Fred, And The Monsters

It's true isn't it, that we all carry a bit of a child deep inside our hearts throughout life, however old we are lucky enough to become. It better be true, or I would feel real idiotic about the silly sentiments I sometimes feel and the childish pleasure I enjoy so much.

I think I mentioned before that it's my reading habit of the daily paper, starting always from back to front, bypassing the important issues like international and national politics, the all essential economic information, the tragic incidents, near or far, that never cease to happen (always mainly the tragedies; happy events rarely make news on the press), and straight onto my daily dose of the 'pick-me-up' -'Fred the Basset', the comic series by Alex Graham, surely everybody is familiar with.

Fred has to be my favourite comic strip. Not only I enjoy all that mischief he gets up to, I appreciate especially the drawing. More like sketches, only the least number of mastery lines, curves and dots, but conveying a thousand and more expressions, feelings and sentiments, bringing the 3 section picture story to life, delighting all my senses always, makes me smile with understanding some days, or laugh out loud at other times.

Today a new comic strip appeared. At this moment I don't even remember the name of it or that of the cartoonist, but the 3 pictures made me laugh out loud too. It was nothing so very hilarious, that's why I wonder about my infantile pleasure of the silly theme that made me giggle so much. I didn't bother to keep the pictures at the time not intending to do anything with them, much less blogging about it. Well since I had started it already, I might as well tell you about it.

Picture 1: A group of little monsters (each has a scary face, funny shaped body in absurd proportions) are having a party. (A banner across the room says 'Monsters' Party').

Picture 2: A toddler is peeping out from behind a sofa-bed, with a friendly looking eye-mask in his hand, about to crawl out of his hiding place.

Picture 3: The toddler is out with the group of monsters, with the eye-mask on. All monsters looked scared, and one of them has his arms up trying to cover his face and screaming 'Mama, Mama ...'

That was it. And I was really tickled and laughing! Now, I haven't told you this for you to laugh at me! I just wonder why I am so infantile sometimes, yet dead serious with my principles and certain things in life, allowing myself no compromises.

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