Probably subconsciously inspired by, and of course not as good as, Ben Edlund’s “How to Draw the Tick,” though I like to think I also captured some of the assurance of a Kliban panel.
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Jon Stewart said it best: “Yom Kippur—Jewish Day of Atonement. You don’t eat for one day, all your sin for the year is wiped clean. Beat that with your ‘Lent.’ What is that, forty days? Even in sin they’re paying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy New Year, Small Peculiarteers! Election Day is November 8, and this year’s midterms are kind of really important. Small Peculiar urges you to vote blue to defeat fascism.
This is an actual picture of my actual cat, as well as a neighbor’s actual doormat. They fascinate Nineveh, who likes to claw them and writhe on them. She doesn’t do any damage, but I would feel awkward if a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This tradition is sometimes recorded in America too, and I’d want it to be done for me if I kept bees. The royal beekeeper said he told the royal bees like this: “You knock on each hive and say, ‘The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I freely admit that I have used almost identical art twice before, here and here. In real life I am not nearly so insouciant when my anxiety shows up and starts saying terrible things to me; these comics are aspirational.
This is one of those jokes that seem to fall into my head from the ceiling. It’s amazing to me that I can make dumb jokes without even knowing I’m doing it. There’s so much more going on in our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe this will turn out to be nothing, like Al Capone’s vault. But it certainly FEELS like something.