WELCOME TO BAD MOTHER WORLD.
The goal is to write a classic newspaper comic that no mainstream US newspaper would ever publish. This is I think how webcomics started, but they quickly moved away from that territory into their own modern thing, as comics themselves started as outgrowths of vaudeville and newspaper illustration and slowly grew into their own entity, birthed of and designed for the web. But I dislike progress! So I want the whole feeling of this project to be essentially that which you’d get from buying a For Better or for Worse collection in the “Humor” section of old Borders stores, only meaner and more gay.
We update Tuesday & Thursday for sure, and usually Saturday. The rules are that we are moving in real time through the life of a child being raised in a tradition of ultimate Napoleonic self-reliance. Her name is BETTY SPECTOR. Her mother’s name is MONA. Let’s go!
NOTE: Unfortunately, all of this was set to go when YESTERDAY, when I was doing some final edits to the website code, I managed to break the entire thing and have to start from scratch, winning awards for timing. Right now you can still read The Man Who Hates Fun at the old site: http://fictioncircus.com/mwhf. All the old comic posts and comments etc. are still there and I’ll slowly be restoring them over the next week or so. Ugh!
That is a bad mother. :)
Is she . . . or is THE WORLD BAD?