Tag: Don Quixote

What are we up to… take 47?

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Bruce

It’s been a long while and many things have changed since I last posted anything. So let’s try this whole thing from the beginning…

Hi! I’m Bruce, sometime cartoonist, most of the time stressed out elementary school teacher “happily” living with my wife, two cats and a stuffed monkey trying to figure out the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything or at least trying to figure out what 42 has to about it. I like to draw (but don’t do it that much) I like to motor (that’s the MINI term for driving aimlessly around), I build LEGO sets, I play games, read comic books, and I stress about all the adulting I should be doing.

During the week I teach Robotics & Design to grades 1-6 in a public school. I coach the robotics team (yes, it is a sport) and try to figure out how to prepare elementary kids for a future I may never see. I’m glad I read science fiction as a kid, but somehow that isn’t helping since we didn’t colonize the Moon in the 1980’s and aliens have not made their presence known, yet. Also… flying cars?!? I know I was suppose to have one by now. The current view of the future is grim.

I have tried to do a blog in the past and end up figuring out that what I have to say isn’t that important- I’m not a celebrity. I’m not too controversial (teachers learn to hide that side, if they like to stay employed). I’m just a geek traveling through life trying to make sense of it all, and learning that failing is all part of the process. So for today this was a start… we’ll see what tomorrow brings.

A Year in MINIons- MINIon #1547

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Bruce

IMG_6645As I keep getting older there are some times I feel as if I’m fighting windmills, or maybe they are giants and I’m just looking athem from a slightly different point of view.  If I were to attempt to put this into a MINIon badge I’d have to redraw it (every time you redraw something it gets better) the lance/spear and the shield are too wide for the space…  I guess I should be glad the old scanner isn’t working- although I have ordered a new on(smaller 🙁 but it should work.  You can see in this drawing how much  like non-photo blue pencils.  I had started drawing one MINIon, didn’t like the way it was going so I drew this one instead.donquixote

I was fortunate enough when I first visited Europe (in my late 30’s) to wander through Strasbourg and into the art museum.  It was there I saw a drawing that impressed me, and made me laugh.  The illustration was for a French edition of Don Quixote in the mid-1800’s, It was by Gustave Doré a local boy who went off into the big city to find fame & fortune, or something like that.  the print made such an impression on me, that I hunt it down on the Interwebs every once in a while… Did you know Don Quixote was supposedly 50 when he started on his great quest.  More on that in the weeks to come.