Folks do what they do. I draw cartoons. You read cartoons. Paste says rude, snarky stuff. All’s right with the world.
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Communication is a skill. As with any skill, you can have different techniques and styles. I think Raye’s differs from Kelly’s. They’re gonna have to work on understanding each other’s techniques.
For those of you who like to invent your own variations on the punchlines, here’s the alternate for Paste’s final comment that I considered to be overused, even if it’s pretty funny:
Paste- “Or?”
So here we have an example of a comic strip that didn’t fit. You will probably have noticed that Hubris and Kara rarely fall into any kind of Domestic Tableau. I wrote this comic, and a follow-up that you might get to see next Thursday, and then looked at it and said, “Huh. That doesn’t work. They didn’t go there.” and I scrap-piled it. I just can’t conceive of Kara taking on the domestic Wife/Girlfriend traditional role, and I can’t conjure up a proper interaction from Hubris if she did.
But having said that- here’s the cartoon anyhow-
Y’ever have one of those flop-sweat realizations? Somebody says, “Well, at least you didn’t do such-and-such, ’cause then you’d be an ass!” riiiiiight before you were going to say, “And then I did such-and-such…”
Yeah, me neither.
You know what you should never ever do? Read comics and keep an eye out for exposition pages and panels. You know those panels- the ones where the characters hand you all the Catch-Up Cliff’s Notes for the story you’re in… What’s worse is when you see those movies and TV shows whose creators somehow managed to keep their jobs even though everything seems to be characters either catching you up on things, or saying stuff that just repeats the action you’re seeing anyway. Oh, and commercials? Don’t ever stop to think of all the logical mistakes in advertising’s attempts to convince you to buy anything. It never stands up to scrutiny. Oh, oh, you know what else you can’t do? Read a novel, and pick out how many adverbs and adjectives there are. Oh… My… Head. Also, never read a Larry McMurtry book and wait for him to use any word other than ‘said’ in place of the word ‘said’. You darn near can’t stand to read the book once you spot that. Said, said, said, said, said, said… it’ll just ruin it for you.
So. Don’t do that stuff, for sure.
At least two of you guys are waiting for Patreon goodies now, and one of them is a fine caricature. Hold on. Time delays and crazy stuff have kept me from getting stuff together for you. If anyone else wants Patreon goodies, by all means, click on the Patreon button down there, and after the first of the month following your signing up, Patreon releases your info to me for sending out goodies… which I’m not quick to get back to you, but I haven’t botched it all up yet, so far as I can tell.
Had another inexplicable jump in readership yesterday. I may be able to search through the data and figure out what’s going on… or it may just be another one of those things where a couple dozen extra new readers turn up one day for reasons I never can work out. Whatever the cause, I like it… and wish it’d happen all month sometime.
Another inexplicable thing I see is the security updates about who’s been blocked from logging in and screwing around on the site. There’s somebody in Russia who needs to get a different hobby. Probably some automated program someone’s written, but I’m tired of seeing that he, or she, or it has been blocked- again- after twenty attempts to log in. Same, but not as often, with some ass in France, and a couple others here in the states. Very worrisome, but more readers means more chances that you fall under the gaze of someone with wicked plots in mind, I guess.
Anyhow, enjoy Kelly’s gathering of footage for his giant Exposé, tell a friend or two to read Hubris, and if I suddenly go offline and the site is replaced with a Russian ad for mail-order brides… well, it wasn’t MY idea.
Every so often, I remember that there are still unfinished Hubris comic strips that never made it past of some of the later syndicate mailings. There aren’t many, but they either didn’t fit the tone of the final version of the strip, or they didn’t fit into the generally story-line-ish arrangement I used when first doing this website. This one, I think, was just left back while I assumed I’d one day pull it out and use it, like the 120 or so ‘finished’ Hubris comic strips that convinced me that I could launch a webcomic. Possibly, this one could have been modified to fit into the recent hiking trip Hubris and Kara were on… if I’d remembered it existed. If you like, you can imagine that I went ahead, redrew it, colored it, and loaded it up at the end of last week or something.
It’s probably from 2002. The editor that was looking over Hubris had graciously said I didn’t have to keep sending finished black and white inked-in cartoons, but we could progress with roughs. That’s why this one is so… rough. I had a pile of these rough versions by the time I decided the syndicates had seen enough and I had to get back to working on other things. Most of them got inked and colored and you’ve seen them, starting way back in November of 2010. Some, though… will show up here on Thursdays for a bit.
So, there you go. A throwback Thursday cartoon of a Hubris adventure that may or may not exist, depending on how you see things.
Have any of you guys been reading webcomics long enough to spot how a lot of them seem to start off being about either 20-year-olds running around all crazy or about video games one way or another? And then how, after a while, they turn out to be about lots of other stuff?
Well, I swear, when I started off- this comic was gonna be about skateboarding and kayaking and bicycles. Seriously.
