Popular Post maklelan Posted October 17, 2013 Popular Post Posted October 17, 2013 I'm toying with the idea of starting up a comic strip that follows around LDS missionaries as they serve in a generic setting in South America. This is a sample. Thoughts? 11
jkwilliams Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 That's funny. Reminds me of the branch I served in where 3 members attended regularly. My companion and I gave the talks, blessed and passed the sacrament, taught Sunday School, and taught Relief Society and "Young Man." One of my companions was called to be a branch president in a different area, and he told me of how awful it was to sit and listen to explicit confessions. He said no matter how many times he told them he didn't need details, members tended to give them anyway. Thanks for a good laugh, Mak. Nice to see you, btw.
Tacenda Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I'm toying with the idea of starting up a comic strip that follows around LDS missionaries as they serve in a generic setting in South America. This is a sample. Thoughts?I haven't subscribed to the New Era for years, but remember reading comic strips like this, which were very funny sometimes. I hope they haven't been correlated out. Maybe you could get one going in the Deseret News, Scott Lloyd might help, haha. I wish I could read what you've done here, my mobile is stopping me.
maklelan Posted October 17, 2013 Author Posted October 17, 2013 I haven't subscribed to the New Era for years, but remember reading comic strips like this, which were very funny sometimes. I hope they haven't been correlated out. Maybe you could get one going in the Deseret News, Scott Lloyd might help, haha. I wish I could read what you've done here, my mobile is stopping me. I will be trying some of these out in the Church Office Building later today. The link is here, if it makes it easier to see on your phone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43psa1bfpbw5qut/comic%20strip.jpg
jkwilliams Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I will be trying some of these out in the Church Office Building later today. The link is here, if it makes it easier to see on your phone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43psa1bfpbw5qut/comic%20strip.jpg You're probably too young for this, but they used to run comics sort of like that in the New Era.
Calm Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) For Tac:Text:Picture is almost same in all four boxes, two elders walking along, you can see the shorter one carrying his scripture bag with an intense, somewhat grumpy look on his face, the other taller one you see his right hand in pocket, can't see other hand, has a querying look on face.First box, Tall Elder: You seem pretty upset for an elder who just became a branch president.Second box, Tall Elder: Is it because the offices won't give you a nametag that says "President Reed"?Third box: no commentFourth box:Shorter Elder: You still upset I made you Relief Society President?Tall Elder: A little. Edited October 17, 2013 by calmoriah
rongo Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 That's funny.Reminds me of the branch I served in where 3 members attended regularly.We called something that small on my mission a "group" (branches were bigger). Gruppe Hameln (Hamlin, the Pied Piper town) had five members and church was the apartment next to ours (both on top of a Spielotek, a sort of casino).
maklelan Posted October 17, 2013 Author Posted October 17, 2013 You're probably too young for this, but they used to run comics sort of like that in the New Era. Could very well be. I joined the Church when I was 20, though, so I don't think I've ever read an issue of the New Era.
Tacenda Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) For Tac:Text:Picture is almost same in all four boxes, two elders walking along, you can see the shorter one carrying his scripture bag with an intense, somewhat grumpy look on his face, the other taller one you see his right hand in pocket, can't see other hand, has a querying look on face.First box, Tall Elder: You seem pretty upset for an elder who just became a branch president.Second box, Tall Elder: Is it because the offices won't give you a nametag that says "President Reed"?Third box: no commentFourth box:Shorter Elder: You still upset I made you Relief Society President?Tall Elder: A little.I don't get it, but jokes go over my head sometimes! Thanks for this play by play, I hadn't looked at the link for it yet. Edited October 17, 2013 by Tacenda
maklelan Posted October 17, 2013 Author Posted October 17, 2013 We called something that small on my mission a "group" (branches were bigger). Gruppe Hameln (Hamlin, the Pied Piper town) had five members and church was the apartment next to ours (both on top of a Spielotek, a sort of casino). We had a branch of six members in my last area, Fraile Muerto. We rented out a house on the other side of town for our meetings. It's since been closed down, with the remaining members traveling to a town about 45 minutes away (Melo) for church.
jkwilliams Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 We had a branch of six members in my last area, Fraile Muerto. We rented out a house on the other side of town for our meetings. It's since been closed down, with the remaining members traveling to a town about 45 minutes away (Melo) for church. Apropos of nothing, I thought I'd just post this little excerpt from my book. Church, such as it was, met in a rented house with three rooms and tiled floors. The first Sunday, we arrived before 2:00, the posted starting time, and no one was there. About 2:15, an elderly woman showed up, followed a few minutes later by an eighteen-year-old boy. A few minutes after 2:30, the branch president showed up and unlocked the gate. According to the church’s records, there were more than 200 members in this branch, but only two had bothered to show up. (The branch president lived outside the branch boundaries.) Needless to say, we divided the meetings between the two of us: we both gave impromptu talks, I taught Sunday School and Lewis taught a combined priesthood and Relief Society meeting. Because there were so few of us, church seemed more like a meeting of good friends than a formal worship service. The branch president was a young man, not much older than we were, with a wife and an adorable toddler named Iris, who would always giggle happily when we were around. He was always very deferential to us, and we had to gently remind him that he was in charge, not us. The teenager in the congregation, Emilio, was painfully thin and shy, but somehow when he was asked to speak or teach in the church, he spoke with such conviction that you knew he really believed. After a couple of weeks, we asked him why he never helped prepare or bless the bread and water of the sacrament. He said that the branch president would not allow him to participate, even though he was a priest in the church and thus authorized to do so. “He doesn’t have a white shirt and tie,” the branch president said, “and you can’t bless the sacrament if you don’t wear a white shirt and tie.” We tried to explain that the dress code was entirely unofficial, but he wouldn’t budge. In the end, Lewis donated a tie, and I gave Emilio one of my white shirts, and he was able to fulfill his religious responsibilities. That was a really great few months of my mission. We worked hard and became great friends, and together with the welfare missionaries, we reactivated about 60 people and baptized another 15. And the best part of working with the welfare hermanas is that one of them is now my wife, and the other is my then-companion's wife. We never did splits, though. 2
Calm Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 We called something that small on my mission a "group" (branches were bigger).Should be a twig. I don't get it, but jokes go over my head sometimes!You are sleepy today I bet. What young man wants to be known as the Relief Society President?
Tacenda Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) Should be a twig.You are sleepy today I bet. What young man wants to be known as the Relief Society President? I got that but apparently over analyzed it. Yes, very sleepy, son was up all night with an extreme toothache, we tried everything, finally used my hubbies Percocet. Root Canal today, ouch, poor kid. ETA: On second thought, why was the short one grumpy if he made the tall one RS President? Why wasn't the tall one grumpy? Edited October 17, 2013 by Tacenda
David T Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 Love the art style. Very nice. I hope to see more.
mfbukowski Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I will be trying some of these out in the Church Office Building later today. The link is here, if it makes it easier to see on your phone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43psa1bfpbw5qut/comic%20strip.jpgLove the strip, but the comment is so outside my cultural base I feel like I just landed on mars. How does one "try some of these out in the Church Office Building"? Set up a card table in the lobby and pass out flyers? Connections like that must be nice. 1
mfbukowski Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I don't get it, but jokes go over my head sometimes! Thanks for this play by play, I hadn't looked at the link for it yet.The "branch" was so small it had no sisters to be relief society president.
Kevin Christensen Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I'm toying with the idea of starting up a comic strip that follows around LDS missionaries as they serve in a generic setting in South America. This is a sample. Thoughts? Very good. I remember the wonderful splash that Grondal's cartoon books made when they arrived. Freeway to Perfection. Not only LDS, but genius. Kevin Christensen Pittsburgh, PA
Calm Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 I got that but apparently over analyzed it. Yes, very sleepy, son was up all night with an extreme toothache, we tried everything, finally used my hubbies Percocet. Root Canal today, ouch, poor kid. ETA: On second thought, why was the short one grumpy if he made the tall one RS President? Why wasn't the tall one grumpy?Let's try again after you've had a nap. I doubt if many things would seem funny to you right now.
Calm Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) Love the strip, but the comment is so outside my cultural base I feel like I just landed on mars. How does one "try some of these out in the Church Office Building"? Set up a card table in the lobby and pass out flyers? Connections like that must be nice.If they are like university offices, there is always a little bulletin board outside offices to put messages and such on and many professors post favourite comics on them. I think he should sneak around and pin them to offices all over the building to give them mass exposure. Edited October 17, 2013 by calmoriah
cinepro Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 (edited) I think Arie Van De Graaff does quite a few of the New Era comics. http://www.mormoncartoonist.com/2013_09_01_archive.html Edited October 17, 2013 by cinepro
cinepro Posted October 17, 2013 Posted October 17, 2013 If they are like university offices, there is always a little bulletin board outside offices to put messages and such on and many professors post favourite comics on them. I think he should sneak around and pin them to offices all over the building to give them mass exposure. He should pin one to the bulletin board outside President Monson's office.
maklelan Posted October 17, 2013 Author Posted October 17, 2013 Those are pretty good, cinepro. I didn't know someone was actively publishing a strip like that. Seems pretty tame, though.
Stargazer Posted October 18, 2013 Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) Those are pretty good, cinepro. I didn't know someone was actively publishing a strip like that. Seems pretty tame, though. One of my missionary companions drew cartoons, and yours seemed about the same style, sort of. He didn't seem to have an idea of making his missionary cartoon drawings into short subjects, though. Do you make your drawings move? Those four panels are all identical, except for the speech balloons. Oh, and I guess the mouths when they're supposed to be speaking. Didn't notice that at first. But not to discourage you: I thought the joke was funny and clever! Edited October 18, 2013 by Stargazer
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