Happy Dailies Friday to you, Happy Birthdayweek to me! (Patreon)

Hello hello! Happy Friday to ya!

Here's an exciting adventure that happened to me and Amanda last Friday night (we broke in the new fire pit!).

He probably does this every night at 1 am, and I just slept through it til now. The original art's for sale here!

I finished two half-drawn dailies and one brand-new daily this morning for you, because I had a busy weekend, and some VIP visitors came to stay with me after that! Lemme explain:

You may have seen photos of this process on Instagram or Bluesky already. My garage was abundant with 18 years' worth of accumulation - a lot of it from past roommates, but plennnnty from me. (Here's the original art for this daily!)

Here's the before and after (which isn't as satisfying as I'd hoped it would be - the bulk was in the far back and the right front corner, which you can't really see!).

You can just make out the giant McPedro I used to take with me to conventions!

His teeth are a little moldy, so he'll be disassembled and washed one day soon. Maybe I'll use his hide to pack GWS book orders.

I could spend all day showing you old artwork I found, but they'll need to be scanned in (the photos are hard to make out!). In the meantime, here's something you didn't know (and I didn't really remember) about me: I spent TONS of hours making little tiny clay things with Fimo when I was in middle through high school.

(Forgive the bad focus on some of these, they were extremely tiny!) LOOK AT THE BITTY YIN YANG NECKLACE

This one had a ball of glow-in-the-dark clay inside to make it glow like a jack-o-lantern! You can kinda see it below.

These earrings were a favorite:

I paired them with this (strung on a choker):

... and wore them with a Garfield tee shirt that had THE EXACT SAME IMAGE on a white background. This was in 7th and 8th grade. I was very cool.

The googly eyes on these two only survived one side, but I thought they were good enough to keep a record of:

Please shower me with awe and admiration for throwing all of these out. It wasn't easy!

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled cat nonsense.

So I guess the dirty one will go somewhere OTHER than the hamper. Until she finds THAT spot. (Here's the original art!)

My parents helped me for a couple more hours yesterday morning, after which we visited my brother for lunch to celebrate.

I SWEAR I DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING. (I almost did, tho.)

Here's the original for that last one! Remember to use the coupon code DAILYSMILE50 if you buy any original art in the store - you'll get 50% off for being a patron. <3

I'll clear out all of the March dailies from the store next Friday, so if you want one of them, snatch it up now!

I'm off to visit friends in New Jersey for the weekend, before I head out to San Diego for a week. It'll be a busy two weeks; I'll try to make simpler (maybe one-panel!) daily comics over the coming weeks, so you'll still have SOMETHING to enjoy on your Fridays. :)

Til then, have a swell weekend, and don't stuff anything else in your garage!