I’ve got Mr. Biner pegged as a particular type… The kind of guy who can’t break his own rules, who can’t stand looking at anyone being silly, and who isn’t going to spend a lot of time working out compromise. He’s an amalgam of a lot of people I’ve met over the years… and if you’ve met folks like that, well, I guess you think he’s pretty funny. If you ARE folks like that, well, I guess you can’t stand reading THIS website.
I hope everyone scrolls down the page a bit. We’ve been having fun with the Off-Cartoon features. And now, it’s Hubris Time.
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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.
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.
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