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And now for today’s blog post:
I get ideas for cartoons from all over the place. I’ll hear something or read something and just sort of twist it around in my head.
Saturday night I was watching this tv show called Pompeii, the new dig. It was on PBS Passport, if you get that, you should check the show out. I’ve seen it on YouTube, too. I actually watched the first episode twice! There are four episodes.
This Roman (Pompeii) bath was being discussed, they were digging it out from a large private home, and the narrator said, “The baths were about making contacts and being seen.” And today’s Tomversation cartoon wrote itself!
I ran to my office to jot that down to remember to draw it up the next day.
Another cartoon I toyed with, but probably won’t do is a woman walking into a room in ancient Rome, and her earrings are clicking, announcing her arrival, and someone making a funny remark about that.
The idea wrote itself because on the same Pompeii episode, they showed a pair of gold earrings found with two pearls hanging from each earring. And they explained how the pearls clicked as the elite Roman women walked, making a specific sound, which “announced” their arrival when they showed up at various places. It was the “Gilded Age” thing to do at that time.
These earrings were called, “Crotalia.”
They found this pair of earrings in a box being held by a victim who passed away from the Mt. Vesuvius volcano. The earrings were in a box being held by the woman, all stopped in time, almost 2000 years ago.
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