Bell

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     Whee! Cartoons are cartoons. This is the impression of how ringing a bell looks and feels. 

     I started making another one of these, an earlier version, and it had all of the physics correct, with all of the mechanicals of the little swinging yoke thingy, and with all the pulleys and mechanicals protected under the roof of the tower, etc. But it looked WAY too busy, and by the time I was starting to ink it in, you almost couldn't tell that there was a bell under all that visual noise. 

     So I tossed it aside. It was a drawing for an engineer or maybe it was a detailed construction plan for somebody building an actual bell tower. But the one thing that it was NOT was a cartoon drawing that was a clear read upon the first glance. 

     After a break, I came back to it with the idea that I would strip it down to it's barest essentials: Bell, Tower, Ringing mechanism (simple!), and a cartoon guy straining against the weight and sound of the thing. That's it! That's all it needed. 

     Yay. 

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