Sunday, June 20, 2021

Solstice June 2021


 

Harriet: The Search for the Petrified Dragon

Toonsup.com is the home of many talented artists.  In addition to each artist featuring their own cartoons, often collaborations pop up like pinballs, bouncing off of our goofy discussions.  Guaranteed we all feature in each other's drawings at some point. (in my own "Noble Failure: the 24-Hour Cake, the frosting decorations are all other cartoonists in Toonsup).

A major recent project by Klaus "PAM" is the stellar action-packed "Lawnmower Race" about a tooth-and-nail competition between a diesel-powered gas-guzzling lawn tractor and a solar-powered ecologically friendly lawnmower, with help and interference by an uzi-wielding Sun Goddess, a madman with a pushmower trying to catch a crafty cat, and a couple of TV commentators trying desperately to narrate it all coherently.

Now PAM has teamed up with Sasin and ArmerArmin, on a comic adventure called "Harriet" which begins: "When the world was still young, the first dragon was a Queen named Mim.  She protected her people with love and care, and all lived in peace and harmony.  Until one day a dark cloud appeared..."

the story features biplanes, bazaars, wild and mythological animals, treachery, adventure, mystery, and not a little of the supernatural.

The cover page shows at least seven of the artists from toonsup, rendered as characters: