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Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "History Lesson"
Hello! Please continue sending
fascinating questions like this to
journalcomic at gmail dot com
and I shall do my best to answer them
and also to amuse at the same time!
(do not worry: today’s look for the comic is not permanent.
I am working on my tiny laptop,
and this is the best I can do under the circumstances.
Still, not bad though, eh?)
I told him it was "those kids" but I don’t think he bought it
Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "He Did, In Fact, ‘Do That’"
The “321-123” tag, only seen applied to this comic, is a fairly obvious reference for “Family Matters” fans and utterly meaningless to anyone else. Anyway it’s a thing that Carl Winslow says when he’s trying not to get mad at Steve in one episode. (The full saying is “Three two one, one two three! What the heck is bothering me?”) I hope that’s fascinating! [February 9, 2012]
doesn’t sound like fun, but all things considered it was a fun evening
now you know more about me than my own mother
some of the fake titles are admittedly very intriguing
on the other hand, we really are unfailingly polite and absolutely every one of us just adores celine dion
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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