Y’ever have one of those flop-sweat realizations? Somebody says, “Well, at least you didn’t do such-and-such, ’cause then you’d be an ass!” riiiiiight before you were going to say, “And then I did such-and-such…”
Yeah, me neither.
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Had another inexplicable jump in readership yesterday. I may be able to search through the data and figure out what’s going on… or it may just be another one of those things where a couple dozen extra new readers turn up one day for reasons I never can work out. Whatever the cause, I like it… and wish it’d happen all month sometime.
Another inexplicable thing I see is the security updates about who’s been blocked from logging in and screwing around on the site. There’s somebody in Russia who needs to get a different hobby. Probably some automated program someone’s written, but I’m tired of seeing that he, or she, or it has been blocked- again- after twenty attempts to log in. Same, but not as often, with some ass in France, and a couple others here in the states. Very worrisome, but more readers means more chances that you fall under the gaze of someone with wicked plots in mind, I guess.
Anyhow, enjoy Kelly’s gathering of footage for his giant Exposé, tell a friend or two to read Hubris, and if I suddenly go offline and the site is replaced with a Russian ad for mail-order brides… well, it wasn’t MY idea.
Christmas has come early for Kelly.
Kelly is original to the Hubris comic strip, but not the way he is now. Paste, Kara, Lowell… they all found a place later.
Originally, Kelly was supposed to be a character behind the camera that would always be pointed at Hubris. That’s because Hubris was supposed to be the host of the show ‘Because It’s There’, which was also the name of the comic strip way back then. Hubris’ father was also alive back then, too. Honestly, I don’t really recognize the original incarnation any more.
Kelly was to be an off-panel voice. He was to be ‘Us’- able to talk to Hubris while remaining remote. Genderless (that’s why he’s named Kelly- I’ve known both genders to be named Kelly) and faceless, he was a character without being a character.
As Hubris found a place away from a TV show, and into the shop his father was supposed to have been running, Kelly remained and took on a gender and a race and a face. He became one of those upscale guys who obviously visits the gym and makes time to do cool stuff even though he’s more often wearing a suit and doing big things.
Then, I needed the TV show to be a peripheral thing in the new version of the comic strip, and Kelly resumed his cameraman duties.
Weird, how these people take on little lives in these comics.
Seems fitting to take a minute to thank everyone for supporting Hubris, whether by reading it or doing even more- sharing links to the site on social media, telling a friend to check out the site, clicking on the ads, clicking on the Vote Hubris button, donating at the ‘You & Hubris’ button, being a Patreon patron, or buying a book. Thanks, everyone! All that stuff is really helpful in keeping Hubris afloat.
And I should welcome the two new Patrons that joined up last month, which means that this month, Patreon says I get to send you your goodies.
So, again, thanks for reading, clicking, sharing, telling, tip-jarring, patronning, buying, voting and anything else you do. Like commenting. That’s fun, too. Do that.
Lowell’s long journey comes to an end. Oh, how happy he is now that his every dream has come true. Now everything will be easy peasy.
That’s how THAT usually goes.
Day to day corporate life must be very difficult. That must be the reason they make the big bucks, right?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Just kidding. We all know they make the big bucks because they control where big bucks go.
**Also, sorry about the delayed posting. My watch is really weird, with lots of alternate settings. I could have sworn today was supposed to be the ninth.
Well, now. Aren’t we having fun. I got my cable access back, along with my internet access, this afternoon. And now, so you’ll get this cartoon at midnight (technically “tomorrow” as I type) I’m doing a little work on my wife’s computer. You know the one- I used to be familiar with it, back when it was mine. It no longer has a scanner, so I have to draw directly into the computer, but that’s okay, since the Wacom tablet connected to it is really good at pressure sensitivity. On the other hand, I can’t rotate the image, so I have to hold my hand at weird angles to get things…
You don’t wanna hear this, do you? No, you don’t.
No, you want to hear me complain about the fact that my current computer chose the same day the cable was snapped and the internet lost to go belly up. Yeah, hard drive death. Traitor. Wait, you don’t want to hear me whinge about that either? Well, that’s understandable. Bottom line? Monday’s cartoon was late, and I had to get it into the computer by having my wife take it outside and shoot a photo with her camera, then upload it into Photoshop before I could try to turn it into something that was workable. It was all drawn, you see, before my computer croaked. Today’s cartoon wasn’t going to be done all bassackward like that, though, nossir. All digital it is. Yick. I need a Cintiq if I’m gonna do that much more. That, and I don’t wanna have to upload cartoons on other folk’s computers any more.
So cross your fingers and toes kiddies! My computer should be back soon with a new hard drive with old backups clogging up it’s virgin, virtual arteries, and then we’ll see where we are!
Like the guy on the A-Team, we all just love it when a plan comes together… or comes out of nowhere. Right? I think Ms. Wiggins-Ross was a big A-Team fan.
Oops. I forgot my new feature- Throwback Thursday.
So, better late than never, here’s the very first appearance of Lowell.
If you’ve ever wondered why Lowell has the haircut, glasses and build that he does- this is why.
I admit, shaping a character for the sake of a sight gag is pretty lazy. But Lowell wasn’t supposed to take on the… large silhouette… that he has. I just thought he’d be the irritating neighbor. Of course, as his thoughtlessly cruel behavior became more useful for storytelling and for leaving a lingering bitter (acquired) taste in the mouths of readers, he stuck around for the fun.
If you’re wondering who ‘Joel’ is, then you might need to back up to a certain Stanky Creek Outdoorfest, or possibly the weaker, more ridiculous SportSmart Outdoorsfest. It’s all there in the archives someplace or other.
Or just take it from me, Lowell is not always as assertive or truthful person. When big boss Ed Honcho calls you ‘Joel’, then you just go with it. Maybe consider having your name legally changed.
