True Story
🕑 Added 2024-07-29 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“Joey” may not be Shel Silverstein’s most well known poem, but I’ll never forget it. This is one of my first pen and ink drawings in a long time, because I wasn’t going to give my dad a jpeg for his 80th birthday.
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Azure Lionheart
Boy, it's like you never lost your spark with ink pen drawings... wait, what am I saying, you DEFINITELY haven't. Sometimes parents make mistakes when trying to support their kids, but it's nice to have that story to remember; it sounds like you and your Dad are real close. I hope he had a great birthday!
Joe Haley
Of the art or of the choice of poem? Because of it’s the latter, if we didn’t start with one that blew up in our faces, I wouldn’t remember it decades later. I think embracing failure is part of being a parent, but I’ll never have to know since I’m never having kids.
Gnome-oo
I'm fine... 😭
Brian Kim
Good dad but awkward execution
Cydra
Hilarious, horrifying, and thoughtful. Well done.