So I’ve been sick for two and a half of the past four days — interestingly, not consecutive days — and my plans to do three comic updates this week fell prey to needing to take it easy. This means your Halloween strip is ready NOW, giving you a full shopping day to prepare your costume if you, like Mona Spector and myself, are too terminally Bad at Halloween to have gotten one ready before now!
The joke in this one is pretty by the numbers, but what I like is Cathy’s costume, which is one of those high concept but totally ineffective costumes that I like to come up with! WHY DON’T YOU ALL GUESS WHAT SHE’S SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE COMMENTS. Other costumes I considered for her before deciding on this one: the “world-snake” Jörmungandr, the lead figure from Pornocrates by current fave painter Felicien Rops. Fun sketches:
Other news: I did this playlist for my book! I was at Austin Comic-Con and met a bunch of people and gave them bookmarks with Bad Mother comics. Hopefully SOME OF YOU are those people! Welcome!
For you and for everyone else: new comic on Thursday, same day as my reading at DOMY Books. If you’re in Austin, please come and hang out! This is probably the only event I’ll be doing for the rest of 2012, so if you want to hear me read from my book, you’d best turn up!