On KIndle? But isn’t that restricting your audience? Kindle cannot be read except with that gadet which is a private door to Amazon. And of course it was sold for big commissions by all those bloggers. Amazon lets bloggers put in KIndle ads with just a click. Everybody was doing it.
We explored kindle because amazon becomes your marketer and promoter. I think you can buy it kindle but read on computer too. Anyway its not the right format for cartoons. Thanks for dropping by. Regards.
Thanks. Better grade of paper and better pens make a difference. I have learned to clean them up too with digital eraser and continue to redraw several hundred. Looks like kindle dead end – just not right format.
I believe you can do it on kindle if you put the pictures into a word doc. I have pictures in my book. It should work for you too, unless you just don’t like the gray background.
There were other problems with size adjustment and page position whereas wordpress fits them in automatically. There were other reformats and yeah the grey is yucky. For now redraw as large as possible so can be reduced with full detail and cleaner drawings too for next go around. More artists and two cartoonists have subscribed so I think new opportunities on horizon.
I understand. I have never owned a cell phone and have stationary to write letters. Can’t figure out VCR. I do use that micro-wave thing and was on an airplane twice. Now they have only one wing.
It just keeps marching faster and faster. I would stop to think and reflect about why that happens, but I would miss an awful lot of time marching by while I paused.
I have no idea from whence all my ideas come from. Some are from thoughts that develop into pictures and some are pictures for which I develop the gag. But most often they just pop into my head as though something outside of me is feeding me. Puns and adages and saying and cliche are easily harvested for ideas.
Believe me it really accelerates when you are 62. Another thing that is strange is that I still lift weights and I cannot understand why time has made 75 pounds weigh 3 times as much as it did 30 years ago.
I appreciate this visual of how time marches on…not quite how I thought it looked…it seems I’ve gotten beaten a bit in the process; oh maybe they used the butts of their guns on me!
You have revealed certain characteristics about yourself in your writing that leads me to conclude you are not the type of person that can be defeated by time.
41 responses to “Clock Parade by Carl D’Agostino”
cantueso
February 5th, 2012 at 03:49
On KIndle? But isn’t that restricting your audience? Kindle cannot be read except with that gadet which is a private door to Amazon. And of course it was sold for big commissions by all those bloggers. Amazon lets bloggers put in KIndle ads with just a click. Everybody was doing it.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 5th, 2012 at 05:20
We explored kindle because amazon becomes your marketer and promoter. I think you can buy it kindle but read on computer too. Anyway its not the right format for cartoons. Thanks for dropping by. Regards.
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Cmsmith
February 3rd, 2012 at 07:51
Your drawings are looking sharper and more refined. Are these the ones you’ve redone for your book?
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Carl D'Agostino
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:51
Thanks. Better grade of paper and better pens make a difference. I have learned to clean them up too with digital eraser and continue to redraw several hundred. Looks like kindle dead end – just not right format.
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CMSmith
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:59
I believe you can do it on kindle if you put the pictures into a word doc. I have pictures in my book. It should work for you too, unless you just don’t like the gray background.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:06
There were other problems with size adjustment and page position whereas wordpress fits them in automatically. There were other reformats and yeah the grey is yucky. For now redraw as large as possible so can be reduced with full detail and cleaner drawings too for next go around. More artists and two cartoonists have subscribed so I think new opportunities on horizon.
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pattisj
February 3rd, 2012 at 00:46
Time stands still if you don’t rewind those fellas every week.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 3rd, 2012 at 04:14
Love it. Thank’s for joining the game.
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Mark Petruska
February 2nd, 2012 at 22:08
I think they’re all cuckoo.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 3rd, 2012 at 04:13
Can always count on Mark
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siubhan
February 2nd, 2012 at 21:41
lol.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 3rd, 2012 at 04:12
We need a drummer. Can you help?
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Hansi
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:06
Not only does time march on; I think its left me behind 🙂
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Carl D'Agostino
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:12
I understand. I have never owned a cell phone and have stationary to write letters. Can’t figure out VCR. I do use that micro-wave thing and was on an airplane twice. Now they have only one wing.
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henrythebrave
February 1st, 2012 at 23:46
Yes, you did make me smile. Very much. Love those ol’ grandfather clocks. The illustration is perfect.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 2nd, 2012 at 05:36
Good. Mission accomplished
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jakesprinter
February 1st, 2012 at 15:55
Awesome Carl 🙂
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 18:04
Thank you J.
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kateshrewsday
February 1st, 2012 at 15:36
Love the one with the fife 🙂
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 18:04
Fife and drum give whole thing a little personality I think.
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Bonnie
February 1st, 2012 at 13:59
I love this representation, Carl! And, that it does.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 18:03
Took a lot more time and redraws than most.
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The Good Greatsby
February 1st, 2012 at 11:48
It just keeps marching faster and faster. I would stop to think and reflect about why that happens, but I would miss an awful lot of time marching by while I paused.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 11:59
Unfortunately we can’t stretch out the present because it is that mere second where the past intersects the future.
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Debbie
February 1st, 2012 at 11:33
Yup, I’m smiling! Love how the little ones are cheering and waving from the windows!
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 11:34
I lova parade, tick tock sounds the clocks.
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poemsandponderings
February 1st, 2012 at 10:53
May I assume that it is the Italian flag that they are carrying?
I can hear the drum cadence now,,Brrmmm, tick, tock. Brrmmm, tick tock.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 10:57
It could be French or Irish flag with 3 bars. If it was Italian they would be marching opposite the action.
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Hippie Cahier
February 1st, 2012 at 19:14
….marching to a different drummer, so to speak?
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 19:34
That may be the case for more people than for whom we give credit.
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Craig N.
February 1st, 2012 at 09:33
Of course time marches on “SPRING” is right around the corner.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 10:33
You have really been “wound up” lately with the play off of gag. Have to go back to thinking for posts now – there is no “time out ” for blogging.
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wolfsrosebud
February 1st, 2012 at 09:00
how do you think of something like this… made me smile
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 10:31
I have no idea from whence all my ideas come from. Some are from thoughts that develop into pictures and some are pictures for which I develop the gag. But most often they just pop into my head as though something outside of me is feeding me. Puns and adages and saying and cliche are easily harvested for ideas.
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totsymae1011
February 1st, 2012 at 07:26
Why does the parade seem to march faster after high school?
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 07:34
Believe me it really accelerates when you are 62. Another thing that is strange is that I still lift weights and I cannot understand why time has made 75 pounds weigh 3 times as much as it did 30 years ago.
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suzicate
February 1st, 2012 at 07:25
I appreciate this visual of how time marches on…not quite how I thought it looked…it seems I’ve gotten beaten a bit in the process; oh maybe they used the butts of their guns on me!
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 07:31
You have revealed certain characteristics about yourself in your writing that leads me to conclude you are not the type of person that can be defeated by time.
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Carl D'Agostino
February 1st, 2012 at 07:16
That’s true but at least now we no longer need an alarm clock and about 8:30 each night it’s ice cream time !
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Deb
February 1st, 2012 at 16:08
That is about the same time I eat ice cream…I love the stuff!
xo
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Maxi Malone
February 1st, 2012 at 07:06
Ain’t it the truth; the time comes when you start lookin’ at the clock instead of the calendar…
Blessings – Maxi
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