So the back-and-forth is happening.
Wonder where that’ll lead.
Probably just where they two participants want it to lead, right?
Riiiiiiight
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Douglas Adams wrote a scene in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books where, in the swamp of the mattresses on Squornshelous Zeta, night closed in with crazed entomologists calling to each other across the landscape (I did all that from memory, so if it’s all jacked up, I apologize) and I didn’t recall that scene until I’d finished drawing this particular cartoon, scanned, colored and uploaded it. Then I re-read it and realized I’d just stolen the concept wholesale. Dang it.
Usually, I write from within the world of Hubris for these blog entries- treating the story and characters as they are. The above paragraph, though, is more the sort of thing you’d have gotten from the Patreon page when this cartoon ran last week. There, I usually do a behind-the-scenes approach. I gibber about coloring and writing, about line weight and style, about schedules and editing. If you like that sort of thing, I’d be pleased for you to pony up a buck or three every month and be a patron member of Team Hubris. Just click on the orange Patreon logo over there on the left that is slightly outdated and needs replacing…
Sometimes I feel guilty that these vertical-format cartoons get all wordy.
Sometimes, I don’t.
For those that read the comments- you know Allan. Click to see him talking on the News.
He’s got a Gofundme page, too: http://www.GF.me/u/baghcs
But you guys know everyone’s names, right?
It’s worrisome. There are people who read so many comic strips that they can’t keep the names of the hundreds of characters straight. Sometimes, I wonder if there are loyal readers of The Buckets who still refer to them as “Grandpa, Dad, Mom, Teenager, and the googly-eyed kid”
Okay!
I haven’t seen a physical copy, but the online virtual sample is good. The book is ready!
Click on the cover image below, or HERE to order one. If it says you need a password or something crazy, try ‘hubris’.
If you’d rather wait for me to get physical copies and say, “Yeah, they really look good” or “Uh-oh, they’re not exactly right”, I won’t blame ya.
I hope to see a physical book in my hands on the 14th. I’m sorta breathless and giddy about it. Heeheeheeheeheehee!
And again, we get to see the world through Crazy Dog Lady’s eyes. This kind of thing would, I guess, give Willie Wonka a migraine…
Contrast. That’s what this strip needs every week or two. A little contrast in storytelling style. Right?
When I went through last year’s cartoons to pick out twelve to put in for consideration in the National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards Division, I realized that Hubris is more Long-Form than it used to be. I entered us in the Short Form Online Cartoon Division, but it was hard to pull out twelve cartoons that stood alone as funny without needing another cartoon to complete the thought or gag. Now, I’ve noticed that I’ve used Clem’s voice to leave us at cliffhangers instead of punchlines, for instance.
Maybe next year, I’ll enter Hubris in the Long-Form comics division.
