I could get some of those rubber bracelets made, to help me remember
(looks like Photoshop and I need to have a talk about why it’s making my comic look like an old newspaper.)
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it appears as though the comic, like myself, is on holiday this week? What say we meet back here on New Year’s Day.
also, their horoscopes are somewhat inaccurate at BEST
Panel two of this comic depicts what I imagine to be the funniest way a person can type, which is to hold your elbows outward in a ludicrous fashion and type with only your index fingers. I’m not sure where this image comes from originally. [December 14, 2011]
the comics, they haunt my dreeeeeams
this is all assuming the toss itself is well executed
300th Comic Spectacular!
Big thanks to everyone who submitted questions, and bigger thanks to everyone who’s stopped in and said a kind word. (Now, where’s my Wikipedia article and book deal?)
Begin Commentary: First of all, if I may toot my own horn, I nailed the “300” logo. Still feel really good about that.
And this is the very first “mailbag”-style comic! I very much enjoyed doing mailbag comics (when the questions were good, or at least usable) because the topic focus provided some challenge. It’s often said that if you put a piece of blank paper in front of someone and say “draw anything” they’ll have no idea what to do at all, and that’s how my comic can feel sometimes. This is also why the “journal” focus is useful in general, because at the very least I have a place to start from.
Anyway, we were talking about the mailbag. I probably was most influenced by Homestar Runner, in particular the Strong Bad emails, but after a while the emails sort of petered out and it was time to move on. Since the end of the mailbag I have to admit I’ve never found a feature that was as much fun as these could be, and I sometimes wonder if I shouldn’t try and bring it back. [December 14, 2011]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Hello! You may or may not have noticed that the 300th Comic is coming up (tomorrow!), and if at all possible I’d like to make it some sort of extended Reader Mailbag thing. So, if you’d be so kind as to use the comments section on this post to ask ANY and ALL questions you may have, and then I can pick some and answer them in my own inimitable fashion. Multiple questions per person are allowed and encouraged! This is your chance to peek into the deepest machinations of Interesting Times!
[If interest is insufficient, well, a.)shame on you, and b.)I’ll just have to do something else, I guess.]
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