Making of "Birthday Pup" (Patreon)

I did the initial sketch for this one last summer, the same time as "Drama".  I didn't want to do two "dogs destroy stuff" gags back to back, so I sat on it for a while.  As often happens, the more I looked at it, the less funny it got, until I really started to hate it.  I shelved it for nearly a year and luckily when I opened it up again, I realized I did in fact have something here.

After refining the sketch, I still felt like it was off somehow.  I asked my friends for feedback and changed:

- Wrapped present to cuddly toy to make the joke clearer- Leaned into false impression that the dog didn't like the toy in panel 3- Punchline phrasing- Dog more obviously grateful in panel 4

Yay for clever friends! :)