Thursday March 31, 2011 offereing

I came up with this back when our boys were 4 and 7 years old. "Teenage Mutantant Ninja Turtles" was the #1 kids cartoon show and so heavily marketed we parents of the 4 to 10 year old set were beseeched with pleas for "Turtles" merchandise ranging from toys to clothing items to school supplies. Locating a particular item at Christmas was an experience akin to being caught up in a mob of looters during a riot.
The model for this drawing was taken from a discarded cardboard box that once held one of the coveted Ninja toys.
After a few head scratching hours of trial and error sketching I finally came up with a finished product. I proudly unveiled it to the boys and was rewarded with a distainful (in unison) high pitched chorus of "DAAAaaaAD!" .... how dare I mock their idols!
I recently showed this to our guys (24 and 27 now) and the reaction was interesting .... nothing.
Kids .... sigh.

Old socks never die ......