I decided to carry on with The Buckets and Hubris as though the world they live in doesn’t have a COVID-19 outbreak.
Mostly because:
1) Not That Funny,
2) Hopefully, in a couple of years, all the COVID cartoons won’t make much sense. Like looking back on French Political cartoons by Daumier now- you see ’em, you read ’em (or the translations) and you say, “Huh. I don’t get it.”
This is more serious than I like to be here, but I really hope that the stress and strain I see online and in people around me (when there are any) becomes incomprehensible sometime soon. Kind of like hearing about the 1918 Flu epidemic and not, until recently, being able to picture how much it changed lives for months and months. Historical events are tiny points that have names and dates. We personally don’t remember the spiraling months of death and fear from 100 years ago. We remember “Flu Outbreak of 1918. Killed a lot of people.” Those people lived all the little weirdnesses we’re living now, and ours will go the way that theirs did. Honestly? I hope this outbreak doesn’t go far enough to get a historical name. I hope it’s a chapter in the next century’s epidemiological textbooks, with the kind of information that will help next time, and doesn’t stick around as a historical milestone of misery.
In fact, if you’re reading this in some archive of Hubris comic strips any time after, say, 2021, I hope you’re baffled at how morbidly serious I just got about something that you have no genuine feelings of loss over.
There’s an ‘e’ in insistently.
Otherwise you’re doing great.
luvin “OR! OR!”
Thank you. There’s enough stress around in Real Life. I much prefer my comics to be escapism.
And put those Porta-Potties back!
I dunno. Hubris seems to be stressing out enough for the both of us.
Put the *candle* back.
In the Portapotty?…
incense for the fumes
Loving the break from reality, please keep Hubris in a non-Covid world. And I sincerely hope that what we are collectively doing to flatten the curve will mean that it does only appear in epidemiological textbooks, updates to government protocols and weird remembrances in future viewings of various ‘Reeling in the Years’ episodes.
On a much more important note, what kind of hallucinations do you get from Snake Oil Cola? Asking for a friend…
Is that question from wanting a certain type of hallucination?
Situation normal…..
So glad for the relief from corona (no covid nonsense from me). Hubris and The Buckets are 2 of my faves.
Draussen? Doch!!
C’mon people … leave the damn porta potties alone! They only have single ply TP!
Whoa! Bring back that portapotty! The food vendors are selling the not so fresh stuff and it’s getting even.
Hotdogs in, hotdogs out.
HI HO, HI HO, it’s off to the john we go… to relieve ourselves of bad hotdogs, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho!
While there could be quite a pit of humor to be had with Hubris going stir crazy stuck inside due to covid-19 I’d rather read about him going crazy because of the outdoorfest.
Al Capp made a similar decision to keep World War II out of “Li’l Abner.” He reasoned that GIs (as well as the general public) needed to escape to a war-free Dogpatch more than they needed to read about Mammy Yokum tracking down Nazi saboteurs.
You’re perfectly fine for not adding coronavirus into your comics, it is indeed a stressful time for everyone, and people read hubris to laugh, not get more stressed out.
It wouldn’t work with the Hubris time line anyway, would it? Aren’t we just a few days into the Outdoorfest, which began… what… over a year ago?
Naw, best keep the Wuhan virus out of Hubris’s world.
Glad to have a Covid-free world to escape to. Glad to hear you’re doing okay as well. We’re sheltering but still able to get out to ride bikes, walk in the woods, and take walks through the neighborhood (maintaining distance, of course).
Stay healthy!
Just read Greg’s comment in 2022. Sad. Wouldn’t have been wonderful if Covid were just a blip?
It’s 2022, and I got covid after it closed down our spring 2022 musical. Mild case, but I am still tired. Maybe it is because I have been building sets every day since I had it, and it looks like it will go on til Christmas. Lost my 8-year-old nephew in 2021, and his oldest brother 16 months later. Not Covid but part of the whole mess. And don’t even go political. That is all. And I LOVE the Buckets
We’re so sorry, Cameron. Our thoughts are with your whole family. It’s good that the Buckets and Hubris are here to distract us from the grimness of life.