There’s a lot of folks that wanna be in the Outdoorfest so far. I’ve got a neat stack of your names (Those ARE your names?) and faces…
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Discovering others’ insecurities, deficiencies, and coping mechanisms is nice, isn’t it? Well, it is if you can sympathize, I guess. If you can’t, I imagine life is pretty predatory.
So… if you think you might have missed yesterday’s cartoon due to my inability to read my watch correctly, then chances are, you’re completely right. You might wanna click back a cartoon or two and make sure you’ve seen everything.
My computer is back, and working beautifully. All that stuff people tell you about making and keeping backups? It’s all true. Get one of those terabyte drives that auto-backup as you go. Keep it running. Make backups of everything you have on a whole ‘nother terabyte. Hang onto it. You’ll be glad you did. I was. Man, I was.
In case you were busy yesterday afternoon, and didn’t come for a visit, there’s a late-afternoon extra cartoon. Don’t miss it, okay? Click the back button and look it over. It’s part of the story, y’know. Also, it’s very orange.
Well, I had hoped to post this about twelve hours ago, but you know how that goes. Or, if you didn’t know- now you do.
Visiting Scott Stantis is great. He’s one of the sharpest people I know, and would make a much better business of Hubris than I have so far. But with his shining example, maybe I can get myself into a better gear. Or maybe I’ll just make an effort to hang out with him more. It’s a worthwhile thing to do. If YOU know any editorial cartoonists, go ask ’em how their day is and listen to the answers.
If you think you might have missed a comic- you might be right. And even if you don’t think you missed a comic, you might have. I posted two yesterday. I’m trying to catch up on my Extra strips that I owe you nice folks for donating at the Tip Jar.
As always, it’s much appreciated, and, as always, I wish I could knock these things out faster so that you could have them, and there’d still be time for my usual day job and sleep and raising my kids and all that guff.
So… still got another one pencilled and ready to ink. Gonna get up early tomorrow, but there’s no guarantees it’ll be up early. But maybe you get one on Thursday this week. Y’know, ’cause you’re special. And generous.
Here’s one of your extra comics! Sorry it took so long. I’ve got a couple more written and penciled, and I’ll get to them as quickly as I can.
Of course, if you’re surprised by this message, you might want to hit the ‘back’ button and make sure you haven’t missed one.
I remember hearing, years ago, that it was difficult to keep skillful writers on comic books that had large groups in them- Avengers, X-Men, that kind of thing. Something to do with keeping the different voices true and making sure everyone was involved and heroics were showcased in a balanced manner. Easy to mess up.
I know what they mean.
When I was a cub scout leader, we made a rule. The rule was made after a few long, rambling, directionless campfire stories.
The rule saved our sanities.
The rule was this:
“When you say, “And Then…”, the story is over.”
It was in important rule, as it taught the boys not to volunteer to tell a story they didn’t have. The rule was created after a story much like this one:
“There was this guy. And he was walking down a dark road. He was next to a graveyard. …And then, a dragon rose up out of the graveyard, and then… the guy fought the dragon, and then… there was a huge fire, and then… everything in the world caught fire and everyone died. And then…uh… there were these people…”
It wasn’t the first story of its kind. But the ‘And Then’ rule was hailed as a life-saving stroke of genius, not only because kids thought up the ends of the stories before they started trying to tell them, but it was HILARIOUS listening to young storytellers working very very hard NOT to say, “And Then…”
Ladies and Gentlemen, Here comes Bluto.
Bluto’s “owner”, it has now been decided, is named Cthula Hanna Belle-Lechter. Cthula to her friends.
Your fine suggestions made it very difficult to make the final decision. I took inspiration from several suggestions, along with my own storytelling devices. You’ll see what I mean as we go.
I think I’ve decided on a tangled skein of storytelling that you guys won’t unravel too quickly. You wish me luck, I’ll wish you luck.
