FrumpleOrz posted:

Hagar The Horrible

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That's the last part of Space Is The Place! Thank you for reading! If you want to go back and pick apart the conspiracy, the story starts here. Next week there are six comics bridging this tale and the new Bad Machinery case, which starts on July 27th.

Ghostlight posted:

working daze is like a journal to empty slavish corporation devotion, but this one in particular is so empty because even the subconscious of the in-universe obsessed with star wars guy doesn't understand the very basics of one of the cornerstone scenes of the trilogy that he idolises.

FrumpleOrz posted:

Hagar The Horrible

Pastry of the Year posted:

Tina's Groove Classic (Oct. 12, 2007)

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery

Vargo posted:

Jamal

Vargo posted:

Curtis

Vargo posted:

Jamal


Wallace

Esplanade posted:

No idea on the paint sellers thing. Anyone?

Darthemed posted:

Dick Dec. 14-15, 1931

Good Listener posted:

I don't think Tina is miserable in those strips, it's just her bangs that make her seem that way. I think Rina's addressed that before.

Over the years a handful of readers have written me to ask why Tina looks sad. She never smiles, they write, She looks despondent, or worried. What’s wrong, people say, Is she depressed?

No, Tina’s not depressed — no more than any other person. When I started the strip I didn’t know a lot about her, but I did know what I didn’t want her to be. I didn’t want my main character to be sappy and sickeningly sweet. I wanted to write her as a girl who had real-world traits who just happened to be nice in a normal, non-mushy way. I gave Tina a few of my own traits, and many others that I myself am not fortunate to have (for one, I’m way less tolerant than she is!)

Also over the years, I’ve analyzed the smile matter and made a discovery that may explain Tina’s “sad look”. It’s the character’s design — how she’s drawn — that I believe is causing Tina to look less cheery than what she may be feeling below the surface. What I hadn’t anticipated was the effect of how I designed Tina’s hair — in particular, her bangs. (This will be a good example of how a few lines can alter a character’s expression.) Look at these sketches:

The hair bangs are drawn downwards at the same angle that you’d use to draw a “worried eyebrow” expression. So when there is no clear smile drawn on her face, and I need her to be in a neutral expression, like in sketch #2, then the result is that she looks slightly worried, or, you might say, even sad.

I never anticipated this. The thing is, I don’t want Tina to be smiling in every situation — that would be sappy — and so many times she wears the expression you see in sketch #2, which gives her the look people are asking about.

It’s amazing what a couple of small ink lines can do. They’re capable of changing a reader’s perception about what a character is feeling. Now that puts a smile on my face. Isn’t this stuff great?

Good Listener posted:

I don't think Tina is miserable in those strips, it's just her bangs that make her seem that way. I think Rina's addressed that before.

Luxrage posted:

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Discendo Vox posted:

What year was the cartoon?

Vargo posted:

Jamal

Dammerung posted:

I don't know how both of these comics are so consistently good, but I'm glad they are.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis

Angular Cyrus posted:

King Aroo 1/5/53

Countblanc posted:

what the gently caress arlo

Esplanade posted:

Guindon

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



Smartphones: well known for clicking when you disconnect.

Credit where credit's due though: she's holding it pretty normally.

EBB posted:

Not sure why, but this comic fills me with a sense of well-being.

EasyEW posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD