Inktober 5: Map
What should we do today?–Pool party off the coast of Florida? Picnic in the Midwest? Tennis in the Rockies? Puddle jumping in the Great Lakes? Oops–don’t trip over the Appalachians!
Or maybe we could help the mouse in Alaska figure out what’s wrong with this picture? š
I love drawing a big group of mice scurrying around doing different things, and this was so much fun! Putting in the mountain ranges reminded me very much of filling in geography maps in school.
Inktober 4: Dodge
This prompt immediately, and unfortunately, brought back memories of dodgeball in high school gym class. There was always a group of boys who just wanted to see if they could raise welts on each other, and everyone else spent the class trying not to get caught in the cross-fire. I can still hear the *thwap* of a dodgeball hitting the wood floor with the approximate speed of a space capsule on re-entry….
Inktober 3: Path
Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iā
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Another comic–let no one say that I started Inktober on a slow foot!
The Mice are having a pretty rough time of it, too. Crazy dreams, squashed by elephants, dropped off cliffs…..
In school I was given the pretty popular “Be original! Blaze your own trail! etc.” interpretation of this poem, so I decided to follow that advice with an opposite interpretation. But I read that Frost actually wrote this poem as a joke about his friend’s indecisiveness over which path to take when they were out walking–rather more low-stakes than setting out your life’s destiny (assuming that there were no actual cliffs in the vicinity). So perhaps the joke is on us, too, for taking him to seriously. š
Inktober 2: Spider
There’s a NO in “arachNOphobia.” š¬
*No mice were harmed in the making of this comic, but they may have experienced the heebie-jeebies.*
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If you’re wondering why there’s suddenly a random elephant in the comic…
In the very first Lab Mice drawings (a series of doodles on a high school biology quiz), a mouse met an elephant, who panicked (“elephants are afraid of mice”) and inadvertently squished the mouse. The mouse reappeared in a body cast, the elephant apologized, and the two agreed to be friends. And then Elephant almost never appeared again. So here she is, 18 years later! Does a character count as “recurring” if she’s only seen about once every decade?
Inktober 1: Dream
The Mice eat a lot of cheese, and probably dream of cheese. And if cheese gives you weird dreams, then….
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