This one’s not that old, but I like it. Deconstruction of a process.
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And here’s the problem with coming up with gags way back in 2000, then running them today. Sixteen years is plenty of time for you to forget that iconic series of commercials upon which the gag here is founded. Do you recall?
Honestly, I don’t know why I haven’t used this one. Except… now I have.
Okay, here’s a DOUBLE DUTY Throwback Thursday. Brian is a Patron, as in “he went to the Patreon page and became a Patron.” And so, he gets a thing. In this case, the thing is the only Hubris skydiving cartoon I can recall doing. I don’t think I ever colored it and put it on the site, even though it’s from the syndicate packages that I did back around 2001, so it’s been available to be on the site for a long time. Anyhow, Brian is a skydiver and he’s a Patron at the level where you get yourself an autographed original Hubris cartoon, so he gets it. You guys get a photo of it.
But of course, you could go to the Patreon page, become a Patron, and get things for yourselves.
Every so often, I remember that there are still unfinished Hubris comic strips that never made it past of some of the later syndicate mailings. There aren’t many, but they either didn’t fit the tone of the final version of the strip, or they didn’t fit into the generally story-line-ish arrangement I used when first doing this website. This one, I think, was just left back while I assumed I’d one day pull it out and use it, like the 120 or so ‘finished’ Hubris comic strips that convinced me that I could launch a webcomic. Possibly, this one could have been modified to fit into the recent hiking trip Hubris and Kara were on… if I’d remembered it existed. If you like, you can imagine that I went ahead, redrew it, colored it, and loaded it up at the end of last week or something.
It’s probably from 2002. The editor that was looking over Hubris had graciously said I didn’t have to keep sending finished black and white inked-in cartoons, but we could progress with roughs. That’s why this one is so… rough. I had a pile of these rough versions by the time I decided the syndicates had seen enough and I had to get back to working on other things. Most of them got inked and colored and you’ve seen them, starting way back in November of 2010. Some, though… will show up here on Thursdays for a bit.
So, there you go. A throwback Thursday cartoon of a Hubris adventure that may or may not exist, depending on how you see things.
This was a good stand-alone cartoon when I wrote it.
Outdoors and athletic-wear is always being upgraded and made from the next New Thing… but the average suit? Or even the above-average suit? Looks pretty much the same as it did a few years ago, if not decades ago ( assuming you ignore Leisure Suits- or as my generation called them “Six Million Dollar Man suits) Even with the advent of Grunge-era billionaires with their laid-back wardrobes, Casual Friday, and social acceptance of pro athletes as All That Is Good In Life, nobody ever said, “Hey, let’s make a men’s suit that a superhero would wear! Get out the Lycra/Polyester waffle patterned sweat-wicking nano-fabric!”
When I ran the cartoon, though, I managed to fit it into a sort of a storyline. That works out pretty good, since there’s no reason, usually, for Hubris to go suit-buying.
Thank you, Proamericana, for the suggestion that I fill the silence of Thursdays with the now trope-y but totally workable THROWBACK THURSDAY!
This one is from 2012, back when Hubris was still gag-a-day, like so many comic strips are. There are a few comics featuring Hubris and Kara attending church or funerals. I can’t recall which early stage of development spawned this particular cartoon, but it was probably pretty late in the series of revisions for the syndicate. I was very lucky to have Amy Lago (first at United Media, then at Washington Post Writer’s Group) giving me advice about how to bring Hubris (originally called ‘Because It’s There’) up to scratch. One of the suggestions she made that I didn’t really care for, and didn’t do while I was still pestering her with new packages, ultimately resulted in both Lowell and Durnell- well after I’d turned the project into the webcomic you’re staring at now.
I wonder how Hubris would have done if I’d taken her advice, and taken the time to crank out a couple more packages, and gotten one of the syndicates to pick it up. It was late in the day as things were getting worse all the time for newspapers and syndicates, so I imagine it’d be… a lot like it is now, except I couldn’t have changed the format to the vertical form the way I did.
