing her way out of saying yes if Amos asks her to stay with him? Is she rationalizing a way of telling Amos that they must part for “his own good?” Oh Edda, don’t do it!!
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

@Skulker: I am shocked and appalled that you are surprised and dismayed. XD

Half of my comments draw no response at all… it probably just got overlooked in the din and confusion.

Just post the suggestion again…

And as for your list of foreign webcomics, thank you very little you rascal, by Grapthar’s Hammer you have avenged yourself! ;)
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

FYI: not only did Honorable Master favor us with his presence here last night (12 II 09, p. 3 of Comments), but he also made a very interesting and informative post over at TAC.
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

I didn’t get those radio buttons.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

NOAA, nah, I used to work for them. They used to run the occasional plane into hurricanes before drones could do it more safely, but this would be a job for something high altitude with good radar capability and the ability to run away in a hurry, like a B-1 (or if they hadn’t been retired in the 1990s, an SR-71).
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

The size of an asteroid? Whew, heck had a LOT of heat down there.

I like the portrayal of the news bimbo. Unfortunately, there’s some truth to it. Most news people today have no grounding in how the world functions. Yesterday, they were blithely talking about how two satellites could “accidentally” smack into each other. Totally clueless. (Given that at 500 miles that a given Iridium satellite can be anywhere in a 125 million square mile half shell of territory and and a Russian commo satellite in a molniya orbit has at least ten times that much potential area, the odds of the two intersecting at some point by accident are like the odds of tossing a bottle in the ocean at Paris and having it end up in Melbourne. Impossible. But it went riiiiiggggghhht over their heads….)
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:

“Given that at 500 miles that a given Iridium satellite can be anywhere in a 125 million square mile half shell of territory and and a Russian commo satellite in a molniya orbit has at least ten times that much potential area, the odds of the two intersecting at some point by accident are like the odds of tossing a bottle in the ocean at Paris and having it end up in Melbourne. Impossible.”

Actually, not so - It’s been known for some time that this collision was a high probability. No-one knew whether it was going to happen for sure, but they’d been monitoring the two for some time.

Also, the Russian satellite wasn’t in a molniya orbit, it was a Cosmos, a military satellite, and was in a more-or-less conventional polar orbit.
http://tinyurl.com/d73ms3 - for a diagram of the orbits (SpaceWeather.com)
http://tinyurl.com/bq2co9 - for calculations of the energy involved - roughy 5 tons ot TNT equivalent. (BadAstronomy.com - theough it’s not at that URL any more…)
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

ccdesan says:
@Skulker: I am shocked and appalled that you are surprised and dismayed. XD
Half of my comments draw no response at all… it probably just got overlooked in
the din and confusion. Just post the suggestion again…

Well, I know yours get read as I, for one, always read them. However, they’re
usually statements, not questions. I think your questions usually get answers.
But OK, I’ll repost. And, BTW, what do you think of it?
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Suggestion: Let’s Create a Pibgorn Wiki on Wikia.com

After looking at the girlgenius wiki it seems to me that it would be great
to create one for Pibgorn. It would be a fansite information and reference
resource - not a chat forum - and not take away from here. The format is a
typical wiki structure with user contributed info, links (both internal and
external), images, search engine, etc.

I think we have enough interest and a large enough active community to
quickly build up a useful wiki. We are constantly searching for specific
topics, images, back story, chronology, etc so that the wiki format would
be a perfect mechanism. It would be something to which we could all
contribute and make the Pib experience even more enjoyable and interesting.

Take a look at the gg wiki (even if you are not a gg fan), to see what would
be possible for a Pibgorn wiki and consider the suggestion.

gg home page: http://girlgenius.wikia.com/
gg chronology: http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Chronology_-_Volume_IV
jml58 said, 9 months ago

It´s friday 13, and cliffhanger.
Who is sawing the branch i am holding on?
Squire_of_the_shire said, 9 months ago

9CWL - I really hope that Edda is not trying to rationalize her way out of staying with Amos. Where is Seth when she really needs a reality check?

Pib looked like she was in some considerable pain yesterday, but now she’s acting more like ho-hum, anytime you’re finished.

As for the newscasters, it almost makes sense that they should not be subject matter experts on any given topic. Far too often, once they get a smattering of information on a topic, they try to extrapolate that nugget into expertise. Unfortunately, some of them including some of the ones in Portland do bear an uncomfortable resemblense to our news anchor pictured above (channel 12)
itisme said, 9 months ago

Well I see all the regular worshippers have made their way to the McEldowney alter.

It might be good if some of you step back from the edge and let some air out of this guy’s big head.
Squire_of_the_shire said, 9 months ago

itisme;

Now was that nice???? Here we have this huuuuuuge comfortable couch of confusion, some of the finest snacks known to nibble-dom and some very refreshing and often times supportive banter amongst ourselves and then you come along and want to leave a rather distasteful stain on our couch and a rather foul taste in our collective mouths. Now I ask you, is that nice???
Fly Guy said, 9 months ago

Ignoreance (verb) seems to be working on the cuisine-challenged bridge
substructure symbionts.
Setebos said, 9 months ago

“And now, sports with Randy Andy Pilzberg.” Followed by the Paris Hilton sighting du jour.
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

That newslady’s mouth reminds me a lot of Tom’s! And Pibby is looking more like a Pib-cicle.

Brr! I don’t know about you, but those hot muffins I brought are beginning to look good! They’re on the table.
Moe A. said, 9 months ago

CCDESAN:
Hi again, I’m enjoying the snatches of your interaction with Mr. McE, thanks so much, that had to have been a fascinating discussion.
Regarding today:
The penultimate panel (reading clockwise) TOTALLY brought a smile… I’m reminded of the amazing and hilarious cartoon series “The Tick” (which is so Brooke-Like in nature):
A stereotypical news anchor, “Sally Vacuum,” is gravely reporting on some very serious and humanity-threatening live news events. Then she eases her tone, smiles, and says, “And now, on a lighter note, Circus Clowns!”
Brilliant writing and execution as always Mr. McE.
-MOE
fatuncle said, 9 months ago

Typical troll. Semi-literate. Can’t even spell his insults correctly.
uniquehorn said, 9 months ago

I see we have another troll visitation. Someone needs to refill the troll-begone.
rshive said, 9 months ago

Our female newscaster is the cousin of Tom T?

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