Friday Notes

Is anybody else feeling that Bob Huggins' continued presence everywhere is starting to get creepy? In a convoluted way, I used to think of the guy as having a sort of macho class. But these "not going anywhere" commercials are starting to feel like the company that doesn't know when to leave.

Sharon Morgan, our editorial page receptionist, furnished us with a great belly laugh in the staff meeting today by comparing him to Bill Murray in What About Bob? I grabbed claim to that one quick and am working on it for Sunday's Forum.

As is often the case, I can see the cartoon I want to draw in my head, and my quick sketch captures the heart of the idea with a scrawlish sort of purity. The challenge on a day like this is to not polish the idea in executing it.

One of the joys of this blog for me is in showing you the quick sketches that often please me more than the final drawing that's developed from them. Every cartoonist I've ever met has the same feeling about his/her sketches: we all wish our finished work could have the same energy and purity as the sketches in our sketchbooks.