While preparing the Peanut strips for my next project, I came across a fantastic integration of text subtly hidden in this panel: If you look carefully, at the center of the starry smack mark where the ball hit the bat, there is text reading ".315", which I assume is a reference to Pig-Pen's batting average (pretty good). This is particularly interesting to me since it's a descriptive use of

Yes! P.S.I. (A Pessimistic Sense of Inadequacy) has finally made the two-year mark (technically July 10th I think), and 200 strips!

I am running a special, extra tall, strip. Thematically paired up with an animated video I also made. Nothing THAT special, but good for a laugh.... I hope anyway o_O

Find it all at http://fesandernst.com !

...And yes, Schroeder knows he screwed up the index page. He was in a hurry. He'll fix it tonight.

http://mindmistress.comicgenesis.com/village68.htm

Drawn from sources that are hard at work… Documentary about Creative Commons business models. Jorge Cham of PhD Comics shows us the vicious cycle of staying up late. Platinum Studios announces their top 50 for this years Comic Book Challenge. Good luck to you all! And just for the record PS paid DJ Coffman the money they [...]

Pear-Pear, from the get-go, has been a sort of game for me: can I tell a story about a character without ever showing that character, or saying anything about that character? As the story-arc in the comic is about to reach a crucial turning point, a good time has arisen for me to evaluate my strategy for this game, which could be called visual synecdoche.

Just wanted to give a nod to charlotte2004jd, the winner of my little road to god knows... contest. As it turns out, she used her own first name for the winning guess. A few of you did, but in her case her name was the right name.

As I've mentioned, I've been completely reworking and expanding Hakata Soy's introduction to Astronaut Elementary. This week's page really shows how different the new pages are from the original version!

I found this great photo of a Japanese guy in my clipart folder on my desktop, evidently taken at a market in the 1950s. The whole combination of apron and short sleeve shirt with collar delights me for some reason, as does the fact that he looks kind of like an inquisitve turtle. Most impressively, his hands were huge, maybe a little bigger than I drew them here.

I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I’ve been marveling at the work of Joel Priddy all morning. This in particular cracks me up — Wolverine dropped into those bizarre mid-’50s Jimmy Olsen situation. This is my favourite (assuming hotlinking is enabled from his site):

The sh*t hits the fan. Fresh from my brain and right hand to your eyes, GROWING continues. Read it now.