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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http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021218.gif
http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-return-of-loons.html

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An index of old 9 Chickweed Lane strips, 2001-present, can be found at:
http://www.comicstriparchive.com/9_Chickweed_Lane/
paciii said, 9 months ago

Dru’s shockwave is going to rival the ocean waves down below!!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

We are privileged to be witnessing a spectacular display of Drusilla’s power! It is truly astonishing!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Wonder how much Dru’s rate of climb exceeds that of the Raptor or any other aircraft?!
paciii said, 9 months ago

Sketch helps discern the details of panel three…

I was looking to see if Pib’s trail was anywhere, but don’t see it… probably won’t know ‘til next week.
paciii said, 9 months ago

Lisa: you asked about Igor.
I put a detailed answer on yesterday’s third comment page.

Right now he’s glad he’s being held up, because he has a better view of the fireworks from there!
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

No real difference in the actual pictures, but the colour really changes the feel, so there’s a flicker coming.

As usual, it’ll be at http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick/

But not yet.
paciii said, 9 months ago

I love the colors on panel two. Just another example of MrMcE’s eye for color and talent for expressing events. Beautiful!!
txmystic said, 9 months ago

That is a sweet pattern Dru is making with that mojo discharge…Maverick, Goose, Iceman, Hollywood, Wolfman, y’all are goin’ DOWN!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

I’m glad Igor is feeling better and enjoying the Fireworks Spectacular, paciii7223!
paciii said, 9 months ago

fairportfan says:
No real difference in the actual pictures, but the colour really changes the feel, so there’s a flicker coming.

Thank you!!!! I was gonna ask, but didn’t want to be too forward… I also look forward to your next background…

Nite all! Once I let the dog back in (if I can get him to stop playing in the fresh snow…) I’m for dreamland…

Wonder if what Dru’s activities are measuring on the Richter scale?
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

Night night, Igor.
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

Good night, paciii7223 (and Igor!) I’m off to bed, too.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

9CWL: It would be too easy and obvious to ask, “Is that a cello under your trenchcoat, or are you just happy to see me?” So, instead, I’ll point out that Matteo Goffriller was a real luthier, a master cello maker, who lived from 1649 to 1742. Amos has a serious instrument: no wonder Ms. Yuan coveted it!
ARF2 said, 9 months ago

Sisyphos says:
Wonder how much Dru’s rate of climb exceeds that of the Raptor or any other aircraft?!
Dru casually reaches orbital altitude and velocity in a matter of seconds to store her souvenirs. Outflying a Raptor? Piece of cake.
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Gweedo Murray says: Skulker check your e-mail.

Got it. Check yours.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Okay - flicker achieved! {http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick}
macFicheallaigh said, 9 months ago

Wow – Dru goes nuclear!
jml58 said, 9 months ago

If Dru is creating an electromagnetic pulse, it is going to play havoc with the fighters onboard computers.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Got a feeling that The Comic Curmudgeon is gonna be all over today’s Luann {http://tinyurl.com/c76dt9}
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

jml58 says:

“If Dru is creating an electromagnetic pulse, it is going to play havoc with the fighters onboard computers.”

Nah - they’re hardened.

Of course, about twenty-five/thirty years ago, MILSPEC EPROMS were having more data errors than the civilian equivalents. The errors were the type that cosmic rays sometimes caused in the civilian ones, but they were happening at a statistically unlikely rate in the MILSPEC parts.

They eventually determined that the MISPEC ceramic used fot the cases was ververyvery slightly radioactive, and every so often it would give off an alpha particle travelling in the direction of the die, and it would cause an error just like a real cosmic ray…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

A Type I Drunova.
rumball said, 9 months ago

Spectacular artwork once again!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

One little, two little, three little atoms smashed…

four little five little six little seven little atoms smashed…

Speaking of onboard computers had you heard of the F-22’s little problem with 180 degrees longitude? Astronomy mag, of all things, had the funniest writeup of it.
baslim_the_begger said, 9 months ago

Fairportfan: Being hardened against EMP is not the same as being made EMP proof. These planes are in close proximity to her. Then there would be the odd plasma bolt…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:
“Speaking of onboard computers had you heard of the F-22’s little problem with 180 degrees longitude? Astronomy mag, of all things, had the funniest writeup of it.”

So what happened?

An earlier aircraft - i think either the F15 or the F14 - had a little problem with the Equator: a tendency to automatically go into inverted flight once it got into South latitudes…
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

baslim_the_begger says:

“Fairportfan: Being hardened against EMP is not the same as being made EMP proof. These planes are in close proximity to her.”

Military are designed to - in theory - operate properly after being in (relatively) closer proximity to a nuclear blast.

“Then there would be the odd plasma bolt…”

Not, *that” might well be somewhat deleterious to their planned maneuvers.
otpu said, 9 months ago

They may be hardened against EMP but I bet those fighters don’t have any protection at all from ESSMPP .

(ESSMPP: Extremely Sexy Succubus Mojo Plasma Pulse)

otpu
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

TheSkulker says:

Gweedo Murray says: Skulker check your e-mail.

Got it. Check yours.
.
Checked and returned.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Sorry.
The F-22a’s were flying from Hawaii to Okinawa when they went across the International Date Line. It caused the entire computer systems onboard them to crash. They lost navigation, weapons, you name it. Apparently they were still able to fly, thankfully. They were being escorted by tankers, so they were escorted in, but it could have been very bad without navigational systems working if the weather turned bad. Someone just hadn’t written the program to take into account from going from west to east and vice versa over 180 degrees.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-by-the-international-date-line-03087/
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:

“Someone just hadn’t written the program to take into account from going from west to east and vice versa over 180 degrees.

Well, in the case of the fighter that would have wanted to go inverted south of the Equator, i suspect that it assumed that if the nose was pointing in the direction of increasing latitude, the port wing would be west and the starboard wing east.

And, of course, the only way for that to happen south of the Equator is inverted flight…
baslim_the_begger said, 9 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:
Someone just hadn’t written the program to take into account from going from west to east and vice versa over 180 degrees.

Geez, doesn’t anyone read Jules Verne anymore! (actually, it’s common to make a mistake like that in the first version of the code, but it ain’t supposed to happen in the deliverable product!)
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

baslim_the_begger says:

“Fairportfan: Close proximity is of the order of miles for an aircraft in the open. Otherwise blast effects will do the job very well. (Lucky me (not), my first job out of college involved nuclear weapons effects)”

I yield to superior knowledge.

I did, however, specify “relative” proximity - that is, distance at which the EMP would be of similar intensity… If that makes any difference.

(Speaking of blast effects - several of the mothballed/obsolete ships anchored near the island to test blast effects in the Bikini test had to be sunk by gunfire, because the blast didn’t take them out, but they were left radioactive…)

“And as has been pointed out, Dru is quite powerful right now. of course she could just ice them up. Regrettably, we know what happens then… case in point, plummeting pibsickle…”

Or, on a slightly morbid note, turboprop in New York State.

“Nabuquduriuzhur says:
“‘Someone just hadn’t written the program to take into account from going from west to east and vice versa over 180 degrees.’

“Geez, doesn’t anyone read Jules Verne anymore! (actually, it’s common to make a mistake like that in the first version of the code, but it ain’t supposed to happen in the deliverable product!)”

Well, as i remember the story (it wa smentioned as a sidebar to an article in TIME or Newsweek about the big AT&T long distance outage several years ago) about the amazing flipping fighter, it was caught before it actually happened, but not before at least some of them were in the air.
baslim_the_begger said, 9 months ago

Fairportfan: Close proximity is of the order of miles for an aircraft in the open. Otherwise blast effects will do the job very well. (Lucky me (not), my first job out of college involved nuclear weapons effects)
And as has been pointed out, Dru is quite powerful right now. of course she could just ice them up. Regrettably, we know what happens then… case in point, plummeting pibsickle…
baslim_the_begger said, 9 months ago

9CWL: Is that a Cello under your coat or are you just REALLY happy to see me?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Poor pilots/aircrew.

As the Brits in WW2 found in tests(and many others found out) http://tinyurl.com/8jc9m2 few men can resist femaleness. Imagine the effect of a demon whose job it is to corrupt… Ack!
DeathDealer said, 9 months ago

On of the side effects of nuclear burst that affects aviators is “dazzle.” I can’t remember the distance or the yield data that create the effect.
I’m sure that Dru can modify it how ever she likes.
MasterDiver said, 9 months ago

Lessee…Flash-to-Bang time,… Fireball diameter at 30 seconds…Finegles Fourth Variable (unchanged since 1563)….Phase of the moon….SWAGs Constant (it varies).. Folliculus Succubus extension factor…Approximate yield… NO, that CAN’T be righ..(!!???!!!).EVERYBODY TAKE COVER UNDER THE COUCH!!!
Kaibyo said, 9 months ago

Sha - ZZAAAAAMMMM!!!!! (you go, girl!)
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

::dives under the couch!:: I hear ya, Masterdiver!
tallwoman41 said, 9 months ago

cool cool cool artwork. Maybe this plasma orgasma will bring Dru back to her senses…will she smoke afterward? I hope she grabs Pib before she hits terra firma.
aerwalt said, 9 months ago

44 Fairportfan: Love ALL the flickers. (don’t think I said that before.0
bleeep, those aircraft look like F-4 Phantoms in top view.
Setebos said, 9 months ago

aerwait: could be Phantoms (which means they’re either German, Greek, Iranian or Turkish). They certainly aren’t the same planes from yesterday.
maeverin said, 9 months ago

i started thinking of this song as i read today’s strip:

Watching every motion in my foolish lover’s game
On this endless ocean finally lovers know no shame
Turning and returning to some secret place inside
Watching in slow motion as you turn around and say

Take my breath away
Take my breath away

Watching I keep waiting still anticipating love
Never hesitating to become the fated ones
Turning and returning to some secret place to hide
Watching in slow motion as you turn to me and say

Take my breath away

Through the hourglass I saw you, in time you slipped away
When the mirror crashed I called you, and turned to hear you say
If only for today I am unafraid

Take my breath away
Take my breath away

Watching every motion in this foolish lover’s game
Haunted by the notion somewhere there’s a love in flames
Turning and returning to some secret place inside
Watching in slow motion as you turn to me and say

Take my breath away
My love, take my breath away
Dry said, 9 months ago

paciii7223, I too was curious about Igor, I finally figured out that was your avatar’s name, but I still have one question”He was Lena’s bear which went with her into the game and was rescued along with her.” What does that mean? Who is Lena, I take it she was or is in some other strip?

Pardon my ignorance!
pibfan868 said, 9 months ago

Drystha, Lena is a character from this strip, one of the two Egg siblings (last name) involved in a computer game machination by an evil character by the name of Spitcock, who became the incubus that Dru fought. (that’s a very shorthand version!)In order to understand the whole setup you’d have to go back quite an interval ago and read all the strips. If you have pro status here, that’s no problem!

Today’s strips: I was wondering if Dru just performed a cannonball, except she was going up right? She definitely sent out quite the shockwave in all directions. What that did to the frozen tsunami is anyone’s guess… and Pib’s out of sight again!
Oh, I was laughing aloud at 9CL. Amos is really quite the acerbic character sometimes. :D
Dry said, 9 months ago

maeverin, just read the link about the snow shoveling! Read something similar to that sometime ago and kept the clipping. Both are great! Thanks for the laugh from someone who lives in PA and knows about snow!
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago
maeverin says:

Question for the Minotaur:

you seem very comfortable writing (somehow, this is the impression i get by reading your lengthier posts and back when you posted your stories here)
have you ever had anything, large or small, published? or do you write regularly as a hobby (not including internet posts)?
- This is a very good question and can go in several directions about being “very comfortable writing”. I think I’ll save the answer to that part for the self-interview if anymore questions pop up.
  As far as being published, sadly no. I haven’t taken the time needed to produce a completely original work that I feel deserves publication. Marg. has a chapter of a story I’m currently working on and wants to see more, but my life has been somewhat taken over by this comments site and the “Joe Minotaur” stories.
  In the mean time, Dru did ask Tom T. to describe their encounter in “Megatons”.
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

No time to post last night, no time to read comments today, but this is one of the most awesome visual strips I’ve seen in Pib… panel 2 is just heartstopping.

Huge kudos to Brooke, and regards to everyone from (once-again) sunny San Diego.
sabresoo said, 9 months ago

Setebos and aerbos: Not F-4 Phantoms - engine placement and nose look right, but wing and especially tail are not right. Maybe Harriers, except forward fuselage not hefty enough.