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Recurring Themes

What is the thing with tweed, anyway?

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The Inconveniently Situated Wrecking Ball of Mount Everest

It cost a lot of money to get that thing up there.

This is another one I drew relatively quickly. I guess the two panels to the right might have been better if I had, as usual, done two or three drafts, but I still kind of like how it turned out.

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The Big Question

I think the colors got away from me.

Every so often I feel like I’ve forgotten how to color a comic in such a way that it doesn’t look like a box of crayons melted on it. At least the last panel is okay.

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Negotiating Importance

Way too much human interaction basically boils down to this.

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The Cupcake of Desperation

At this point he will try anything.

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Transferrable Skill Set

You can run anything like a business, supposedly.

It’s amazing the faith some people put in the concept that skill in one area can be transferred to entirely different tasks.

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Pie Etiquette

Remember this for the quiz.

This will be important at Thanksgiving.

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Fungus Moods

It will calm down soon enough.

I know I said on Wednesday that the rest of the week would be single panels, but that’s because for some reason I thought it was Thursday. And then this thing popped into my head.

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A Nihilist Dictionary

It was voted the most useless reference book of 1987, 1995, and 2003.

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A Perfect Fit

A perfect fit.

I’ll be finishing the week with a couple of single-panel cartoons.

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Brontosaurus Box

Yes, that will help.

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Dog Thoughts

They are a mystery. A stupid mystery.

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Related Concepts

There’s a story here, but I’m not sure what it is.

This is taken from something I had written and perfunctorily drawn in a sketchbook, presumably while I was half asleep. After I started drawing I realized there was some kind of story there.

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Overheard Bird

I actually overheard this on the bus. Not from a bird.

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Awkward Attraction

Incompatible cultural signals.

I tried inking this with a Pentel Tradio plastic fountain pen. Nice line variation, but it tends to spatter if you don’t hold it at just the right angle. (I still miss the Fountain Pentel. Still, I’m probably better off using real metal nib pens.)

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The Scariest Face

The inexplicable, overly intense smile.

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Reactions

Really, who is that person?

You may have noticed, if you’re still reading this at all, that the comics have come very slowly lately. I’ve also been less than satisfied with the quality of my recent work, which only ground my enthusiasm down further.

In an effort to get my work back on track, I’ve decided to try the “30 Days of Comics” project conceived by Derik Badman at Madinkbeard: for the month of November, I’m going to try to post some kind of comic every day. Most will be on the sketchy side. Few will be in color. I have no idea whether I’ll be able to keep to this schedule, but I’m going to give it my best shot in the hope that practice will get me back in artistic shape.

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Hand Sanitizer People

Hand Sanitizer People

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Old Enough to Know Better

Somewhere there is an even older guy wearing a purple zoot suit.

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New Snack Technology

Coming soon: cake stew.

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If You Loved Him

It's cozy in there.

Upon mature reflection, I probably shouldn’t have colored the room pink.

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Inside the Museum of Contemporary Suggestibility

Inside the Museum of Contemporary Suggestibility

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At the Hand Farm

At the hand farm.

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Keep Your Voice Down

Always a suspicious circumstance.

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Using Your Hippopotamus

I know some of you have been wondering about this.

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Bricklayer Cake

Tasty! Sort of!

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The New Awareness Campaign

Just be aware of them. That is all we are saying.

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Nobody Notices Bill

Nobody notices Bill.

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Self-Defense Behaviors in Pasta

Self Defense Behaviors in Pasta

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A Harbinger of Carstairs

I hope this joke is comprehensible. You can tell what that thing to the right of the panel is, right?

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No Fun

I came across this drawing over the weekend and decided to finish it. Coincidentally, my left shoulder’s been aching, although I’m pretty sure no one’s been stabbing it.

No fun.

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God Decides to Try Something New

He just likes to shake things up a little sometimes.

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In the Wrong Place on the Flowchart Again

In the wrong place on the flowchart again.

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Beached Too Far to Turn Around

This is the kind of image I get when I read the news lately.

This is the kind of image I get when I read the news lately. (See also here.)

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Micromanagement

Micromanagement.

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Professor Crumleigh Has Advice For You

Don't ask him how he knows we need to know this. These questions are beyond our ken.

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The Old Pool

After a typically frustrating inking experience I decided to try finishing a strip in pencils. I’m not sure this will work. The scan shows every smudge, and it’s hard to get that plain white border that blends with the web page.

It's a long way down.

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Constructivist

Another weird one:

He wrote some stuff, I forget what.

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It Was Cute When They Got It

Think first.

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The Bat Salesman

How do you find the Bat Salesman? The Bat Salesman finds you.

This is one of my odder cartoons. Basically I cobbled together a few random sketchbook drawings, and wrote a caption to match.