Here’s to opening with a bang! Let me share something with you: “Grab your reader with an opening! Right? Have a man walk in with a gun, set the bomb ticking, the lovers begin to undress? Oh, how many stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I waste no time establishing that Charlotte and Michael live across the hall from each other. It’s a sitcom cliché, of course it is, but clichés become clichés for a reason. It is super convenient for characters to live near[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And this was the last time that anyone took a straightforward surface reading of just one comic and used it to form an un-nuanced view of the work as a whole.
You could read this is as being about a clever cartoonist who writes comics that his lazy audience is too stupid to get, but I think of it more as being about a foolish cartoonist trying to shoe-horn political messaging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Trenchant analysis” is one of my favourite phrases for mouthfeel alone. This strip is based on a real conversation I had with a family-member about my new webcomic. And they say I can’t internalise criticism. Oh, internalise it. I push[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel vindicated by the amount of traffic I get to this comic from people asking Google if “regenium” is a real word or a real chemical element. You have every right to be sceptical, people. It’s neither of those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See, I named it “Concurrence” because they’re in agreement but they’re also talking at the same time! We have fun. Oh, 17-year-old David and your five dollar words. So — bombshell — Jack lets slip that he’s in love with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is your comic for today.
