Cartoony Looney – 85

Credit cards are distributed so freely today I suppose that some non-humans have credit ratings. Ordering by phone from a catalog dates this strip from 20+ years ago.

Wendell (Blubber Buns) and Beckle (Feather Duster) are © 2019 DOuG pRATt (Dog Rat), All Rights Reserved

I love classic cartooning styles, and I drew this logo sketch of a generic character a few minutes ago.

That Was Their Finest Hour

D-Day+75 years is tomorrow, and with all of the attention being paid to the invasion itself, I would like to note the contributions of the women in Britain who toiled in the fields. The Women’s Land Army.

© Imperial War Museums

PBS Masterpiece ran a beautifully presented and addictive soap opera, Home Fires, about women in a rural village during the war. I was really caught up in it, but the series ended abruptly after the second season.

Clare Calbraith

Clare Calbraith played a farmer’s wife, which meant her character didn’t need to join the Woman’s Land Army, she just had to “carry on.” Clare was nevertheless presented in clothing that was in keeping with the service.

For a view of women working in factories there is the wartime movie “Millions Like Us.” It has strong soap opera elements, which not only make it entertaining, but show what they were fighting for — lives that aren’t lived for the glory of a dictator.

Cartoony Looney – 84

This is the first strip of a 2-parter. I experimented a bit with the character designs here, which I quickly abandoned. For example, Wendell is gigantic and his tusks are unmanageably long.

Wendell (Blubber Buns) and Beckle (Feather Duster) are © 2019 DOuG pRATt (Dog Rat), All Rights Reserved

Don’t ask me what today’s logo sketch is supposed to be, because I’m not entirely sure yet. It’s for the other project I want to develop.