the art of ORR MARSHALL

Gucha!: “Squish” — she is squashing self-satisfied tomatoes before they can fly away. Miko-chan: little girl from magazine ads for penmanship school. Perori: (sound of lolling tongue.) Doraemon: well-known TV character (in Japan) on Sonya’s shirt — A robot-cat made in a Japanese factory on 9/3/2112, sold cheap as defective goods because his ears came off, he arrived in the 20^th century by time machine. Balloons describe some attributes: infra-red eyes, 4^th-dimensional pocket (holds anything and everything), switch (his tail), and sticky hands (for climbing walls and walking on the ceiling). Run-Run: little storybook girl with her sparkling (pika-pika) gaze. Hello Kitty zooms (kyūn) past, saying “Harō!”