New Year 2008..

Wow, when I said that it was a good thing that last one was a simple one, this is what I was comparing it to. Imagine if you will it's 5:30 in the morning and you're just starting on the last panel. Either way here it is, the last Same Apartment of 2007. This is also the last Same Apartment that I liked both the artwork and the writing (which I actually did by myself for once) in 2007. It's a nice feeling to get it down to the wire. Let's see if that feeling will last til I get home from work tonight. Sleep is not an option at this point.

Anyway on the comic: This is it for the Mort/Posey contrasting world views semi arc. I say it's a semi arc since it was more of an over arcing theme as opposed to any real continuity, even though the last comic does continue on with this comic (except for apparently Posey's jacket which I noticed shortly after starting on that final panel. Did I mention it was at 5:30?). So yeah, lookie action for once! They walked inside without keeping their hands to the side for a change! Oh, and no Gar doesn't have a motorcycle, he has a scooter. I just didn't consider the fact that the first panel is in silhouette.

I had such a hard time fitting Batman in there. Might just make that a tradition.

Oh, and finally that snow brush in the first panel is by dollfie-chan.

More Gorey..

I'm lucky this one was a quick one. Otherwise the procrastinating I did on it would've proven fatal. If this was last week's comic I wouldn't be updating right now. It's not a huge comic, but it serves as a thematic bridge between last week, and a continuity bridge to New Years, which caps the thing off, and starts it's own storyline (hint hint). The whole time working on this one, I was worried that the comic was going to fall flat on it's face. And it would have, if not for the solid writing, for which goes special thanks to Cheese Goddess. Also hail the return of Henry Gorey. Only took about a YEAR!!

Civility Goes out the Window..

Just got done with it, and didn't want to wait. I didn't think I'd get done with this this time. This morning, I was just starting with the third panel. Except for the part with Gar and Posey in that panel, everything was done in the computer. It was a test let me tell you!

Anyway, this one isn't really meant to be all that funny. It's been awhile since I did a real character strip. It's supposed to pit Mort's cynicism against Posey's optimism. Also, finally it snows. I've always meant it to snow where they live, but this is my first chance to implement it. Hope it came out alright. So here's the third to last strip of the year. Two more til 2008!

Bill Watterson is a genius..

Originally this week I had a comic with Mort. I mentioned it a couple of times in comments I believe, but unfortunately the comic was a bit complicated background-wise, so I had to shelve it. Really when I drew the thing I drew bushes in the scenery and didn't think much of it when I set it up to appear in the start of December. I always wanted the comic's location to have snow in the winter time, so that was kind of counter to that. The good news is that now I have a half finished comic just needing some color when I eventually come back to it.

Anyway, enough explanations, on to the description for this comic. When I found that I needed to start over for this week (on Monday, really cutting it close), I needed something simple. I had this gag and I thought what fun to test a style. I thought to myself, "Self, why not see if I could do a comic mimicking Calvin and Hobbes. Won't that be fun?" I had a couple of books on hand and looked through them to find some of the weird snowmen and some trees and snow. "I can do this." I thought, "This'll be easy!" Boy how I was wrong. The hardest thing was that tree in the background. Apparently my early Joy of Painting influences still haven't weeded themselves out when painting trees. But what can you do with a deadline? I'll make the next winter stuff a bit more cartoony, I promise.

Oh, and that's Mac under there.

What you get if you add 70 and 548,627..

Happy half a million hits Tomcat Ltd! It's nice to see Leroy again.



This is the original joke that led to the little vignette on last week's comic. And thanx to the written stylings of Cheese Goddess, the words of Benson are really messed up. But it was fun making Mac's mortified expressions so that alone was worth conjuring those images. Hope you like some fun at Mac's expense. It's been a treat doing Benson and Butler this last month, but I think I'll take a break from them for a while. This one was the first comic with Benson but no Butler, but that's not something I'll make permanent.

This probably has more word bubbles than any other comic.