Okay, I’ve got a couple more of the old originals, but I’ll intersperse them with new stuff. Mostly ’cause even I’m tired of seeing the black and white. So if you missed the bright colors yesterday, click back and check it out. And of course, more brightly colored fun tomorrow.
So here we are with the original Basic Premise for Hubris. The name of the comic strip and the TV show Hubris hosted was to be ‘Because It’s There’. “Because It’s There” was the famous answer George Lee Mallory gave when asked why the heck he wanted to climb Mount Everest. I thought it was a pretty good excuse to do most anything outdoors. A nice syndicate editor told me to quit fooling around and use the name ‘Hubris’ instead. And who am I to ignore a good editor?
All through the original strips, Hubris’ name was painfully obvious. He was big and blustery and Doug The Dog (or Earl, in a lot of the first strips. Patrick McDowell’s ‘Mutts’ put a stop to me calling the dog ‘Earl’, because who wants to be accused of not being bright enough to avoid naming one of your characters the same as those in hotshot award-winning strips) had to pull his fat out of the fire on lots of occasions. As I wrote more and more strips and added more characters, Hubris’ character smoothed out to something more relatable. Still big and blustery, but not quite so blithely oblivious to his own shortcomings.
#3 in the visit to his origins- Hubris does what is probably a really old gag to Fly Fishermen. I’m sorry. I bought a book about Fly Fishing. I even know a guy who was a fly-fishing guide. Did I avail myself of the good references? Nah. I was cranking out stuff to show the syndicate how versatile Hubris could be. Look! Look! It’s not all about skateboards and kayaks! Sometimes it’s about the kind of sports that newspaper readers fancy for themselves, too!
Bah.
Anyhow, at least I skipped over doing gags about fishing FOR flies, or some of the other truly rudimentary things that other beginners might toss in. I like the fact that Doug the Dog is busy tying flies. I’ve always liked to have little gags within gags like that, when possible.
Ta-Daaaah!
#2 in our Dig Through The Archive. Pretentiousness reigns here at HubrisComics. I’ve only been at this for a year, and I’m subjecting you to a retrospective. Feel free to look down on me. Pah. I’m at the Skatepark right now, ‘Collecting’ new material. Look down ALL YOU LIKE. I’m probably lying in a heap, and looking down on me is all that’s possible.
Anyhow, if you’ve been reading Hubris at all, and haven’t damaged your short-term memory, then you might just recognize this cartoon. I’ve already looted the concept for an updated version. The reason for that is simple. How the heck was I supposed to know I was going to pull this stunt after only a year? When I first decided to do this site, I figured I had aaaalllmost a year’s worth of material if I ran three cartoons a week, and by that time, I’d have figured out whether or not to keep it up. As it turns out, some of the original strips no longer fitted the mood of the newer ones. I’ve been drawing a lot more new material than I thought I would be. Some of the early cartoons held up, though. And this is one I decided was worth the time and effort to keep. Click on this for the re-drawn version, in case you missed it or if you want to see how my art style has degraded over the years.
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