Hi! I am slowly but surely converting this into the Primary Online Home of all my LUCRATIVE WEBCOMICS PROPERTIES. Since I’m working on the back end pretty much from now until the launch of Bad Mother in May, stuff may not work precisely as intended.
To that end, just follow these links to find the Actual Site Content:
Thanks for your patience!
I don’t like this one so much but it’s up here anyway. I think I drew this at a bar, which is why the drawing breaks down toward the end. Curiosity: the last panel implies that Boat Girl already knows this song well enough to continue singing the lyrics after the yacht moves away. Why is this?
Boat Girl attempts to learn about human interaction. The first strip where I kind of settle on what she’s supposed to look like.
This was the first Boat Girl comic, done sometime late 2010 early 2011 — I have literally no idea exactly when. It came out of a conversation with Anton Solomonik that generated most of the character’s horrible body language: the stare, the enigmatic hand motions. Anton was totally disgusted with my live rendition of the character so I KNEW I HAD A WINNER!!!
She is kind of off model here since this was done in like ten minutes in a sketchbook with a roller ball pen. Admittedly all the early proto-MWHF strips before the ones in the archive featured the same character with black hair and no cowlick, which seems impossible to me now. The CLOUD STRIFE RULE OF CHARACTER DESIGN is that you should give your main characters some kind of non-black hair so that you can put them in front of pretty much any background and not get into too much trouble.
Shockingly, this strip wasn’t in the original script for this storyline, and you have Rocksalt pal and fantastical cartoonist Geoff Sebesta to thank for it. I was worried that Elvira lacked any major agency, that she was just kind of a bummer along for the ride, sort of inevitably when the whole point is that she has no power to affect things in the world beyond as a kind of conscience figure for the title character. I brought this up to him — I think we were cooking eggs or something at the time? — and he said: “You can’t give one of your characters a superpower without exploiting that superpower. What can ghosts do well?” For this strip, and other strips along these lines, we must thank him.
This phase of our neverending storyline is almost dooooone
Let the record show that this is the first comic uploaded to the new site, slowly developing, waxing. Let the record show that I can use apostrophes now in the post text, if it’s suitable to me to do so. Let the record show that without a lot of figure drawing classes I would have really messed this up.