I decided to put the Annie Oakley Buffalo Bill Triathlon into the comic months and months ago, like back in July or August. Now, we’re almost there in Comic Strip Time.
Time is weird in comic strips. I think I’ve said it before… it takes about two seconds, on average, to read a comic strip. That means that, if your storyline has to follow all the characters actions (a conversation, for instance) closely for any reason, it could take a solid month to tell a minute or two worth of ‘real world’ story.
It also means that Dennis the Menace, if we’re to believe that he’s aged no more than about a year and a half over the last 60 years or so, has gotten into enough trouble that his parents should be thinking about having him confined in some sort of high-observation facility where the walls can’t be set on fire under any conceivable circumstances.
And that Hubris has lived about a month or two since I started the website in 2010. You know what that means?
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Yeah. Me neither.
Yeah, I know… Native American, ‘How’… it’s racist and all. But Kelly wanted to know ‘how’, so…
I’m lazy. But I’ll defend my use of the title.
So, if I was in that Costner movie, my name would have been ‘Lazy With A Fist’.
I get to see Bill Holbrook now and again. Bill’s one of those superheroes of cartooning- syndicated, and early adapter to webcomics- doing THREE daily comic strips for many years now. I got a bug the other day and doodled up his cute Dethany character dressed up for Gothmas. Here’s the art. And you can click HERE to go to the fan art page on his site!
I thought I might use this space today to explain why I used this particular punchline.
Hopefully everyone (save for one or two people) saw it and thought, “Oh, cute, they think Bigfoot is a Wookie. What a fine pop-culture mash-up.”
But there’s also people like Mike Norton, who does Battlepug (The link is down there on the left, on the main page. You HAVE clicked on it before now, right?)
Mike used to live here. He’s a tallish, hairyish sort of fellow his ownself and he draws comic books. Lots and lots of comic books. The good ones. The real ones. One of my favorite illustrations he’s done made me laugh out loud. I’m not even sure it was in a printed comic. It wasn’t when I saw the art, yet. Anyhow, the page showed Mike himself at a comic convention being forced to confront an obnoxious attendee or something like that. I only remember the funny bit- the funny bit was Mike rising up out of his chair to tower over this other guy while two little kids watched from off to one side.
One of the kids says, “Ten bucks on the Wookie.”
I have no idea if that was an original line, or a parody of a movie line or what. I don’t know if I recall the page correctly at all. I do recall being so impressed by the art and the line that I, like many other people reportedly have done, tried to buy the original page.
That was many years ago, and when I laid out this cartoon, I had a totally other gagline in mind. ‘Til I remembered Mike and his page.
So, tip o’ the hat, Mike… and for the rest of you… “Hey, look, the dumb guy in the audience mistook Bigfoot for a Wookie.”
Went to a cartoonist meeting tonight and inked this comic strip sitting at a table in a pizza restaurant. Nice change of pace.
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