Given that the link takes you to Pinterest, I’m accepting this credit as accurate based on the volume (and style of the images) credited to her.
If she is listed as a professional artist anywhere said listing is eluding me.
I’m reasonably certain that this is a model railroad rendition of the “20th Century Limited”.
The actual “20th Century Limited” was designed by: Henry Dreyfuss. Who essentially designed every aspect of that train.
There is more on Henry Dreyfuss at this
Hmmm…. Yonggary seems to change his appearance every time… even more so than Godzilla…. but his constant feature that I recall is a pointy nose with a horn on it.
The creature(s) above have Godzilla’s nose and definitely the distinctive spiky things on his back.
Probably 29 years old (depending on the shooting schedule); mother of two.
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A few thoughts:
I enjoyed Grace’s eyes after the line “Now focus, Miss.”
I do not think I want to know anything about her burrito.
That was very obliging of Vlad to help Grace with the carpet. Especially since they didn’t know each other previously.
It figures Cleo would be in it for the hunk.
The echos of Jack Webb and the copper clappers on the Tonight Show are getting louder.
This is a variation of a deep dish pie I have never come across before. There’s no bottom crust. Weird.
I put the blueberry variation in at the bottom, too.
From:
”The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” (Twelfth Edition)
Revised by: Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber
Illustrated by: Lauren Jarret
Published by: Bantam Books
ISBN 0-553-23488-9
“Deep-Dish Apple Pie” (SERVES EIGHT)
1 prepared pie crust (see below)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
6 cups peeled, cored, sliced apples (your choice as to type)
1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup heavy cream, whipped (you’ll need a BIG chilled bowl)
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Prepare the pastry dough and set
it aside. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the apples in a large bowl.
Mix 1 1/4 cups of the sugar with the salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and flour,
then add to the apples and toss until they are evenly coated. Spread
the apples in a 1 1/2 to 2-quart baking dish and dot all over with the
butter. Roll out the pastry dough to cover the top of the dish with a
1 1/2-inch overhang. Press the pastry to the edge of the dish and flute
it. Cut two or three vents on top for steam to escape. Sprinkle the
top with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake for 10 minutes,
then reduce heat to 350°F and continue to bake for 30 minutes
more. Serve with whipped cream.
Variation: Deep-Dish Blueberry Pie
Substitute 6 cups blueberries for the apples and use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
Notes from me:
If you need a pie crust recipe, see below (you’ll have lots left, but it does freeze well if wrapped tightly; it won’t be as flaky when baked though.
The measures are all, of course, U.S. measures.
Heavy cream is whipping cream that contains more than 35% milk fat. Everyday whipping cream can be used quite successfully. Before whipping the cream, add:
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (real not artificial)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Beat until stiff.
My Grandmother’s Pie Crust Recipe (Tart Shells Too) (This is the best pie crust recipe you’ll ever come across ! !) From: My mother’s cookbook (in my mother’s handwriting)
” My Grandmother’s Pie Crust Recipe (Tart Shells Too)”
1 Cup Lard
2 Cups Flour
½ Cup Cold Water
½ Teaspoon Salt
Some sugar, if desired, for sweet pies or tarts.
This recipe makes enough pastry for 3 nine inch open top pies or 1 covered pie and one open top.
Measure the two cups of flour from a stockpile of at least 4 cups of sifted flour into the mixing bowl.
Cut the lard (cold from the refrigerator) into the flour using a pastry blender or two
knives until it becomes “mealy” (kind of like oatmeal). Use a knife blade to clear the
cutter if it becomes clogged.
Dissolve the salt and sugar (if used) in the cold water (Cold tap water will work, but the
colder the water is, the better.) and pour it evenly around the bowl. Stir the water
in with a knife blade. Use the back of another knife to clear the blade. When
the water has been stirred in gather and pat the pastry into a ball (use the ball
itself to pick up the stray bits).
Heavily flour a cutting board, pat half the pastry into a disk and place in on the board.
Sprinkle more sifted flour on top of the pastry so the dough won’t stick to the rolling
pin. (If it starts to, sprinkle on a bit more flour.)
Roll to desired thickness, cut to fit the pie plate, wrap around the rolling pin (if it’s stuck
to the cutting board use a long knife blade to cut it free) and fit it to the pie plate.
(Patch any holes using torn off pieces from what’s left on the board. Blend the
patches with your fingers.)
Fill and bake as per the recipe.
This may be one of your lesser animations, I suppose… And yeah, it’s an early one…
But it’s not that crude, and not, by a long shot, the FIRST one.
It may (or may not) be the first to show the characters walking towards us, which is very difficult to do well, and which you’ve done much better since.
….
You guys did animations for a few months before this one, and some of them are great, including the actual very first one, with the refrigerator, from September 2014.
The difference is, you weren’t yet putting in the sort of character motion you attempted in this one… which takes practice, and repetition…
It was mostly background objects that moved, similarly to those stars in the penultimate panel.
You can’t say they were all crude!
….
I saved a lot of them…
I’m not posting any cos I don’t post your work without permission…
The greed pigs have struck again.
Gas went from 153.9 ¢/litre Tuesday, last week to 163.9 ¢/litre on Wednesday last week to 171.9 ¢/litre two days ago.
Has anyone heard of a gas station that doesn’t have fuel at it? I haven’t.
Regardless of price some of them should not have a supply because if there’s a shortage of fuel there’s a shortage of fuel and some stations’ tanks should be going dry.
As I said, “The greed pigs have struck again.”
If you happen to visit Germany anywhen from June one to August 31:
For 9 Euro a month (IC, ICE and EC excluded) you may use any public transportation here in Germany. No; not only once, but unlimited times. Anywhere, anywhen.
No planes, taxis or uber, I guess… 😉
We got gas at Walmart the other day. The place was packed. There never wasn’t a line. It was hard getting in and out. It cost us $50 and usually costs around $30. I still say the oil companies are taking advantage and raking in billions.
.
Unh. I knew I shouldn’t have ordered that last martini.
Given that the link takes you to Pinterest, I’m accepting this credit as accurate based on the volume (and style of the images) credited to her.
If she is listed as a professional artist anywhere said listing is eluding me.
“Gaudy Bird ” By: Pam Thayer
LINK.
An African swallow?
They have lovely plummage.
What’s your favorite color?
,
Out of the fog, into the smog.
I’m reasonably certain that this is a model railroad rendition of the “20th Century Limited”.
The actual “20th Century Limited” was designed by: Henry Dreyfuss. Who essentially designed every aspect of that train.
There is more on Henry Dreyfuss at this
LINK.
I keep expecting ol’ Godzilla stomping or chewing on it
Yonggary!
Hmmm…. Yonggary seems to change his appearance every time… even more so than Godzilla…. but his constant feature that I recall is a pointy nose with a horn on it.
The creature(s) above have Godzilla’s nose and definitely the distinctive spiky things on his back.
,.
YES! Thank you for that.
I hadn’t thought of that in a long time.
Great minds…
The matching scene for lunch.
I thought that was Angela Lansbury. I should have recognized Basil Rathbone, but all I could think was “Sean Penn.”
Wow… They do look related!
One wonders.
One of my all-time favorite movies.
Isn’t a movie named “The Court Basset” out there anywhere?
it’s time to drag out this dvd. fun!
Probably 29 years old (depending on the shooting schedule); mother of two.
A few thoughts:
I enjoyed Grace’s eyes after the line “Now focus, Miss.”
I do not think I want to know anything about her burrito.
That was very obliging of Vlad to help Grace with the carpet. Especially since they didn’t know each other previously.
It figures Cleo would be in it for the hunk.
The echos of Jack Webb and the copper clappers on the Tonight Show are getting louder.
Aahh… but I think Grace and Vlad were quite well acquainted….
Vlad being a strongarm henchman, often used to scare the children of Froglandia into proper behavior.
…or giving them a good laugh.
Is Lurch his cousin?
Is Vlad a FA regular? I haven’t read enough of the comic to know.
A Frog Blog regular.
I don’t post on FA, except extremely rarely, or read the blog often, and it has changed since she brought it back after a long absence.
I remember that Vlad used to be a bigger part of it… sort of Teresa’s protector and, I guess henchman, as I said.
He’s definitely one of the characters from her universe.
…
Nighthawks, and especially Rotifer, know more about it than I do
,.
Glad to help you out…
I do not want that focusing on me.
I wonder where Vlad got the BUNNY slippers.
Ebay.
the bunny slipper store
Why am i not surprised? 🙂
As Alexi points out, I don’t think they are hard to find.
And there you have it, Cleo fans!
Hahahahaha!
The incredibly unforeseeable… yet somehow believable… solution!
And not even Sam Basset had it totally right!!
….
Grace is still loony…is what she and Vlad did considered manslaughter? Accidental homicide? Theft? Good riddance to bad rubbish?
Whatever you call it, I hope it wasn’t in vain….you can’t sink your toes any deeper into two layers of carpet.
It may feel more padded, but toes can’t sink through the backing on the top layer. And I don’t want to be around Grace when she’s disappointed.
…
Really good one, Nighthawks!
Nice animation, too, you and Stel!
…
I said we’d be happy, as long as we eventually get back to Cleo, Claude and Clara… but I didn’t expect them to pop up so soon.
And I think this is the first time I’ve ever heard Cleo express… well… some degree of interest… in another canine, instead of another weapon.
Hubba hubba is high praise from her, considering that he’s not some kind of missile.
And Sherpa is gone from Gocomics.
True, but AFAIK, it wasn’t the dead man who did it…
it was a bunch of other idiots.
yeah, that was pretty much inevitable
Regarding the carpets: It’s Grace we’re talking about here.
They wouldn’t dare resist her command.
apple pie
This is a variation of a deep dish pie I have never come across before. There’s no bottom crust. Weird.
I put the blueberry variation in at the bottom, too.
From:
”The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” (Twelfth Edition)
Revised by: Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber
Illustrated by: Lauren Jarret
Published by: Bantam Books
ISBN 0-553-23488-9
“Deep-Dish Apple Pie” (SERVES EIGHT)
1 prepared pie crust (see below)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
6 cups peeled, cored, sliced apples (your choice as to type)
1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup heavy cream, whipped (you’ll need a BIG chilled bowl)
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Prepare the pastry dough and set
it aside. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the apples in a large bowl.
Mix 1 1/4 cups of the sugar with the salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and flour,
then add to the apples and toss until they are evenly coated. Spread
the apples in a 1 1/2 to 2-quart baking dish and dot all over with the
butter. Roll out the pastry dough to cover the top of the dish with a
1 1/2-inch overhang. Press the pastry to the edge of the dish and flute
it. Cut two or three vents on top for steam to escape. Sprinkle the
top with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake for 10 minutes,
then reduce heat to 350°F and continue to bake for 30 minutes
more. Serve with whipped cream.
Variation: Deep-Dish Blueberry Pie
Substitute 6 cups blueberries for the apples and use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
Notes from me:
If you need a pie crust recipe, see below (you’ll have lots left, but it does freeze well if wrapped tightly; it won’t be as flaky when baked though.
The measures are all, of course, U.S. measures.
Heavy cream is whipping cream that contains more than 35% milk fat. Everyday whipping cream can be used quite successfully. Before whipping the cream, add:
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (real not artificial)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Beat until stiff.
” My Grandmother’s Pie Crust Recipe (Tart Shells Too)”
1 Cup Lard
2 Cups Flour
½ Cup Cold Water
½ Teaspoon Salt
Some sugar, if desired, for sweet pies or tarts.
This recipe makes enough pastry for 3 nine inch open top pies or 1 covered pie and one open top.
Measure the two cups of flour from a stockpile of at least 4 cups of sifted flour into the mixing bowl.
Cut the lard (cold from the refrigerator) into the flour using a pastry blender or two
knives until it becomes “mealy” (kind of like oatmeal). Use a knife blade to clear the
cutter if it becomes clogged.
Dissolve the salt and sugar (if used) in the cold water (Cold tap water will work, but the
colder the water is, the better.) and pour it evenly around the bowl. Stir the water
in with a knife blade. Use the back of another knife to clear the blade. When
the water has been stirred in gather and pat the pastry into a ball (use the ball
itself to pick up the stray bits).
Heavily flour a cutting board, pat half the pastry into a disk and place in on the board.
Sprinkle more sifted flour on top of the pastry so the dough won’t stick to the rolling
pin. (If it starts to, sprinkle on a bit more flour.)
Roll to desired thickness, cut to fit the pie plate, wrap around the rolling pin (if it’s stuck
to the cutting board use a long knife blade to cut it free) and fit it to the pie plate.
(Patch any holes using torn off pieces from what’s left on the board. Blend the
patches with your fingers.)
Fill and bake as per the recipe.
one of our early, crude attempts at animating from February 13, 2015
Crude – of course. Poor Claude.
Bad? No way. Excellent.
danke
Gern gescheh’n.
not bad for a first attempt!
Not bad and not a first attempt.
Come on, Nighthawks!
You’re not being fair to yourself or to StelBel!
…
This may be one of your lesser animations, I suppose… And yeah, it’s an early one…
But it’s not that crude, and not, by a long shot, the FIRST one.
It may (or may not) be the first to show the characters walking towards us, which is very difficult to do well, and which you’ve done much better since.
….
You guys did animations for a few months before this one, and some of them are great, including the actual very first one, with the refrigerator, from September 2014.
The difference is, you weren’t yet putting in the sort of character motion you attempted in this one… which takes practice, and repetition…
It was mostly background objects that moved, similarly to those stars in the penultimate panel.
You can’t say they were all crude!
….
I saved a lot of them…
I’m not posting any cos I don’t post your work without permission…
But I COULD, if you like.
Cleo is smitten?
TGIF Cleo phans!
National Jump a Frog Over an Apple Pie Day
Be safe out there…. (((((HuGz!)))))
They put together a set of collected work titled [some modifier] MAD. e.g. Boiling MAD; Howling MAD; Stark,Raving MAD. Classic stuff (for MAD).
what a terrific ending!!! (and, i’ll bet you timed it perfectly for Friday the 13th, too)
uhhhh…nope!
,,,
The greed pigs have struck again.
Gas went from 153.9 ¢/litre Tuesday, last week to 163.9 ¢/litre on Wednesday last week to 171.9 ¢/litre two days ago.
Has anyone heard of a gas station that doesn’t have fuel at it? I haven’t.
Regardless of price some of them should not have a supply because if there’s a shortage of fuel there’s a shortage of fuel and some stations’ tanks should be going dry.
As I said, “The greed pigs have struck again.”
If you happen to visit Germany anywhen from June one to August 31:
For 9 Euro a month (IC, ICE and EC excluded) you may use any public transportation here in Germany. No; not only once, but unlimited times. Anywhere, anywhen.
No planes, taxis or uber, I guess… 😉
We got gas at Walmart the other day. The place was packed. There never wasn’t a line. It was hard getting in and out. It cost us $50 and usually costs around $30. I still say the oil companies are taking advantage and raking in billions.
The “Peter Gun” theme music worked well with the Sam Basset silent movie. Awesome job NightHawks. It was just as great the second time around.
“At Last”