Normally, you would yell at someone to ‘put a sock in it’ when you want them to shut, but that probably wouldn’t appear too visually comprehensible when drawn poking out of the ceiling. It wouldn’t be very watertight either. hence the change of the sock to a cork, still a phase that’s used quite often, but not one I’d automatically reach for.
I drew an old fashioned incandescent bulb in frame three rather than a low energy one for much the same reason.
It’s not the water that drives you mad… it’s the waiting!
Originally I drew this with Jones being the one the drops of water landed on – but halfway through inking I changed my mind. So there’s been a bit of serious Photoshop work going on with this one, swapping the smooth and fuzzy tails around, and removing the markings from Jones and putting them on Smith instead.
This week’s cartoons were drawn and inked in the Foyer of the White Rock Theatre, Hastings, during performances of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Carousel by my drama group, the Hastleons. I hate Carousel with a vengeance, it’s like someone came up with a checklist of everything that can be bad about musical theatre and then built a show around it. So I opted to forgo appearing in this show and worked front of house instead, selling programmes. Once the audience was in the auditorium and the soundproof doors were safely closed I cleared the programme table and sat down and pencilled the next three week’s worth of strips.
Incidentally, Carousel was apparently an excellent production. The audience loved it. I tried, but I only managed to get halfway through the first act before I had to leave. Nothing wrong with the performances, but the show itself makes me want to projectile vomit.
