Like she said, only a name added, not much of one but meh.

Messy sketch, all the better. Now for messy color and text.

Should have probably put up one without txt but I found my lack of background too startling. That shit scares me.

8-year-old niece "A" offered a hand in writing this out. She is a helpful squid. :)

Got carried away with details on the walls of our old garden, hardly qualifies as a sketch anymore ^^;

Metaphorest Tiny story is responsible for this 'Fiendish' theme.

So, Yay for that! :D

Scrawl > Penmanship; the lost art.

Perspective is a bitch. Fortunately, imagined friends can defy physics amongst other great evils.

Niece "A" hand painted the happy face for the balloon. Possibly what I like best... No, swirls. I like swirls better than details, by a lot!

Exclaiming a thing can make it more excitable... or deafening. Either way, use caution.

In which MME is very small and HE is very big, possibly too big to fit in frame... had to draw the others rather separate.

SHE + IT, interacting. This scene was intended to be a tea-party, even started out that way but devolved into this wonder... because this came out so much cleaner and messier and funnier and just made me too happy to part with, it stands alone :D

Niece 'A' did the hand writing again this time. Not the speech bubbles though, that was last minute-me.
....YAY for all four 'Imaginary Fiends' being in the same frame, at the same time, interacting (of all things!)

"friendship" from the third Tiny Stories book.

...we've officially run out of scrap paper writing out all these tiny stories. What a worthy death.

Classic theme in a (hopefully) none-to-classic way. The hardest bit was to write ‘Evil’ rather than ‘Ebil!”

Think I've got one, maybe two more "Imaginary Fiend" drawings left in me, quite tired now... ^^;

Niece "A" wrote the scrawl again, she's getting quite good at it.
Niece "G" posed for the shout-y flail-y bit, she's quite good at that as well.

Edited lovingly, mildly and with too much special sauce.

{despite the spelling MME is pronounces 'Emmy', it's meant to be visually puntastic. probably should have said as much before}

Niece "A" work tirelessly on making every doodle on MME's table. She is a dedicated squid.

[which is pronounced 'Emmy', since I never remember to note it.]

The word "Splendid".. well it just is.

Alas, no sketch because I was prick enough to ink and color without thought to scanning, making a wonderful mess of things. "Happy little incidents" as Bob Ross likes to say.

This is the last in the "Imaginary Fiend" theme, I think... unless I come across any new material/tiny stories that broaches the topic, which is entirely possible.

I might make a 'Massive Adventure' cover and print it out for my nieces and a few kids in their class. Maybe even listen to some of the massive adventures with their Imagined Fiends, get inspired. Maybe even RECord them, who knows.

always.

characters are far-eviler's. i own nothing except for the art.

I thought I was done but then this one crept up on me while riding the bus, so because unexpected things happen unexpectedly. :D

public domain video footage:
http://www.archive.org/details/batteriesnotincluded_2009
http://www.archive.org/details/JoanAvoi1947

My cousin K. picked Toss' 'Imaginary Foe' Story to illustrate next.

K. specifically wanted to give HE a chance to have a voice.

But once the HE vs. SHE narrative started, the whole thing took on this terrifically insightful feminist perspective. I know K. was pretty proud, loved pulling faces for me and picking their poses.

I don't even know the right words to express my delight in that. :)

My cousin K. picked Toss' 'Imaginary Foe' Story to illustrate next.

K. specifically wanted to give HE a chance to have a voice.

But once the HE vs. SHE narrative started, the whole thing took on this terrifically insightful feminist perspective. I know K. was pretty proud, loved pulling faces for me and picking their poses.

I don't even know the right words to express my delight in that. :)

I've got an obsession with imaginary friends. I had none as a child and deeply resented anyone who did. And I'll admit it, once I was too old for it and understood they were a psycho-sociological crutch, instead of feeling a sense of superiority ...I HAD to go invent my own, who remains to this day. Of course he then got two of his own but that's an entirely separate problem.

I'm as obsessed with them now as I was at 7. I spend hours talking to my niece, "A", about hers [she's got eight of 'em] and pretending out the acts from stories they've made us crave. Call them imagined or ghosts or muses or whatever, they still bleed thru our brain-box w/ better worlds than words can make. How can anyone ever tire of that?

I've created an album entitled "Imaginary Fiends", not just as resources but as inspiration. And I will do something with it because mine and "A"s IF's get us into more trouble than not ...and they are poking. Spent all of today building character designs, mostly for reference because I'm for crap with consistency. I will (I Will, I WILL) draw a illustrated panel for each txt collected. Something story-book-ish but I'm no animator or editor or gadget master extraordinaire. If I had a decent mic I would even record "A" reading them out, possibly, maybe... we shall see what comes of it.

I've given myself a week to do this thing. And only a week...

(reference the "Girls Are Strong" image.)

Alright kids, I need a proper message for the sign... and possibly an message for MME's t-shirt.

"Imagine a Better Tomorrow" is well good, kitchy and lovely but it isn't quite everything.

Simplest straight forward messages are best but there is a lot the original image says without one specific angle.

Feminist!Me loves the 'Woman's right' angle but I also love the subtle dig that of voters who don't vote are wasting a choice that under-aged citizens would jump at. There are countless ickle needy peoples made subject to our indifference, that in itself is a rage-worthy cause. Not irrational rage, mind you, just a driving force, the same one that should get people off their asses + into the voting booth Nov 2nd.

But how to say capture that, exactly. I dunno. Writing isn't my strength. Word vomit, yes, but prose, not so much.

[I'll have this colored by days end, so suggest away so that I might get it done quicker, your fodder gets it done... or even use the line-art to create your own thingum. go to town. make the thing, it'll be awesome.]

Very determined to finish this thing, especially after recent events. Finishing works, making RECords has never been more important.

My little cousins (C. [age 9], K. [age 8] and D. [age16]) spent the weekend and amongst the late-night cuddles and card-games, I shared the "Imaginary Fiends" illustrations. They had loads of input so we made variants. K. picked a new Tiny Story to illustrate. C. re-wrote an old one and D. took to the "Again By Heart" message and made some graffiti to go with.

Give a kid a creative outlet and there is no end to the freakin' awesome they bring.

its hard to tell here but that chair had a pair of eyes and floppy ears. he was my best friend for a while

These moments call for a dream eater.

No text or story for this.

The was thing that I was doodling when I was supposed to be story-boarding.

MME is dressed like a (space)robot, IT is dressed like a cat. They're happy holloweenies!