Pathos in Childrens' Art

The pathos displayed in this comic is the exact reason I enjoy childrens' art. They draw exactly what they see. Most of the time. That's what I want to preserve, before the truth-tellingness is sucked right out of them.

Tonight, One From Each

I am seriously falling behind in posting drawings here, and the kids just keep on producing them. I've got a bale scanned and another bale waiting to be scanned and I'm beginning to feel like one of those hoarders they have on TV. So I'm offering up three drawings tonight.

The first, shown above, is another Scooter comic from our oldest. This is kind of copied from Peanuts. Almost.

This one is the oldest I've got still to use. It's a portrait of our youngest on the left, by our youngest, done more than a year ago. That's me on the right, with his mom in the middle.

Then there's this contribution from our daughter: Typical.

Calvin-Inspired

Now our oldest is into the Calvin and Hobbes comics.

You know, while we're on the subject: I don't much care for C&H these days. Part of it might be that I'm growing more into a grumpy old man, but the more I read Calvin the more I see that he's just a kid spouting adult ideas. I know Charles Schulz' kids did that as well, but it was from more of a realistic, childlike position. Calvin's all adult, all the time.

I'm much more in love with Sparky's creations, and Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac.

End of soapbox.

Sparky Understood

Just another comic strip reminder -- from one of my favorite comic strip artists -- of why I keep this blog. Great art should never be mushed up.

This is the final panel from this Charles Schulz comic strip, showing Lucy doing one of her extremely Spartan housecleanings:

Used under the fair use doctrine for commentary purposes.

I know the few times my kids caught me "mushing up" their art before I created this blog -- and the idea of preserving their bales of keepsake papers via computer rather than in original format -- I hear about it for days. And days. And given that I have only two or three bits of art that I produced as a kid, here's to hoping I'm doing them a service with this. Cloud, just don't blow up.