Continuing on with these weird conversations. In this instance I thought that these chairs might capture the deadpan thing I’m going for. Or maybe it’s two invisible people. We experiment and we see.

Went to a keynote at an AI-oriented conference yesterday and the guy gave this definition of artificial intelligence which allowed me to smirkingly slip in this comic on the subject. Ha!

Staving off the desolation of being composed of particles that repel creativity, I went with this idea from the notebook. I’ve a mind to do a series of these ominous proclamations by household items. We shall see.

This one came to me at a hairdresser’s in Berlin. Fun at my own expense! So noble a thing. Note the sly reference to the ridiculous work of Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort concerning the “atheist’s nightmare“.

Inspired by a combination of “Citizen Kane” and “The Wrath of Khan” (Kirk’s famous shouting of “Khaaaan!”). I’m not sure I communicated the latter part as well as I could have, but believe me I spent ages trying to draw an okay furnace.

I felt overly proud of myself for thinking of all these lame one-liner duos to make comic strips about, a kind of tribute to my interest in animate inanimate objects. Only Mortar & Pestle have their own strip so far. But just you wait.

I drew bananas and then worked out what they would be saying. That was the process. The caption was one of many I considered, and I also considered having a different caption come up with each viewing.

Another of my quick sketches in the notebook that is about talking cigarettes. I don’t even smoke. On the other hand, cigarettes are very, very easy to draw.

Another quick draw from the ol’ notebook. This one has the ring of truth to me, frankly. I think I nailed this one.

Just one of those things. I always imagine that if inanimate objects could talk they’d want to say their name all the time.