Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
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Links to the strips that comprise the Borgia Cantus arc can be found here:
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StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

The Volcano LIVES!!! Off ya go, Nat Baby!
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

Pibgorn:
I’ll do my exposition in the rain.

9CWL:
Can I get fries with that?
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Love the panel, the color is wonderful.
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

Isn’t that the way of the world? All of us could be great, if it weren’t for the competing commitments… i.e., distractions. The things that keep us from getting what we say we really want.

Go, Nat. Accept your greatness!
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

I will NOT be distracted!

Uhh…where was I?
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

9CWL God created man in His own image, and Man returned the favor. Thorax and Monty make for such great humor and food for introspection…
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Is Nat walking those mean streets of Gotham? Or is he half-in, half-out of the Dreamscape?

When will it stop raining?
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

@fearc Love the avatar…
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

“Boredom is the mother of distraction.”

-Risitas, 7/08/09
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

Since apparently the Volcano is back, so’s mine……
jimbo1949 said, 4 months ago

This is so like a dream. Like running in mud, uphill. No matter what you do, another obstacle presents itself. Hip deep in alligators when all you want to do is drain the swamp.
This is very good Brooke.
Now that Nat has been distracted and forgotten about Dinah, Nonny and Teau-Teau, I think the show is about to begin.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

If you can’t wipe his mind - distract it!
mjolnir 9 said, 4 months ago

Just walkin’ in the rain…
Gettin’ soakin’ wet…
Droppin’ all my ‘g’s…
Tryin’ to forget…
zorchon said, 4 months ago

CWL Oh! Oh! I think i might widdle myself with laughter! THat… NEEDED to be said! Bravo McE!
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

AmriloJim, I spent just about all night reading the entire Pibgorn archive on your site. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; graphic novels should be critiqued and viewed as literature! Okay, back to what I was going to say: I love the “next” link, how about a “back” link and a link that takes the reader to the Pibgorn home page?
Story Teller said, 4 months ago

Re: 9CwL. Oh, my Monty! This one has got to have the religious raviloli-for-brains flopping on the ground like dying fish! You don’t DARE speak the truth! Therewill be much frothing at mouths, gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair!
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

It had to be posted:

http://tinyurl.com/czkgcf

–Johnnie Ray, Walkin’ in the Rain.
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

@Old Wolf, thanks! (I’ve only had this avatar for three weeks, now…. ;D)
Story Teller said, 4 months ago

DonTomasoAquino said: “Hey, I’ve noticed a poster consistently referring to the author of the strip, Mr McE as “having hissy fits,” or “taking his ball and going snuffling home,” and I believe there have been other such comments. Now don’t get me wrong here. I for one won’t refer to Brooke McEldowney as Honorable Master or any such thing. I like his work a lot, but I’m just not comfortable with that. But those who refer to him as HM or in other deferrential terms are not wrong either. It’s all about respect for Mr. McE, his work, and for each other.”

True enough, as far as it goes. I began to refer to him as The Professor or The Honorable Master because I am a story teller and in his last story arc I was awed at the way he used his narrative and art to draw the reader along with the long, drawn-out story. (Puns intended!) I read these strips now not only because I love them, but because I feel I am studying at the feet of a master of my craft. My grandpa was one such and he left me much too soon. I wish I had known then what I do today I would have spent more time with him to learn his wisdoms, but now I have to seek out people like Brooke McEldowney who are very good at what they do. To me, he will always be The Honorable Master.

(The fact that he can make adult men drool all over themselves for cartoon females should make the title fitting all by itself! He is just plain good at what he does!)
UncaAlby said, 4 months ago

I feel like I’m sitting in the audience at the theater, and I wanna shout at the movie screen, “NAT!! Look up! LOOK UP!!”
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

…to find something: the volcano?

…to save someone: Dinah/Drusilla?

…to be the person he knew he was: Bogie?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

And are the “distractions” demonic simulacra? –In a faux rainstorm?
Story Teller said, 4 months ago

atajayhawk said: “Due to electronics, among other things, copyright pretty much doesn’t expire anymore. Parody may be amusing (to you, at least); and satire may be satisfying (again, to you); but you’d better be careful of using exact text, art, etc. or you could be getting a letter from a lawyer.”

The sad part is, the lawyers are more sue happy than ever because the record labels and publishers and such…the people who don’t actually do anything creative, they just glom money off the sales of other people’s creativity…are more than happy to spend scads of money in pursuit of more money. Fair and right does not even enter into the equation.

Over at the Mad Music Archive, the home of comedy, novelty and parody music, there has been a lot of wailing and moaning about this very topic, how anyone who tries to parody something is smacked down by overzealous legal beagles working for overzealous corporate fatcats. Ever since the Family Guy producer and his network won against Disney for a parody of a Disney song, I have dreamed of the day when I can go around honking off these clowns just so I can destroy them in court. Can you say “Cinderella 90210”…? Hey, let’s get the Spelling estate tied up in it too, shall we…? I am writing a song that will say something to the effect of “Please, Disney, Sue me! I Need the Publicity!”

www.themadmusicarchive.com in case you want to know.
Story Teller said, 4 months ago

Orgelspieler said: “Conclusion: Sister Steven is also a Bride of Monty, and Monty has obviously just realized that sometimes it’s best just to say, ‘Yes, dear’.”

ROTFLMAO-WACOT

(With A Cherry On Top!)

Thank you, thank you, thank you, cousin! You have said the very thing my mind was trying to come up with!
Mattimeomeg said, 4 months ago

I love the color! The clouds opening just enough for the volcano are brilliant.
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

I wonder if Nat feels like he’s in slow motion. With that said I want to thank all of you for supporting my dad as he fights his addiction to alcohol. seven days now. I send to you all my hugs and blow a kiss to each one of you who are kind and supported. My dad right now is sleeping, He worked hard at a horse ranch today repairing a barbed-wire fence while I tended to the horses feeding watering and grooming them. So my dad won’t be on tonight.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php

Different mythos, but Agatha could use an E-11 right now on maximum power to separate dear old tooth grin into pieces…
Story Teller said, 4 months ago

If we presume, as someone did yesterday, that Monty is Loki, does that make Thorax Balder, the god of light and beauty? Or since he is deferential to Monty, perhaps Balder’s son Forseti, the god of peace, justice and truth? Loki would be his foster uncle, I think. On the other hand, Monty just doesn’t have the nastiness Loki would have. Still…
Saskfan said, 4 months ago

30 comments already, and I can’t see any of ‘em. But at least I’m not subject to any Bridge SubCulture types.
UncaAlby said, 4 months ago

Tennessee Charlie puts me in mind of my younger years (much younger) with a super-8 camera and a yen to make science fiction movies.

Well, you need a space backdrop to film spaceship models in front of, right?

You can’t imagine how upset my dear old dad was when he eventually needed to polish his black shoes – – –
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

OldWolf Wow! That picture you have yesterday (Drusilla banner) made me do a double-take. I had taken that same picture and done nearly the same thing you did – (see my avatar). In fact I was using that picture as my desktop. Bravo on figuring out how to put pics into comments. Now I just need to find a site to upload pics onto.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

If we talk about Greek equivalents: Monty is Hybris, Thorax is Mania, Edda is Peitho, Amos is Caerus, Juliet is Ate, Mary Rosenzweig is Eris.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Just because it’s a wee bit weird and features the pibgorn:

http://tinyurl.com/mvpclz
mojitobaby said, 4 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur, then Sister Caligula for da*mn sure has to be Nemesis.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Woohoo! I agree!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Wonder if McE will bring back Mary Rosenzweig as an Army sniper or explosives expert?
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

@BikeNBoatN Wouldn’t you like to see your desktop adorning the side of some huge building?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Medieval magic: an excerpt from Beowulf, accompanied by hurdy-gurdy and theremin: http://tinyurl.com/moauqh
SirMirom said, 4 months ago

Brooke…. Brooke IS a master artist. This is gorgeous. Orwellian.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

I bought an analogue watch advertised as having a ‘timeless design’. It didn’t have any hands :D
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

I can’t open half of the cool links everyone is talking about! Blankety-blank Chinese internet! WAAAAAAAAHHH!!!
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

I wonder if the smoke (although certainly gorgeously created) is causing everyone to forget.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

A shamus shadowing the shadows. Maybe we will see the connection with frozen Pib. They say smoke gets in your ice.

@SirMirom All’s Orwellian that ends Orwellian

@ejcapulet Forget what?
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

ladywolf17, Fencing? I never appreciated how much of an art that was, as taught and practiced by me Mum, until the State Road Dept. moved and rebuilt a fence of ours so they could “daylight” a curve on the road. There are far more arts than are recognized by the acadamies. The fence started falling over within 3 years.

Glad your father is hanging in there. My father-in-law was so talented and resourceful but so thwarted by his addiction.
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

A Certain Poet Who shall Not be Named said to me months & months ago, ” Gee this Brooke feller is soooo talented–why doesn’t he do Real Art?” She does not particularly like Krazy Kat either.

I, for one am gobsmacked by Nat, Walkin’ in the Rain. But that’s one obscene volcano tip IMHO.

Chickweed, Nooooo! Monty invoked the Name. The Evil Clown Patsies have trademarked EVERYTHING

Monty’s truth: Over 20 years ago at a wholesale market I met a lady of Scots descent who made a wee kilted teddy she called “McBear”. McDee’s sued her over the name because they had filed trademarks over every possible permutation of “Mc[noun]” I have never eaten at any of their little burger stands since.
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

Zippy asks “Is Monty having epiphany yet?”
waycyber said, 4 months ago

@Anyol’tomcat your avatar reminds me of a story. Sydney Snail meets Cedric Snail on the garden path. Sydney says to Cedric “How have you been feeling since that bird pecked your shell off?” Cedric replied “Sluggish”.
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

waycyber, oops I morphed! Funny, anyway.
geedub said, 4 months ago

beware the ides of fumeroles

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A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare, Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies her conviction that there must be more to life than depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms.

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