Crustacean Singles: tree

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Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

2025-07-26

A sign of life

Illustration: Grambo sits in the bare branches of a gnarled and leafless tree that grows on the edge of a cliff. Caption: Sometimes, when you don't hear from me, it's not because things are going bad. / I mean, things are still not great. But that's not why.

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2024-07-07

What am I doing and why?

A person in a tree costume says, "Can we talk about my motivation in this scene?"

2024-04-10

The lumberjack code

A person with an axe asks a tree, "Are you a talking tree? I don't cut down talking trees." The tree replies in song, "I'm a singing tree! And I only sing showtunes!"

Thank you for your honesty.

2024-03-06

Shortcut

A strange, antlered quadruped with the face of a human stick figure stands at the start of a path into a dark forest and says, "Would you say anyone knows you took a shortcut through the forest today?"

Reusing art with new writing is better than posting a rerun is better than posting nothing is better than trying to force it when it's not possible (???)

See the origin of the character here (it's the same drawing)

2023-12-22

Do you?

A surreal scene: Grambo sits in a giant teacup, looking alert and uncomfortable. The round bird perches on the teacup's handle. In the background, ancient Greek columns grow like trees, branching into canopies of roofs where they haven't broken. A thought bubble at the bottom: "Every time I think I understand what's happening to me, I soon after realize Ek msn't nvin cloak." (That last bit is a garbled version of "I wasn't even close".)

2023-12-07

What's yours?

2023-12-06

Welcome

This one has a lot of words at the top: "You think that must be a rejection. Do you feel disappointment? Relief? / But the next morning, you find this on your doorstep. Is it a seed? An egg? A spore? There are no instructions, so you trust it doesn't need any. / You hold it and say to yourself, 'Welcome to the Uncanny Growth.'" The illustration is of a hand holding the aforementioned seed or egg or spore, which is larger than the palm of the hand and has an approximate teardrop shape with ridges, chambers, and a rough or perhaps even serrated texture. Its surface is black and purple.

I know it's too many words, but can we just take a moment to appreciate that this is the closest I have ever come to drawing a cromulent human hand?

2023-12-05

Application submitted

A dense profusion of foliage on thick vines occupies the top and left three quarters of the frame. The bottom right shows a sort of passage into the tangle. One of the branches of the vine has extended and curled at the end. Captions: "You ask to join the Uncanny Growth. It nods a tendril. A voice rustles: 'Thank you for your interest. We'll be in touch."

"Anticlimax doesn't really count as a joke," I tell myself. But I never listen.

2023-12-04

Join

A dense profusion of foliage on thick vines occupies the top and left three quarters of the frame. The bottom right shows a sort of passage into the tangle with superimposed text reading "Join the uncanny growth? Y/N"

2023-11-24

Unexpected and wrong

A fluffy cloud rests atop a tree trunk as though it were the tree's cartoonishly drawn foliage. It looks down in confusion. "That can't be right."

2023-02-17

The Quid Pro Quo Tree

A child looks up into the branches of a tree resembling the titular Giving Tree from the Shel Silverstein book of the same name. The tree says, "Apples and sticks are one thing, kid. If you want more than that, *you're* going to have to do something for *me*."

2023-02-10

The woods

The antlered quadrupedal creature with a smiling stick figure face is back, drawn in pen with digital watercolor, and saying, "You will meet good fortune in these woods. Not because of anything I did. The woods just like you!"

Are you just trying to get me to spend big at the gift shop? Because it's not not working.

2023-02-07

Forest passage

A strange, antlered quadruped with the face of a human stick figure stands at the start of a path into a dark forest and says, "You may pass through this forest as you wish,but know this: the only way out is through the gift shop."

I doodled this little fella a few days ago & have been troubled ever since. Now I pass the mild curse along to you.

2022-12-07

The makings of a tree

The arborists' longstanding feud was becoming increasingly disruptive at conferences.

2022-12-03

Island-shopping

"You'll be the envy the entire neighborhood as you sit in the shade."

2022-11-19

Arboreal interview

The tree is forced to entertain inane questions in the hopes of having its labor exploited.

2022-06-24

What's in a name?

2022-05-27

Comparative literature

Ouch.

2022-02-15

A foreign concept

2022-02-02

Magic words

Terrible way to find out you have magical powers.

(First draft had 'bud' instead of 'pal', but I changed it so I wouldn't feel obligated to draw little buds on the branches.)

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