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Fear of Silence

I like doing strips with Brautigan sometimes. And then I just realized, in looking for the previous strip with Brautigan in it on the site, that the awful destroyed condition of this website post WordPress update makes it impossible for me to find it? So here it is as a special bonus

ughghh okay you know what, I kind of hate the plugin I’m using for the site now. I’m trying to do something that is pretty much basic to HTML files, which is INSERT AN IMAGE AT THE POINT IN THE TEXT MARKED tk, and this plugin (Webcomic) actually makes that NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY KIND OF REASONABLE WAY (like I had to track down where all the image files are auto-stored by WordPress and add a hand HTML link, which okay I can do but I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO if I’m gonna use a plugin that ACTUALLY DESTROYS MY WEBSITE WHEN I UPDATE IT)

so HERE

expect me to tear apart and rebuild this website one day in the future

i hate this website very much

New Rhymes

I feel that it might be complicated, at times, to raise a child. This is the purpose of what I do here. (Uploaded 8/14/14)

You Must Respect Tarot Thursday

I’m uploading some more of the comics from The Book into the archives. It’s really tragic that the dates on these files (which were kinda mythical anyway since I did all these in February/March 2014) are over a year ago now. Much like Mona, I strive to achieve some kind of sensible work/life/Real Art Work balance one of these days.

For now, here is an adorable kid confusing her mom’s girlfriend, who is uncomfortable with complex food preparation. It is not dissimilar from what you might find in a newspaper or something!

Triple Graveyard

I don’t even know if “triple graveyard” makes sense as a description of what she is doing (basically just an awful 72-hour shift, I think), but it’s how I’ve thought of this story (which is one of the first planned for the comic since back in 2012, whoa), so it stands. (Uploading this April 19, 2014, for archival reference, i.e. me in the future obsessing over when I uploaded something)

I feel like I thought this was funny during the weird deathmarch to try to have all the “year one” scripts drawn and finished before STAPLE! Independent Media Expo in 2014, and now I don’t know how funny I find it, but IT’S YOURS everyone! One day there will be funny comics again for you, the people

Win-Win Situation

I feel like Rory isn’t even the kind of person who cares that much about the work they do; he’s more the kind of guy who has an abstract problem with feeling as if people are “taking advantage of him.” I like the fun way he runs also!

I don’t have too much to say about this since it’s one of those “set up the plot” strips. It’s notable maybe that this is the 100th strip, according to my internal records? But it’s not technically the 100th strip on the site (I have no idea how many there are, maybe like 96 or something), nor is it the 100th I’ve drawn (there are four or five “large-size” comics that don’t come in for the standard numbering system for whatever arcane reason). And like–the strip on the front page of the site right now is #91 according to my internal numbering system (because I start a lot of strips long before actually finishing them), so it’s in no way meaningful for this to be “the 100th strip,” but I mean base ten isn’t inherently meaningful either, so you take your kicks where you can find them is all I am saying

Me and Hank Rearden

The painting behind Rory in panel 2 was supposed to be a Jackson Pollock but I ran out of time to do a goofy fake one

This is the managerial office of the coffee shop, which is up that staircase that is sometimes in the background! There is an art gallery up there which Rory runs as his primary business. He likes modern art and Atlas Shrugged, a mysterious combo!

This (posted on April 7 2014) is yet another in the series of strips collected in the book; the book is still here in PDF or REAL COPY format if ya want to know the ending of the story early, see?

This Fleeting Clean Feeling

Aw geez :(

So some of you have read this, from the last part of the YEAR ONE storyline! I’m finally getting around to putting these up online now that the website is at least *working* again rather than a comparatively attractive HTML corpse. I’ll put one up every couple of days until we’ve run through them all, and again everything is going in “present time” (by which I mean, uh, me posting comics intended to run around October-November 2013, according to my master-plans.) OR if you JUST CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE EXCITING CONCLUSION / wish to throw some material support in my direction, all these are in the Bad Mother book which I’m selling on my Gumroad store as either a PDF or a PHYSICAL BOOK WOW.

I don’t have too much to say about this one, except I think Cathy’s outfit is neat, though it’s not really distinct from what she always wears or anything

You Smell Like Aqua Net

For those not aware, this is Aqua Net; it’s pretty useful!

This is the last strip before the BIG FINAL STORYLINE IN “YEAR ONE” of BAD MOTHER. (Actually posted March 25, 2014.) I’m going to be slowly uploading the rest of the storyline as I get the website back in some kind of, um, semblance of decent order. (For those who can not wait, I’m also selling books on Gumroad, print and PDF–the books have the full story in ’em, plus all of the comics either in high-res electronic format so you can read all the stupid little flyers and posters in the back of Starkfutur Coffee, or in print, so that you can have it to love FOR EVER!)