More Little Sketches from 2002...

More sketches from the year 2002! And Data is a cute widdle Andwoid! Especially when Commander Riker had the power to allow him to laugh that one time....


datalaugh Ah, my gold-skinned obsession-of-the-time! (I also liked LeVar Burton, which is why I watched his segments of Reading Rainbow, which was ironically on in between episodes of Star Trek TNG!)

In other news of 2002, I had bought an Olympic torchbearer's medal at an antique shop and tried to make a rubbing of it (below).
` The wolf who receives this medal refers to a comic strip I made when I was about eleven, where the wolf enters a joke contest. I don't remember his name, but his competitor was Hickey the Hyrax, who tells such terrible jokes that the wolf eyes him hungrily.
` As a last resort, Hickey tries to surround himself with speech bubbles, but the wolf bursts through them and eats him!

medal This is actually supposed to be a reflection, so it's upside-down.


upsidedown Here's a bizarrely-enlarged drawing of Gourdy I did with my left hand.


leftygourdy I actually did quite a few 'lefty' drawings and compared them with 'righty' drawings - of note is Sideshow Bob. (God, I love Kelsey Grammar!) Do take note of the Zorak beside him....


sideshowbob You can see these better, of course, if you just click on the image. Below here, on the left page, is more bunny/Gourdy/Katie cat goodness, along with Lt. Commander Data. On the right hand page are some strange things.
` One of them is a Christmas tree topped with the head of a Ferengi, those ultra-capitalist aliens from Star Trek. It garnered a lot of laughter (considering that Christmas can be considered an ultra-capitalist holiday)!


randomness More random and purposely-distorted sketches of Katie Girl cat. Oh yes, and the mouse heads are actually inspired by one of the gross mouse stories from way back in the day of early blogging.


catsnmouseheads I had this friend Tiffini once... or twice, as she moved far away for several years at some point. I remembered I used to draw us as these little creatures - a gangly Spoonodon and an Armored Tiffinitank!

mentiffini On the next pages, I kinda got on a roll with something I invented in third grade. The black rats were the kids in my Special Ed class while the white lab mice were the 'screws':
` I was having huge conflicts because the adults would drag me down the steps and such and I believed myself to be a bad kid. Not only that, I was in a class of bad students, so I thought; Hey! Let's make a party out of it! Now we were bad... to the bone, while the adults were a bunch of pansy lameasses.


whitemiceandblackrats Actually, the original idea, I believe, came from being forced to sing - in music class - gospel songs like Angels Watching Over Me. Well, people kept telling me that there were these things called angels and that they were real and that they got rid of evil or some such thing.
` Well, as my psychotic, paranoid dad had always made sure I 'knew' I was a horrible, crazy, manipulating bitch all the time (little did I know, it's because he's that way with everyone and it is because of him that I was so fearful of everyone that I had to go to Special Ed), anyway, I figured those angels would get me sooner or later!

So, I got myself a piece of green construction paper and drew the kids as angels and the screws as devils, because I knew who was really good and who was really bad. (And yes, I was right!) Then, I saw just how cool my drawings of the devils were as compared with the dorky angels, and decided that since bad was good and good was bad, might as well switch it around, eh?
` It wasn't too long before I became too uncomfortable with the 'devils and angels' bit, so I tried a number of various creatures which look cool in black but dorky in white, and one set that I settled on was the black rats and white mice. (The black rats always had a stealth bomber, by the way... the mice just had a hang glider or something....)

` Moving on, I found it odd that I'd drawn Katie all over my sketchbooks, but not once at that point had I included any other cats. Well, here, for the first time, Katie's sister Ashlie, the former outdoor cat Polydactyl Amy (who I think may still be alive at this time), and Blackie the Dull Boy, who was always so messed-up from my grandparents having had him declawed.
` Though Katie napped with the best of 'em, and apparently snuggled with a Velociraptor, I'm pleased to see how lifelike I managed to draw the other cats in some cases.
` (I suggest clicking on this one to view its sheer size.)


thecats Oh, that one in there isn't a cat, though... it's a Tommy. In 2002, he was New To Her, and today, they live in a boat in the Atlantic somewhere.... Nice, huh?