Is it weird that I want you to come over and draw that “wallpaper” on my walls in a room?! Wouldn’t that be a fun Zoom room?! Random people would schedule meetings just to be able to see the huge Donnelly behind me instead of the boring bookcases or potted plants!!! 😁😁😁😁
You should so do that!!!! Zoom isn’t going away and book shelves are getting a bit boring. Besides, I would bet no other cartoonist has thought of this or doing it. You could spark a whole trend…
We stripped the wallpaper in our old house and found a cartoon on the dry wall underneath, the "Kilroy Was Here" guy peaking over a fence with his huge nose and hands grasping a wall. A message from the 1940s! I hated to paint over it and now regret it, seeing your cartoon. We should have left it and painted something clever around it.
I’ve heard this done! - the drawing left untouched, a frame placed over it. I wish I’d find one! (Maybe I’ll leave a note - under a mirror I leave behind.)
I love that so much - it’s like a message in a bottle, isn’t it?!
(Only regrets here - we didn’t preserve any of our son’s pencil drawings (superheroes what else?) when his younger sister took over the bedroom. (It was not negotiable - as you might imagine) Rats!
Love the cartoon; it did make me laugh out loud. Brava. When we were deciding on our new home, my husband said something on the order of your cartoon real estate agent., i.e. "You can always change the wallpaper." Well, it was so unbearably hideous, pink, white, and silver stripes, like you'd find in a woman's bathroom in a 70's disco, that I started ripping it off with my bare hands when we moved in. I couldn't get it off the wall fast enough. Wallpaper is such a personal thing. One might be able to live with a paint she wasn't that fond of. But with wallpaper, you seldom come across something someone else had that you want inhabiting your new home.
I moved with my family the summer between eighth and ninth grade. When we kids first saw the house, my mom pointed out the hideous, “loud” wallpaper in the entryway and proclaimed how that needed to be changed right away.
I loved that wallpaper, it was a fuzzy, black and gold fleur-de-lis pattern and I thought it was amazing. We lived with the loud wallpaper for about a month before my mom insisted on removing it. In that month, I would walk past often and touch it, wondering what made it loud.
Loud wallpaper is what came to mind when I saw your comic! 😁 VERY Loud!
Fun observations from fellow observers...I can imagine all these figures, rooted in the life of the house, talking among themselves, sharing and comparing stories and experiences......sleeping at night and waking up at dawn..... So many creative possibilities!!!!!
Influence or coincidence, looking at the cartoon gave me that same wonderful feeling that I only used to get from Thurber drawings, followed by the delight at your coincident mentions of him!
I luuuuuv stripping wallpaper! And in the really old houses here, there has sometimes been hand--painted wallpapers from the 19th century. When we were fixing up our early 19th-century village townhouse to move in (electricity installation dating from the 1930s!), when I stripped the paper off in what had been the entrance hallway, there was the date "1826" cut into the plaster. The mason told me that sometimes people buried treasures in walls and marked it like that, and that I if I would let him dig into the wall, we'd split the treasure, and of course he would repair the wall. Of course (dumdum that I was) there was nothing, and I didn't even take a picture of the date. Up in the attic, we found a poem written on a wall with the name of the mason and the date 24 mai 1854 - I do still have the block of plaster with the poem on it. When we took out a fireplace up in the attic to remodel, we found a rusty old "treasure" that a child must have had buried in the hearth by the mason - an old oil lamp, a spigot, a tiny bellows, a metal rifle cartridge, and several other tool-like objects - along with a little piece of plaster inscribed by the mason (a different one), with his name, age 28, and the date 31 mars 1894. Still have all that. Old houses have a soul, and lots of fascinating (and sometimes unpleasant) surprises.
Is it weird that I want you to come over and draw that “wallpaper” on my walls in a room?! Wouldn’t that be a fun Zoom room?! Random people would schedule meetings just to be able to see the huge Donnelly behind me instead of the boring bookcases or potted plants!!! 😁😁😁😁
Haha! Love it! Maybe I should market a zoom screen of my drawings....or at least do that when I am on zoom!
You should so do that!!!! Zoom isn’t going away and book shelves are getting a bit boring. Besides, I would bet no other cartoonist has thought of this or doing it. You could spark a whole trend…
I love it! I hope it makes the magazine!
sadly, it did not! Thank you!
Imagine seeing this in your house walk-through!
We stripped the wallpaper in our old house and found a cartoon on the dry wall underneath, the "Kilroy Was Here" guy peaking over a fence with his huge nose and hands grasping a wall. A message from the 1940s! I hated to paint over it and now regret it, seeing your cartoon. We should have left it and painted something clever around it.
I’ve heard this done! - the drawing left untouched, a frame placed over it. I wish I’d find one! (Maybe I’ll leave a note - under a mirror I leave behind.)
Our three year old daughter wrote he name on our wall and we painted around it!
I love that so much - it’s like a message in a bottle, isn’t it?!
(Only regrets here - we didn’t preserve any of our son’s pencil drawings (superheroes what else?) when his younger sister took over the bedroom. (It was not negotiable - as you might imagine) Rats!
That is hilariously fabulous!
Thank you!
I love this. I see the Thurber influence. And yes, could be an Addams, too. ❤️
Coming from you, it must be true!
❤️
An 'If walls could talk...' room. Would make a great stage backdrop for a multigenerational play of life in a single room.
I love it! Just the thing for Dad's study.
Are you thinking of "Rout" https://i.pinimg.com/originals/13/df/73/13df73e5e13b6b39c52bdca5a12ac57a.jpg
Ah, no I wasn't. But thank you for sharing that! I so love his people
This is very very very very Funny! You may come to LA and draw on my garage door anytime, Liza!
Thanks, Sandy!
Whether Thurber influenced or not, this is one of the most novel cartoons I’ve ever seen in my almost 77 years.
Wow! I am honored!
Love the cartoon; it did make me laugh out loud. Brava. When we were deciding on our new home, my husband said something on the order of your cartoon real estate agent., i.e. "You can always change the wallpaper." Well, it was so unbearably hideous, pink, white, and silver stripes, like you'd find in a woman's bathroom in a 70's disco, that I started ripping it off with my bare hands when we moved in. I couldn't get it off the wall fast enough. Wallpaper is such a personal thing. One might be able to live with a paint she wasn't that fond of. But with wallpaper, you seldom come across something someone else had that you want inhabiting your new home.
I moved with my family the summer between eighth and ninth grade. When we kids first saw the house, my mom pointed out the hideous, “loud” wallpaper in the entryway and proclaimed how that needed to be changed right away.
I loved that wallpaper, it was a fuzzy, black and gold fleur-de-lis pattern and I thought it was amazing. We lived with the loud wallpaper for about a month before my mom insisted on removing it. In that month, I would walk past often and touch it, wondering what made it loud.
Loud wallpaper is what came to mind when I saw your comic! 😁 VERY Loud!
Fun observations from fellow observers...I can imagine all these figures, rooted in the life of the house, talking among themselves, sharing and comparing stories and experiences......sleeping at night and waking up at dawn..... So many creative possibilities!!!!!
Influence or coincidence, looking at the cartoon gave me that same wonderful feeling that I only used to get from Thurber drawings, followed by the delight at your coincident mentions of him!
That's so lovely to hear! Thank you, that made my morning.
I luuuuuv stripping wallpaper! And in the really old houses here, there has sometimes been hand--painted wallpapers from the 19th century. When we were fixing up our early 19th-century village townhouse to move in (electricity installation dating from the 1930s!), when I stripped the paper off in what had been the entrance hallway, there was the date "1826" cut into the plaster. The mason told me that sometimes people buried treasures in walls and marked it like that, and that I if I would let him dig into the wall, we'd split the treasure, and of course he would repair the wall. Of course (dumdum that I was) there was nothing, and I didn't even take a picture of the date. Up in the attic, we found a poem written on a wall with the name of the mason and the date 24 mai 1854 - I do still have the block of plaster with the poem on it. When we took out a fireplace up in the attic to remodel, we found a rusty old "treasure" that a child must have had buried in the hearth by the mason - an old oil lamp, a spigot, a tiny bellows, a metal rifle cartridge, and several other tool-like objects - along with a little piece of plaster inscribed by the mason (a different one), with his name, age 28, and the date 31 mars 1894. Still have all that. Old houses have a soul, and lots of fascinating (and sometimes unpleasant) surprises.
they do have a soul, I agree. Love your stories!!
Love this, Liza. It made me smile immediately! 🙏 as always.