Origin of Blubber Buddies

I realize this whole switching of blog addresses looks like an April Fools joke, but it's not. I just like Blubber Buddies as the title of my comic. Which, actually, in a roundabout sort of way originates from this comic.

I drew a simplified version of this idea for the MQ one issue, and it was going to be the comic, and then, bored and listening to the content room telling stories about whales eating penguins, i doodled out a cute little one-panel scribble of an orca trying to sneak up on a penguin on an ice-flow, and the penguin giving it a withering look and saying "I can see you". And Griffin, bless his soul, loved it so much that he went around the office and one by one, convinced everyone that it should be the comic for that issue. And so it was. And the Utako (because i'd left, having finished my work), didn't have a title for my comic, and so, spur of the moment, just decided to call it "Blubber Buddies". Which has been the (now predominantly nonsensical) name for my comic series ever since.

I'm actually not very satisfied with this. I need a graphic tablet, man. This whole scan-and-clean is getting to be too much work, and i'm getting lazy as a result. For proper comedic timing, there should be a couple panels after reading the sign where he looks sneakily left and right before he throws it away, to make sure it's understood that he's aware that he's not supposed to be doing it, but that he doesn't expect the terrible repercussions that follow his actions. But man, this already took me three hours to do, and adding those two panels would have taken me another one. Or, shit, maybe i just need to take a class on how to clean these up shortcut-style. I don't know.