Mrs. Biner, it seems, has been harboring a lifelong, if slightly outdated, ambition for her only child.
And, of course, Kara seems to have gotten the sense of it at a young age, and did what she does. She competed with it.
Didn’t drive it out of her head, though, I mean, she DID jump straight at the chance to settle down as soon as it presented it itself.
I imagine that there are people who enjoy discovering what cheap time slots Peter has his commercials in, just so they can be horrified at them.
There was a car repair place here years ago who ran their ads at, like, 4:30 a.m. They were great. They guy was all dressed up in a very fine suit, standing in front of a green screen talking as fast as he could so he could tell you as much as possible in 30 seconds. Behind him were flashing scenes of cars in various states of disrepair. What made the commercials funny is, in rapid-fire delivery, the guy said, “We specialize in foreign cars, we specialize in American cars, we specialize in body work, we specialize in painting,…” and on and on… They specialized in everything they did. By the end of it, even people who let language just flow over them with no thought woke up enough to go “Hang on, dude. Maybe go look up the word “specialize””
Think of Peter Enis Wang doing that kind of commercial, along with wildly misinterpreting what his inventory might be, and you’ve got it.
Dang. Now I’ve gotta make sure we see his commercials here.
People are interested in what they’re interested in.
Seriously, you can talk astrophysics all day long, and some people don’t come away with anything new other than “Astronomers wear horrible shoes, did you know that? They LOOK like upscale nice shoes, but they’re department store knockoffs. Rubber soles! Rubber!”
Kara brought up exactly what she wanted to talk about with her mom. Mr. Biner brought up exactly what he wants everyone to talk about with his wife and daughter. No one’s at fault, no one’s to blame… not that we won’t try.
So… who’s side are YOU taking?
You might not always believe it- depending on how far behind I am when I draw up each cartoon- but I do have character sheets on Hubris and his folk. I keep a 20X30 board with the various sheets stuck to it over my drawing board. Here’s the main image:
This thing was done long before the website started up, back when I thought newspapers were going to be the venue for Hubris. So for a couple of years, the board (black foamcore) was mostly to block sunlight from falling across my light table (I draw on a light table. There are some great and efficient things you can do on a light table. I learned that from Hy Eisman during a Joe Kubert seminar yeeeeaaaars ago. I’m grateful for those seminars.)
I also have a .jpg of this image that I call up when I’m coloring. It’s titled ‘color grab file’, and I do just that- grab colors to use on the new strips. Computers are great and efficient, too. Waaay back in the day, when I was still doing the Shoney’s restaurant children’s menus/activity books (anyone want me to do a Hubris activity book?) and I first took over the coloring duties because I had one’a them newfangled computers, I inherited a color palette from the big company who had been doing the color work. Every color had a number. I use a wacom tablet and could select with one hand while keying colors with the other hand. It was a little like piano, and the activity menus got colored quick, man, quick.
Aaand the dinner date ends on a happy note. Hope you enjoyed it.
As for me, I got a new (used) trials bike coming tomorrow, so if I don’t break a wrist, I think Hubris might be practicing his endos next week. I’ll let HIM break the wrist.
Don’t forget to click on a few things over there to the right, and tweet about Hubris and generally let folks know we’re here. I finally ordered some stickers and I’ll need to think of clever ways to pass ’em out soon. Wanna suggest 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.
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