Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for August 31, 2021

Ask a silly question.

What city? Does Jimmy take credit cards?

This cartoon was inspired by ‘Rob Bad-Ideas’ down at Adam@Home.

When Harlan Ellison was asked “Where do you get your ideas from?” he famously answered “Schenectady.” Ellison was commenting on the absurdity of pinning down a process as ephemeral, multi-dimensional and just plain murky as the origin of an idea. -- https://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/04/16/where-do-you-get-your-ideas/

There you go. An idea right there. Borrow some money from a loan shark and miss the vig, write a story of the experience and draw pictures of your adventure and the people who put you in the hospital. You’ll have some time while you recover if you can still move your fingers.

Actually, Jimmy brings some right to the house on Wednesdays.

Okay. I order them online and have them delivered.

Truth is … I have no idea where my ideas come from.

He thinks he’s joking.

That’s a glare?

I get all mine from the comics. :)

Many years ago, science fiction writer David Gerrold (Star Trek’s The Trouble with Tribbles) wrote a column in which he told of a lady at a SF convention who asked him where SF writers get their crazy ideas. Obviously she wasn’t a serious fan, so he told her ideas come from the Great Science Fiction Writers Idea Book. He proceeded to weave a story about how the Book worked — how to submit ideas, how to apply to write a story using an idea, how some ideas had been tried by other writers before being successfully executed by someone else (he told her that, before Robert Heinlein, two other writers had tried to write Stranger in a Strange Land). His point (though I think she was oblivious) was that he was showing her where writers get their ideas.

Smart alec!

He knows his old man.

Jimmy sounds a little like Johnny The Shoeshine Guy from Police Squad!.