While still in college I was trying to create a number of children’s book type stories. I was young and stupid then, not knowing that you had to have experience of the world to be a writer, even a writer of children’s stories. So, not knowing any better, I created the character you see in today’s Paffooney, Horatio T. Dogg, super-sleuth. He was a dog, but he could talk and smoke a pipe and he had the mind and observational powers of Sherlock Holmes. Problem was, though, you had to create a mystery for that sort of character to solve. I have never been any good at that. My stories were unable to shock or surprise, since I always telegraph my every move about three different ways. Anyway, this is a pen and ink drawing with watercolor wash of Horatio T. Dogg.
Catch a Falling Star 