la vida skeeter

I’m not sure who I feel sorrier for in that second panel: the girl or the vampire, cuz both are going to be feeling pretty empty when it’s all said n’ done.  Luckily, doing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance makes everything better.

October’s up!  Happy Halloween!  My only regret: here I have a comic about the bar habits of mosquitoes, and I missed out on drawing the biggest bar event of October – Oktoberfest!  I had a few ideas for a fun comic with those thirsty skeeters invading a biergarten, but they’ll just have to wait & simmer ’til next year.  So many ideas, so little time, and me: I don’t even own a computer!  That’s gotta’ be my tagline (like Dante in the movie Clerks always bemoaning his fate, “I’m not even supposed to be here today.”)

May you get all the tricks and treats you are after, and remember: try to squeeze in at least one viewing of “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” Sidenote: I witnessed the most innovative way to smash pumpkins earlier today.  I was shooting a news story about a class of Union High students (here in Tulsa), who had constructed trebuchets to launch pumpkins!  One student told me that the trebuchet was very similar to its cousin, the catapult, with one notable difference: it can project things even farther!  My advice though: if you’ve gotta’ go out on Halloween and raise some hell, don’t smash jack o’ lanterns.  I can recall once upon a time, the trembling tears of a 4th grader who had spent a LOT of time carving one up, only to find it smashed on the street outside his house (young Lee did not cry. shutup.)  Just sayin’.

I’m gonna’ go over here now and not talk about religion, politics or the Great Pumpkin.

Zombie
1/2 oz. Dark Rum
1/2 oz. Light Rum
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1/2 oz. Creme de Almond
1 1/4 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
1 1/4 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Soda (Top with)
1/4 oz. 151 Rum (Float on top)

Shake & strain into a collins glass.  Garnish with orange & cherry.  Now, you’re ready to monster mash.

Cheers,
Lee