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BOOK RE-VIEW: Rudolph Saves the Sprites
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This is Bentley from Kevin Gillis's 'The Raccoons' animated series (drawn for hearts and comments).

I've already covered 'The Raccoons' (this is my fourth 'Raccoons' ACO), so I'll skip on the description (I know that every One-Cent ACO, potentially, could be someone's first experience with my work, but ...anyone clicking this already knows these characters). :P

Anyway,

Canonically, Bentley is Ralph's nephew, however when the character was introduced, it was implied Bentley was Melissa's cousin. ^^

Either way, I have him here as an unfinished ACO subject---'unfinished' because I didn't delineate his card.

I drew this card via my Wallace Zephyr, and signed it with the featured pencil ...speaking of,

Pencil...

The featured pencil is from CounterCulture: a coffee roaster that's local to my area.
Specifically, this pencil was from CounterCulture's 'Line Drawing' campaign from 2015.

Before I get into that, I will report how I discovered the pencil.

I found it in a bin of pencil stubs at The Scrap Exchange: a donation store where one can fill a bucket of bits and pieces of things to make crafts.

My primary interest is always the pencil tub. I usually take very little from it (mostly old Prismacolor stubs I can use for coloring comics), but sometimes I find treasure.

In this case, I found the featured pencil. It's rather plain, but as a coffee drinker, I recognized 'CounterCulture' and thought it curious they had a pencil made. I put it in my bucket! D:

Once home, I Googled the pencil and found nothing. Likewise, there were none on eBay or Etsy. I put the pencil in the pikachu cup on my desk ...and forgot about it for several weeks.

Emptying the cup to sort its contents reminded me of the pencil. A second online search revealed nothing, so I opted to send CounterCulture a message asking about the pencil.

CounterCulture replied thus,

"Hi Marten! What an amazing find! *Those were part of a special promotion from roughly five years ago when we had a limited coffee called "Line Drawing." Unfortunately, [the pencils are] no longer available"

D:

*I actually found more than one pencil from CounterCulture. All together, I have three: the featured blue one and two reds. The reds have very different designs and will be featured in a forthcoming comic.

Well, CounterCulture's reply piqued my interest, so I have featured the pencil here. ^_^

What was the 'Line Drawing' thing about?

The article may be read here, https://counterculturecoffee.com/blog/sustainability-in...

The gist is this,

"Line Drawing is so named because it blends coffees from two countries, Colombia and Kenya, where farmers have traditionally relied on chemical fertilizer inputs for coffee farming. In the case of the two coffees used for this blend, however, the communities are making big strides to produce and use more organic inputs—a great example of movement along the sustainability continuum. If we draw lines in the sand like defining sustainability through organic certification only, we’re creating a false dichotomy that doesn’t support these incremental successes"

:3

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Published: 3 years, 7 months ago
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KNIFE
3 years, 7 months ago
That is for sure one of the more interesting stories for a pencil.
And as a coffee drinker myself I'd love to try some of that particular blend. Sounds interesting. :D
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
Oh, I have many pencil tales! lol

I'm glad you like. :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
This was such a preachy and mediocre cartoon...
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
It was drawn well. I think most fans cherish it for its music---it had a 'grown-up' sound to it ('Run with Us' was an actual pop song). :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
That's a pretty decent 80's song. I think I have heard it before. I had no idea it was associated with what was a pretty shitty (imho) cartoon.
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
Considering it was the series's theme song, you couldn't have seen many episodes. :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
I think I see where the confusion comes from, I thought this was the theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVB7ysuyE_g - but upon closer inspection it says "THE NEW ADVENTURES"... What are you doing at 5 am at your computer btw?
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
I'm usually arise around 3am.
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
Wtf? The new adventures is from the 2000's. I distinctly remember the theme I linked to being part of the show I saw during the 90's. Shouldn't you be preparing for work? XP - EDIT: 3 am?? When do you go to bed?
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
All things in their time.

Once my eyes tire of the screen, it is to bed (it's rare when I'm awake past 10).

I function on little sleep, which is why my mind decreases every year. Soon, there will be only stick figures and emotes from this account. :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
Meh, that happens anyway. It's called aging.
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
We'll be dead soon, Foxy. What are your thoughts? :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
Well... apparently the world is going to shit anway... At least if the news is to be taken seriously.
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
Indeed. :3

Let us consume all the environment we can before we ourselves are consumed by the environment. :3
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
Good idea! *stuffs himself with food and drink*
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
FoxyIbLover
3 years, 7 months ago
*belch*
GayMunk2
3 years, 7 months ago
<3
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
:D
babybunnydiapercute
3 years, 7 months ago
The racoons 😍😍😍
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
Indeed. :3
ShiftyGuy1994
3 years, 7 months ago
My FAVORITE character in "The Raccoons"!! I share a lot of personal traits with this little guy lol. Cute job! :3
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
At least you don't share his nose/ :3
ShiftyGuy1994
3 years, 7 months ago
No I don't, but I'm not too far behind him in regards of how ugly I look lmao. But it could be worse.....Lol
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
D: ...<3 :3
ShiftyGuy1994
3 years, 7 months ago
To be perfectly honest I don't look terrible. But I could certainly look a heck of a lot better with some weight loss lol
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
I've a boyish face, but I'm well over 200lbs. :p
ShiftyGuy1994
3 years, 7 months ago
Yeah, same lol. And hey, so am I! Wish I wasn't, but eventually I won't be anymore lol.
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
You can do it if you believe! :D

(I read that on a sticker once ...it may even be so!). :3
ShiftyGuy1994
3 years, 7 months ago
Oh, I know I can do it lol. I just need steady cash flow so I can have a gym membership, and a vehicle so I can there lol. But for now, I do my own exercise at home. Until I can do those things lol.

And lol nice, there you go :3
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 7 months ago
MilesProwerFan42
3 years, 6 months ago
Cute! Incidentally, I got the ending theme stuck in my head a few days ago. You can run with us! We got everything you neeeeed. Run with us!
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 6 months ago
MUHAHA! That was my plan from the beginning! :D
MilesProwerFan42
3 years, 6 months ago
Oh, the memories!
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 6 months ago
Zenobius
3 years, 4 months ago
Oh I've watched a lot of the raccoons episodes last year (They're free on youtube) really loved how the cartoon handled all sorts of problems and issues that the characters faced and portraied them fairly realistically. I really loved the episode in which Bentley ran away from home after cheating on a test and the last person who talked some sense into him? Cyril Sneer, the villain of the show. It's stuff like this that just elevates an ordinary cartoon to something special when villains can be kind hearted and where even the heroes can fail (Bert becoming selfish because he wanted to win a contest). It shows that anyone can succeed if they try hard enough and that no-one is ever truly a 'lost cause'. :3
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 4 months ago
Indeed. The series was well done, esp. for its time.

The Raccoons was a true 'family' cartoon, if you catch what I mean. :3
Zenobius
3 years, 4 months ago
Absolutely, it had some great writing behind it and I especially loved the music. X3

And yush, no matter how much Bert worked himself in trouble he always had a 'home' to go back to, same as with Bentley and the other characters. No matter how frustrated they were, in the end they always wanted the best for eachother. ^^
IceAgeChippies
3 years, 4 months ago
May that be said of us all. :3
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