So I was having a great time drawing a panel from Frisky Animals #46 (July 1951), specifically the bottom left panel on page 5 (see https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=6562 for the original). Part of an untitled story credited to Neddy Bear, even though the interesting character and the one who makes anything happen (in all the Neddy Bear stories so far as I can tell) is the Magic Elf. And then ... I discovered I was drawing on the wrong layer. I was heartbroken, since Greedy Pig was going so excellently well. I didn't want to have to redo all that work and surely worse.

I tried various clever tricks to compensate. The cleverest was putting in a background layer that's the same non-repro blue that I used for my sketch, but then everything comes out as black lines on solid blue and that's just too stylish for me to be comfortable. I had thought there might be a way to do a layer-differences trick and wipe out the blue sketch lines and I can't figure how to do it with ArtRage for the iPad. If anyone has ideas, I'd love to hear them. Still love the theme but I traced the tree and a lot of the word balloons because my heart just wasn't in it anymore.

Anyway, in the story, Greedy Pig hears tell that the Magic Elf has a supply of Formula Teeny-Tiny and of Formula Big-Big, for your convenient size-shifting potions, and he figures to make mischief with them. I'm hoping to do some more panels from this story because it's a fun one. Despite all that.

Original art credited to Al Fago.