I created a cartoon series and made a “desktop image gallery” on my computer to show in image-blog form to my wife all the wonderful and funny events from our lives together. Collectively called “Stickmen”, this is a never-ending series of funny events. And I am still adding new cartoons and comics to this all the time.
My wife is hard working, dedicated and faithful. I know her to be a loving, warm & caring person and an incredibly passionate lover. Her love can send me into shivering fits even still. She is also someone that I can talk to and get something back. More than just stunningly beautiful, she has an intelligence and wit that I shall never grow tired of.
Last December, I began creating a series of cartoons depicting and honoring the events of our lives, both before and after we were married. “Stickmen” began the cartoon series. Little ’stick men’ figures, with colored backgrounds done with PaintPro and/or PhotoShop image-editing software. Nearly 100 single-frame cartoon cells in gallery form were presented to her as a ‘desktop gallery slideshow’ this past June on our 5th Wedding Anniversary. With her approval, I have been sharing selected ‘frames’ through Triond, and these have been hosted on Picable. Lacking the progressive direction that is evident in the slideshow, I wish to call piecemeal attention to the series and share selected frames of “Stickman” with you now.
I needed someone to write to me, to talk to me, to occupy my lonely times. The pen pals in my life just weren’t quite doing it for me. I needed someone real, tangible, touchable. I needed …her!
We ‘met online’ as the expression goes. I had many pen pals and e-pals (over 100 at any time) that I regularly kept in touch with. I thought that I was close to one or two at various times. Even meeting one or two of them at about one per year intervals, sometimes taking one as a lover for short while but it never really quite ‘worked out’, you know? The sex was good and fun but I still had not quite ‘found love’. I was still searching.
The woman I eventually married had found my profile on Yahoo, and she contacted me. I was immensely flattered to be approached by her instead of me trying to break the ice first as had always been the case in the past. It was a certain photo of herself that proved to be the catalyst causing me to fall in love with her. Parodied in “Stickmen”, here she is in that photo (left frame), and later I cite in a separate frame (right frame, attached here together for brevity) what I would have done had I seen her sitting there that day.
Thanks, all. (blushing) 
And the unfortunate part is, most of my best works are not shown on this article but are random images over on Picable. They only make sense when viewed offline on a gallery viewer as they tell a story of sorts. I tried to pick the most relevant ones for this article and I feel as if I didn’t place enough images. Anyway… glad you enjoy. 
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I am commenting from Africa. This is loscious and very creative. I love you for loving your wife…
Cheers!!!
Aw, that was so cute!
Damn Stick! You’re killing me Loved this tribute to the wifey and blissful marriage ~ stumbled
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