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&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Text by Mark Graban, Artwork by Ed Butler:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HELL BOUND&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hellboundcomics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_0&quot;&gt;www.hellboundcomics.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ILLUSTRATION&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_1&quot;&gt;ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.doofusandleanie.com/2009/06/doofus-and-leanie-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mark Graban)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kXZogxUlynLW8k2W_iL5vZAPerSMWTHkD_kKkLtbcl4aktrhQhzu_wqlm8kayWdI2GUBdEtHtnbHf2RH9NAp-9HuDoBrpJYhkZnl3mBAvDz0lHJ0firwIphSIu8JeJZEL51m78sZV8I/s72-c/Doofus3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856403002850076370.post-7841625084299776759</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-01T06:51:49.625-05:00</atom:updated><title>Doofus and Leanie #2 - No Blame</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Text by Mark Graban, Artwork by Ed Butler:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HELL BOUND&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hellboundcomics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_0&quot;&gt;www.hellboundcomics.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ILLUSTRATION&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_1&quot;&gt;ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.doofusandleanie.com/2009/05/doofus-and-leanie-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mark Graban)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9IWtSALJCThSmy-uvTk8a9Y1XGvDhklygpPFRPsKkthmuS8edTz1rAH93aRXJv5KFj4BB5fc7yLzj6Ogg3gPNiEIsk16uOkjfoxoXpnAEhr9G9SljD576rCjkegHAlcFHbfjBKkVLUkc/s72-c/doofus2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856403002850076370.post-6499755658957937133</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-29T10:59:32.257-06:00</atom:updated><title>Doofus and Leanie #1 - Gemba</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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Back in February, I did a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.leanblog.org/2009/02/goofus-and-gallant-lean-style.html&quot;&gt;parody of a &quot;Goofus and Gallant&quot; cartoon&lt;/a&gt;, if you remember them from &quot;Highlights for Kids&quot; magazine that was in every doctor&#39;s office and dentist&#39;s waiting room.&lt;br /&gt;
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I was having some concerns about copyright infringement, and I asked if anyone was interested in doing some drawings for some original items. I got a response from a Lean Blog reader, Mike, in New Zealand (what a global Lean world, this is!). His son, Ed, is the artist for this and future efforts.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Text by Mark Graban, Artwork by Ed Butler:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HELL BOUND&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hellboundcomics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_0&quot;&gt;www.hellboundcomics.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ILLUSTRATION&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1240261312_1&quot;&gt;ww.edbutlerillustration.wordpress.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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One thing I remember was the &quot;Goofus and Gallant&quot; cartoon in each issue. It was pretty heavy-handed in it&#39;s approach, drawings that compared what the &quot;bad kid&quot; (Goofus) would do in a scenario versus what the &quot;good kid&quot; (Gallant) would do.&lt;br /&gt;
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I wondered, the other day, what Goofus and Gallant would be like if they were grown up and managing a factory or some other operation. Click for a larger view.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maybe we can have a caption contest. What other Goofus and Gallant captions would you suggest for the photos above?&lt;br /&gt;
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