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Welcome to the second Friday Archives! In case you missed last week — I have started this thing where every Friday I post some work (illustration, art work, craft, writing) from my past and I invite you to play along. This week I’ve even made a button. You can find it below.
This is an excerpt from a two page comic I drew in 1997. For the whole story you can click on the above links for two pages of angsty, autobiographical comic badness. I drew it all by hand! Those were the days. I wouldn’t dare any more. A lot of liquid paper was used.
Here’s the button:
Feel free to copy it into your site and link it back to loobylu.com
It’s meme-city around here. I am LOVING yesterday’s celebrity sightings!
Claire, this is just fantastic! I wanted to keep reading. Beautiful, poignant, and I’m sure we’ve all been there before …
Hi Claire – first time I have commented here. Love your site! And I love that comic! You came up with Meg Ryan’s character from You Got Mail before the movie!
Gorgeous Claire – you obviously “overcame” the crippling disability!
Loved the comic! And what’s wrong with drawing it all by hand?!
I like your lines a lot! It’s nice to see how your work has evolved yet still remains essentially “you”.
Here’s mine:
http://www.growinghappiness.com/2008/05/02/friday-archives-1995-linocut/
I loved this! The drawing is great but it is definitely rivalled by the writing…it resonated with me as I am always reducing life to a commonly hashed out movie plot.
Fun comics but you left us hanging at the end! Was there more? I fondly/not-so-fondly remember those days of single-dom that you captured so well!
I draw everything by hand and screw it up all the time.
10 mins in photoshop soon fixes everything
I really enjoyed that comic, Clare. I’d love to read more! Charming!
[...] A few new items have been added to the shop. I hope to have another update ready for next week with birds in nests and hedgehogs! I will be back later today with my blue images for color week and some images for Loobylu’s The Friday Archives. [...]
Wow, that is A LOT of work you’ve done there–I can appreciate the time into that and a beautiful job.
Participating again in your project:
http://ilovegreyskies.blogspot.com/2008/05/facesarchival-friday.html
Maybe my link will show up right this time ?
I will soon see.
Dang, a cliffhanger…
do we have to wait a whole week for page 3?!
The Friday Archive is a great thing.
Have done my bit too over here: http://annesketchbook.blogspot.com/
Thankyou for starting this meme.I lost most of my old artwork in a flood, but I will dig out some survivors! Love the “old school” comic strip.Even the best cartoonists still use liquid paper!
[...] color week this week and next. Loobylu has a new meme called The Friday Archives where you share something you made in the past. The work could be from school, college, past life, [...]
Love the comic and what a great idea, Friday archives I mean. I’d love to play along.
I’ve participated again this week:
http://www.robayre.com/news/2008/05/02/self-portrait-colored-pencil/
I’m loving the archives. Here’s my first contribution:
http://funkyanddelightful.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-archives-inspired-by-loobylu.html
What an awesome comic — so charming!! You can find my bit here:
http://www.sanaeishida.com/weblog/archives/000160.html
Sorry it’s so slapdash! I’m loving the Friday Archives though. It brings back so many vivid memories as I hunt through my old stuff!
I have just discovered your blog. I love it! So fresh, cute
And you know the Moomins 
(I didn’t know it was famous in Australia! Here in France it was on TV 10 years ago)
So, didn’t you marry that love interest?
how cute! love your meme. i posted an old drawing of my own on my blog in your meme honor (?). I honestly have no idea how to use that word correctly. Doh!
http://magpieskinnies.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-archives.html
how cute! love your meme. i posted an old drawing on my blog for friday archives! thanks for the neat idea.
http://magpieskinnies.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-archives.html
Great comic. I love your style:)
I’m going to join in the meme. I have horded a lot of my artwork from over the years and it is always nice to pull it out again.
Here’s my link http://pintspalette.blogspot.com/