Well, our internet is working again (finally!). Nonetheless,Leigh and I have been constantly busy for the past couple of months, so with that in mind I present to you two REALLY OLD single-panel comics I did for my college newspaper, The Western Herald. My first comic strip, 'Fountain's Pen,' ran during the fall and winter semesters (the busy period) and was an actual narrative that was semiautobiographical (just like every other kid's college comic strip... I'll post some someday), but the summer newspaper was significantly smaller, so I crapped out a single-panel strip that was just meant to be surrealistic and weird. Yes, I was ripping off 'The Far Side' (in my own way)... practically everything I did from that time in my life was very transparently influenced by stuff I liked (the stuff I do now is just as derivitive, I've just gotten slightly better at hiding it). Looking back at these two strips, though, I'm pleased with how 'almost original' they are. I had intended on doing a whole boatload of 'The Secret Life of ----' strips, but then I accidentally graduated and those fascists at The Herald had this kooky rule that you had to be an enrolled student to contribute to the student newspaper. Bastards.
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