Rhinoknees

Man does not live by fonts alone. Certainly, 5-year old girls don't. Here is Zoë's latest and, I think, perhaps her best. A thoughtful rhino:

The knees have it. She's given it Hembeck knees! Not that drawing like Fred Hembeck is the tiptop taper on the candelabrum of artistic achievement. But what a thing for her to have reinvented for herself.

Also wonderful, of course, is the way the line representing the chest miraculously turns into a pensive look of concern. Also, the surprised - what is that on top? - ears? an extra unicorn horn? Anyway, it looks surprised and alert, like Tintin's little ... whatever that thing is his hair does.

Comments

[Matt]

cowlick.

[Yentz Mahogany]

My first thought was that it was a duck with a stereo system. He could rock the duck out.

[Kip Manley]

it looks surprised and alert, like Tintin's little ... whatever that thing is his hair does.

Rhinolick.

[jholbo]

A duck with a stereo system! Sweet Wittgenstein on a stick! What an aspect shift. Instead of a duck-rabbit, a stereo duck-rhino.

[Yentz Mahogany]

For some reason the muse took over and I made this.

[Andrew John]

Does that mean Zoe had a birthday while we weren't looking? (Incidentally, in case you didn't know, the Tintin DVDs are not that expensive and a lot of fun.)

[jholbo]

No, but b-day is coming right up, thanks for asking. July 20. So I've sort of mentally rounded up already.

[jholbo]

Yentz, that's quite hilarious.

[Adam Roberts]

In what sense is Tintin's thingie a cowlick? Why can't we call it what it is? A quiff.

[Mrs. Coulter]

I actually thought it was an elephant before I saw the poll choices at CT. But given the choices: rhino or duck, definitely rhino.

[W. Kiernan]

Now that is one fine Thurber animal-frown. In a couple of years, you've got to buy her his The Last Flower.

[SKapusniak]

Ummm, you'll want to keep Tintin away from the Rhinos. He has a bad record on the issue, having once drilled a hole in one, stuffed it with dynamite and then detonated it.

...in fact that whole adventure in the Congo has never been good for his image at all.

[mel]

it is a smalll bird, sparrow like, head faceing up perched on a small bench like stump