And again, we get to see the world through Crazy Dog Lady’s eyes. This kind of thing would, I guess, give Willie Wonka a migraine…
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The Dog Lady’s personal tale continues. My, the skies are lovely on her world.
See? A change of voice and P.O.V. of the story! Wooo, kids, that there’s STORYTELLIN’!
So- I’ve got another Patreon Patron to send stuff to. Thanks for clicking on the Patreon button and/or the ‘You and Hubris’ button and making Hubris continue!
I’ve got the final story arc in mind, but I don’t want to get to it within the next five years or so. Everything you guys do staves off that last big story.
Also, gonna be at HeroesCon in Charlotte in May. Feel free, if you can make it to Charlotte, to come by and visit a bit! Or more than a bit. That’d be cool. I hope to have the Stanky Creek Book by then. Cross your fingers.
Did we need another player on the stage? Well, we have another player on the stage.
Contrast. That’s what this strip needs every week or two. A little contrast in storytelling style. Right?
When I went through last year’s cartoons to pick out twelve to put in for consideration in the National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards Division, I realized that Hubris is more Long-Form than it used to be. I entered us in the Short Form Online Cartoon Division, but it was hard to pull out twelve cartoons that stood alone as funny without needing another cartoon to complete the thought or gag. Now, I’ve noticed that I’ve used Clem’s voice to leave us at cliffhangers instead of punchlines, for instance.
Maybe next year, I’ll enter Hubris in the Long-Form comics division.
Happy March! Spring is on the way. And Daylight Savings Time. And allergy season.
Don’t you love this time of year. Once we get a little past this part, then it’s tax season, with all its festivities.
Ohhhh, I just depressed myself.
I’ll give you a little foreshadowing.
I really don’t like thieves.
This is not going to end well.
It’s not often that you have the opportunity to write a set of cartoons wherein you actually belittle your own accustomed writing style within the dialogue which is itself a parody of another writing style altogether… And if that’s NOT what I’m doing here, then it’s even less often than having the opportunity and taking advantage of it.
Having said that, I’d like to point out that Mark Twain is one of those people so widely quoted, that many things attributed to him were things he never said. One of my favorite “quotes” by Twain was this one:
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
The giveaway is that this quote first saw print five years after Twain died. And that Twain’s father himself was well dead years before Twain turned fourteen.
Here’s the quote I want attributed to me- “It’s the assumptions you don’t know you’re making that do you the most harm.”
I totally cadged that off of Douglas Adams, by distilling an entire paragraph of his from the book “Last Chance to See.” There’s got to be a way that we can posthumously fight over who said what.
