Sketchbook: So long, Bob!

In anticipation of July and Pioneer Day, I was pondering upon crickets. My mind started to wander to a winder set of members of the insect kingdom. One thing led to another, and here we are... with one that stays in the sketchbook!

Losing ground

I hate when that happens!

Retiring, part 2

After graduating from West Point, he served in the Army in Public Affairs. He has two stories that he likes to share:

His peers double dog dared him to put an exploding cigar on his colonel's desk. Succumbing to peer pressure, he did. Later that day, there was an explosion heard in the colonel's office -- two explosions, actually. One from the cigar, and one from the colonel. Luckily, the colonel had a good sense of humor!

While stationed in Germany, he and his buddy thought it would be cool to travel around Europe. As war and history buffs, they thought it would be cool to travel to Paris and see the Bastille. They got to where their map of Paris said it should be...but there was no Bastille! Finally he gathered the courage to ask a gendarme where they could find it. "It was here," replied the gendarme. "Before the storming of the Bastille, in which it was destroyed!" Oops! They'd forgotten that part of the story!

Retiring, part 1

We've got a guy in our office who's retiring in a couple of weeks. It's our tradition to get photos from friends and family to make a bit of a retrospective as we send people off. I've made a few cartoons to fill in a couple of the blanks in his timeline.

He's Chicago born and raised and attended Catholic schools as a kid.