As I began to flesh out my creation, I added those great under-sized (cuz they're made for kids!) plastic sunglasses with the flip-up lens to DALI-DOG. Now he too could look like all the crazy 8 happy campers at the cabin on the lake in Maine!

COMMENT on why that famed ZZTops tune should be Maine's state song!

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATION ALL the Maine 2003 Diary sketch/illos are rendered with a collection of some very "near-dead" scratchy NESTLER Techliner pens ranging from 01 to 02 on laser printer or "xerox" copy paper. Because some images were "very thin", I had push the LEVELS in PhotoShop.