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Hubris- Pinch Me

Dec18
by on December 18, 2011 at 7:44 am
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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.

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Hubris- Waiting In-Patiently

Dec17
by on December 17, 2011 at 8:09 am
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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.

If you’ve got a funny story, funny photo, good outdooring advice, or anything you’d like to show off here, feel free to send it in here!  I love free content.

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Hubris- Hold On a Minute.

Dec13
by on December 13, 2011 at 10:28 am
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Okay, I’ve got a couple more of the old originals, but I’ll intersperse them with new stuff. Mostly ’cause even I’m tired of seeing the black and white.  So if you missed the bright colors yesterday, click back and check it out.  And of course, more brightly colored fun tomorrow.

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Hubris- Open Mouth, Insert Running Shoe

Dec05
by on December 5, 2011 at 5:29 am
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This is one of the early Because It’s There cartoons that I haven’t updated and colored.  That’s because the dynamic of the relationship between Hubris and Kara changed as I was writing.  Hubris is no longer the sort of character who’d balk at the idea of actually, physically climbing the highest mountain for Kara.  More likely, he’d insist on it while she said they didn’t have time to do it, so pick something else to do this weekend, like a movie or… another trail run, I think.

What do you think?  Should Hubris be less reckless and more romantic-minded?  Feel free to share.  There’s a comment section, and there’s always the ‘contact’ and ’email’ buttons.

And as always, thanks for reading.  The nostalgia trip will be over soon enough and we’ll be looking at fatter lines and colors.

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Hubris- Moron TV

Nov28
by on November 28, 2011 at 1:23 am
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So here we are with the original Basic Premise for Hubris.  The name of the comic strip and the TV show Hubris hosted was to be ‘Because It’s There’.  “Because It’s There” was the famous answer George Lee Mallory gave when asked why the heck he wanted to climb Mount Everest.  I thought it was a pretty good excuse to do most anything outdoors.  A nice syndicate editor told me to quit fooling around and use the name ‘Hubris’ instead.  And who am I to ignore a good editor?

All through the original strips, Hubris’ name was painfully obvious.  He was big and blustery and Doug The Dog (or Earl, in a lot of the first strips.  Patrick McDowell’s ‘Mutts’ put a stop to me calling the dog ‘Earl’, because who wants to be accused of not being bright enough to avoid naming one of your characters the same as those in hotshot award-winning strips) had to pull his fat out of the fire on lots of occasions.  As I wrote more and more strips and added more characters, Hubris’ character smoothed out to something more relatable.  Still big and blustery, but not quite so blithely oblivious to his own shortcomings.

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Break A Leg

Nov27
by on November 27, 2011 at 5:29 am
Posted In: Play Nice

My brother and I (he gets mentioned a lot in these posts.  I wish my life was more like his.  You do, too, and the more you read these posts and his own, the more you’ll see why.) went mountain biking outside of Moab on my last birthday.  It was very cool.  You know those trips you make and then you get home and you think “I need to think of a way to move there.  That place is great!”  Moab is definitely on that list.  Not as high as, maybe, Jackson Hole, but high on the list.

Anyhow, as usual, I wish I had pushed myself when we were riding.  I had fun, but I didn’t go out there and leave it all on the slickrock, you know?  I slowed down, and I got nervous, and I thought to myself “I better be careful. I could break a leg out here.”  I never even went over the handlebars, which I do around home a lot more than I should.  Heck, I did it yesterday.

So here’s your advice for the day.  When you do something new or in an out-of-the-usual place, throw a little more of yourself in there.  Cut loose a bit.  Later, you’ll look back and be glad.  Like the Tshirt says, “Bones knit, scabs heal, and chicks dig scars.”  I’m not saying you should crack your head for a souvenir of a good adventure, but you might take home some road rash to remember it by.

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Hubris- Cry Havoc and Loose the Doggies

Nov18
by on November 18, 2011 at 9:08 am
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Serious adventure.

Hey, I’m gonna run another brand new Hubris cartoon tomorrow, then next week the comic strips are all going to be the original material the syndicates received years ago.  I’m using the 1 year anniversary of this website as an excuse to indulge my nostalgia for the beginnin’s of Hubris.  I’ll intersperse new strips in the ol’ black and white nostalgia bits, and show off other stuff every day, so remember:  Scroll Down, comment, enjoy, VoteHubris, Google+ him, and GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY.

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Hubris- Nerf and Turf

Nov16
by on November 16, 2011 at 12:36 pm
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Oh, you gotta be careful… Sometimes the rivalry between skaters, inline skaters, BMXers, and those notorious scooters get kinda rough.  Milk can be spilt.

But shop you a scooter- so you can ride through those tough neighborhoods. click it to shop it, yo.

Razor Ultra Pro Kick Scooter

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Hubris- Silly is relative

Nov14
by on November 14, 2011 at 11:53 am
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People automatically assume that riding a unicycle is a skill reserved for only a few people per million who discover it within themselves.  In truth, it’s a skill reserved for anyone who spends a couple of hours trying to learn it.  What happens is this:  You learn to balance, then you learn to lean forward and use your feet to prevent a fall while continuing forward.  The same description applies to WALKING.  Seriously. Same skill set.

I’ve carried some odd stuff around on a unicycle.  You get stared at.  And you get spoken to.  There is a very short list of things said by a very long list of people.  The most common is, “Where’s the rest of your bike?” To which the answer can be any number of clever things:  “The bike store said ‘Half Off’, who knew?”  or “My grandmother’s on it behind me.  She’ll be along.”  or “What the…?!  Damned THIEVES!” or “I took off all the stuff I didn’t need.  This is what I got left.”

Anyhow, unicycles can be fun.  Probably more so because so many people assume silly things about them with nothing more to go on than the fact that clowns sometimes ride them while pretending to fall down.

 

Anyhow.  You can learn.  Click on the unicycle below to shop you one.  G’wan.  You know you been wanting one.
White Russian 20'' Unicycle

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Hubris- Thinking? There’s no thinking in Skateboating!

Nov11
by on November 11, 2011 at 10:07 am
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Happy 11-11-11!  I bought a science-based book on calendrics back when the whole Y2K thing caught the public imagination. (Stephen Jay Gould’s ‘Questioning The Millennium‘)  And now with people being silly about the Rapture, the end of the world. and the Mayan calendar, I’m surprised that no one thought that something nasty would be happening today, what with the date being all ones (at least, the way it’s generally written… in this culture… at the moment.) Of course, that leads to lots of issues about whether the calendar we’ve chosen for ourselves has numbers on it that mean anything to the stars and planets of the rest of the universe, and whether Australia is gonna catch the &%$#  before we do, ’cause it’s tomorrow there already, isn’t it?

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