Today, Loyd sent me a series of "tag doodles," small quickie cartoons he doodles on these tags that are lying around at his job which, like my own, is a often BORING factory kind! I'm posting these because, upon looking at them, I laughed out loud for the first time in a LONG TIME. These may seem simple, but as a guy who also draws cartoons every now and then, I can appreciate how good they are-- and they're slap-dash doodles, not even anything he slaved over. His cartoon work has a "kick" that mine doesn't; before you even finish reading the text, you're already laughing. He's always had this ability, and it's something that I've rarely ever been able to touch-- my stuff is often very "controlled."
I remember being a preteen, MANY YEARS AGO, and Loyd was visiting me and my brother, and all of the sudden I hear laughter coming from my brother's room. I carry my doofy pre-pubescent frame into the room, and there's Loyd with scissors and scrap cardboard, creating two cardboard-figured superheroes, Cardboard Man and his sidekick, Skippy. I remember the duct-tape cape, the drawn-on goggles, and the husky Skippy's spit curl, drawn down the dead center of his forehead. They were each made out of a single piece of brown cardboard, and Loyd took a marker and drew their costumes on. And I remember the hilarity that ensued, when he then began construction on the "Cardboardmobile." I wish so badly that we'd saved them. Then there was the afternoon playing with the church Play-Doh, and some Mego figures that met their doom, but that was from TOO long ago for me to remember it all! Enjoy these, as if you have a choice!
