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Hubris- A Fish & See

Mar17
by on March 17, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The title of today’s strip was shown to me as a rebus.  A rebus is not a kind of monkey they do testing on.  It’s a picture puzzle.  At the time, I was working at a screen print operation, and the other artist on staff was told to be more efficient.  He said he’d make a sign to remind him.

It was a big letter ‘A’, and a fish, an ampersand, and a letter ‘C’, if I remember right.  I was very amused.

That has nothing to do with anything today, except that I’m amused by Durnell’s idea of efficiency.

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Hubris- The Passing Show

Feb26
by on February 26, 2020 at 1:00 am
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I may have mentioned Billy Ireland before now.  The huge Cartoon Museum and Research Center at Ohio State University is named for him.  He drew a feature called ‘The Passing Show’, which is of course brilliant.

I thought of storytelling as a series of comings-and-goings for today’s cartoon.

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Hubris- Hit And Miss

Feb25
by on February 25, 2020 at 1:00 am
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Conversations between people, at least one of which aren’t visible, are 50 % faster to draw.

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Hubris- First Come…

Feb24
by on February 24, 2020 at 1:00 am
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If you want to make sure folks go where you want them, you either reward them for doing what you’re asking, or punish them for not doing what you’re asking.

In other words, you order half a truckload of good stuff, and half a truckload of lousy stuff.  Then say, “Go get ’em!”

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Hubris- Help!

Feb21
by on February 21, 2020 at 1:00 am
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I’ve met a few people like Chase.  They’re enthusiastic, but seem to learn the form of things, not the meaning of things.

You might call that ‘oblivious’ or ‘awkward’ or ‘sociopathic’…  Y’know.  If you’re lookin’.

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Hubris- Lucky Number

Feb19
by on February 19, 2020 at 1:00 am
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There’s a conversation that happens in the second panel.  Two family members can, if not know what the other would say, assume that they’re saying the opposite of each other anyhow.

The argument isn’t going to change either one’s mind.  It’s just so that one of them (Each assuming they’re the one) will get to say, “I TOLD YOU SO” later on.

 

Odd. I think I may have used this concept in an earlier cartoon.  Or two.

 

Or forty.

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Hubris- Okay, ONE rule…

Feb17
by on February 17, 2020 at 1:00 am
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I like events in the Fest to be fairly self-explanatory.  But if you (or me, in this case) try to go through the event and see how it would actually happen… well, you come up with RULES.

Not GOOD rules, as a rule, but rules that prevent the game from being, y’know… unwinnable, unloseable, unworkable, stupid, or whatever.

Then you realize that if you imagine the game to its conclusion ad absurdum, well, the rules could be done away with if the PARTICIPANTS bothered to think the whole event through and figured out that you can’t just leap at a wooden board and try to shove a bazooka into a hole in the board in order to guarantee yourself a few points.  If you DO try it, chances are that someone else is going to have to take your second throw.

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Hubris- Screaming Meme

Jan24
by on January 24, 2020 at 12:01 am
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Lowell would make for some goodly memes in the Hubrisverse.

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Hubris-Echos

Jan13
by on January 13, 2020 at 1:00 am

I guess I telegraphed this a little too plainly, but here it is…

Sound familiar?

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Hubris- Worth and Value

Jan08
by on January 8, 2020 at 12:01 am
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So, what’s a thing worth?  Whatever someone will pay you for it.

I’ve seen people say that the value of a baseball card is a specific dollar amount because they read it in the price guide.  Well, I know from growing up buying comics that the amounts in the price guide are only valid if you can get someone to cough ’em up.

Hubris might be overvaluing his store.  Maybe not.

I’ve got an old Jeep.  People ask how much I want for it.  I say, “Six thousand.” and they say “It’s not worth that.”  to which I reply “It’s worth more to me in my driveway than in yours.”  So, yeah, my old rattletrap isn’t worth six thousand to a bank, or to some guy who randomly wants me to sell my Jeep without me saying “Hey, I think I’ll sell my Jeep.” but in the end… Well, in the end, Peter’s not going to be able to buy the Outdoor Galore Store.  Wonder how he’ll react to that?

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