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Happy New Year!

1/1/2018

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There are times as a lifeguard when the swim traffic will hit a lull, and the pool will be empty. Virtually everything is quiet, and if you exclude the occasional rippling of waves and the dumb comments made by guards, one might think that the pool was actually closed. However, there is always that one superstitious guard that believes that if you disturb the peacefulness with a comment as audacious as, “Wow, there is no one in the water!” or “Finally, no one is swimming!” then someone is bound to show up. I don’t think any of these guards believe in that voodoo magic. The closest one might come to being convinced of that drivel is Thomas, but he’s too heavily invested in his reading to pay any mind to the careless comments of Jonathan or Kurt. While guarding a pool with no patrons isn’t really passive income, it is income that is earned in a non-active or passive way.

For my new year enlightenment, I am posting these two comics. The first is a recent draft of a cartoon for “Suits and Guarders,” and the second is an “Ivan the Terrible” cartoon I did a while back. They are not the same comic, but they both share the same location from a different angle. Partly due to working with architecture and partly the inspiration from other creative writers, I am considering creating a geographical map of where the cartoon character’s lives take place like that of C.S Lewis, when he wrote “The Chronicles of Narnia” or J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” It will better develop an image of where everything takes place and bring the characters to life, almost like how every stage show has a set design.

We are now halfway through the Christmas season. I hope everyone is enjoying the wonderful fellowship with family and friends! 
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A Conflict, a Commission and Finals

12/4/2017

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An old joke gets better with age and pictures.

​Dry jokes never get old. My architecture instructor wanted me to draw this cartoon. It was an old military joke that always made his father laugh. I felt that my other cartoon series, “Ivan the Terrible”, which I do every now and then, was the best way to portray this joke. The neighborhood setting with the other kids sort of brings out that inner child. After all, my brother and I used to play military war games in our yard and I bet some of you did too.

When I presented the cartoon to my instructor, he said he was going to have it framed. Had I known he wanted to hang it, I would have put it on something better than copy paper. Yeah, I have a really bad habit of doing this. I told him I could put it on higher quality paper. ”You do that, and I’ll pay you for it,” he replied. So I am now officially working on a commission for my teacher. Is this a conflict of interest? It could be, so I’ll wait until finals are over to complete it. That way I can’t flunk if he really hates the final product! And I guess I’ll be finding more opportunities to do my cartooning while in school.​
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Hey! Don't Throw that Crud at Us!

10/30/2017

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Revenge of the Nose Goes Loser!
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Whenever lifeguards at work are given unwanted tasks by supervisors, the game of “nose goes” always seems the best way to solve it. If you are curiously asking yourself what a strainer basket is; it’s that thing that catches all the hair and lint. Protocol dictates that we clean it with gloves. But it’s difficult to manually pick the stuff out sometimes, so I just use my bare hands. After the chlorine has stripped it of all it’s germs, I figure it’s just as clean as touching one’s nose. I certainly hope no one is eating while reading this blog!
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​Ivan the Terrible
Here are a couple of “Ivan the Terrible” cartoons that I am posting mainly on Instagram. I created this comic prior to “Suits and Guarders”  as an exercise to develop my drawing style. It has served me well in the long run, and is a great way for me to create a gag in very little time. (It appears that Ivan ran off with the "L" in the word Terrible. That little rascal is into everything.)
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    Ian Johnson was born with a crazy cartoon character perspective on the real world. “Suits and Guarders” is loosely based on his life as a lifeguard and swim instructor at a local pool. Any resemblance of characters in this work to persons, drawn or imagined, is purely coincidental.

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