#584. Leo Five Thursday

(I'm a pretty big Beatles fan, though this one ends alluding specifically to a George Harrison song, "My Sweet Lord," after referencing a Beatles album, Rubber Soul, which is considered the first of their great work.  It features "Drive My Car," "Norwegian Wood," "Nowhere Man," "Michelle," "Girl," "In My Life," and others.  "Rubber soul" is a term I've adopted for myself, trying to figure out why it's so hard to find others like me.  I've used it in my poetry.  The Q&A format of this one comes from one of the books I'm currently reading, Rez Salute by Jim Northtrup.)

579. Direct Current Friday

That's the kind of day I had, which is good, because usually I've just been angry depressed at my current job.  Being sarcastic was a massive coping mechanism when I was working at the bookstore.  We all had radios, and when I was being funny sarcastic (because angry sarcastic is bad, or so I've learned), I could make people like me.  I'm naturally a reserved individual.  The way I blog is the way I'd talk, but a lot of what I yammer about when I blog goes over my beloved readers' heads, and it's really no different in real life.  I really haven't known anyone in real life who will tolerate me talking about the things that interest me, including my peculiar observations just from life.  That's half of the reason why I write.  And figuring out how to make it acceptable in blog form has been another process.  These cartoony things will become funny (hopefully), but the introduction has to be a little different.

#578. Leo Five Thursday

This one stinks, but I promise the next one won't.  This is the sixth trial run.  The last five were more than a year before I had any readers.  Leo Five himself retains his terrible design.  That is all.

#269. Leo Five

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Above are five really crude Leo Five cartoons. You can see for yourself how really, really crude they are. Why the heck am I even posting them? Well, long story short, I've been an amateur cartoonist pretty much my whole life. Recently, I picked up a couple of Penny Arcade collections, and that's pretty much why these are here. This is not to say Leo Five is inspired by or responding to Penny Arcade, just that you know who to blame directly. There's a cat named Tristan referenced in one of them because it's a nod to the indirect inspiration behind this whole debacle, an overheard and misheard set of names. There is obviously no one actually named Leo Five. Which means there should be a really, really crude cartoon strip named Leo Five.

...Obviously...