On the trail of calamine
This rough got rejected this week because Americans don’t associate calamine with bee stings. I suggested a few other things – TCP, Savlon and Germalene, but all are too British. Any idea what would work in the last panel? I love this subject of bee rustlers (I imagine them on little horses with tiny lassos…)!
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Honey.
By: Rudy Toledo on May 21, 2009
at 5:43 am
What would drip as you hoist a beehive from its moorings?
Who would be an ideal candidate to rustle honey?
I hope you don’t “Pooh” any of this.
By: Rudy Toledo on May 21, 2009
at 5:44 am
Hmmm… would there be a smoke trail? Or just dead bees &/or their tiny little stingers?
By: Rudy Toledo on May 21, 2009
at 5:46 am
Wow, if honey works, that is poetic justice!
By: arcticcartoons on May 21, 2009
at 6:19 am
Oh – I thought the decline was in the # of honey bees – the species used by beekeepers in portable hives for pollenization since Africanized bees are more difficult to handle (more violent / poisonous sting).
I wasn’t thinking of honey in terms of a salve, but as a metaphor for blood. But I guess that would go beyond light humor and into the gruesome.
Good luck.
By: Rudy Toledo on May 21, 2009
at 12:09 pm
Aha… yes, I try to steer away from the gruesome
By: arcticcartoons on May 21, 2009
at 12:27 pm
baking soda & vinegar — very American…
By: Duncan 'Boyfriend' Wilcox on May 21, 2009
at 9:09 am