Of course, the real joke is that by commandeering the learning process to impose her vision over what would been Original Fifties Mister Potato Head that called Hasbro a registered trademark of Hassenfeld Brothers Toy Company, Elly is committing the same act of sabotage that waving that damn flip book around is.
if this were about grandpa wanting to spend time with the kids he would watch TV with them. I'll still bet anything Lynn would have a higher opinion of TV if the animated versions of her cartoons had been as successful as the Peanuts and Garfield ones were.
She did have her own TV series, but she did not like the outcome because they did not give her creative control. The animated specials in the early days when they gave her absolute creative control were the ones she loved.
One of the funniest projects my daughter was asked to participate in was a vegetable art show. What you see in this drawing cannot compare with the wonderful “sculptures” her grade 3 class made. As a cartoonist, I had the best time just wandering around the exhibits. I couldn’t laugh out loud, but my smile must have been audible!
One of the funniest projects my daughter was asked to participate in was a vegetable art show.
While the story is about April participating with Elly's "help", I can't help but to notice the Lynnglish at work here. Notice that Lynn does not say that Kate participated, only that she was asked to participate.
What you see in this drawing cannot compare with the wonderful “sculptures” her grade 3 class made.
I do like the way Lynn honestly indicates that her drawings were not as good as what the Grade 3 kids did. Looking at Lynn's drawings, I would have to agree. A Grade 3 kid would have come up with something better.
As a cartoonist, I had the best time just wandering around the exhibits.
Here, Lynn pretty much indicates that all she did was wander around the exhibit and she did not do an "Elly" on participation. However, I am not sure how a cartoonist wandering about would be any different from anyone else. Grade 3 means this is a Corbeil story and like many Corbeil stories involving Lynn's kids, this story has nothing
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The turnip creature ends up being just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of drawing the bizarre and ugly.
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I'm suddenly thinking of Louis Wain....
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Of course, the real joke is that by commandeering the learning process to impose her vision over what would been Original Fifties Mister Potato Head that called Hasbro a registered trademark of Hassenfeld Brothers Toy Company, Elly is committing the same act of sabotage that waving that damn flip book around is.
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And of course, there are other ways to be no help. One is to make a useful skill into a sort of punishment:
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if this were about grandpa wanting to spend time with the kids he would watch TV with them. I'll still bet anything Lynn would have a higher opinion of TV if the animated versions of her cartoons had been as successful as the Peanuts and Garfield ones were.
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She did have her own TV series, but she did not like the outcome because they did not give her creative control. The animated specials in the early days when they gave her absolute creative control were the ones she loved.
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She may have loved them but the TV audience didn't love them anywhere near as much as Peanuts, etc. which I have no doubt soured Lynn on TV.
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And, of course, we get a Lynn Lake anecdote:
One of the funniest projects my daughter was asked to participate in was a vegetable art show. What you see in this drawing cannot compare with the wonderful “sculptures” her grade 3 class made. As a cartoonist, I had the best time just wandering around the exhibits. I couldn’t laugh out loud, but my smile must have been audible!
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One of the funniest projects my daughter was asked to participate in was a vegetable art show.
While the story is about April participating with Elly's "help", I can't help but to notice the Lynnglish at work here. Notice that Lynn does not say that Kate participated, only that she was asked to participate.
What you see in this drawing cannot compare with the wonderful “sculptures” her grade 3 class made.
I do like the way Lynn honestly indicates that her drawings were not as good as what the Grade 3 kids did. Looking at Lynn's drawings, I would have to agree. A Grade 3 kid would have come up with something better.
As a cartoonist, I had the best time just wandering around the exhibits.
Here, Lynn pretty much indicates that all she did was wander around the exhibit and she did not do an "Elly" on participation. However, I am not sure how a cartoonist wandering about would be any different from anyone else. Grade 3 means this is a Corbeil story and like many Corbeil stories involving Lynn's kids, this story has nothing ( ... )
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If she had been there long enough and had remembered one of the presentations, she would have attempted to duplicate it.
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