Hope you enjoyed… or at least noticed, the extra cartoon yesterday. If you didn’t, then you get to see TWO new ones today! Either way, that’s good, right?
You’re probably tired of lawyer and contract talk. Me too. I’ve got another extra cartoon for this weekend. It has bicycles in it.
YAY HUBRIS! Proud to be a member of Team Hubris and see it go our blond hero’s way for once!
Lowell had better take the offer, sounds like he didn’t leverage Big Orange enough there when he left. No golden kayak. He needs all the $ he can get until he lands another job.
Or we suggest or Greg thinks up, a new wrinkle. Maybe the VP of Marketing is soft on Lowell and manages to get him back at Big Orange as an ‘independent contractor’ ?
Yay! Lobster AND almost full minimum wage? Excellent. Take it, Lowell!
(Yes, I’m using the minimum wage of my own home country. Minimum wage in the U.S. is a sodding JOKE, and not a good one).
Minimum wage in Canada:
British Columbia: $10.25
Alberta: $10.20
Saskatchewan: $10.20
Manitoba: $10.70
Ontario: $11.00
Quebec: $10.35
Newfoundland/Labrador: $10.25
New Brunswick: $10.30
Nova Scotia: $10.40
Prince Edward Island: $10.20
Yukon: $10.72
North West Territories: $10.00
Nunavut: $11.00
It’s up to the individual province to decide their minimum wage. When I visited Nova Scotia in 1998, theirs was $5.25/hr.
In comparison … Ontario
1994 was $6.85
2005 was $7.45
2006 was $7.75
2007 was $8.00
2009 was $9.50
2010 was $10.25
2014 was $11.00
So Ontario has TRIED to keep up, but they are afraid of stores ‘running away’.
There’s always a big minimum wage stink going on here in the States, seems like. The last time I had a real-world stake in it, I was just out of college and still working for a Screenprint operation supporting my boss’ chain of Tshirt stores. The minimum wage was raised, and the only real upshot for us was the kid who cleaned up was let go and we had to cover his job from the art and print departments. That was years ago. And now I’m so far removed from it all that I have no idea what to think. I was raised in a generation when retirement-age people didn’t keep working at Wal-Mart, and if you worked cashier or food prep for McDonalds after you were 19, you were considered an idiot or a failure. Neither of those are true any more.
Greg, I think I’ll use this strip when I enter GoComics next Reader’s Choice contest. This one’s priceless. Unless you top it this weekend. Or sometime in the near future within 2015.
And, yes, I enjoyed the nice free extra comic yesterday. Squee.
Lobster included. Sounds like a swell deal to me…
If you like lobster.
I’d rather eat breaded shrimp until I split a seam… with ketchup. 🙂
Wait. Is that all you can eat lobster?
Ketchup? I replaced ketchup with spaghetti sauce in my kitchen, you might want to try it, but it’s not for everyone.
Right now I make about six variations off a basic red sauce that I make here by the gallon; that includes soul-buying stuffed manicotti, spaghetti sauce, tomato based-product for chili, pizza sauce, and more. I got a bowl that holds over 4 of the big cans of tomato sauce (food pack ones) before being herbed and refrigerated to ‘steep’ before being used (whether cooked after that or adultered further then cooked/baked) UNLESS I have fresh tomatoes to murder.
Excellent! And have you tried using any of these in the ketchup role?
Ketchup is only reserved now for breaded shrimp dipping. And unfortunately to No Gluten Period anymore and a general ban on anything with cholesterol in it or salt… I can only dream of it. 🙁 Still, if I had a choice between lobster and breaded shrimp it’d be breaded shrimp. With ketchup.
Lowell, Dude! Lobster! Take the deal!
(And $20 an hour is almost double what I make!)
Look at low well s expression in the 2nd panel
Hey this fox what is your home country
Australia. East coast.
Minimum wage is about $22-ish dollars an hour? Or that about. I haven’t worked for minimum wage since before I did my Uni degree, so I’m not up to date. And, I might add, to give someone a cash “tip” at a restaurant is usually a grave insult to them and to their place of work, so basically, we have a different system of payment.
(And for reference, I can buy a pair of socks for two bucks, a Mcdonalds breakfast for about eight bucks, a real breakfast for ~$20, and paid about $600 to register and insure my $1000 car for the year)
My syndicated strip, The Buckets, runs in one Australian paper. The Shepparton News. Dunno how many Sheppartons there might be around the country. I’ve always wondered if I could fudge on some document and tell them “I HAVE to move here! I’m in the newspaper!” On the other hand, the guy that does Ginger Meggs just moved to the States. Maybe I could have done some kind of swap with him.
Shepparton isn’t in my state, and appears to be a good 1000km away, so that would be why I’ve not heard of it till now. Looks a small place. Interesting that it has its own newspaper.
You should indeed move over here: Australia is an excellent place with much in the way of outdoors. The reports of dangerous venomous beasties are highly exaggerated. And the surf is incredible.
My aussie friends say the Sydney side has the Funnel Webs, the Melbourne doesn’t…
Only questions I might ask, are you a Vegemite lover or hater?
Had many issues with Drop Bears 😉 ?
And both cities have brown snakes, drop bears and hoop snakes, golden orb spiders and redbacks. Not to mention the dreaded Bunyip, a hippo-sized marsupial man-eater with an over-large intelligence and a venom spur similar to that of the Platypus, which lives in rivers…. Nargun and Min-min avoid big cities, though, and crocs are only found in Brisbane, so you’re safe from them. ;p
Vegemite is great, but you need to know how to serve it. A little goes a long way, like truffles. I don’t have too many issues with drop bears. Perhaps because I eat my vegemite 🙂
Kewl, Thisfox. I love my vegemite too and only a salt ban by my doc made me quit eating it. For awhile it was pretty hard to get over here, and what we do see is the Kraft stuff imported from there. I have yet to meet anyone else here that loves it, I would serve them half a slice of smeared toast and tell them you either love it or hate it at first bite, and if you don’t like it I totally understand. I would eat the other half of the toast slice and offer them the trash can to dump their half….
I thought Bunyips were on another continent. Hm, some of them must have swum there. I found out that a juvenile Southern Black Widow looks just like one of your redbacks, as they get older they lose the red on the back and just have the hourglass underneath.
I’ve had doctors actually ask me, severely, whether I’m eating enough vegemite. It’s more than just a cultural thing. I plan on travelling to the U.S.A. later this year (Pensic, Dragoncon, etc) and I’m going to bring at least one jar of vegemite for “personal use”. I’m told it’s hard to acquire over there.
Interesting. Bunyips are definitely Australia-only. Even NZ doesn’t claim them.
It has been thought for a while that redbacks are in fact a mutated form of black widow spider, as there is no native information on them, they are not related to anything over here, and they’re so similar looking. They’re definitely deadly, though.
Australian dollar is 76 US cents.
Hey thisfox what is your home country
Greg you need to make this a daily comic it is my favorite along with Garfield and baby blues and it drives me crazy when there’s not a new one each morning
I like that idea. Do me a favor and contact Universal Uclick at GoComics and let them know that Hubris is due for a big fat launch in the papers. That’d probably motivate a 7-days-a-week schedule.
Barring that, everyone can donate like crazy at the ‘You&Hubris’ button up there on the left until I have to do Hubris cartoons seven days a week ’cause there’s so much money rolling into PayPal that I can quit all my other jobs.
Awwww….
I will vouch you are an EXCELLENT custom artist! You do awesome stuff. Best I could do is bend an arm with our weekly paper to get you printed, hm. (still massively satisfied customer here 🙂 )
hubris almost had lowel caving at lobster. lowel might as well take the deal for its better then nothing. nice try on his part but hubris was not born yesterday.
And has been well trained having Paste for a bro…. Lowell doesn’t stand a chance.
Finished with the arcives again
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