I was pretty proud of myself on this one. It seems like it’d be one of those “writing exercises” or “comics exercises” where the guru tells you to depict “the moment before” some important other image or piece of writing.

The world’s smallest attempt to get back toward comics that have more of a story than just picture and a punch-line. I often think back to the comic I did years ago called KIM and wish I’d do more. Do more, me!

Continuing to play around with the lasso as drawing tool – continues to be pretty gratifying, though I might be kidding myself about it as an aesthetic. Somehow helps me draw more “freely” or whatever.

This one comes courtesy of Jen who wrote the phrase “deus ex housefly” the other day in an email. I think that it is one of the great collections of words of our time. Also influenced by the smooth stylings over at Super Mega Comics.

This one is pretty much Rilla’s idea – she hit on the idea of a combinatorics of the (real) shopping list I went off to the supermarket with. I’d love to say I bought all the combinations, but I did not do that. Stuck with the vanilla list.

My first cartoon “in Danish”. At the very least, I made a kind of Danish pun. Must be subconsciously integrating. This one came together easily as an idea, and I think the notion of a ghost sausage is a pretty powerful one, frankly.

This comic is derived from an actual observed situation in the park outside the Victoria University Design and Architecture School in Wellington. Rilla and I added a little internal monologue for the seagull begging for a chip.