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What you see in a Slump

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Just ask Adam Dunn. The ball looks a bit like this each time it comes at you. And the harder you try to knock that silly little grin off of the little monsters face, the harder it becomes.

In terms of creative exercises this is a good example of when NOT to censor or edit yourself. I almost did that, initially throwing it aside in my mind. Years of being edited in a print environment can do that to you. But the more  I thought about it, the  funnier I thought the image was. Almost like my forked goalpost cartoon of long ago. So I drew it, the editors at the Chicago Tribune loved it and here is now in all it’s haunting glory.

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I’ve given my blog on Creativity, the Creators Incubator a total makeover as I try to ramp it up in the weeks and months ahead. I’ve kind of made it a lot less about me and a lot more about, well,  creativity.

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3 thoughts on “What you see in a Slump”

  1. Dear Drew,

    I had a few thoughts on your cartoon today. Here they are in the order they came to mind.

    #1: This must be how most of the Rockies see the baseball these days.

    #2: Who is Adam Dunn? Must look up on Wikipedia.

    #3 (after checking out Wikipedia) With a nickname like “Big Donkey” he must really feel like one when the pitches look like this to him.

    #4: Thought of the “Karlis fork” cartoon before reading your explination.

    #5: Remembering when I played little league baseball. That cartoon was how pitches looked to me (didn’t get a base hit for my first 1 1/2 seasons. Once I got that one though I hit .825 the rest of the season.). That first 1 1/2 I was known as the three inning kid (back then all players had to play 3 innings so they’d be able to bat at least once)

  2. Dear Drew (again),

    Accidently hit the “submit question button before posting my final question.

    #6: I’ve always wondered. When you draw a cartoon like this with a specific athlete involved do you ever worry that the player might get so offended by it that they’d want to go and beat you up (I ask this question legitimatly)

    Well those are my thoughts.

    All the best.

    Louis

  3. Good Morning from Omaha,

    Love the cartoon…THEY say that if your on a hitting streak the ball looks about the size of a beach ball coming at you. back in the day when I played little league ball, no matter how hot I got, my eyes never saw a beach ball coming at me. I was just this side of awful, looking back at it, I was more lucky than good.

    It would appear you were very busy saturday night with all of reconstruction around the web site.

    The web site looks great.

    Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

    Gene

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