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!
OOH is this going to be juicy…. Ms. Wiggins-Ross is smooth. Didn’t know Lowell had it in him to cook this one up.
Greg, last week Thursday cumulated a week of pain and misery as I backed up then fought to install Windows 10 on my laptop. Even more painful was that backup. And having glitches all the way. My spouse said why didn’t you start earlier as I finally got to hogging Dropbox. He got enlightened on the previous five days. Oh. You have my sympathies, I’d buy you a cold one (even if it was just water) or six and we could cry into our drinks. I am glad you managed to get ‘back’ to us somehow! And invest in an external terabyte (or multi TB) backup drive…
Balckmail!
Balckmail! (Panel 1, Greg…)
Editing on the fly is even more difficult when all you have to do is type. Hand lettering (where we all know I can misspell like a champ) is a little easier to look after.
boy she sure knows how to turn around stuff for sure.
Maybe its time for an SSD drive.
I prefer “balckmail” 🙂
Those are boss. I bought a 1tb for spouse’s new computer and it’s totally worth it. (his computer limped for months and for Christmas, Santa broke the budget and bought him a new kick-keyster semi-parts system that’s awesome including the SSD) They’re even mostly affordable now.
Greg, you need to get with some of the legal staff of Sportsmart and take issue with the cable company – who obviously is responsible for your computer’s demise with their faulty technology! Might get a new computer (for the lawyer) and at least a couple of thumb drives for you!
Greg, of COURSE we want to hear those things. flat out, there are some greedy and uncaring jerks out there. “Hurry up with my FREE comic art slave!!” Most of Team US give WAY more than a damn about you.
I unapologetic-ally speak for all of your fans. We understand that things happen. If you have a hard week, please vent to us. You are a talented and hard working artist. You owe us NOTHING. A quick word, “Things are going south, be late” would be appreciated, but it is not mandatory.
There are some people who start to feel entitled when given something on a regular basis. We are not them. Thank you for the art.
Yeah, what he said! (one of you Patreon subscribers. 🙂 )
Diito.