UPDATE: Guest strip over at JEFbot!
Original Post:
Hello! Look at the blurry trees! It’s like Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life in 3-D! Okay it’s not but I’m still trying new things out. I imagine in a year or so my art will be uniform and unwavering, but for now I’m enjoying messing around with colors, gradients, blurring effects, and anything else I can test-run while trying to define my style. Perhaps my style will never rest easy and I’ll always be changing the way things look, who knows? I’ll tell you who knows: Time travelers.
The thing I hate most about time travelers is when they come into your house and say things like, “Boy, it sure is warm out today. Much warmer than on this day in 2027.” You know the only reason they say that is to show off and flaunt their time traveling ability. If I were less polite of a person I would call them out on it right then and there and shut them up. But I am polite, so I don’t. I’m also passive-aggressive, so what I do instead is vow to throw maple syrup and cotton candy on him on that day in 2027. Now that I made that vow, I can assume I will follow through with it, and I say, “Boy, you sure are clean today. Much less maple syrup and cotton candy on you than on this day in 2027.” And he’d say “How did you KNOW?” and I just confused myself so I’ll stop typing now.
Lol. I can see them being a little insulted at that!
That guy doesn’t look like somebody you want to insult, either.
In Edmund’s own little I think he is calling them fat.
P.S. nice guest strip!
Thanks! Guest strips are fun to do because they let me write jokes that wouldn’t work in Edmund’s world.
Awesome! Rick the Stick gets royalties every time a stick figure is drawn… HAHA! Good punchline!!
BTW – missed the hover bonus today!
Hey glad you like the stick appearance! Yeah the hover bonus was giving me problems last night when trying to upload. I’ll fix it later, probably tonight. Good thing to come back to later!
well he is a little pushy around the waist…
Don’t tell him that.
hmmm–stick people…there’s a Kate MOSS joke in there somewhere…
Wow, this storyline has already yielded a wealth of puns, three strips in!
I like this one…
great punch line…
Thank you sir, I was hoping it was nice and clear. It took a few rewrites to get it to flow right.
HA! WHAT??? There’s a response I would never have expected.
Hey, maybe they’re self-conscious so many things people say might be taken the wrong way?
“but for now I’m enjoying messing around with colors”
Damn this cartoon is in color…I am going to need to buy a color computer to see it.
You have a Black & White screen?? Don’t worry, you’re not missing much color on this one.
I rather miss the really sketchy style…
Hm, to which strip’s style might you be referring? In developing my style, I’ve gone everywhere from almost-polished to so-sketchy-you-can-barely-make-out-arms-on-the-characters. I’m curious as to which is your favorite.
YOU FOUND BOBBART!!!!
Bobbart was a stick figure I drew three years ago.
I lost the paper, and convinced myself through years of therapy that he had gone to seek a better life.
I congratulate you.
He has found it.
Well I’m happy Bobbart got a chance to say hello again.
You crack me up every time! I love the animated feel of the last two panels (and the punchline is killer!).
Hey I’m glad you like it! I enjoy the last two panels as well- I think the blurry, dark background with the clear, white characters makes it look like an animation cel. I was pleased.
Whoops! Well he can point out that at least, they’re not very anorexic. And I think experimenting is very important. It keeps both the artist and the audience interested. Good luck!
Where’s the alt-text comic???
Ah, the alt text was giving me problems when I uploaded this comic and I was already falling asleep at the computer desk so I uploaded it without the alt text. I haven’t gotten around to fixing it but its absence is bugging me as well!
Yay alt!
Wow, nice rendering of an xkcd character.
Many hours of blood, sweat, and tears went into that rendering. I’m glad you appreciate the effort! Now I sit back and hope I don’t get a call from Munroe’s lawyers…