I’ve been thinking for years that sometimes I oughta just take a day and draw my tumblogging in the voices of some characters I draw, and I never did it till today, having realized at the last minute the fiftieth anniversary of M*A*S*H was upon me. It was fun. Most of it is reblogs that were already in my queue, where I copypasted an existing comment into a word balloon and then decided which M*A*S*H character to give each comment to, and some of them were made and posted in realtime like any cartoon reply that isn’t also tagged as saved for Friday night.
You can review them all at my combined m*a*s*h and year 50 tags (which also bring up some other reblogs from the day, and the T*R*E*K scenes I posted for Star Trek’s fiftieth anniversary in 2016). I’ll probably do it again now, for other characters, and/or other special occasions or perhaps more often; but I suspect it was good to have started with this set of characters whose native milieu makes them well-suited for an exercise of random wisecracking. I even got everybody in. Even Frank.
M*A*S*H is that thing that got me through adolescence, the way most boys turn to cars or sports, or most nerds turn to Star Trek, which also was one of mine, second only to M*A*S*H (Doctor Who came later). If I hadn't let the anniversary sneak up on me I'd've wanted to do something Special about it, and I still kinda felt like that all day. But I also feel it's prolly more appropriate that I did something which manifests and highlights how much M*A*S*H infuses my life even now. There were probably few better things in this world at the time that a young person could fixate on in anticipation of a lifetime of producing humor on a schedule than something Larry Gelbart created and spent four years on, may his memory be a blessing.
Happy anniversary, M*A*S*H.