Hello, drawing book readers! This week, we’re finally looking back into the old sketchbook journals I kept many years ago, when I was a twenty-something flight attendant trying to navigate life in Calgary. In this episode, which was written as a web comic, I wrote about my friend’s wedding.
The story starts with four high school friends. It might be a bit tricky to figure out who is who, because I have taken out the names. Without the names, some of these pages are a bit confusing, but hopefully you get the general idea!
At the time of this story, two of the friends were already married. Now the third friend was getting married, in the summer of 2002. The fourth friend was me!
At this spot in the web comic, when I posted it online in 2002, I included this page from an earlier drawing book, with the heading, “Flashback to (one of those four friends)’ wedding!” In this picture, I notice I drew myself in a brown suede jacket that my dad bought for me in the early 90s. I just found that jacket in a tub of old clothes in my basement, about half an hour ago! I have not thought of it for years, and now here it is again. Oh well, back to the wedding adventures!
There I am in that last panel wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt that used to belong to my youngest brother. I still have that t-shirt, too, and it isn’t even hidden at the bottom of a tub of old clothes! Maybe I’ll even wear it on June 6th, at the Panel One Comic Arts Festival!
It is funny to me now, that when most of my friends were doing smart things like advancing their careers and getting married, I was hanging around at the Night Gallery (a venue that is so long gone, I can’t even find a link for you). Maybe it’s because, when I was a university student, I spent all my time reading lots of books and being very responsible… so that afterwards, when I was done school, I had to make up for lost time by being very irresponsible. Who knows… but even though I was a bit out of my element, I was so honoured to be part of that special day with my awesome friends, who are still awesome, even after all these years. Thanks for sharing this memory with me!
See you next time!
i swear, that there basement of yours....methinks it part resides outside of this time/space continuum (i imagine a day ye will stumble 'cross The One Ring down there...be careful!!! ;-)