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My latest Big Ink Drawing has been four years in the making. Or it was made up of four years worth of drawings. Or drawings from four years. 2018, 2019, 2020, and now 2021. It starts with the fact that I make more working drawings than I turn into finished work. Sometimes I feel like drawing with a pencil and so I make small 6×9 inch drawings. Usually I start with one of my small Inkbook drawings and then draw over that but not always.

No matter how I start my working drawing I either end up making something further out of them or they go into my unfinished drawer of drawings. Well, the drawings are finished but the pieces made from them aren’t. When I’m stuck for ideas or don’t want to draw anything new I’ll dip into the drawer and see what I can find to work with. That’s what I did this week. But I didn’t find just one drawing to work with. I found three.

My last two Big Ink Drawings were my portrait type ones. No that they were portraits of anyone specific but they had the basic formula of a head and shoulders plus an abstract background. For this one I wanted an image that had a few things in it. Images other than a portrait. I do these type of Big Ink Drawings all the time but haven’t made one in a few weeks. I was due.

The first drawing I found was the big woman on the right. The drawing is named “Somber Story” and was drawn on 11/13/2019. I liked the drawing but it was a single figure with an abstract background. I knew that I wanted more than that for the image. I made a scan of the drawing and cut the woman out of the background. When cobbling together a few drawings I always do it digitally.

The second drawing I grabbed was called “Meeting Kid.” It’s the big face in the bottom left and was drawn on 5/12/2021. It was a face embedded behind a geometric abstract design. It’s a face but the face is almost abstract itself. It has visible eyes but the rest of the face is a design. There is no nose but there is a triangle where the nose should be. There is no mouth but there are two rectangular shapes where the lips should be. Plus there are lips on the creature’s shirt. It’s a very weird face. I also used the geometric background from this drawing.

After I digitally put those two drawings together I could see that I still wasn’t finished. I needed something else. I found a drawing from 9/13/2018 called “Bank Frog.” It’s the drawing you see in the upper left of a face that’s mostly a decorated eye and a thin smile. In the original drawing there is much more of a sweeping shoulder plus there is another piece of a face whispering in it’s ear. It’s also a little amusing that if you put all three 6×9 inch drawings side by side the biggest face is this one but it’s the smallest face on the Big Ink Drawing.

After digitally cutting out the faces and figures from all three drawings I digitally composed them into what you see in the finished Big Ink Drawing. It’s really easy to compose that way because I have control over everything’s size and shape. It’s so much better than the pre-digital days when I’d have to redraw stuff over and over at different sizes. When the final composition was done I printed it out on eight pieces of 8.5×11 inch paper, taped them together, and transferred the drawing to my big 22×30 inch paper. Then I was ready to go.

The initial part pf the ink drawing was pretty easy. It was all outline. I used a straight edge and marker for all the geometric lines and a brush and ink for all the face and figure lines. I used a brand new Simply Simmons #6 Round synthetic hair brush for most of the brush work.

For some of the curved lines I’ll use both marker and brush. First I’ll use a French curve and marker but then I’ll redraw them with a brush and ink. Those are usually the big thick curved ink lines. For some reason I find it easier to follow the curve with a brush over a dark black marker line rather than a pencil line. The answer is probably obvious in that the marker line is easier to see being thicker and darker but I don’t always do this. Just sometimes on a case by case basis. But I did it a lot here.

I often work from background to foreground and that’s what I did with this piece. By that I mean that I figured out and drew all the background textures and patterns before I figured out the same for the big face and the foreground figure. I mostly used a marker and straight edge to make the background patterns and a brush and ink to make the ones on the big bottom face. This helps to separate them but it’s not written in stone.

For the big figure I worked from top to bottom as I often do. I figured out her hair first. I put some lines in the longest swooping piece that make it blend into the background but then only some little half circles on the lines of the rest of her hair so they don’t blend into the background and have a different texture than all the other lines I the piece.

The rest of the main figure was remarkably hard to figure out. In the end I went with the old saying “When in doubt black it out.” I put large areas of black onto her shirt. These are the largest areas of black in the whole piece so they stand out nicely. They pull her out of the world of the rest of the drawing and into her own world.

The very last thing I did on this drawing are the lines in the woman’s shirt. I already had the line on her neck drawn but the ones on her sleeve and stomach came last. I needed just a little bit of pattern on her. Not so much that she’d blend into the background but just enough to push those areas back in space a bit. I think it worked okay.

Usually I name a drawing a random name and if I make a Big Ink Drawing out of it the name remains the same. But since this one was made from three drawings I combined them and named this one “Somber Frog Meeting.” I imagine there are a lot of sad frogs in that boardroom.

I faced two computer challenges this weekend. One software and one hardware. I triumphed with the software but failed with the hardware. First the failure. My printer.

I was working on some Magic the Gathering altered art cards on Saturday morning. That’s where I strip the artwork off a MTG card and print new artwork on it with my Canon ip8720 inkjet printer. Except that morning, as I was printing the card, I noticed some banding in the color. That’s when the color doesn’t print solid like it should but has horizontal lines in it. That ruins the prints.

There is usually a simple solution to this problem. The printer comes with utility software that is supposed to clean the printheads and solve the problem of banding. First I printed out a test page. That is also in the printer utility software. It prints out a page of color blocks so you can see if there is banding. There was. So I ran a head cleaning cycle and printed out a test page. The banding was still there. I ran the head cleaning a second time and the same thing happened.

Running head cleaning cycles uses up ink. There is even a second head cleaning cycle called deep head cleaning that warns you that it uses up even more ink. I ran this deep cleaning cycle and still my test sheet had the same banding on it. So it was off the the internet.

Though I haven’t had to face it like this before clogged printheads on an inkjet printer is a common problem. So there is lots of advice on the web. I use my printer often so it doesn’t usually clog. Inkjet clogs normally come from not using them and the ink dries in the printhead. There are few different methods for unclogging them that I found and decided to try the least obtrusive one first.

The first method involves folding a piece of paper towel until it was about and inch and a half wide by ten inches long and then saturating the towel with Windex. I then put this long narrow paper towel underneath where the print head moves back and forth. Next I physically move the printed head over the paper towel. The towel absorbs some ink and the fumes from the Windex are supposed to unclog the printhead. You are instructed to keep it like this for hours and hours and re-wet the towel with Windex every half an hour or so. That’s what I did. From 10 AM until 3 PM. Then I made a test print and still had the same banding. Ouch.

After that I tried a second method. First I had to remove all the ink cartridges and take the printhead out of the printer. This is easy to do so that was good. Then I put about a quarter inch of warm water into a container and set the bottom of the print head in the water. After that I squirted a little bit of water (with a bottle made for eyedrops) onto the top of the print heads. I let it soak for the rest of the day and squirted water onto the printheads ever half and hour. I did this until about 10 PM when I pulled it out of the water to let it dry overnight. Sunday morning I put it back in the printer and still had the banding.

I was ready to give up right then and there but decided to try that same method but instead of using water I’d use Windex. That had to work, right? So from 8AM until 1 PM Sunday I soaked the printheads in Windex and squirted them with Windex every half an hour. I set it out to dry at 1PM and waiting until 4 PM to put it back in the printer and give it a go. It still has the same banding.

My choices now were to buy a new printhead or but a printhead cleaning kit. A new print head coast from about $40 to $80 if I want to get a refurbished or knockoff one that comes from China or $100 if I want a genuine Canon one that is here in the USA. According to the reviews on Amazon the knock off ones don’t work consistently. The cleaning kits cost $10 and are syringes with tubes on the end that force cleaning solution into the printheads. I decided to buy one of those. I haven’t got it yet but if that doesn’t work I’m going to spend $100 on a new print head. The printer costs $350 by the way.

Update: I got the printer cleaning kit and it didn’t work.

Further Update: I bought an new printhead for $90 and now my printer works again.

The second computer based problem I was wrestling with was my comic book database. About 20 years ago I made a database of my comic book collection in an app called FileMaker Pro 7. I’ve been using it ever since to keep track of what comic books I have and where they are. The problem is that FileMaker is an expensive program ($400) and I never updated it. I don’t use it except for my comic book database so you can understand why. Since it’s so old only my oldest computer can use it. That’s a problem.

I decided to see what database programs were out there that I could use on my iPad. That would be more convent. Turns out there are a few out there the most popular being an app called CLZ. The problem is that it’s a subscription model app. That means I’d have to pay them $1.50 a month (or whatever they raise their price to) or I wouldn’t have access to my own database. Plus I’d have to re-enter my 12,000 comics into the new database. No thanks.

I decided to try and use Apple’s spreadsheet program that’s called Numbers. It’s the Mac equivalent of Microsoft Excel. I have Numbers on my iPad so I tried setting up a spreadsheet with my seven database categories. It was less elegant than FileMaker Pro but it worked. The big problem was that I did not want to re-enter 12,000 comic books. That’s a huge task.

I decided to see if I could export my FileMaker database. I checked the program and found there was indeed a function to export the FileMaker info to Excel. I tried this and it crashed Filemaker. All I would get was the spinning beachball of doom. I think Filemaker Pro 7 was too old and inefficient to work well all these years later.

Filemaker Pro is actually a big time database program. It has all sorts of business applications that lots of people depend on. I decided to check if there was a demo version of it that I could use to convert my file. Turns out they’re up to Filemake Pro 19. That’s a long way from 7. But there was a demo. I loaded it up to my laptop (which Filemaker Pro 7 won’t even run on) and tried to open my comic book database. It opened it. I then tried to convert it to Excel. It took mere seconds. I then opened it in Numbers. That worked.

I was ecstatic that I now had my whole comic book database in Numbers that I could run on computers and devices going forward. Especially since I managed to get this done on the Sunday night after I failed at getting my printer to run properly. I saved the document to my iCloud and opened it up on my iPad too. So now I’m good to go with my comic book catalogue. That’s right any good database manager will tell you it’s no longer a database but that’s okay with me. A catalogue is good enough.

I had to do a lot of scanning again this Saturday. Scanning of my Big Ink drawings. In looking back over my old blog posts I can see it was two years ago, in 2019, that I first scanned in a bunch of my big ink drawings. I wrote about it here. http://radiantcomics.com/art-writing-big-scans/. At least this time it didn’t take me by surprise how much physical energy it took to scan in all my big ink drawings. I was ready for it.

I started at 7:45 AM one Saturday morning. I had been putting off doing the task of scanning in all my 22×30 inch ink drawings for months. I had 32 of them to scan. Most of them had been drawn in the last year and a couple of months. It seems I took a break from making big ink drawings back in 2019 after I scanned my firat batch in.

I scanned until 9:00 AM and then went out for my bike ride. I resumed scanning at 10:00 AM and continued until 12:00 PM and then took a half hour break for lunch. I resumed scanning at 12:30 PM and then finished at about 1:00 PM. A good solid four and a half hours of scanning. Since I had to scan each drawing in four parts that was 128 scans.

Usually it’s easy for me to scan stuff in. I have a scanner right next to my computer so I put the art on the scanner an away we go. But these Big Ink Drawings are a lot larger than, not only my scanner, but the area where my scanner sits. I have to go get a spare drawing table, set it up in front of my computer, and move my scanner to that table. That’s not really a ton of effort but it’s enough to make me put off scanning. That and the physical nature of scanning such large works.

I’m in pretty good shape for a person over fifty. I cycle five times a week, do pushups five times a week, and watch my weight. But making those Big Ink scans is still tiring. There is just a lot of moving around as I do them. Grabbing one big piece of paper, setting it on the scanner, moving it three times on the scanner, putting the paper away, and then grabbing the next one. None of it individually is very hard but the cumulative effect is tough. I made sure to take five minute breaks every half hour or so. That helped.

A funny thing happened after I finished. I made my 128 scans, moved the scanner back to its usual place, put away the table, and then sat down to contemplate the rest of my Saturday. I guess since I was scanning big art pieces I decided to look through my big old portfolio cases to see what was in there. I looked and found a few things that I thought I should scan in.

I really should have done this before I put my scanner back in its usual place. The portfolio I was looking through had some of my old student work, on paper about 20×30 inches, from the mid 1980s in it. Most of my student work, like most students, isn’t very good. I threw out the vast majority of it decades ago. But I kept some of the better pieces. It’s mostly stuff from life drawing class. I never draw like that anymore so it’s fun to see that old stuff.

I didn’t end up scanning in any of my old life drawings but there was also some old art posters from my college days in there. Since I was at an art school back then there were always a lot of posters hung around campus advertising various art shows, theatre shows, and artistic things in general. I guess in my last semester in school I got nostalgic for them and kept a few of them. Also in the portfolio were a few pieces of art by fellow students that I bought at various fund raising actions. I decided to scan in some of that stuff.

My 11×17 inch scanner in it’s usual place has a computer on its left and walls on its right and top. There is enough room that if I have to scan in something that’s about 16×20 inches I can turn the paper horizontally and scan it in two pieces. The 20 inch side of the paper can slide under my computer and lay flat on the scanner. So I had no trouble scanning in the 16×20 inch posters but some of this stuff was a little but bigger.

I don’t like smushing stuff as I scan it in. By that I mean bending the parts of the paper that stick out because they’re bigger than the scanner and have no where to go because of the wall. They also might not lay flat on the scanner because they have to be bent. That’s especially true with thick paper. That’s why I have to move the scanner to accommodate my Big Ink drawings. But luckily the drawings from my school days were on thin paper. I could bend those ones over without damaging them and they’d mostly stay flat.

So after scanning in my Big Ink drawings all morning I spent from about 2PM until 4PM scanning in a bunch of old posters, prints and drawings. Most of them I was able to scan in two pieces but one big drawing took four scans. In total it was three posters, one drawing, and two prints. That’s not a lot but sorting through the stuff took time.

One last thing about scanning things in parts. Photoshop has an automatic command “Photomerge” that stitches together anything scanned in multiple parts as long as there is overlap. I Photomerged the scans of posters into a whole image but not the Big Ink drawings. I posted the posters on my college Facebook group but, so far, have found no use for my Big Ink scans except to archive them. Usually I post photos of my Big Ink drawings online and not the scans. That’s because with photos I can convey the scale of the drawings better than with the scans. Someday I’ll find a use for the scans but just not today.

Some days I have no idea what I want to do creatively so I go with a whim. A whim is an idea without much depth or thought to it. It crosses my mind for a moment and captures my imagination and motivation. There is usually not much more to to it that “Hey, what if I were to do this simple thing?”. Simple in terms of concept but not necessarily in terms of execution.

Two things I’ve been working on a lot in the recent few weeks are my cartoon art cards and my big ink drawings. The cartoon are cards are small 2.5×3.5 inch drawings of a cartoon face with a word balloon above his or her head with a saying in the balloon. My big ink drawings are 22×30 inch drawings done in black ink an usually of a scene with a face or figure (or two) in it done in a design-ie style. Lots of black shapes that make no sense in reality. This week my whim was to think “What if I made one of my cartoon art cards at my big ink drawing size?”. Then I decided to do it.

The first thing I did was pull out my binder full of art cards that I’ve drawn. I have over 2000 of them. I look through a binder to try and find one that I might blow up. But they were really too small to make me think they would blow up well. So I started from scratch. I pulled out a 5×7 inch piece of paper and started drawing a face on it. I decided to go with a super-hero face so I could have her saying something super-heroic.

It took about an hour and a half to draw the face. For some reason I struggled to make the face symmetrical. I measured out the distance between eyes, erased a lot, and even used s piece of tracing paper and flopped the drawing of the left side of the face. Still something wasn’t quite right about it. That’s because in going from 5×7 inches to 22×30 inches I knew my small mistakes would be magnified. In the end, after I scanned the drawing in, I digitally duplicated and then flopped the left side go the face so it was identical to the right side. That did the trick.

After scanning in the drawing I blew up the drawing to 20×28 inches (I leave a one inch border on the paper) and printed it out on eight 8.5×11 inch pieces of paper. After taping the paper together I use that and graphite paper to transfer the drawing onto my big sheet of watercolor paper. This is how I make all my big ink drawings.

As I was drawing the face I was thinking about what the word balloon should say. I ended up with, “I’m not a superhero but I play one on TV. Just kidding. Make one wrong move an I’ll blast you into oblivion.” That’s how this drawing got named “Oblivion Blast.” I didn’t letter any of that on the little sketch but typed in onto the scanned in drawing and them traced over the letter as I transferred the drawing with graphic paper.

Once the drawing and lettering were in graphite on the big paper I decided to do the lettering first. I thought about doing it with a marker but wasn’t sure if that could get what I was going for. I decided to use a brush. I have a number 6 Windsor Newton Series 7 watercolor brush that I use for ink. I thought I’d try that out. After a few practice letters on a scrap piece of paper I knew that was what I wanted. I set about inking with the brush over my penciled letters. It went fairly quickly and ended up looking okay. It looks like hand lettering on a comic book only bigger.

After the lettering was done I went about inking the piece. That was straight forward as always. I used a ship’s curve and marker for a few of the long curves but then did the rest with a #3 watercolor brush. I even thickened up those long curves with a brush. After the inking was done I took a photo of the piece with my iPad and then used Procreate and that photo to make a color sketch. But first I had to make a new color palette in Procreate.

I’ve bought about twenty new bottles of color ink this year. After I get the ink I make a swatch of the color on a sheet of paper. That’s so I can refer to the swatches to see what to color looks like in real life. In order to make a digital color palette in Procreate I took a photo of my swatch sheet and then sampled each color. That way as I made my color sketch I would have a near approximation of my ink choices.

Coloring this piece took a long time. Maybe five to six hours. It turns out that using ink to color in big flat areas is harder than it seems. I had to take my time and evenly spread the ink on the paper with no dripping. Ink doesn’t dry particularly flat over large areas so I had to use two coats to try to even things out. After putting all the color in I hade to go back in with black ink to strengthen up some of the lines that color leaked into.

The final color I put in are the red and blue streaks in the background. In the small ones I often put in solid backgrounds but I didn’t think they would look good this big. In some 5×7 inch cartoon art cards I’ve use backgrounds such as this so I was sure they would look good. I even ended up putting a big “JOSBORN” signature in the bottom right as I do with my small art cards.

It’s a little bit funny but when I show off a big drawing like this over social media it can look a little underwhelming. The audience can’t see that it’s a big drawing. On Instagram it’s the same size as a 2.5×3.5 inch drawing. Without another drawing to compare it to the size is lost. So I decided to ink and color the 5×7 version.

When I inked the 5×7 version I didn’t flop half the drawing like I did the big one. That’s because the differences in the left and right sides of the face aren’t as noticeable at the smaller size. So I inked it, erased the pencil lines (which greyed out some of the black ink), inked it a little more, and then colored it with marker. It was only after that was all done that I did the lettering. But first I decided to write something different. I didn’t want both drawings saying the same thing. “I’m not really going to blast you into oblivion. I’ll probably just break a bone or two.” The new one says. A bit of a continuation.

In the end I like the two drawings. Not the greatest things ever but kind of cool. Not bad for a whim.

Winter 2020-2021 TV Watching. I haven’t written down which TV shows I’ve been watching in a while. I think the last one was in the Spring of 2020. Some of these could even be the same ones with new seasons. I put the years the shows started on this list just for my own amusement. Some I’ve been watching for a long time.

Barry (2018) – I started this one this year. It’s Bill Hader as a hitman who is trying to go straight after joining an acting class in Los Angeles. It’s sort of a fish out of water story with dark humor and violence thrown in. There is a couple of short seasons of it.

Big Sky (2020) – This one is a drama about a couple of female private eyes working in Montana and trying to track down some missing girls caught up in a human trafficking ring. It’s solid if not spectacular.

The Black List (2013) – We’re in season eight of this one and I don’t like it as much as I once did. It’s an FBI procedural that has gotten a little stale to me. It’s still good enough to watch but I don’t rush to check it out. I’m a few episodes behind right now but I’ll catch up eventually.

Cobra Kai (2018) – Now on Netflix with it’s third season everybody binge watched this show last year but I’ve been taking my time with it. As a continuation (decades later) of the “Karate Kid” movie. It’s fun and a little goofy. I’ve got one more episode of it that I’ll probably watch soon.

Community – (2009) – This is a rewatch for me as I watched it live when it first ran. Six seasons (three long and three short) about the goofy goings on at a Community College. A lot of fun irreverent comedy that has a lot of imagination and pop culture spoofs in it. I’m enjoying it the second time around.

Cougar Town (2009) – This is another rewatch. An ensemble comedy with Courtney Cox in it as a forty something (more of a high schooler) looking for love in the second act of her life. At least that was the plot of the first season. Then if became about the everyday lives of the ensemble cast having fun, drinking wine, and doing goofy stuff. An enjoyable show.

Death in Paradise (2011) – I discovered this one only a couple of years ago but we got a new season this January. It’s a British cop show so there are only eight episodes a season. It’s a light hearted cop show that take place in the Caribbean. It’s full of beaches, sunshine, and warmth. I like to watch it in the winter to forget about the cold. Other than that it’s a pleasant and easy going detective show. We get a murder a week and that murder gets solved.

The Equalizer (2021) – A new show based the 1980s show of the same name with Queen Latifa as the Equalizer. It’s fun. She’s a super ex-CIA agent with lots of training and connections who helps innocent people out of jams when they get caught up with criminals. Solid.

FBI (2018) – The NYC field office of the FBI takes on all the big cases of the day. Bad guys do something bad and then the FBI tracks them down. You know the drill.

Flack (2019) – Here is one it took me all year to watch six episodes of. It’s a show that takes place in London that’s about the women who work in a PR firm putting out the public relations fires that their clients start. Our main character is an American played by Anna Paquin and she’s almost as out of control as her clients. I guess this one is a dramedy.

The Flight Attendant (2020) – Kaley Couco stars as an international’s flight attendant who gets caught up in a murder and conspiracy. I found this one a lot of fun mostly because of Couco. She was charming and interesting. I’d call this one a thriller with a lot of humor in it. Humor that Couco pulled off well.

Ground Floor (2013) – Another rewatch from years ago. It only had two short seasons. About 24 episodes total but I remember them fondly so I wanted to check them out again. It’s a sort of Romeo and Juliet sitcom with the female character working on the ground floor in the IT department and the male character working on the top floor as a hedge fund guy. Will their romance be successful or doomed? Either way there are laughs along the way.

Magnum P.I. (2018) – The new version of Magnum is a straight up action show. It moves fast and has plenty of conflict. It’s fun popcorn TV.

Mr. Mayor (2021) – A new comedy staring Ted Danson as the Mayor of Los Angeles. I really didn’t have a lot of hope for this one but it surprised me. The first couple of episodes were okay but after that it really picked up. It’s a fast paced and clever sitcom where the jokes keep flying. I enjoy this one now.

PEN15 (2019) – This one stars two adult actresses playing their early teen counterparts. All there other kids in school are actual kids so it’s a weird concept. There is a lot of dark and awkward teenage girl humor but it’s well done. You’d better be okay with uncomfortable moments watching this one.

Resident Alien (2021) – I read some of the comic books that this one is based on and like the comics better. The show is okay but there is a lot more comedy in the show. The comic is more of a detective story. The plot involves a space alien who crashed on Earth and now has to blend in until he is rescued.

The Rookie (2018) – A Nathan Fillion police procedural that I’ve been watching for three seasons now. I don’t have much more to say about it other than I like it.

Seal Team (2017) – You could call this a Seal Team procedural. It’s a military action oriented show with lots of behind the scenes drama too midway season four and I’m still watching.

The Simpsons (1989) – Yes, it’s season 32 of the Simpsons and I’m still watching it. I was around for season one and I don’t see any reason to stop watching now.

The Stand (2020) – A new adaptation of the epic Stephen King book. I like the way they told the story a little bit out of order. They showed some of the beginning of the book, then got into the middle of the book, and then flashed back to the beginning as needed. It was a decent adaptation.

Superstore (2015) – In it’s sixth and last season I think this one is a little underrated. At least I never see it mentioned online as anyone’s favorite but I really like it. I’ll be sad to see it go.

The Unicorn (2019) – We’re in the second season of this sitcom staring the guy who played the main villain in “Justified.” He’s a recent widower back on the dating scene. Somehow that makes him a unicorn. I find it amusing but not hilarious.

Utopia (2013) – I started watching the 2020 Amazon Prime version of this show but then bailed on it. After that I found out that this original British show existed and it has much better reviews. I watched the first six episode season and liked it. It’s a show about some people who get caught up in a vast and deadly conspiracy. It’s pretty violent and scary. Fun stuff.

Woke (2020) – A show about a cartoonist in San Francisco. Sometimes his art supplies talk to him. I think the main concept is supposed to be that he is a black man making a generic middle of the road popular cartoon when he get’s “Woke” and then wants to make a more socially relevant cartoon. That derails his career. To me it seems to be about the struggles of a cartoonist or creative person in general and the woke part is a bit of a sideline. Either way I enjoyed it.

Young Sheldon (2017) – The Big Bang Theory prequel continues and it continues to be a well done family sitcom.

Your Honor (2020) – A Brian Cranston vehicle where he plays a judge who’s son gets in trouble with the law and a gangster. The judge tries to protect his sone but it doesn’t go well. I still have a couple more episodes to watch but, though well done, this show is no pick-me-up. It can be a tough watch.