For this week’s Rhapsody we have the Red Rhapsody by Yoshiki.
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According to the annotation today’s rhyme, The Old Pudding-Pye Woman, is just the first verse of a much longer poem, which probably would make it make a lot more sense… apparently it goes into great detail about her ‘nauseous and personal habits” i.e. when you can “follow her by the smell” they are not talking about the pies.
It interests me on how I found myself falling back on visual shorthand. I have no idea just how common windmills were in 17th century England, it’s far more likely that the mill the poet is describing was something horse drawn, but for some reason if you want an image to say mill in a five second glance, windmills are the way to go.
One last note. I’ve been rereading A Song of Ice and Fire lately, getting ready for The Winds of Winter to come out (I know, I have time.) but because of this I imagined The Old Pudding-Pye Woman to be Hot Pie’s mom.
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The slip of paper for today’s sketch, Robbin and Bobbin, fell from the magic tupperware container when I was giving it one final shake… If that’s not random chance that must not be questioned I don’t know what is.
This is an easier version of the better known nursery rhyme Robin, a Bobbin, the Big-Bellied Ben (which I always remembered as Ebin the Bebin) It was commonly believed to be a commentary of Henry VIII’s seizure of church properties. Though this version of it puts some question to that claim.
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Today’s rhyme, “This Pig went to Market” is an older version of the one we all used to count our toes with.
I couldn’t help thinking during the planning stage that during the time this thing was written, when one spoke of a pig going to market they were not thinking about shopping and the pig that stayed home was the lucky one… I decided not to go there.
Otherwise I’m pretty pleased with this with the only thing I have a big problem with is what I had meant as a “no thank you” gesture from the Pig Who Had None ended up looking like it was waving to the Pig Who Went To Market.
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It didn’t help that I was distracted by ongoing tech support emails, but today’s rhyme There was a lady skin and bone, was a pain!
While I’m finding it useful to include the poems with the sketch, when there’s more than three verses it screws with the spacing of the image. To make matters worse it was hard to choose what part of the poem to use. The obvious bit is when she sees the dead man but even there… Yes I know this is supposed to be a story about our inevitable mortality, but what kind of people leave a body to rot in the middle of a public area… Not to mention the parson comes off as a real jerk!
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Today’s rhyme, If you find a Hairpin, was one of those gems where you know what you’re going to put onto paper within five seconds of looking at it.
Regrettably in my confidence I had a nice relaxed breakfast and dragged my feet a bit before actually doing it. but after that the execution was really smooth with the only stumbling point being deciding exactly what flavor of cute high school student I would go with.
Also the political correct side of me feels just a little guilty drawing the most offensive nerdy stereotype I could think of to make this work.
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