Vin de Napkin

April 8 2008

When I first started this blog, I did rudimentary cartoons that were intended to be something of the wine blog equivalent to a political cartoon—more observationally piquant than rib-tickling. I had a lot of fun with these, but when I re-designed my site, I also intended to up the ante on the cartoons, which I had dubbed “New World.” I, in fact, did do that with a stud illustrator who knocked it out of the park in terms of providing quality illustrations that I could assemble, but I kind of lost my joie de vivre for it once the output had the capability to be polished. I can turn loose illustrations that are awesome, and I use some of them in my wine reviews and they may appear in other forms in the future, but I’m going back to rudimentary way.

I’ve re-titled these little vignettes as “Vin de Napkin.” Before anybody accuses me of being an ugly American, yes, I know it doesn’t translate to French. But, you get what it is. It’s the equivalent of a back of napkin drawing.

I won’t belabor the point, but thinking about writing a post in 500 words or so and thinking about doing “back of napkin” punditry is two different animals and I’m looking forward to re-calibrating the brain into the occasionally shorter form.

That said, and background provided, thanks for checking out the site.

Inspired by this article and this post at Fermentation:

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Comments

On 04/09, el jefe wrote:

Dude - it’s been too long - please do more!

On 04/09, Jill wrote:

Wow, you’re a great artist. Who knew??!

Yes, do more. PLEASE!

On 04/09, Dr. Debs wrote:

This is great! I had no idea you were an artist, too. To echo el jefe and Jill—please, sir, can we have some more?

On 04/09, Arthur wrote:

Kudos for bringing this back!
We need to see more of this on blogs and websites!

On 04/09, Jeff wrote:

Ah, well, um, er, I’m not exactly an artist. I’m creative, but I have zero artistic ability.

Trust me, I took painting and pottery classes with middling results before starting to blog as a creative outlet—the curse of the marginally talented.

I won’t give away all of my secrets, but I will say that if you Google search for “Image Fonts” or “Zaph Dingbats” and you get creative, you can do all sorts of things with image-editing software. Likewise, I will say that you will see these same characters in the same poses on a re-occuring basis because, well, yeah, I write, but not so much on the drawing.

Let’s all rejoice transparency.

Thanks, guys!

Jeff

On 04/10, el jefe wrote:

Do you see any of us giving a Flying F*** how you do it? It’s good. Don’t stop.