Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 7 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

Submissions to the Confusion Couch Cookbook can be sent here:
pibcookbook(at)earthlink(dot)net

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%2F30&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, 7 months ago

Waves crashing on a beach, a train entering a tunnel, and now - the Chrysler Building… built out of popsicle sticks and wooden match sticks, no less.
Saskfan said, 7 months ago

Huzzah! Monday’s here an hour early!
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

Yikes! Right there on the office floor! Wow! Pibby has definitely grown up! Pant, pant!
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

I will never, ever, think of the Chrysler Building in quite the same way as before this page again!
Joe Minotaur said, 7 months ago

Seth is being let down hard…
…and so is Pibgorn!
fatuncle said, 7 months ago

gahw

I think I’m suffering a shortcircuit between the earphones …
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

Mogg Almighty

Pibgorn, bless her heart, has certainly come a long way from lugging dewdrops.

mops brow

Too many comments this weekend to keep up with!
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

(Trying to cool down…)

Captain Smokeblower, you must have missed an early post of mine that, besides dandelion that someone else also used, included or (heraldic: gold/yellow) and ochre (yellow; there is also a red ochre, of course)….
VicTR said, 7 months ago

Good thing it wasn’t the Empire State Building !
Radical-Knight said, 7 months ago

I think two steam locomotives just hit head-on!
.
Holy unsubtle symbolism, Batman!
fear-ciuil said, 7 months ago

G’night, folks.
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

A propos of nothing, my father was born 100 years ago this June. I put together my own little “YTMND”-style tribute for him here:

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/JVD/ScreenCaps/JoeTribute.html

I love the shot of dad with Bogey…
tallwoman41 said, 7 months ago

ccdescan… a wonderful tribute!

Pibby…va va voom! Our innocent girl is all grown up.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

Actually, there is at least a double, if not triple, entendre: Bustard does it all by himself, but ”it was better” when Pibgorn helped, in addition to Pib’s commentary around the model of the Chrysler Building! Holy not-on-the-internet-Comics Code Authority!
Heavenly said, 7 months ago

Hey Ccdesan! I recognize your father from several series that I used to watch with my father. Cool!
TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

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2231 PDT [0530z 03-31]
Radical-Knight said, 7 months ago

Ccdesan - Great tribute site. He’s the MAN!
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@Heavenly: Dad’s face was unforgettable, even if few people remembered his name. ;^)

@Skulker: Thanks for the survey help!
@Fairportfan: What-all are you sharing around via e-mail? Did you post a link to something cool that I missed?
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

ccdesan, beautiful tribute for your Dad! I’m sure I saw a number of those shows while growing up, going all the way back to Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (which I remember as a 15-minute show at or about 5:30 PM, just before news, I think, in Central time zone); since, however, I don’t see The Man from UNCLE among his credits, what is the scene from with Robert Vaughn?
Margueritem said, 7 months ago

ccdesan: Great job, and happy 100 with happy memories for you.
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

In the words of Jim Carrey, “Smokin”!
ccdesan: Thanks for sharing, wow, your dad worked with lots of the big stars.

sisyphos: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062432/
and the Bogie must be from
Deadline, USA?
9CWL: aww poor Seth!
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@Baslim: You need to go work in Bustard’s office. Good detective work!

A more comprehensive list with mo’ betta photos can be found at

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/JVD/jvdfilm.html
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

ccdesan wrote: @Baslim: You need to go work in Bustard’s office. Good detective work!

Only if I could get the kind of attention Bustard’s getting!
AliKzam said, 7 months ago

Oh, my.
I love that he stood up and Pib fell down! It’s the little things you need to notice when telling a story. In print, it can be easy to forget that a tree fairy is sitting on your lap when you stand up. But when put to illustration, it has to be factored into the equation.
TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

Wow, Holy tongue repressors my screen is melting! This is a night to remember!!!

All you folks posting that this is a double entendre. I disagree. This is no
entendre - double, triple or otherwise. This is blatant! What did Pib say just
a few days ago? “I could never do that!” It looks like she can - and does!
Quite a “charm” school student. I think I’ll go into the PI business. Do you
have to know Latin? If this image doesn’t keep me up all night nothing will.
This is causing a serious drop in coherency.

Tallwoman41 As if it wasn’t hot enough already you’re fanning the flames!
Are those yours??? The… umh, stockings, of course. Were you inspired by Pib,
are you prescient or is your new avatar just coincidence? Corruptible minds
want to know. ;-) [As if they weren’t corrupted already!]

ccdesan Neato collage! There is no doubt he is your father. Very strong
resemblance and a very touching tribute. Check your email.

Now aren’t you sad that you didn’t accept tallwoman41’s offer a month or so
ago to personally bring her fish nets out to you. I sure would be. My head
and walls would be bloody.

I think we better get a load of ice for the pool or it will quickly boil away.

2328 PDT [0628z 03-30]
ejcapulet said, 7 months ago

I think I’m too young for this comic - and I’m nearly 30.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

I must disagree, The Skulker; albeit, I grant you that it is very thinly veiled, still, since they are ostensibly talking about a model building made of tongue depressors and match sticks and not Naughty Bits, I think this qualifies as “double entendre” (or triple if you distinguish their additional comments from the initial one).
Joe Minotaur said, 7 months ago

ccdesan:
Check your email!
Buggerit said, 7 months ago

Is that a model of the Chrysler building made out of tongue depressors and match sticks in your trenchcoat, or are you just glad to see me?

Holy single entendres!
Gunnr said, 7 months ago

“The Venetian Affair” is the one with Robert Vaughn. Very nicely done webpage.

In todays Pib, the two middle panels are priceless! I guffawed aloud.
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@Skulker and Joe: Thanks to you both. I shall now go stick my head in a bucket of ice water.
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 7 months ago

OO Wow… Freud would have a freaking conniption if he were to read this. Seriously! (I personally love it. ^^)
Galford said, 7 months ago

Multiple entendre!
fatuncle said, 7 months ago

[ breathing heavily ] I can’t get the d—-d favorite button to click more than once!!
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Pib has definitely been learning from Dru
Phaze58 said, 7 months ago

Whoh
No sex Please Im’e British :)
All I can say is “GORDON BENNET”
what’s gotten into Pib?? errm shall I rephrase that ….
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Sisyphos says:

“Actually, there is at least a double, if not triple, entendre: Bustard does it all by himself, but ‘it was better’ when Pibgorn helped…”

From Woody Allen’s Love & Death (possibly his most just-plain-funny film):

Countess Alexandrovna: You are the greatest lover I’ve ever had.
Boris: Well, I practice a lot when I’m alone.

poppysmatus says (“Yesterday”):

“Pib in that orange-red dress; That’s the set up for the tribute image of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks…”
“”Anyway, Nighthawks has been repeatedly parodied and referenced in art, pop culture and comics.””

Foolowed the Wikipedia link; i’d forgotten Nighthawks was in the Chicago Art Institute collection - does anyone know how long it’s been there? If it was there forty years ago (literally - last time i visited the Institute was early 1969), i probably saw it; funny i don’t recall it if i did. (I do reacll Picasso’s Old Guitarist - i think i spent half an hour on that one painting.)

My own favourite pop-culture reference to Nighthawks was the article in Model Railroader twenty-some years ago about reproducing it in HO scale in an unobtrusive but easily visible place on a layout.

I seem to recall reading (maybe in the Wiki article - i didn’t actually read thw whole thing this time) that Hopper was inspired to do the painting by the then-recent innovarion of fluoroscent lights.

Today’s final panel put me in mind of this:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib080430.gif
and, upon looking it up, i recalled that Pib had been (more or less) an observer that time:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib080502.gif
sarge112751 said, 7 months ago

Why do I see two cigarettes, smoldering in an ashtray in the next panel? (Bogart was NEVER this lucky on the silver-screen!)
sarge112751 said, 7 months ago

(Say ‘Goodnight’ Gracie!)
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

ccdesan says:

“A propos of nothing, my father was born 100 years ago this June. I put together my own little ‘YTMND’-style tribute for him here:

“http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/JVD/ScreenCaps/JoeTribute.html”

Love the page.

I recently came a cross an article titled something like “It’s that guy whp was in that thing” - about character actors we recognise almost instantly … except that we can’t recall their names or where we sam them before … but we instanly remember that we’ve seen them before.

I recognised the name, but i’m nearly face-blind, so i didn’t remember the face.

Loved the “annoying music” - is that the original release from the album Music to MOOG By, or the later, chart-topping single that was released as “By Hot Butter”?

(For a very nice sample from Music to MOOG By (Fur Elise, as a matter of fact), visit Gershon Kingsley’s web page {http://www.kingsleysound.com/} and click on the Music to MOOG By cover image (the one with the bed), or, for that matter, just click here: http://www.kingsleysound.com/Resources/MP3/moogby_3.mp3
3Xp4t said, 7 months ago

I’m going to have to start marking Pibgorn as (sometimes) NSFW when I give my recommendations out!

Just wait ‘til she tells Nat “I have this friend, Oognat. Do you mind if she watches ..?”

[ EDIT – for reference:
• http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2004/pib041027.gif
• http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2004/pib041028.gif ]
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Oh - for some reason, today’s Zap in Space {http://zapinspace.com/d/20090330.html} kind of made me think of Pibgorn.

I have not the slightest idea why…
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

9CL - Again Brooke tells us a lot through hands…

Luann {http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/3/30&name=Luann} - Ummm?

Last week Toni strongly hinted she’d like to move in (to the house, at least) and today it looks as if “huge cotton balls” might be improvements…
JosephR4570 said, 7 months ago

fairportfan said - I recently came a cross an article titled something like “It’s that guy whp was in that thing”
The opposite of my trying to remember where I’d seen Mark Harmon before. Even with IMDB I couldn’t figure it out.
3pibgorn9 said, 7 months ago

So Thorax plays Greenstreet, but who plays Lorre? Do Cagney, Raft and Robinson show up?
ThatCat said, 7 months ago

I’m going to have a grin plastered on my face all day, I can tell.

Who says one can’t enjoy some things vicariously?!

ccdesan I totally recognize your Dad! My hubby and I love old movies. I miss the quality and style - the character actors of yesteryear had more acting chops than Many of today’s headliner “stars”.

To the upper right of the Bogey picture, is that Raymond Burr with him? I just know I’ve seen that picture…
TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

Sisyphos says:
I must disagree, The Skulker; albeit, I grant you that it is very thinly veiled,
still, since they are ostensibly talking about a model building made of tongue
depressors and match sticks and not Naughty Bits, I think this qualifies as “double
entendre” (or triple if you distinguish their additional comments from the initial one).

I will accept that it is not explicit but entendre, to me, implies SOME bit of veiling.
This veiling is more like clear cellophane!!! ;-)
In either case, I think we can agree that this is off the temperature scale of anything
we have seen before. [I don’t dare make this a wallpaper!!!]

0448 PDT [1148z]
tallwoman41 said, 7 months ago

Sorry boys…couldn’t resist the new avatar. Definitely inspired by Pib. (I am about as psychic as a fencepost.)
No, those aren’t my legs…I wish!
Gking said, 7 months ago

At the risk of upsetting a clique of fans, I feel I have to say to fearciuil, “Please, please, don’t make such a HUGE comment every day!”