Transcript:
Rat: Hey, dud. What's going on? Pig: I'm playing with my new basketball, volleyball, and baseballs, all under the light of the full moon, which I can see through this porthole window. Rat: Cool it with the new stencil. Pastis: But it's so exciting.
Vonne Anton about 12 years ago
Now try the square one! Now the triangle one! Now, the curlicued guy that looks so….so…..French!
margueritem about 12 years ago
Love it.
skinny_tim about 12 years ago
I’m sure he’ll get ’round to the other shapes eventually.
Bilan about 12 years ago
Wait until he gets his hands on this:http://www.crayola.com/products/marker-airbrush-product/
rf_eq about 12 years ago
I’ve seen this before. Guy are more confident in their drawings when they use stencils. It’s called male pattern boldness.
Proginoskes about 12 years ago
I for one was expecting a pun from today’s comic.
juicebruce about 12 years ago
Rat Logic = Beer in Hand(but rats do not have hands?)
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Uh oh! Pastis didn’t read the instructions.
Stephan! It says to keep it away from your eyes!Now look what you’ve done.
mikemel about 12 years ago
Back in drafting school we called it a hole-o-meter.
dkoch59 about 12 years ago
Being an architect of a certain age, I can relate to the excitement of acquiring a new template, although I do not recall allowing one to influence my design to quite that degree. Now that just about everything is done by computer, there is not much use for them in my job.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Fascinating. The circle is the most nearly perfect two-dimensional shape, and I could follow Cartoon-Boy’s adventure in cyclical art for several rotations! Round, and round, and round we go! Where we stop, nobody knows!
einarbt7 about 12 years ago
Pastis looks like he is on something. High on stencil?
the burser about 12 years ago
Wow Pastis!
scarbro about 12 years ago
Pastis is into post-modern self-reflexive hole theory.
brine Premium Member about 12 years ago
HA!!! I do love those stencils!!!
eddie6192 about 12 years ago
Toon Boy forgot to stencil the hole in his own head.
finale about 12 years ago
What was the name of the kids toy that had stencils as well as rotating patterns? What a great way to waste a few reams of paper and several pencils! (Technical Engineer coming out in me…..once indoctrinated….never really leaves).
761st about 12 years ago
… and not one mention of eric the circle?
cartoon critic 2544 about 12 years ago
This strip wasn’t bad until the narcissist started including himself. Ohhh, if I hurry, I can hire Stephan to speak at my “event”. LOL
bornfree99 about 12 years ago
wait.. did he stenciled his eyes as well?
hariseldon59 about 12 years ago
Porthole window? Where are they, in a submarine?
Number Three about 12 years ago
Love it!
xxx
Arianne about 12 years ago
Finale – I loved playing with Spirograph!
Deoxor about 12 years ago
Yeah, epidemic is the right word for it…except, this is a lot more fun!! xD
Kwolfe99 about 12 years ago
Steve… I love ya! And I share your passion for new drawing templates. I know… I’m sad.
Hoodude about 12 years ago
..needs more compass..
Coyoty Premium Member about 12 years ago
No one wanted to be the first to say Pastis was having a ball?
BlackScorpion1910 about 12 years ago
I know the feeling, they are fun.
corzak about 12 years ago
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
I thought there was going to be a pun involving “balls” or “mooning”; did SP chicken out at the last minute?
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
By he light of the stencil-y moon…
kathleenhammett about 12 years ago
Way to go, Stephan-glad to see you had the balls to write this strip..
Gokie5 about 12 years ago
The Spigograph was fun, back in the day. Now we have things like http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/ to make your own kaleidoscope patterns online, but somehow it’s not the same!
kathleenhammett about 12 years ago
Stephan needs stencils to draw legs and feet next
Linda Solomon about 12 years ago
Tell ThataBaby to send the Pun Police to Pearls…
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
BornFree … that’s what I meant, but I was too subtle.
Imagine…. me … subtle!
Popeyesforearm about 12 years ago
at least it’s not Dude and Dude stencil
codedaddy about 12 years ago
Still have my blue flow charting template acquired at IBM I believe nearly 50 years ago. For me they are not exciting.
danno12345 about 12 years ago
You mean an Epundemic!
Sorry.