To Boldly Go

There’s an ADD aspect to the cartoon I’ve posted at Nobrow Cartoons.

It’s this:

There’s a cartoon posted at Nobrow Cartoons.

I’ve been thinking about this pun for a long time. I’ve been meaning to draw it and send it to Neatorama’s Neato Shop (as a t-shirt.) I wasn’t planning to draw it today. It was on my list, but only because it’s been on my list for the last few months. But I was sidetracked by writing a long post about puns — I’m trying to post more often at my cartoon blog, as proof that I haven’t expired along with my career — and using the aforementioned cartoon as my example.

I did a few edits that lasted a few minutes that lasted a few hours that came to a halt when I reared back, grabbed hold of my desk to prevent further sliding (down the slippery slope of Time), saved the draft, and staggered away.

Good, I said. I stopped. Wasted an hour too many, but I stopped.

Good.

But I didn’t feel all that good. I’d spent two hours writing about a cartoon that I haven’t drawn because it might take two hours to draw it.

So I boldly went where I hadn’t gone before. Did a little research. Drew a first draft, scanned it, tweaked it, colored it, and sent it to Neatorama.

Elapsed time: 1 hour, 38 minutes. I didn’t redraw it. I didn’t let it sit for days while I revised it. I didn’t aim for perfection. I aimed to get it done.

It’s the weirdest feeling. Almost Lovecraftian.

 

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