{"id":7313,"date":"2015-04-08T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:01:52","slug":"ancient-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was digging through my writing archives, looking for a Windows 95 screenshot. I never did find the exact image I wanted, but I did stumble across something no one has ever seen before.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNo, I&#8217;m not talking about the secret files! Just like I told the border guards, I do not know where they are.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1998 or so, I contracted with QUE publishing (actually MacMillan, but everyone called them QUE) to write a book called <em>Dan Gookin Teaches Windows 98<\/em>. It was tremendously popular, and I still think it&#8217;s one of my favorite books. That entire <em>Teaches<\/em> series was true genius, but it faded away. That was sad.<\/p>\n<p>In my image archives, I found that some cartoons I&#8217;d crafted for the book. They aren&#8217;t brilliant or inspired. My goal was to present them to a professional artist would would clean them up. Then, if the publisher desired, the cartoons would find their way into my book.<\/p>\n<p>They never did, but here they are:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7313 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumb'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon12.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon12.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon18.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon18.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon10.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon10.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon08.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon08.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon06.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon06.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon05.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon05.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon03.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon03.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon02.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon02.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon01.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toon01.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumb size-thumb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Click a thumbnail to embiggen.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects in these cartoons are a race of beings I call the Mulvanians. They are aliens with large heads and no noses. In college I made a short cartoon (cell animation, drawn by hand) of the Mulvianians invading Earth. Alas, it&#8217;s long gone. And I keep teasing myself that someday I&#8217;ll do a Mulvanian comic strip. Or not. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These have never seen the light of day . . . before now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}