About Merferd

Merferd knows how to make the best out of a mess. He is a PROPHETIC comic character with big hands, feet, mustache, and a big heart.  Besides saving his Treetoon friends who sit on land repoed by the bank of SCAMALOFYA, Merferd is also into saving the printed page. This is a quandry for him, for you see Red Elm, his main Treetoons sidekick HATES 'HARD COPY'...can you wonder WHY?!​

SAP FLOWS ON in the Tree Toon stand.  Where Merferd is prophetic,  Red Elm is a seer.  Saving the earth, people and the press is a large task, but not if one is as moved as a Merferd and as tenured as a tree.   

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Merferd Over the Years

 This Merferd was created on a trip out to Montana several years ago. He began to take on earth colors at this point. He welcomes togetherness. Other than having to move a little bit to help one of the tree toons  with a snag that needs to be trimmed here or there, Merferd moves slow. Life is worth slow. Can one feel the earth spinning round and round? Answer. No. So too, a Merferd accomplishes much, you just don't see it....

Notice this Merferd (left) was drawn on an envelope. I did not notice the envelope until some time later and the words,  The Value of Community.  That says it much for Merferd. He is into conversation, community and comic friends. You can see how the roughed out drawing was given color and life in the classic 'Show Me' Merferd  portrait  next to it (right).  ​