Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 8 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%2F3%2F5&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, 8 months ago

Oh, what a toe curling, spine tingling kiss…
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

The SAS are off by a full ten minutes, now. The first time I posted the boilerplate, I got a time stamp of 2009-03-05T06:20:47Z, while my computer’s clock read 11:10. (I re-posted.)

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Gweedo Murray said, 8 months ago

I wish my life was like that .
Mikkail said, 8 months ago

Beautiful!
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

Geoff, that’s really sweet of you, really. But you may be (so to speak) biting off more than you can chew, if this stimulates Dru into a course of succubus-action you can’t handle!
debra4life50 said, 8 months ago

I feel sorry for Pib, but these two really look good together and I think that Dru really deserves it.
Gweedo Murray said, 8 months ago

Two wrongs .DO make a right. Her evil, Spitcocks’s evil….
baslim_the_begger said, 8 months ago

Whoo-Hoo!

9CWL: one should always have such a code word!
paciii said, 8 months ago

Every once in a while I catch my wife like that (when her bad disk isn’t acting up…)

AHHHhhhhh….

But this is an awfully quick change for Geoff, unless he’s been thinking about it, too.
paciii said, 8 months ago

So… If Dru and Geoff are going to be back together, who’ll Pib connect with? Certainly not Roger. Is this the next arc?? Matchmaking for Pib?
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

I think that Geoff does not intend by this very friendly kiss to signify that he is forsaking Pib (nor that he believes she has forsworn him), but how Dru might take it is less safely guessed. Remember, Drusilla, in human guise, was his girlfriend for an unspecified time at the very beginning of Pibgorn.
emjrn said, 8 months ago

Perfect!

I don’t really feel sorry for Pib…she said that she didn’t have the depth of emotion for him that Dru has. I doubt that Geoff and Dru getting together will even upset Pib. They are 2 people (sort of) that she loves a great deal and will continue to love no matter who Geoff chooses.
HPhil said, 8 months ago

Nobbled by a soul… Could domestication be far behind?
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

Members of the Order, may I humbly suggest a peek at today’s Cornered?

http://www.gocomics.com/cornered

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Fairportfan said, 8 months ago

Remember - Dur has Had Her Way with Geoff one or two times since he and Pib got together…
wildflowerose said, 8 months ago

Marg: curled my toes and tingled my spine all the way over here on the West Coast!

paciii7223 says:
Every once in a while I catch my wife like that (when her bad disk isn’t acting up…)

I say: Tell Mrs. paciii7223 I say she is one lucky woman!

AHHHhhhhh….
But this is an awfully quick change for Geoff, unless he’s been thinking about it, too.

I say: and haven’t each and every one of the straight, male couch denizens been “thinking about it” too? So why wouldn’t Geoff also be “thinking about it”?

All the Graphic Artists and hearaldry experts: Great Work and I can’t wait to proudly proclaim my membership in the OCD I mean OTC!

Fearc: Thanks so much for the boilerplate- I have very little time these days for my Pib/CWL compulsion, so being able to quickly link to the important stuff from the ‘plate really helps!

Because I have no time to cook:

Heat ‘n Eat Tempura Shrimp from Costco are on the end table!
Heavenly said, 8 months ago

Nice play on Klimt.
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

fairportfan said:
EDIT: The server says i posted this at 0642Z; my computer (synched online) says it’s 0132EST (0632Z). Someone needs to figure out what’s with the servers there.

Maybe they’re located on a spacetime rift. If so, should we be on the lookout for the TARDIS?

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The Old Wolf said, 8 months ago

9CWL: “Let me cure those hiccups for you!” XD

Made it home safe and sound, just barely in front of the storm that would have clobbered me over Truckee. It was snowing hard the last 25 miles, but got in without incident. What a trip… so nice to see Skulker, Wildflowerose and Farren, in addition to all the other wonderful things I did. It’s good to be back.

Pib: Omnis me confundit, I’m just along for the ride. But today’s strip is sweet…

For the couch, I’ve brought some fresh durian fruit if anyone is brave enough to try it. I scored some at the most amazing Oriental Market in Las Vegas, and my car smelled like the Bog of Eternal Stench all the way to Salt Lake. After about 4 hours my nose stopped registering it altogether. What does it smell like? The closest I can come is the stuff that you scrape out of a pumpkin at Hallowe’en, with sort of a necrotic meaty overtone. Tomorrow I’m actualy going to try some, and see if it’s as good as they say.
Fairportfan said, 8 months ago

No flicker tonight, either; i made one, looked at it, and decided that thee wasn’t any difference to make one worthwhile.

Shame, too - i’ve got a great background.

And i just made a list of all the links i’ve used on FPs so i won’t repeat one.

EDIT: The server says i posted this at 0642Z; my computer (synched online) says it’s 0132EST (0632Z). Someone needs to figure out what’s with the servers there.
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

@ccdesan, glad you made it home safely!

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Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

fearciuil, maybe if you had a sonic screwdriver you could fix the SAS!
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

Sisyphos said:
fearciuil, maybe if you had a sonic screwdriver you could fix the SAS!

Maybe … but I have this idea that the sonic screwdriver sounds like this:
http://trainhorns.net/sound/

::shudder::
A hammer seems to do just fine for the Doctor, at least on the TARDIS.

And MacGuyver, of course, could do anything with a Swiss Army knife and duct tape….

(Okay, okay, I’ll stop mixing my TV shows now.)

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Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

ccdesan, glad you made it back to SLC safely and had a good time all round in Caly-phornya. Not so sure about that durian fruit, though!
wildflowerose said, 8 months ago

ccdesan glad you’re safe and sound. I lived in Vegas for 13 years, and my (ex) sister-in-law- (would the sister in law I acquired upon marriage become something else or go away altogether upon divorce?) - anyway whoever she is to me, she is Chinese, and would always take me to the best Oriental markets. Was the one you went to on West Charleston St?
fear-ciuil said, 8 months ago

@fairportfan, I see. Thank you.
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

fairportfan, I just noticed that your new avatar appears to have Igor tucked into her apron! Kidnapper?

[EDIT: 3rd try at getting this into correct relative position, after fairportfan’s post with the tinyurl….]
[RE-EDIT: fearciuil saw it, too. I give up. SAS, you win, this time!]
Fairportfan said, 8 months ago

fearciuil says:

“@fairportfan, what’s in your avatar? I went to your profile and looked, but couldn’t figure out what it’s doing.”

Yeah, i need to change that; it comes over too small even in the profile here.

It’s part of the header image from: http://tinyurl.com/d6xu98

(Had to use TinyURL there because the actual URL has a word that would get bleeped ere in it).

It kind of put me in mind of Things We’ve Seen Here.

This particular cut is also my (current) avatar at MOG.com: http://mog.com/fairportfan, where its A Lot Bigger.
Joseph H said, 8 months ago

The one thing I love about Pibgorn: The story always changes. A little bit like the weather in New England, I gather.
Bender_Sastre said, 8 months ago

I thoroughly enjoyed the self-deprication that the Master slaps himself with at the end of “A Pibsummer Night’s Dream”. Absolutely hilarious. Wow, I’ve been typing in URL’s on picayune since Monday, and have deprived myself of sleep to finish up in this moment. This stuff is meant to be digested one page at a time. After seeing all those seduction scenes, in varying degrees of realness, I think my moral compass just fried. I’ll need to perform some penititance and many Hail Marys for this to blow over. And why is that raven-haired woman in front of me taking so long in the confession box? Now that I mention it, I never noticed there being an “ocupado” sign there before. Since when did confession become this involved?
The Old Wolf said, 8 months ago

@Wildflowerose: It was the Ranch Market on Spring Mountain Road, right in the middle of an entire oriental commerce district.

@All: Thanks for the kind words!
Squire_of_the_shire said, 8 months ago

Hello, All;

I’ve been in absent mode for the last few days. My brother was hit and killed by an SUV over the last weekend. I’m still trying to get my head around it. What makes matters worse, is the fact that I’m not going to be able to make it home for the funeral services. My job is out here in the middle of the Pacific and this ship doesn’t have the facilities to Helo me off. I feel like I can tell you all this since I know that ‘The Couch’ has always been real good about taking care of one of its’ own. I’m better tonight than what I have been since getting the news Saturday. Those that are so inclined, please say a prayer that the pain will fade eventually.
3Xp4t said, 8 months ago

THAT’ll stoke the (he||)fires up a bit!

Not worried about Pib; she’s a free spirit and can hardly grasp what jealousy is. There will be some arrangement between all three & it shouldn’t be too difficult. Pib knows the innermost Dru (and it seems vice versa?). I will speculate that Pib loves Dru with a similar intensity that she loves Geoff, and I also suspect that Dru does love Pib, perhaps nearly as much as Dru loves Geoff.

Recall the look on Pib’s face when she was talking about it this week. It was shocked awakening on many levels; she has felt Dru’s love, experienced it as if it was her own.

Dru discovers that she has a soul to worry about now. What an interesting turn. Her Master will not let her go so easily. A dozen fascinating speculations come to mind along those lines for what is in store for our intrepid trio in the future …

But, for the now, Geoff, you hold that girl, kiss her and keep her. Keep her well. She needs you.
3Xp4t said, 8 months ago

@Squire –

That completely sucks. A very dear friend of mine, who was like a brother to me for nearly 30 years, just died without warning before Christmas. Woke up feeling ill one morning, drove himself to the hospital in the evening and … was just gone a few hours later. I couldn’t travel home, either.

I can’t think of anything to say that will make you feel better. Nothing will, really. But, I know very much what you’re going through. You have my most sincere sympathies.

When you think of him, recall the good times and the laughter. Remember him that way. It is the best way to honor our friends and family.
pibfanbrux said, 8 months ago

to Squire….so sorry to hear of your loss. I know what it’s like to be so far away from family at difficult times. My thoughts for the easing of your pain.
Squire_of_the_shire said, 8 months ago

3xp4t: Thanks for the words of comfort. My wife says the exact same thing. Remember the laughter and it doesn’t always hurt quite so bad. The rest of the family asked if I would write the eulogy for the service. I did and while it ripped my heart out to do it, it was also kind of an outlet for a truckload of pain at the same time.
MasterDiver said, 8 months ago

I’ll bet that cures HER hiccups!!
invisifan said, 8 months ago

@ccdesan - good to hear you made it back ahead of the storm (and say the word when you’re ready)

@all - I suspect Pib still considers herself Geoff’s “slave-for-life” on purely obligatory grounds regardless …
Burgundy2 said, 8 months ago

Squire of the Shire - my deepest condolences. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

As 3XP4t said, try to remember the good times.
Owlsly Whistlepig said, 8 months ago

Squire…those we love and remember are never gone…perhaps when the mood is ryte a shared story of him would help to ease your thoughts and allow us a chance to also remember him along wyth you
SirMirom said, 8 months ago

@ccdesan - I smell nothing! The air is sweet!

(Sorry, channeling Sir Didymus)
SirMirom said, 8 months ago

Re this strip, I suspect Brooke (long noted for his incredible open-mindedness) is going to leave these three as a ‘share and share alike’ relationship, i.e. Geoff gets both chicks. Because, as said, we’re not getting rid of the eponymous heroine, and Dru is too popular to dump either.
Ciji3 said, 8 months ago

Squire -
Keeping you and your family in my prayers. Losing someone is one of the hardest things we go through. I’ve lost my mom and grandma in the past 3 years and even though I’m old enough to supposedly be grown up about it, I’m still not dealing with everything I should. Pictures and memories help.

One thought – you can’t be there, but maybe you can be there through words or pictures. Perhaps you can send a message to be read or a favorite picture to be your connection to him at the service.

Hope you are able to join your family soon.
Story Teller said, 8 months ago

Squireof_theshire says: “3xp4t: Thanks for the words of comfort. My wife says the exact same thing. Remember the laughter and it doesn’t always hurt quite so bad. The rest of the family asked if I would write the eulogy for the service. I did and while it ripped my heart out to do it, it was also kind of an outlet for a truckload of pain at the same time.”

I was asked to do the eulogies for my grandparents for whom I had been a caretaker the last months of their lives. It was probably the hardest thing I’d ever done, but in a way I had to do it. Everyone agreed I did an excellent job. With any luck, it will be many more years before I have to do it again.
papa smurf said, 8 months ago

Squire: many condolences.
Dry said, 8 months ago

Squire, I lost my mother 3 years ago. The pain eventually fades but the memories never do. I feel her near many times! I will pray for you and your family. It’s never easy to lose someone you love. My thoughts are with you!
MermaidStitcher said, 8 months ago

Matchmaking for Pibb. That coiuld be an interesting stoy or even a continuous story sub plot. Maybe start with a centaur. The horse from the original that helped could be the 1st. then you could have the jealous Luciano complicating things.
TiggerLeBounce said, 8 months ago

I’m sorry to hear about that, Squire. That is hard!

Feel better.
kcboomer said, 8 months ago

Well, I did not see that coming. Geoff, you old dog!!