I’m working on a new cartoon. God help us all.

I thought of this idea a couple years ago, and it has evolved a lot during the writing process. I can’t really describe it, but it has something to do with making a living. (That is, the subject of the short is making a living– I doubt any actual living will be made by me from the short).

As I go I’ll post bits and pieces here, and at the Mystery Work In Progress page. Years from now, reading this log will be like going on an archeological excavation through sedimentary layers of creative detritus. (fitting, as this project is unfolding on a geological time scale)

Here are some of the very first thumbnail sketches made for this project. Crude! Crass! I like it already.

CLUES:

What’s the cartoon called?

The title will go unannounced until we’re sure this thing is really going to work out. Stay tuned.

What’s the story about?

Making a living.

When will it be finished?

Sometime in 2007 is our best guess.

May contain one or more of the following:

- satellites
- private moments
- burning at the stake
- birds, dead and alive (also, owls & wild dogs)
- fluorescent lighting
- farmers “doing it”
- the water
- fear, boredom, transcendence, hypocrisy

As usual, almost all sketches are done on lined notebook paper, using Chris Harding’s drawing tool of choice: the Sanford Uni-Ball Onyx Micro rollerball pen. A glorious instrument.