Interesting Times 4th Birthday Belate-o-splosion!

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It’s finally here, performing for you! It’s a little late (the actual site birthday is, as you know, June the 6th) since I was out of the country BUT I am finally ready to officially unveil the 4th Season Birthday Surprise,

A year ago my friends and I got together and made the intro to the unaired Interesting Times television sitcom. “Unaired” because **spoiler alert** it was never a real show in the first place. One of the most common bits of feedback we got was that people wanted to see a whole episode. I brushed it off because that’s a lot of work and because I was afraid that the concept would be much better than the execution.

But round-about February my friends actually got on board with the idea, and then they convinced ME, and wouldn’t you know it over the next few months the crazy thing got done.

Today’s special thing is therefore one entire episode of Interesting Times the series, starring me and my pals and with original music and a studio audience and special effects and everything. I am proud to say that we all worked really hard on putting this show together and I hope you enjoy it very much. Watch it below!

Interesting Times s01e07 – “Creativity Issues” from Nathan Fehr on Vimeo.

(This isn’t the end, oh no! In the coming weeks I plan to release a special edition package for download, including a commentary track, scans of the original artwork, music and perhaps more?? Stay tuned for details)

As always and with all sincerity I want to thank you, the readers, for helping make all this possible. This is all so much more fun when people interact with the site in the kind and witty and surprising ways that you do. Here’s to Season 5, belatedly kicking off tomorrow!

I’m not saying it’s wrong

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Ha ha, that bee just charms me every time I see it. I’m charmed by my own work! The sign in panel 1 also turned out unexpectedly well, and at one point I had found a perfect real-world photo on flickr that I was going to edit it into — you know, for desktop wallpaper lulz. Got permission from the photographer and everything, then never got around to it.

I like to talk about the importance of a routine when working on a comic; try to work at the same time of day, that kind of thing. What that has sometimes meant to me however is that anything outside of that routine is just “too much work” and never gets done. Oh well! [September 4th, 2013]

WHO IS THE VARMINT NOW

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Your Humble Author here, just checking in. Thanks to Aluren for pointing out that this comic didn’t get posted automagically like the rest. And it’s important, a sequel to the Electric Cowboy one!

 

[Begin Commentary] I like this comic quite a bit. The first panel is rather more dynamic than my panels tend to be, and I like the last panel as well. It’s a tiny bit poignant and (WE HAVE EXCISED A SECTION IN WHICH THE AUTHOR BECAME NEEDLESSLY PRETENTIOUS AND PRATTLED ON ABOUT THE NATURE OF AGING AND CONFRONTATION. IT WAS BORING) a single tear. [April 8th, 2013]