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Quiet....

So the room mate search took some energy and I threw my knee out and then the heat started and that always makes me ill for a few days at first (plus that the study becomes a sauna, so I am the PC a lot less) so I am a few pages behind... sorry

The good news is that I found my piece of paper back with notes about where to go from here and that I have to work tonight. And the art-house is usually the perfect place (and after my shift the perfect time) to work on my story.
So I hope it's not too hot (it's usually quite cool there, but a lot of coolers in the projection booths are broken) and I hope I can pick the story back up and have a page (or more) for you soon!!

So please don't leave!

ps: the room mate search has been put on hold for the moment. Need to decide if I really want a loppy first...

Room mate search continued

So I went to the see the blue nest. Turns out both mom and dad are tattooed, so the nest is pure-breed. The baby bunny is very cute with a deep blue colour and very blue eyes.



But the mother is a little 'dirty' blue with a brown glow and brown eyes. Less pretty. But what bothered me most was that she was HUGE. OR so I thought she was.
And the mother is the best bunny to look at when you want to know what the baby will look like as an adult bunny...



The owner had another NHD that was 1,5 kg and she said that was very small for a NHD, but according to the norm they should be between 1,3 and 1,7 kg.
The mother was undoubtedly much heavier. But then she only just had babies. And the owner bought her from a breeder when she was already pregnant (or whatever you call it with animals in English).

So I took some pictures, but when I compared them at home to the photo's I have of the other mother-bunny and I did not see THAT much difference. So now I am doubtful I even want an NHD.
So I googled some Dwarf bunnies but read that NHD do have much friendlier characters than normal Dwarfs. But then I read a complaint on a forum from someone about his NHD that it was pretty much always asleep and never did anything else. So that would be pretty boring. But there were also people answering that they had ADHD Dwarfs that never stood still and therefore couldn't really be cuddled with. That's no fun either.

Zoë had a will of her own, but she did love to be cuddled with and she came if I called her. But if I get a bunny that does not want to be touched much, that would be not so great either.

So I guess it's a little bit a game of chance, but my control freakishness is not really accepting that, aaarch. :-P

So today I look at the pictures of the blue nest again and I am really doubtful what to do. I asked the owner two days to think it over, so I promised to call her tomorrow night and I just don't know.
I also feel rushed because the breeding season is almost over, so I don't know how many chances I will still get with finding a pure breed bunny of either race...

The search for a new room mate (only remotely cartoon-related ;-))

You probably all know my real Zoë passed away last December when I was only half way this story. It's my main motivation for finishing it now though, because cartoon-Zoë will live forever! :-)

But I have also started looking for a new room mate this week. I have two options at the moment and I am wondering about your opinions.

I am looking for a pure breed Netherland Dwarf Loppy (Nederlandse Hangoordwerg or NHD) because they only get about 1 1/2 times the size of Zoë, who was a pure breed Netherland Dwarf Bunny (Nederlands dwergkonijn) but they have those cute loppy ears as well.

First option is a blue NHD that is already 5 weeks old. So that one could come home with me in a couple of weeks. But the owner is not an official breeder, so I am not absolutely certain she is pure-breed, and I don't know what her character will be like.

And I don't know how to feel about the colour. She (or one of her brothers) looks like this:


Here is another picture of a blue female loppy:


The other option is a bunny that is only two weeks old right now (so I would have to wait a little longer) and is a bit further away (10 km north of Tiel) but this is a licensed breeder so I would be certain of breed and real breeders also make sure they breed bunnies with a great character, so less chance of an aggressive bunny. She doesn't know how many female bunnies she has yet, but the nest counts 7 and the next nest is expected this week. So she will most probably have a little bunny for me in 5 to 7 weeks.
The colour is 'sallander' and that looks like this:

One of her bunnies with a nest of about 4 to 5 weeks old (ears haven't 'dropped' yet):


More accurate depiction of the colour:


The mother of the 2 week old nest:


some more of her pictures:


So.. what do you all think I should do? I am going to check out the blue bunny tonight.

More library cartoons...

.. in Dutch.

Here are Hannah & Zowie parts 4 and 5 that I drew last Thursday in the library.
Hope you like them.

I don't think I will make it to do another page for today after having to put my cartooning energy in the library stuff and all.
So you get these instead and I hope I will re-find my motivation and energy to work on the main story in here again soon.



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More about: Maus and Watchmen

Live cartooning in my local library...

...today!!! I am kinda nervous.. I am just an amateur! I bet there will be some kids looking at my stuff and then within hearing distance saying something like 'what a bunch of crap..'
>:-(

or even worse.. a woman coming up to me and asking 'Do you know Maaike Hartjes?' I am afraid that in that case, actual blood may spill...
>:-)

Anyway, here are some more cartoons I did for the library (my apologies to the non-Dutch again, because these actually are in Dutch.. again..)

Part 2 & 3

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London wifi cause of no Tuesday cartoon

I AM on vacation, I DID work ahead, I DO have a cartoon page, but the hotel WIFI wont let me post it... sorry guys, hope I can at least gat this message through, because the past two days I didn't even get THIS far on the net...
so here goes nothing.. see ya on Sunday (back home) hopefully

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Dutch cartoon 3

Another one for the cartoon-weeks in my local library. Look who gets to 'star' this time? :-D

Sorry, too much text to translate... But it's basically about Zowie not being allowed outside because that would scare people. But she can come to the library during the cartoon-weeks, because she can pretend to be a cartoon-figure, so she only has to dress up a little bit.
And Zoë already knows as what cartoon figure she will dress up... (for the rest, see pictures ;-))