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%2F20&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

Because he knows you too well, dear Lena. I wonder if the Eggs have eaten dinner yet?
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

::sigh::
Still nothing. Stupid servers.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

I don’t think the Eggs have had a chance to go home for dinner, yet, margueritem–though I could be wrong. Depends on where that grassy area they are sitting on is located….
[EDIT] It does seem to be a residential, if somewhat sparsely populated area (hedge; single cottage in background; view out over the Atlantic Dru Event).
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Page but no comic.
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

I don’t espy any eggs…????
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Got ‘em both.

Gonna do another flicker.

Eventually - by morning, anyway.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

debra4life50 says:

“I don’t espy any eggs…????”

Roger and Lena Egg.
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

Lena only has the hoe because
paciii7223 has Igor
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Looks like a good day for gardening.
ED.. She looks like your everyday little girl here. Sigh..
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Ummm. I like the change in Roger’s line between sketch and finish; i think i might have left Lena’s alone.

But, of course, i’m not the author.
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

I really did write that before paciii7223 said anything - It was not the server THIS time
.
This one WAS supposed to be after paciii7223
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

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

GrumpyOldbear says:
Lena only has the hoe because
paciii7223 has Igor

Only temporarily. If she asks nicely and promises to take care of him, he’ll gladly be returned.
paciii said, 9 months ago

I, too wonder if it is before or after dinner. But why the hoe? Still expecting something/one to show up again?
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

Stupid servers - as bad as a Hittite waiter
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

fairportfanPro says:

Ummm. I like the change in Roger’s line between sketch and finish; i think i might have left Lena’s alone.

But, of course, i’m not the author.
.
I think “everyone” is a nod to everyone of us.
wildflowerose said, 9 months ago

I suspect that if she has the hoe, she is going to need the hoe… but as today is Friday in Pibland (although not here in California), we will have to wait to find out why!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Perhaps if I just–(poke poke)–give Honorable Master a little prod, he will return Igor to Lena, paciii7223!
GrumpyOldbear said, 9 months ago

Off to the land of Nodd
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

GrumpyOldbear, where did you ever find a live Hittite waiter?!
Captain Smokeblower said, 9 months ago

@bmonk,
from yesterday
You identified source. I read it back in the early seventies. The gist of the content stuck with me, but not the author or title.
Thank you.
Captain Smokeblower said, 9 months ago

This isn’t exactly what’s meant by Event Horizon, but any brilliant ball of power centered over the Atlantic yet visible on a land mass either side of said ocean is not child’s play. The EMP noted yesterday is probably not any of the pilots’ concern. They’re probably beyond being concerned about the vaporization temperature of aluminum, titanium and humanity.
What’s the last thing to pass through the mind of a pilot trying to outrun Dru’s wrath?
Answer: His afterburners.
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Captain Smokeblower says:

“This isn’t exactly what’s meant by Event Horizon, but any brilliant ball of power centered over the Atlantic yet visible on a land mass either side of said ocean is not child’s play. The EMP noted yesterday is probably not any of the pilots’ concern. They’re probably beyond being concerned about the vaporization temperature of aluminum, titanium and humanity.”

That is, of course, assuming that Dru has manifested something akin to ball lightning or a thermonuclear blast.

Dru is not usually quite that callous or cavalier where human life is concerned; since her action os supernal/magical, it may not adt like anything we can conceive of.
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Whoah !! Did you see what Lio did to Igor !?!
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Okay - it’s soup!

http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick
runar said, 9 months ago

Who else would they suspect?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Hittite waiter??

What is THAT a reference to?

How about a Scythian or Galician waiter instead?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

I love that Dru pic with the comment about the 200 ton bluebottle fly…

So, did Luciano have any ill effects from eating a live, if somewhat denatured, demon?

And where did he finally end up- did Dru find him a monumental trash pile, far away from pesticides?
SirMirom said, 9 months ago

Doesn’t Lena look cute and… really LITTLE here?
Fairportfan said, 9 months ago

Well, both Lena and Roger have long legs (Lena more than Roger, too), so sitting down she’s gonna look smaller.
txmystic said, 9 months ago

9CWL: OMG! Is this the moment??

Also, I love the aside in the first panel in which Edda gives her assessment of Ilsa…but if what she says is true, and one imagines that Ilsa somehow ended up with Rick, I’d really feel bad for Victor Laslo in a kind of Tom-Hanks-in-Cast-Away sense…
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago

From the size of Dru’s glowing discharge, it’s height, etc…
I’d say that Roger and Lena are only 30 miles from ground zero.
barbhinkins said, 9 months ago

hittite waiter? check this out:
http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/7765
3Xp4t said, 9 months ago

Yesterday I found & suggested the possibility of updating & creating Brooke McEldowney entries at this wiki website dedicated to webcomics:

http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Just wanted to repeat that suggestion so folks don’t miss the opportunity. Yes, there is some issue about how updated the site is, but the community is large & established … and each comic is updated by fans as they have time & inclination. So, Pibgorn and 9CWL and other miscellaneous could all be created &/or edited. And, then used as a “home base” of sorts for reference.

That said, in the Freefall forum at TAC, there is a discussion thread dedicated to discovered and recommended webcomics. I just contributed about a dozen recommended ones (page 7), but there are about a hundred or so throughout that topic, here:
http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=43910

There are some really stunning webcomics, some with extensive archives. All are free.

Enjoy!
itisme said, 9 months ago

Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch that storyline!
I think enough people know how to “favortie a strip to we have to see the meglominiacal at the first of the comments every day now?
boozoothatswho said, 9 months ago

Brooke McEldowney. Pure definition of onanism.
Simon_Jester said, 9 months ago

Lena didn’t cause that.

She only wishes she did.
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

Well, that does answer the question of where Lena and Roger are!
Squire_of_the_shire said, 9 months ago

Itisme;

The boilerplate that usually appears as the first comment is particularly helpful especially to the new arrivals to the Comfortable Couch of Confusion. For the rest of us, who only occasionally utilize some of the tricks such as changing font size and italicizing our comments, it comes in very handy. Your attitude towards our merry little band of Pib-addicts suggests that you may have a little troll in you. Ordinarily I like many of my fellow couch crouchers would not advise feeding Trolls, but in the spirit of friendship and possibly de-trolling your nature, I offer you some of our delectable nibbles from the end table. I left a small tray of millionaires shortbread there that I made from a recipe that I got from my landlady while stationed in Scotland.
Moe A. said, 9 months ago

A: “Ground Zero”
Q: “What resulted when Mr. Mostel backed into the shredder?”

Frankly, I love the diversion to this scene after the last few days’ acceleration to Dru’s fission.

Nice catching up on a couple of days of your postings folks; I admit that I’m still missing a few of your references, but yes, I can be taught.

I can’t believe no one made a comment about how Roger and Lena may now be part of a Nuclear Family…. oops, guess I just did.
Enjoy your weekend, amigos!
-MOE hisownself
Orgelspieler said, 9 months ago

boozoowhotheheckcares - I get the impression, when you equate Mr. McE. with “pure onanism”, that your intention is to imply, first, that he creates his comics purely for self-gratification; second, that there is something wrong with that; and finally, that he’s doing it in a vacuum.

First, the only valid reason for participating in any art form is to please oneself, although when (like Mr. McE) one is also able to use it to pay the mortgage and grocery bills, I can see nothing wrong with that. In addition, judging from the number of people who consistently post comments in here, and who obviously are enjoying the story line and artwork, I contend that Mr. McE. is very far from creating in a vacuum, and is pleasing a lot of folks besides himself.

Now, if you can’t be civil, please go somewhere else.
3Xp4t said, 9 months ago

PEOPLE:
Please stop feeding the trolls.
lindavid3 said, 9 months ago

MMMM! I realize this is a de-trolling offering, but I just HAD to sneak a bite of this millionaires shortbread! I will leave some homemade cinnamon rolls in it’s place…
3Xp4t said, 9 months ago

Joe_Minotaur says:
From the size of Dru’s glowing discharge, it’s height, etc… I’d say that Roger and Lena are only 30 miles from ground zero.

Respectfully disagree. Review yesterday’s strip … Dru gained some serious altitude before detonating. She’s effectively in low-Earth orbit. The scale of the event is impressive. From NYC, the Eggs must be a minimum of 200 miles away, perhaps up to 500.

That is one serious space-time rift that just opened. I’m imagining that Dru is creating a demonic wormhole of somesort and is about to send some fraction of the denizens of he|| to ..? Another world? Another dimension ..? My guess for next week is that there is going to be one large vortex extending from ground zero of the tsunami up into that rift.
Poms said, 9 months ago

Here’s looking at you, kid!
Dry said, 9 months ago

Well, I statred to go back thru the archives, but didn’t quite finish. Now I see I’ll have to do so as soon as I can!

Oh 9CWL, the ring box is in his pocket!
paciii said, 9 months ago

9CwL: so if Amos asks, will Edda say yes? or will there be a twist?
paciii said, 9 months ago

Since the shortbread is a troll-away offering, can you post the recipe so I can make some of my own??

MMMmmmmm.@.Cinnamon.rolls.@.mmmmmmm…
aerwalt said, 9 months ago

%4 i love today’s panel.
And Lena, it’s because we know & love you.