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Sometimes an Insect Needs Help

Bob will save it.

I keep working ahead a few days, then losing my lead. I drew this tonight in about 20 minutes, and, given that, I’m actually not terribly displeased with how it came out.

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Miscellaneous Oddities

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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The Adventures of Bob

Bob: Paranormal Investigator

Some problems have simple solutions.

You know, a lot of horror movies might turn out to have very simple solutions if the monsters would just talk things out like reasonable people.

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Miscellaneous Oddities

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.