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.)
And please do not feed the cuisine-challenged bridge substructure symbionts.
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021218.gif
http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-return-of-loons.html

Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009%2F2%2F17&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

Ladies, less umbrage taking, please. Many aircraft approach, and you are the center of their attention.
txmystic said, 9 months ago

…Oh, there they are…

(dontcha love it when comments spread surreptitiously over two days, yuk yuk yuk?)
GEE1A said, 9 months ago

get up and boogie

Stand by for supernatural catfight.

Just checking out Pib’s frozen assets.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Ah, yes.

Though neither is human, they certainly seem to share a similar short attention span when certain concepts enter the conversation…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Actually, i think most of them would have to turn onto a new vector to shoot at Dru and Pib - it looks as if they’re orbiting till they get instructions fromn home.

Of course, the last time Dru and the word “Fire!” were referenced in the same order, Things Did Not Go Well for the flyboy in question:

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
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

I just wanted to take a moment to say: Frida; you’re lookin’ too hot girl !
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Actually, those seven fighter jets are in danger of shooting each other down, if they launch missiles while in those relative positions [I’m granting artistic license that they could range out to mid-Atlantic, and do so that fast, if land-based].
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Another aspect of Drusilla’s personality is here made manifest: she is very proud of her vocabulary and speech-patterns, built up over hundreds of years and perhaps sounding a bit archaicizing to 21st century ears….
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

up the wooden hill we go.
thevenbede said, 9 months ago

ooh insomnia has benefits… which fight has more potential hazard-Pib & Dru or the fighters?
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago

Gweedo:
Thanks for the link to the Coasters. That’s what I had in mind.
Nobody has guessed the spoilers yet. 1 obvious, 1 not.
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

God natt.
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago

Added Bucky Godot to my favorites. Ran all of the way through Flaky Pastry. Up to date on Girl Genius, Brat Halla, Gunnerkrigg Court.
Too tired… must sleep…
G’ nite!
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Repeated from “yesterday”:

**fearciuil says:

“fairportfan said:
“‘a friend (who is six foot six) once attended COMDEX here in Atlanta, wearing a long coat with big buttons, a slouch hat, a nine-foot-long scarf in many colours (and his brown hair permed into a mass of curls) … and wore an official name badge that identified him as “The Doctor” from “Dalek Labs”’

“That would be … the Fourth Doctor? I think?”

Yep. Tom Baker. Who swears he did not make a surprise appearance at the end of the video for Don’t Pay the Ferryman.{http://tinyurl.com/dm9bz3}

Unlike McCartney who cheerefully acknowledged his appearance in Tracy Ulman’s video for They Don’t Know. {http://tinyurl.com/b38mlb}

Wish i had a pic of Bill in those days. He did look astonishingly like Baker - except for the nose.
paciii said, 9 months ago

The ladies better commit to a plan REAL soon…

Hmmm all this talk about vocabulary got me thinking and then going Alllllllllllllll the way back to the beginning to see…
and Dru is never given (far as I could see) a vocation while she was Geoff’s girlfriend; just that she was in the choir. Given her stingness about her words, could she have been a school teacher?? I can just imagine her in front of a rowdy bunch of 6th graders…
paciii said, 9 months ago

Igor’s still looking up at all the pretty clouds (and ignoring the airplanes for the time being…) But he is getting a little sleepy.

So, night all!
paciii said, 9 months ago

One last thing… Could what Dru did to Pib be a supercharged version of what Pib did to Dru way back when:

http://tinyurl.com/dansld
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

May Igor have pleasant dreams, paciii7223! –The image of Dru as a school teacher is… (what’s the word?) provocative. I pity the fool who misbehaved in her presence!
txmystic said, 9 months ago

fairportfan says:

Unlike McCartney who cheerefully acknowledged his appearance in Tracy Ulman’s video for They Don’t Know. {http://tinyurl.com/b38mlb}

Thanks for posting this! This was one of my favorite videos of the early MTV era!
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

I think the girls will take notice when the first warning shot flies over their ample bows… and then those fighter pilots are in for the surprise of their lives.

Greetings from rainy San Diego. Here’s a plate of tiramisu to keep you going until the morrow!
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

9CWL: Oh my, this strip is going to have to be renamed “9 Double-entendre Lane” if this keeps up…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Look what i found!

Tales of Thistledown {http://talesofthistledown.com/}

And only 74 pages so far! (But it updates Wednesdays, so hurry…)
Gunnr said, 9 months ago

I personally would like to listen in on the air-ground communications between those flyboys and their GC, particularly the part where those on scene attempt to identify the “blips” and describe what in tarnation is going on to the brass on the ground…

Those flydogs are about to get in the middle of one heck of a cat fight.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Ahhh… Nothing a couple of W-88s couldn’t fix… Everybody has them now, thanks to WenHoLee.
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

pacii7223 - Night, Igor.
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 9 months ago

Wow… that’s very wow… I had to Google define THREE words in that AND still I struggle wrapping my mind around it… but such is the work of Master McEldowney.
MasterDiver said, 9 months ago

Regarding the coming in from 9 o’Clock: Is that your speed brake, or are you just happy to see them?
tallwoman41 said, 9 months ago

Wow…never thought I’d hear a Wen Ho Lee reference in here…it was a grreat big deal here in NM. A local radio station here did a hilarious satirical float in our local xmas parade regarding Mr. Lee. A guy in a Lee mask follwed by several uniformed men wearing black glasses and carrying white canes. Believe it or not, the Labs and good ‘ol Bill Richardson came under more fire than Lee did.
Lampblack said, 9 months ago

It’s pretty cool that Homeland Defense finally put in an appearance. Although, I still think it’s odd that they somehow missed the 200-foot housefly in the middle of Manhattan.
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

No pun intended- but Heads Up, Ladies!
Orgelspieler said, 9 months ago

I hope Dru doesn’t damage those cute USAF pilots. Seduce them, perhaps… although with Dru, “damage” and “seduce” are sometimes synonymous…
3Xp4t said, 9 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:
thanks to WenHoLee.

[delete]

Had a long rant put together for that. Summary: take your neocon talking points somewhere else, please. That story was debunked quite some time ago, by the spanking monkey misadministration itself.
maeverin said, 9 months ago

taking my boyfriend is one thing, my taking my vocabulary?
OH IT IS ON!
Anyol'tomcat said, 9 months ago

fairportfan: I see what you meant about the rhythm of Pib’s 1st sentence yesterday–“that” seems, to me, to make better sense in the line as well as scanning better.

Guess Dru considers that, since she used to knock buskins with the Bard, she owns the rights to any diction which might have rubbed off on her….

Parallel between CwL today and Pib–heated discussions about respective relationships, but A&E are paying enough attention so that Amos eventually realizes that he’d better go and Take Care of Business.
Bucky Katt said, 9 months ago

Why does the jet in the foreground have three vertical stabilizers? Or is that supposed to be a Lockheed Constellation?
Setebos said, 9 months ago

Actually, no one’s said those are American aircraft. To me the silhouette in the foreground doesn’t quite match a McDonnell Douglas F-15 … my first guess … and the cockpit doesn’t look right for a Tomcat F-14. I’ve been racking my brain trying to place the design. Actually, Pib and Dru could be facing a squadron of Mig 1.44s. Any help with this is appreciated.
TheDoctortheoneonlya... said, 9 months ago

uhhhALPHA LEADER,THIS IS TANGO….do you have visual-Over…” “Roger that, TANGO ahhh it appears to be a WELL-built,long dark-haired Sucubus holding a Red-headed Forest fairy in some sort of crysalis-Over”..” “ALPHA, THIS IS COMMAND, REPEAT!”……..”ALPHA:NEVER MIND”*(Excerpt frm X-FILES)
maeverin said, 9 months ago

aw,
Pearls Before Swine is so sweet today!
maeverin said, 9 months ago

so after going back and forth to the dictionary, the best way i can translate the first sentence (or rather what Pib said yesterday) into plain ol’ english is:

“for someone who usually acts without hesitation, i find it odd you’re not doing anything (of consequence to me) right now.”

does this sound right?
Anyol'tomcat said, 9 months ago

I don’t know aircraft by their silhouettes but the Fri. strip newscaster said “…aircraft converge on the tsunami’s source, and governments prepare to strike.” So there must be craft from at least two countries– perhaps 3 or 4. I suspect that Brooke checked aircraft sites or a Jane’s Guide for accuracy but he has not chosen to be too forthcoming yet as to specifics.
maeverin said, 9 months ago

Radical Knight says yesterday:

I don’t know who Herbabee is over at SOTU, but he seems to be unnerving RogO just a little. For that reason alone I like him; he also sided with our Maeverin when she tried to be nice to RogO. I submit to the confusion couch committee that we appoint Herbabee as caretaker at the SOTU daycare center for bridge substructure symbionts.

just to make a clarification, that was margueritem who was playing nice. she is a far nicer person than i. (me?)
i typically don’t play in those playgrounds unless i have to. i have enough distractions.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Re: 3Xp4t

Please don’t speak of what you know nothing of. Thanks.
oldTAT said, 9 months ago

Buckykatt: I suspect we are seeing three vertical stabs because the nearest aircraft (with twin tails) is masking the flight lead who only has one. Observe the twin angled ventral stabs under the bottom of the leftmost engine nacelle. Could be an artists rendition of an F-16 (flight lead) on the left and an F-15 (wingman in fingertip formation) on the right. But I would not try too hard to ID aircraft. It is after all only an artists rendition and Brooke may not be going for technical accuracy. If he were, he would not have fighters running an intercept in fingertip formation or converging from six different directions. Just enjoy the story line.

On a separate note, to some of the other posters, please let the comments on SOTU stay there. It is starting to bleed over into the PIB universe.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Considering Pib was killed once before when she “fought” Dru, it doesn’t look good. So, what will the master pull out of his hat to save her?

NBS News WindBreak:”SecNav issued in a statement today that he sent an unnamed civilian into the center of the unknown phenomenon today. While the identity of the civilian is unknown, our photographer was able to make out what appeared to be an accordion case and sheet music in the materials he was transporting…”
aerwalt said, 9 months ago

45 Setebos; The aircraft are closer to F- 14 Tomcats, which means these are USN aviators.
Tomcats, how ever, have been retired from service.
bigchiroal said, 9 months ago

“oldTAT said:
I would not try too hard to ID aircraft. It is after all only an artists rendition and Brooke may not be going for technical accuracy… Just enjoy the story line.”

I think that the aircraft in question is the “McE-15 fantasy strike fighter”
RockHouse said, 9 months ago

Time to pull out my old copy of A Vocabulary Builder by Austin M Works (Manter Hall School, Cambridge, MA)

Little info available on Google. I remember this from early high school years. Anyone else remember it?

http://tinyurl.com/bts2rb

Maybe someone should investigate the Manter Hall approach from the 50s and 60s to see if their ideas could be used to jump start our educational system.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Considering the F-14 entered service in 1974 or so, it was about time…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

re: RockHouse

Those older systems of learning worked very well. We should probably bring them back. My niece was having trouble learning to read using the “modern” approach of “whole word”, so he took her to Sylvan. What did they use? Phonics. She learned and is now at grade level.