I used to tell my parents what I was doing on weekends. I quit. It makes them nervous. When you fork over that much money to get a kid raised, you hate to think he’s going to wind up stuffed under a rock on some nameless river. Seems like bad investing or something.
In my family, the jokes usually revolve around a tendency to burn the rolls, not the kitchen itself.
This story arc is built out of several different versions written years ago. In fact, it’s probably the distillation of several different dinner dates with Mr. and Mrs. Biner. For proof of that, today’s cartoon was inked in 2003- it’s been ready to go for years. The previous cartoon was a general idea, but there was no script nor sketch until a couple of days ago. The one before THAT was written and sketched up long back, but had Hubris dressed in his hat and shorts. I can’t figure out where that came from. The two previous had prepared sketches, but they were off-size and Mr. Biner looked different. Had to redraw those. And there was one cartoon from that version that I had to toss out completely- it no longer fit the mood of the rest of the strips.
Isn’t this behind the scenes stuff fun?
Long story longer, I waded through a lot of stuff so old that it was sorta new to me again. I got to play editor with my own work and be a little objective about it, which is a luxury I won’t have with Hubris much longer. The old originals pile is getting smaller and smaller. Soon, nothing but brand new ideas here in the house o’ Hubris.
Stay tooned.
Sorry this is late today! Holidays… y’know.
I… I don’t even have anything to say under this cartoon. It’s nicely self contained, don’t you think? What? Don’t worry. Kara smooths things over.
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The plot… not exactly thickens… but it starts puttin’ on weight.
Okay- last of the golden oldies. This is the first Sunday cartoon I did for the original package. Hubris was still more like me- in fact, this happened to me the first time I tried to rappel- and so a lot of the Sunday cartoons were designed to be educational in a sick sort of way. “Watch out or THIS might happen to you!” educational. Fun, yeah? Later on, I decided to do the Crowd-Gag style Sundays, which I have put on the site before, and I think are wonderful because they slow a reader down, give the reader something to concentrate on, and make for an entertaining visual experience in a way that the average 3-second Sunday cartoon don’t offer. The syndicates said I should try to stick with the general concept of Sunday cartoons (like today’s cartoon does). The only upside that I see to the ‘tell a joke in a longer format’ Sunday is that it doesn’t take as long to draw. I like the look, feel, and theory behind the busy stuff.
This is one of the two Sunday cartoons I prepared for the original syndicate mailing for Because It’s There. I don’t know if you can see it, but the copyright on this thing is 2000. Sounds weird, even to me. Anyhow, I’ll share the other original Sunday tomorrow, and then I suppose we ought to return to our regularly scheduled programming. Don’t forget that I try to update every day (though I’ve missed the last couple of Sundays- sorry guys) The strip updates M-W-F, and other content occurs down the page on all the other days.
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Family is awkward, isn’t it?
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