Jim and Davis would love to hear from you!

[BEGIN COMMENTARY] I’ve explained Jim & Davis in a comic previous to this one, but I will say that this joke is so inside that even I don’t get it anymore. And I’m pretty sure I was there when it was written. Also, nobody ever emailed the Jim & Davis address. [October 7th, 2013]

Hello readers! Ordinarily there are no updates on Fridays, but an enigmatic team of writers calling themselves “Jim and Davis” approached me and proposed to write Friday comics for me if I agreed to draw them. I accepted and for the foreseeable future this thing will be happening. Please enjoy them!

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Two things about this comic:

1.) Incredibly, the first panel is a true story. A friend of mine was driving back from Winnipeg when he noticed, of all things, a quilt in the ditch. He recovered it, cleaned it up, and gave it to his girlfriend as a gift. She knew full well where it came from (and was eventually the one to tell the rest of us this story). Later, they got married. So as much as I laugh, I suppose…it worked??

2.) It is finally time to talk about Jim & Davis. One night, my friends and I were hanging out and idly conversing. They (half-jokingly) suggest comic ideas to me all the time and are usually rejected outright. On this particular night I was feeling generous and somehow the idea of appropriating Jim Davis’ name to write mostly surreal, often punchline-free comics was…actually a little appealing. We brainstormed a bunch of ideas on the spot but I left it to two friends in particular to handle the actual writing.

For the next few weeks they’d send me things and I’d try my best to draw them. Outside of my friends these comics worked for basically nobody, and so I wasn’t entirely sad when we all sort of lost interest after a while. [October 7th, 2013]