Writers, cartoonists, artists, musicians all seem to have troves of things they've created, often on a whim, as an idea flashes across their mind, and they scramble to quickly make a record of it - or art that's taken years to create that gets shelved for various reasons. Here's an item that came to me in a flash. I've always been fascinated and amused by how creatures of different types treat each other: curious, apprehensive, and even sometimes love at first sight. How people, myself included, interact with babies is especially interesting to me. These tiny creatures render us helpless in our affection for them, reducing us to baby talk and gibberish, and often in invasive ways that I tend to think these tiny living things must find.....well, downright scary. So, here it is: a tale about a baby and how different people (and a cat) reacted to the baby. I drew it decades ago, and without any text or narrative in mind. It's nearly a silent film, save for the sounds being made and the few spoken words. I recently ran across a film by a great comic genius, Jacques Tati. The film is "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" (1953), or "Mister Hulot Takes A Holiday" in English. Tati directed and starred in it, and while the film was decades after the silent film era, he removed nearly all the sound, and little dialogue is spoken, while bits of sound - and sound effects - were added throughout it, like the cloppity-clop of horse. It's like these sounds add music to the film. Instead of it being a noisy horse cloppity-clopping along, you find yourself listening to the sound, then seeing what the horse is doing to make that sound. A fascinating separation of sight and sound. It brings about great focus and feels nearly meditative at times. Seeing the film reminded me I had this story tucked away in my archives, and also makes me think more about finding an animator to be a creative partner to my doodles. One of the great partnerships I've admired is that of animator Bill Melendez and "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz, most notably seen in the perennial favorite "A Charlie Brown Christmas." While my little story doesn't have the scope and substance of that great animated cartoon, it might be a nice leaping-off point for future tales if I first get this one animated. Now if I could only find my version of a Vince Guaraldi to do the music, we'd have something even more wonderful. Here it is, simply titled "Baby."