Category: personal favourite
Guest Comics or Nothing At All Week – Day 4
the snake represents our boundless natural resources
Well it’s 2011 as I write this and my flag isn’t flying above the parliament buildings just yet. I also haven’t managed to make merchandise out of it in any way, although I do still like the design very much and have always wanted to update it a little.
Oh, and this comic marks the first time that I employed alt-tags to sneak extra jokes and commentary into each comic. (Those are the bits of text that appear when you hover your mouse over the image.) I stole the idea from Dinosaur Comics, basically, although I’ve also noticed a lot of other comics do it too. [May 10, 2011]
okay, so maybe I’m being a bit melodramatic
I dual-majored in Dance and Puns
no telling if I can keep these up
I often say that I do these comics for my own amusement but most of the time I am not actually outwardly amused. Okay, that didn’t come out right. What I mean is that it isn’t as though I sit there and draw a thing and then laugh uproariously every time. Sometimes I don’t even crack a smile. It’s the way you watch a comedy show on your own but don’t always laugh, even though you know what you’re watching is funny — you just sort of inwardly acknowledge the joke.
Why did I start talking about this? Is it bad that I’ve lost my own train of thought in less than a paragraph? Oh yes, I remember now. I love the middle panel of this comic every time I see it. I’m proud of both the writing and artwork. Even though I don’t usually laugh out loud at my own work, this one often prompts a chuckle, and that’s saying something about how much I like it. [May 3, 2011]
they tell me PvP is more fun?
I’ve had this one in the “personal favourite” category on the site for a long time. There aren’t a lot comics from the Eurocom / Windows Journal era that I can actually say I like the artwork for, but this one turned out surprisingly well.
I just realized I often use the phrase “turned out” as though good artwork was an accident, because with the Eurocom tablet PC it almost always was. That was a finicky piece of hardware to say the least. It had a screen protector that made slow movements extremely difficult, so almost everything had to be done in quick strokes. It also had a habit of…how to explain? Pretend you’re carefully drawing a line and somebody behind you nudges your elbow. Basically, this PC would randomly simulate that effect. Something to do with the touch screen, I’d imagine.
So yes, it was a pleasant surprise when I could gently coerce that machine into producing a comic with artwork that was actually any good. Shortly after writing this I got a Wii, and then canceled my subscription to World of Warcraft; I had some fun while it was on, and I’ve been tempted to go back a couple of times but I would definitely never do PVP again. Awful.
Oh, and here’s a fun fact: that is supposed to be a sinister mist wreathing the feet of the giant character UGonnaDie. You know, so that you would never actually see his feet move and he’d just drift ominously around the landscape. [May 3, 2011]