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This is a red letter day! Or maybe I should say pink. (note 1)

It is New Year’s Eve, 2021. The Talking CHARACTERS have emerged! This is the first time I have created a comic style…comic. It’s a comic, using characters – you know, stuff you type. Symbols. They talk. And now, I have made it into a comic strip. So, yes, this is a red letter – pink letter – day. Bravo. And tip my hat to Charles Shulze.

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A maquette is a model for a larger work. I call smaller works maquettes, but often they are not made exactly in anticipation of a larger work, per se. Only, I work small knowing that when I hit on an idea I especially like, or rather, which I think would be good as a larger piece, then I will make it larger. Rarely do I make a small piece, a “maquette” or model, in anticipation of a specific piece I want to build large. Customers sometimes ask me for sketches. I don’t do that, either. When I make something for a customer, which he or she commissions, it is usually based on something I have done already, or a variation of that.

I actually do not like making something small in anticipation of a specific large work. Rather, I like working small with the knowledge that, among what I make, will be the ideas for designs for larger works. So, truthfully, I like working small. I can work my ideas out more quickly, and also see what makes sense to make bigger.

And Now! Introducing…

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Talk about firsts! This is the very first time I have created… What do I call this, anyway? The keyboard characters are characters. I make them talk. It’s that simple and that complex. And I just came up with this today.

It’s a red letter day! The day before New Years day, 2021. Big deal. The birth of the talking characters. Big, big deal.

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Check out some of Leo Manske’s art.

And now, because you are here, I present

The Talking Characters

What the? Heck? 
      ,

              Did you just pause? 
                       ?


        I think Eye did.
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     Did Eye or did U?         
            ?     
            
             I think U did it.
                      ,
                      
                          Nope, not me.   
                                 U
                      
                                    

Of course it was U.  
          ,
               
               
               
               I tell you, it was not me.
                             U

It was me. I did it.            
          ,     
          
           Are U sure?
                ?

                     How can I be sure of anything?
                                  U


      Hey, this has nothing to do with me. Leave me out of it.
                                  I              
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