Exciting New peradventures of James Paul McCartney...
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Tori in Texas:
ROTFLMHO!!! I did a lot of cartooning, too. My friends and I had books and books of stuff we did, almost like cartoon journals of stuff going on at school and in the world. I did a lot of surreal art, too, and my art teacher couldn't see it even when I pointed it out. They always had me do either 3 of everything assigned or had me do, like, huge, because I was so fast. At the end of one semester a bunch of us got together and did our artwork that was due on Monday. We did an entire six weeks of art in 2 days, thanks to The White Album and Abbey Road over and over and over. We all turned in dozens and dozens of drawings of the Beatles. The art teacher imposed the No Beatles Rule. It reminded me of the "No Stairway to Heaven" sign in the music store in Wayne's World. So the next semester...it was SOLO Paul and SOLO John, etc. But, yeah, I couldn't turn in cartoons as artwork, either. The worst thing that happened when one of the books got picked up in class...by one of the teachers featured regularly. Our jaws hit our desks. We thought we were dead. He had a great sense of humor about it though, and later he and two other teachers brought in their yearbooks with the cartoons they had drawn. Tori (somewhere between the sublime and the ridiculous) in Texas
One other funny thing about the teacher that disliked cartoons. There was a poster contest at the school, I think it was a big contest countrywide...but they took the best from each school. It was some medical association (maybe AMA?), and there were 4 topics you could choose...I chose "Obesity". My poster was a series of about six or seven cartoons, drawn Al Jaffe MAD style (remember all the cartoons in the margins of the magazine?). It was brilliant! Anyway, I came into school one day to find my poster won! It was judged by some independent judges, not the art staff (fortunately for me). I remember the teacher being somewhat disappointed that I won. It was cool seeing it on display with a ribbon on it. I don't know whatever happened to it...I think it went on to some state competition or something. I don't think there should be any art teachers in the world that discourage cartooning! I think Paul's Artist and Composer doodles are great! I bet very few here even know that book exists. Podgie (somewhere between nothingness and infinity) Monkey [updated 7/28 to correct my double negative...I'm confused though...don't two negatives make a positive? Hmmm...that must only be in math]
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Hi Podgie! Those are fun stories from your high-school days! Those art teachers should lighten-up. We all know how John's doodles became famous!!! I also have enjoyed sketching the Beatles and some of you might remember me entering a Beatlefest art contest with my White Album pen and ink portraits of the Fabs
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MarthamyDear:
Hi Podgie! Those are fun stories from your high-school days! Those art teachers should lighten-up. We all know how John's doodles became famous!!! I also have enjoyed sketching the Beatles and some of you might remember me entering a Beatlefest art contest with my White Album pen and ink portraits of the Fabs
I loved your sketches...I voted for them even! They were great! Podgie (fellow artist) Monkey
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PodgeTheBear:
I don't know, I think if I was designin' the new Single CD...I woulda went with the whole body... Fine Line Podgie (Forget Less is More! ... More is More!) Monkey
I think that looks great!!!! When I saw it I knew just who it was but when I saw the hand I wasn't so sure who it is. I mean isn't Paul left handed still???
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One of two early 90's tour books (89/90 or 93) has a little story from Paul about the trouble he used to get into drawing naked ladies while in school. I'll have to look it up to see which one.
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It is kind of ironic, the "Fine Line" leading into the doodling...makes me wonder why Paul didn't use one of his great doodles for the CD single cover? The ironic part is that I use to doodle all the time, and haven't for years, until about three weeks ago. My secretary was giving out pens for "National Engineers Week". These pens were gel pens...I honestly never had one before. The ink is so neat, that I find myself doodling all over the place. Around my desk is covered with doodles. What is funny is that I was throwing out some papers today, and thought...man, I should keep some of these! I don't know why, I can't imagine ever doing anything with them. Then I thought...hey maybe I should post a few of them...just in honor of "A Fine Line". So here are a few of my scratching's from the Desk of Podgie The Monkey... This one is one of my favorites. I actually drew this in a staff meeting. It was going on-and-on...and I was bored. Can ya tell?!!! I actually drew it on the staff meeting agenda sheet that was handed out for the meeting. At first I only had the balloon head...near the end of the meeting, when everyone was bored, I added the hand and pin. It got a few chuckles from some of my coworkers around me who saw it. This one was just one of many on a scrap piece of paper, where I was taking notes on the phone. I thought it was kinda cute. Here is my typical doodlings. Mostly goofy heads of all sorts. This one was at the top of a sheet from a meeting. In the top margin. Kinda looks like "Kiljoy was Here" What is funny was on the same paper, this doodle was on the side next to an action item I had. Musta been thinkin' I was in over my head. Oh well, just a glimse into the mind of Podgie The Doodling Monkey....with his neat gel pen! Podgie (Fine Line Gel Pen...just showing some stuff that woulda ended up in the trash) Monkey
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those are good 'doodlings' and cool avitar btw, LOL
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Click Here to see Paul McCartney Composer/Artist This is the book that Paul released with his cartoon doodles. Very hard to find today. I wish he used one of his own drawings for the cover of "A Fine Line". He actually did use his doodles on the CD single cover of "Put It There"... Click Here to see CD single Cover for "Put It There" Podgie (Paul's my mentor) Monkey
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LOL...I should've known. I had that book-maybe still have but haven't seen it since we bought the house 2 years ago. The funny thing is that I bought it years ago (at least in the 80's if not earlier) when I tried (and failed) to learn guitar then put the book away. I began looking for it something like 3 years ago when I began my own 'doodling' on a keyboard, found it, then promptly lost it again as we began our packing. It's probably in the attic. Btw, the only thing I vividly remember is Paul's drawing of someone rolling dice for With A Little Luck.
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PodgeTheBear:
MarthamyDear:
Hi Podgie! Those are fun stories from your high-school days! Those art teachers should lighten-up. We all know how John's doodles became famous!!! I also have enjoyed sketching the Beatles and some of you might remember me entering a Beatlefest art contest with my White Album pen and ink portraits of the Fabs
I loved your sketches...I voted for them even! They were great! Podgie (fellow artist) Monkey
Thanks for the compliment Your doodles are very good and funny!!!!! Podgie, you have real talent
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ROTFLMHO!!!!! Yes, along with Dracula's Greatest Hits, I had Paul's doodle book, too. Too funny!! Click to see the Back of Paul's Doodle Book rich n, you must mean this one: Paul's With A Little Luck doodle I like your doodles, Podgie. Yeah, that one reminded me of Kilroy or Kiljoy or whatever Kil he was. My favorite is the balloon one, too.
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Unless you meant this one, rolling dice. Paul's Get On The Right Thing doodle. My favorite is the guy with the huge eyebrow. The sailor with "Edna" on his arm cracked me up, too. And the Heart of the Country hamster guy eating Crunchy Wheat!!!
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Tori in Texas:
Unless you meant this one, rolling dice.
LOL...Nah, you were right with the first one...Thanks
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The Fine Exciting Line Adventures of Paul With a Rapidograph Pen.
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Thanks for the tip about the Gel pens, Podgie! They're GREAT. I was probably one of the few people to use those fountain style ink pens with the nib, nub, neb, whatever, at the end. Can be messy though. I used the ones with cartridges. Markers are great at first but they get mushy real quick. The Gel pen is great. Okay, show me yours I'll show you mine, eh? LOL!! Here's some of mine. Bored while waiting at a repair shop. : ![](http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6065/blowfish9rr.jpg[/img] [img]<a href=)http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8775/seahorse0vz.jpg[/img] [img]http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4733/catfish5dt.jpg"/> The whole scene. Click for Full
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Man, Paul should have "a Fine Line Marker" contest!!! Tori, isn't Texas desert? Looks like you yearn for the ocean! I love the aquatic scene. The seahorse is my fav. I remember those cartridge pens with the nib ends, I use to use one also....use to make quite a mess at times also. Somewhere in storage is some old sketchbooks I use to have...makes me watch to dig through boxes...I bet they would be a bigger laugh now. Or probably, it would be funnier just things I use to think were funny back then. Back when I first started in Engineering, I use to have a huge blotter pad on my desk. I use to doodle on it. One day I started making squares, and would add cartoons to a few blocks each day. It turned into the whole problem solving and fixing procedure at work. It was very funny and the other Engineers use to come over and read it for a laugh. One day the head of Engineering came to my desk (he didn't have a sense of humor). I was called in by my Manager and told to remove it...It was "Unprofessional". What is funny is that it became kind of a joke, but a few years ago we started this program to save money and cut costs. They actually used my cartoon in one of the engineering projects to show how comical some of the steps we use to require to fix things was. It really did make fun of crazy bureaucracy. Good thing I didn't throw it out. Podgie (back to doodling with his newly discovered gel pen) Monkey
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PodgeTheBear:
Man, Paul should have "a Fine Line Marker" contest!!!
I think Klaus Vooorman would win. Again.
PodgeTheBear:
Tori, isn't Texas desert? Looks like you yearn for the ocean! I love the aquatic scene. The seahorse is my fav.
Nope. You're thinking Arizona. They made all the westerns in Arizona and California so everyone thinks Texas looks like Monument Valley. Well, parts of west Texas sort of do. Out there desert is deserty and the mountains are mountainy and down at the Gulf coast, the beach is oceany. Not quite as nice as Florida, but, you know, with all the oil rigs off shore, you have to kind of expect the water to be a bit...browner. : But the rest is just sort of...big. But thanks! I don't know if it was because I was thinking about scuba diving or because there was a Long John Silver's next door; maybe I was thinking of the Gulf Coast or was I sitting there forever waiting for them to finish and thinking I'd like to be under the sea...but Hemmingway...
PodgeTheBear:
I remember those cartridge pens with the nib ends, I use to use one also....use to make quite a mess at times also. Somewhere in storage is some old sketchbooks I use to have...makes me watch to dig through boxes...I bet they would be a bigger laugh now. Or probably, it would be funnier just things I use to think were funny back then.
Messy changing the ink cartridge. But then you have 10 minutes of finger painting.
PodgeTheBear:
Back when I first started in Engineering, I use to have a huge blotter pad on my desk. I use to doodle on it. One day I started making squares, and would add cartoons to a few blocks each day. It turned into the whole problem solving and fixing procedure at work. It was very funny and the other Engineers use to come over and read it for a laugh. One day the head of Engineering came to my desk (he didn't have a sense of humor). I was called in by my Manager and told to remove it...It was "Unprofessional". What is funny is that it became kind of a joke, but a few years ago we started this program to save money and cut costs. They actually used my cartoon in one of the engineering projects to show how comical some of the steps we use to require to fix things was. It really did make fun of crazy bureaucracy. Good thing I didn't throw it out. Podgie (back to doodling with his newly discovered gel pen) Monkey
Podgie!! Are you Dilbert!?! It's a fine time between restlessness and porridge If you don't mind, I'd like more time before I wake In the meantime, think I'll take a mental voyage In my own mind, take an imaginary break. An imagination break. Sorry, that was noodling...back to doodling. Tori (I'm using a Pilot G-2 gel pen :mrgreen *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* deep in the heart o'Texas
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Dr. Who has had another regeneration. Dr. Who and McCartney Rose It's a Time Line between Eccelston and Tennant...
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PodgeTheBear:
Man, Paul should have "a Fine Line Marker" contest!!! Tori, isn't Texas desert? Looks like you yearn for the ocean! I love the aquatic scene. The seahorse is my fav. I remember those cartridge pens with the nib ends, I use to use one also....use to make quite a mess at times also. Somewhere in storage is some old sketchbooks I use to have...makes me watch to dig through boxes...I bet they would be a bigger laugh now. Or probably, it would be funnier just things I use to think were funny back then. Back when I first started in Engineering, I use to have a huge blotter pad on my desk. I use to doodle on it. One day I started making squares, and would add cartoons to a few blocks each day. It turned into the whole problem solving and fixing procedure at work. It was very funny and the other Engineers use to come over and read it for a laugh. One day the head of Engineering came to my desk (he didn't have a sense of humor). I was called in by my Manager and told to remove it...It was "Unprofessional". What is funny is that it became kind of a joke, but a few years ago we started this program to save money and cut costs. They actually used my cartoon in one of the engineering projects to show how comical some of the steps we use to require to fix things was. It really did make fun of crazy bureaucracy. Good thing I didn't throw it out. Podgie (back to doodling with his newly discovered gel pen) Monkey
Great story, Podgie. I'm not that talented as you and Tori, so I won't posting a doodle here
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Tori in Texas:
Thanks for the tip about the Gel pens, Podgie! They're GREAT. I was probably one of the few people to use those fountain style ink pens with the nib, nub, neb, whatever, at the end. Can be messy though. I used the ones with cartridges. Markers are great at first but they get mushy real quick. The Gel pen is great. Okay, show me yours I'll show you mine, eh? LOL!! Here's some of mine. Bored while waiting at a repair shop. : ![](http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6065/blowfish9rr.jpg[/img] [img]<a href=)http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8775/seahorse0vz.jpg[/img] [img]http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4733/catfish5dt.jpg"/> The whole scene. Click for Full
great doodles Tori