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This weekend my local comic shop had local Renaissance man¹ Mike Holmes in the store doing Simpsons-style caricatures of people who came by.

While I passed on the chance, for fear of looking a little too much like Comic Book Guy in the finished result, Sarah was quite excited about the opportunity. I am fairly certain that she totally charmed Mike while she was being drawn. She was very pleased with the results–in fact, she quite proudly posed for the shop’s owner to take a picture that will probably be posted soon. (The shop has snapshots from the first two times they did this, if you are interested.)

Here’s a scan of the original sketch:

You can see where Mike worked it out in the bluelines, and then inked in the image.

I cleaned up the scan, taking it to black and white, and removing smudges and scanner artifacts:

And then I coloured it in this morning with some help from Sarah, to get this final result:

1. What else do you call someone who is a sketch comic, a puppeteer, a cartoonist, a bon vivant, and a comic book artist, among other things?(back)

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