Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 19, 2023

Looks like Lio passed his 3D drawing class.

What if Dad decided to wipe the wall clean?

Dad leans in for a closer look, and then gets run over by a roadrunner.

ACME

Who needs a wand when you can have a magic marker.

Now, that’s a magic marker!! (…and well done on using the same words, but not making any upper case!! Thereby avoiding the copyright police!!)

The Shawshank Redemption, supernatural version

Are his grades that bad that he needs to escape?

Ah yes, The black hole of gloom and despair. Been there, done that.

the magic markers work. :D

Harold?

Lio and the Black Magic-markermeets Harold and the Purple Crayon..!

Ah, a graduate of the Acme School of Art…

I guess that was the (w)hole idea.

Memories of Winsor McKay and Felix the Cat. Early theatrical cartoons often had a surreal quality.

oh, Lioō, you sneak

Isn’t that supposed to be a purple crayon?