When I did this strip, I kept thinking of these old PBS educational shows “Gather ‘Round” and “Cover to Cover” where a narrator would tell a story while an illustrator drew along. Anyone else remember those?
Anyway, I started a new comic tag “IRL” for strips that deal directly with stories from my life. Went back and re-tagged a few older strips with it.
I really need to give another round of thanks to Sergio, Brian, and Richard for their help the last week and a half. Give them a big round of applause. (I don’t care if you’re sitting at your desk at work… DO IT.)
We’ll get back to the funny (relative term) on Monday, but I needed to get this one strip out first.
This is so true, people. Please, heed my words and take action today.
I love Christmas. Everything about it.
This is very, very true.
In November 2007, I went to Ireland. Saw the town my ancestors came from. It was powerful and moving. I was not impressed by their sandwiches.
At this point, the comic still was trying to find it’s footing post-Shark Train. Back then, it was meant to be much more observational/slice-of-life than it ultimately ended up becoming. Certainly I had no plan to ever use Marcus again at this point and, despite the title bar referencing pandas, I was months away from coming up with Pinder.
There were few strips from this era that didn’t quite work, and the Ireland strips do feel a little out of place now amongst the rest of the strips to come… but I still like them.
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