Part one’s done! What did you think? In writing this story, I’m trying to practice structuring better plots. Like DK vs. Tooth Fairy (and unlike the other stories that might be funny at times but really tend to meander), I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Q: Why do I change the art style every time the comic starts to look alright? A: …
Sorry this one’s a little late. Just one day, though. One day’s better than many of the alternatives. Remember last year, when I posted this comic? I was invited to write it in the world of Aporkalypse, and now it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because tensions had been mounting in Europe for a while, the France-Germany border was pretty secure when the war started, as I understand it. Germany sought to circumvent that by sweeping through neutral Belgium, with or without welcome. And that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I almost drew a panel of Octopus Kid blowing up the balloon, but I decided that’d be a little too … something. And that joke’s been done.
The semester’s under way again, and I’m changing a lot about the way I taught last year — adding more “business” to “Business English” — but I’m gonna try really hard to keep these updates weekly. This one, in particular,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When this comic goes up, I’ll be just a few days from the new semester. I’m teaching more Business English classes this year, and maybe something about Economics & Trade. So … I guess these are my areas of expertise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Accordingly, I’m going to present the declarations of war and the formation of alliances in a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Landmark moments in Dinosaur Kid: update #175, first appearance of Chameleon Kid’s mouth. Thus begins the great snowballing of alliances and called-in favors, herein simplified because I can’t even keep track of it all.
This might be my favorite real historical detail of 1914: after a wild day of coincidences and mistakes, the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassin, Gavrilo Princip, finally found his target in front of a delicatessen. Many sources say that it was Princip’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…