A Metaphor, pt. I

So this is something i've been kicking around doing for a long time now. It's basically an experiment involving panel layout. I know for a fact that i'm really really lazy when it comes to panel layout (what's that, you say? another strip in which two people face each other in a series of unbound panels going down the page in a linear line?), but i've also got some strong opinions on panel layout, and i thought it was about time for me to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

What i'm doing here, then, is taking a very simple content idea (it's not even a joke, really, it's just a visual metaphor i came up with) and attempting to lay it out in standard comic book format. That's why it's going to take me five pages, because before setting out on this project i did some exhaustive research (read: read a bunch of comics) and established that most comics tend to keep their panels-per-page between six and ten. Interesting, right? Webcomics don't do that, but webcomics don't have to give a shit about paper page constraints. Anyways. Yeah. Bear with me?

It's been awhile since i did anthropomorphic kitchen items

I considered a second panel in which banana beats the shit out of them, but i think the one panel stands well enough on its own.

Sometimes i really want to just do this.

Regarding the watermark: I don't care too much about credit, but i've been informed that that last one made it some small way around the film student circuit, mostly via some people just ripping it and sending it along, with no up in page view counts for me. And while i'm happy as long as people are enjoying my stuff regardless of whether i get credit or not, maybe i'd be more happy if more people enjoyed more of my stuff? So if people don't find it too distracting, i'm just going to start throwing that up on all the strips so that if any of them make it alone out into the world, there's ways for people who find it to trail it back here.

Ugh

I have the ideas, but i lost my tablet's cable in one of the many locations i've been lugging my laptop around through. I know the cable i need, and it's like six bucks at fries, but i don't have a spare moment to run and get it. Sucks. Back on schedule after i get it.

The process of making movies

"I'm working on a movie," I say, and every time their eyes will light up, and I can just see the bombardment of questions coming, so before they can get a question in, I will sigh and insist, "believe me, it's really not as interesting as it sounds." And then they will ignore me and start asking questions anyways.

Working on set

True story. I'm the one of the far right, throwing papers in the air in frustration.

Klaatru

Man, so the reason this was up late is that i'm so caught up in the whirl of the set i'm working on that i actually forgot what day it was.

Gelato

Another almost true story.

while driving to the city, i stopped on an unlistened-to radio station

So this was just something weird that happened to me during my day. Panel four is probably pushing it a little. As is "gay traffic report". But the rest of this story is almost actually true.

Anyways, as you may have guessed from the lack of comic yesterday, but i have switched to a MWF schedule until further notice. Sorry, Kimothy.

Analytics

For those who came to see the new comic crack at midnight and found it missing, i apologize. Fair warning: for the next two or three weeks comics may get choppy as i'm going to be working on a project in the City (San Francisco) and living with my grandmother during that period. I don't think she has internet, and i don't think i'll have time to do comics regardless. I'm going to try and put a store of comics by before i head over there this weekend, but it probably won't be nearly enough for the whole week, so i may shift them to a staggered missing-a-few-days schedule during that period.

Knock-knock jokes

I was going to make this a Tales from Unemployment, but i thought the title would make the punchline too obvious.

There's a reason they're green

Somewhat juvenile, but at this point i'm just glad i'm getting coherent punchlines at all.

Turtles do not make the best engineers

in the park

I'm still not proud of these yet. Haven't quite knocked all the rust off of my comedic tool set. I had the punchline for this one floating around in my head all day after seeing that sign. I knew i wanted a guy taking his elephant to the park to poop, but... i dunno. I feel like i got there, in the end, but i didn't necessarily take the best path.

I guess i'm just in an elephant-ey mood lately.

cop out

Sorry guys, real comics coming. Got several of them sketched out on little note cards. But deng, my whole body feels wobbly right now.

Ivory

This is the most far-side-ey comic i've come up with in a while.

Wondercon

Not even a little bit of an exaggeration.