Rappahannock Glub Glub

Where should a new bridge over the Rappahannock River be built?

This was drawn for the FXBG Advance. Read Hank Silverberg’s story here.

It seems most of the proposed routes, if not all, land you in Central Park. How convenient.

Creative note: So I started this cartoon on a ping-pong table.

Actually, the rough was drawn on my lady friend’s kitchen counter Thursday night. I sent two ideas to Martin, my editor, and he liked both, so we’ll probably do the other one next week. We’ll call her L-Girl. The real drawing started Friday on the ping-pong table in the game room of her building, which I did while she was in the gym (L Girl didn’t want to leave me alone in her apartment out of fear I’d start rifling through her stuff). And ya know, it’s hard to draw on a ping-pong table if your chair is too short. The table is right at your chest which makes you feel like a child at a dinner table.

I worked on it some more in her apartment last night and this morning. And when she went to her favorite gym outside of her building, I completed it at a nearby Starbucks.

I finished the cartoon before L-Girl came back to get me, but it wasn’t easy. Two ladies, a daughter and a mother, saw me drawing and cornered me to talk about cartooning. The mother said to me, “I hope if you’re drawing President Trump that you’re nice to him…do you ever draw Mr. Musk?” What I do in these situations is just grin. I’m not about to debate old ladies in Starbucks.

The daughter left to bring their car around…and then left her mom to talk to me. And she wouldn’t stop talking. Finally, her daughter called to tell her she was out front. What did her mother do? She put her bag on the table, sat down, and continued talking to me about Joe Biden’s terrorists attacking New Orleans and Las Vegas. She was like, “fuck my daughter…I’m talking to a cartoonist.” I gave her my card and she said, “I guess I better go, but I’ll text you.” I said sure, knowing my number was not on the card (and that’s exactly why my number is not on my business cards). That text to an Alex Jones video isn’t going anywhere.

These underwater scenes are fun to draw, but this was a challenge. L-Girl was working too while I was drawing, but I disturbed her a few times with questions like, “name a freshwater fish.” She threw out that dolphins do swim up rivers, so there’s a dolphin. She also helped with the espanol in the cartoon. She knew her shit too, making sure it was plural. It’s also a challenge to add new details and Easter eggs to these scenes and not just repeat the ones I drew in the past. I added a few eggs local to the Fredericksburg area.

I enjoy drawing local cartoons.

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