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Here is the final sketch of the Sasquatch before I inked him into the strip. I always think the sketches look better than the final, inked version, perhaps in the same way that people always say the book is better than the movie. That analogy probably makes no sense, but I’m too lazy to go back and delete it now.
I took my dog out for a walk yesterday morning, and the sky was overcast and I could only see a block down the street because of the fog. The ground was wet, and it was chilly outside on October 1st. Few things make me happier than that. October is the most wonderful time of the year, and Halloween is the most wonderful holiday of all. Though I wish there were two Halloween celebrations- one with the funny/clever costumes, and one with the scary costumes. I vote for October 30th to be the funny night, where October 31st, actual Halloween, is the scary night. If I walked into a Halloween party with all goblins and zombies and ghosts and ghouls, that would just be fantastic. I realize that it’s fun to dress up in something random, but “sexy race car driver” just isn’t Halloween to me.
Yeah, pretty much every post until November will be Halloween-related.
Sometimes I wonder if each animal has its own god. I mean, the god of snakes, who created all snakes, might be a snake. The god of lemurs would be a lemur himself, who created and watches over all lemurs. Further, I wonder whether these gods are all-powerful like the people-god, or if they have the characteristics of the animals themselves. For example, if a dog needs help one day on Earth, stuck in a drainage ditch or something, does the dog god just chase after a tennis ball instead of helping? Or the cow god- what does he do all day? If a cow prayed to him, I think he’d just sit there chewing cud, which is pretty gross and not helpful at all. Or is the cow-god intelligent like humans? If so, I bet the main thing he thinks every day is, “Man, I shouldn’t have made those things so delicious. Sorry guys.”
Hey, so, you want to get a little glimpse into what keeps cartoonists up at night? Click Here for a semi-alternate punchline. I had doubts about the clarity of the punchline (or punch-panel, if you will) at first. Is it too subtle? Is it just subtle enough? Is it clear and obvious? These are the kinds of questions you ask yourself repeatedly as a cartoonist who just finished a new strip, and then answer, but then wake up at night thinking you made the wrong choice. I decided the posted version is just subtle enough. If you know what an outhouse is, you’d know that this would be a poor design for an obvious reason, but it should take just a sweet minute to register. In the alternate strip that I considered, I think it’s redundant; just restating the implied joke. Would you agree? Oh, and don’t get me started on the internal debate of what the yell should be. Should it be ‘aaugh’? ‘gaah’? On and on.
On a non-related note, I would be highly disappointed if I met the man who invented ice cream sandwiches and he turned out to be a jerk.
In other news, some guest art of mine was posted on Joenis Norac’s site, “Unconscious Ink,” where every Tuesday and Thursday Joenis dishes up a new weird, funny, disturbing, and/or completely random piece of artwork- a concept that is right up my alley as I love things that are any mixture of those adjectives. Take some time to browse his archives, won’t you? Here’s the link to my guest piece.