You'll be sorrrreeeeee!

I would like to introduce you to a friend of mine. His name is Ted. Ted originated this past summer while I was working in Denali, Alaska. Here's the story.

My friend Kevin and I were going to be renting a car for a day to drive up to Fairbanks for a shopping trip. We ended up renting a car from a woman in a town called Cantwell, twenty miles south of where we worked. But since we were right outside a national park, there was a company that rented cars to drive into the park. The only problem was, there was a limited amount of time for the rental, say 6 hours or something like that. Enough time to have a good, relatively un-planned day in the national park, but not quite enough to drive the 2 hours to Fairbanks and back and not feel rushed while there. And anyway, you were only allowed to drive those cars into the park. We considered the possibility of renting one of those park-only cars and just driving it to Fairbanks anyway--they'd never know, right? I think it was Kevin who came up with the scenario of, once we got to Fairbanks, a midget pops out of the trunk wearing a helicopter backpack, saying "Aha! I caught youse! I'm telling!" Then as he flies off, you hear him calling "You'll be sorrreeeeee!"

So there's Ted, with my initial sketch and the Flash version. I am much pleased with the way this turned out, and I do plan for Ted to make it into a cartoon one day. Click picture for better detail.