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2013-09-10-bm

You Can’t Keep A Good Dog Down

2013-09-10-bm

I am getting the hang of this having more than one color thing very, very slowly. A secret is that it makes no visual sense!

So uh I don’t know if anyone uses Tapastic (besides DYLAN), but I started running old Bad Mother comics there? Supposedly it is better for viewing on your phone so that you can read in the car and get into TERRIBLE TROUBLE THAT WAY. I guess it is also better at handling those web technologies like cross-browser optimization and subscriptions and magic and stuff that I with my terrible 2001-era web skills am not able to do. So if you like those things, I guess FEEL FREE TO SUBSCRIBE THERE.

There should be a new comic up Thursday, and I’m still adding secret backdated strips so as not to violate the central TIME RULES of the comic. A fun little ongoing storyline starts here if you have not seen it!

2013-09-05-bm

Reading Time is No Good

2013-09-05-bm

The big question people may have re: this one is how Betty knows about Jonestown. My idea is that Mona like one day, when she was five, sat her down and gave her a really sanitized version of the skinny on various cults, basically to warn her about those who would seek to do her harm via MIND CONTROL. It’s the kind of lesson that I guess she thought was important to administer before starting public education lol

So ROCKSALT MAGAZINE was reviewed in the Austin Chronicle! Here is what was said:

Single strips, full-pagers, even a few static poster-pages, are contained within the newsprint volume. (Note: Cover by Gil Smith. Note: Centerspread by Gewel Kafka.) Here are people with something to say. Here are works by ragers-against-the-machine, historically fluent philosophes, arch observers of humanity, and silly-ass cartoonists. . . . [we] highly recommend grabbing an issue in your favorite java joint and locking yourself to some easy chair with caffeine handcuffs … and using the paper hacksaw of Rocksalt #9 to cut (if only for a few golden minutes) your cortex free from the constraints of immediate reality.

Wow cool you should CHECK IT OUT!

I am trying to get used to the balance with the new color. Like I mistrust a lot of my basic Color Ideas, so I hope this is agreeable enough for y’all.

New BACKDATED STRIPS to come, of course! See ya later

 

2013-09-03-bm

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2013-09-03-bm

WELCOME TO BAD MOTHER YEAR TWO. It is now after Labor Day! Betty, six, is now in school (and slightly redesigned because I was drawing her way too tall, oh no.) Let us follow her progress!

Complicated note: because I am advancing the strip in real time (and collecting it year by year as it’s done), the fact that I was traveling all summer really messed with my plans a lot, but I don’t want to violate the roughly real-time progression and delay Betty’s entry into school another year. So hopefully just this once I’m going to slowly backfill the archives, FALSIFYING DATES WITH IMPUNITY, in order to get to a few things that need to be done for Year One. (It’s nothing that’s like a PLOT SPOILER for year two or anything; just stuff that needs to happen now before Betty’s in school for the sake of the Whole Thing when it’s done.) So please take a look back in the archives to see if any new cool things have been added SINCE LAST YOU VISITED.

How do the kids even read webcomics these days? Like do you use computers or like phones or like just psychic interfacing with machines directly? I do not know any of these things. I still think the fact that this site is run on a WordPress install as being somehow really “cutting edge.” gughghh

What has happened since June! Not that much? I didn’t win a Lambda award. I was in New Orleans for most of August. A new issue of Rocksalt Magazine that I’m super happy with came out. I got a new secret freelance assignment that is really impressive but that I can’t tell anyone about for a few more days, I guess.

(Oh also: my other comic, The Man Who Hates Fun, actually updated in honor of its NINE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. ughghh again. It’s not going to update again for a while, until I’ve got a big chunk of pages ready, but I think the new page is a more fun front page placeholder than the big TO BE CONTINUED page that’s been there.)

New comics, as ever, when they come. Thank you all for being patient with these like ENDLESS VICISSITUDES