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Happy Friday! I've got just a few comics for y'all today, and they are DUMB. Let's go!

Smash Brothers fans, this one's for you and literally no on else:

Every time Luke plays Shulk I hear these two lines over and over again coming from the living room. This is what I assume it's all about. (Luke plays Shirtless Shulk and I'm kinda kicking myself for not drawing that version.)

If you're a Shulk fan and you're REALLY FEELING this comic, here's the original art for it! Scroll down to the end of this page for your discount code. :o

It took a whole week to finish this tedious-ass comic!

My fridge is very PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! Look! Look at the STRAWBERRIES, they're ORGANIC and LOCAL! (Local friends, if you would like a bottle of unopened moscato, please come take it.)

If you relate to this too hard, and would like to put this comic on your fridge with magnets to warn visitors of the impending fridge-shame they're about to encounter, here's the link to the original!

I spent last weekend in Asheville, whereupon my friend Emily Hope Price just happened to be performing her last show with Kishi Bashi and Tall Tall Trees! Katie and I went to the Grey Eagle to see them play Sunday. Emily was part of the band Pearl and the Beard with my other friend Jocelyn Mackenzie, and Jeremy Styles.

How do I know Emily? Well, it's embarrassing, so I made a comic about it.

Imagine agreeing to stay the night at a stranger's house, only to find a collection of carefully arranged photos of your face, displayed in the center of that stranger's drawing board, surrounded by rough sketches of, again, your face.

Anyway here's proof she didn't run screaming and ban me for life!

By the way, the character design that was inspired by Emily was none other than Beatrice in Girls With Slingshots!

Beatrice is somehow nothing like Emily, but still has Essence of Emily. I can't explain it.

Here's a bunch of photos from the Asheville signing!

I can't believe Assistant Katie still has this shirt from nearly 20 years ago (!!!!).

I got to see my old pal Chris Sparks! Our good friend Richard Thompson of the Cul de Sac comic strip died due to Parkinson's disease a few years ago, and Chris helps raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation by auctioning off hand-drawn coasters. I drew these two to be auctioned off at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC in June:

I'm terrible at remembering to take photos with people, but luckily Katie's very good at remembering. (We found Mothman!)

Before I head out to my pal Ren's Here to Pee all-trans comedy show tonight (there's one in all 50 states!), here are a few sketches I mindlessly doodled at Art Night this past week.

(You can see Shirtless Shulk practice in the top left corner there!)

I just mounted the chicken, cicada, and mantis to bristol board and cut them out in case you wanna own one! They're cute and small. :) Here are some closeups. First, a member of the neighborhood Free Range Gang:

(Original art here!)

The first cicada I've seen this year!

(Original here!)

And I was about to say this is "just a praying mantis" but when has a praying mantis ever been JUST a praying mantis.

Praying mantis!!

(Original PRAYING MANTIS here!)

Remember to use your I-love-you-for-being-here-on-Patreon discount code! Typing DAILYSMILE50 at checkout will get you 50% off any of these pieces.

Last note before I go! I'll have the "Indivisible" pride flag stickers in the store next week - I'm still figuring out how many I can shove into an envelope and send out with a regular stamp to save you on shipping!

Til next week, lovelies! And hey, between now & then, check out Pearl and the Beard on Spotify, Soundcloud, Amazon, iMusic, whatever music planet you live on. You're welcome!

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Laura J Testa-Reyes

Yes, I too buy locally from the farmer's market, and have fresh and not so fresh carrots. And many things hidden in the back layers.

Tim Pendergast

Being a comic nerd and not a gamer nerd, when you said Shulk I thought of She-Hulk and was wondering how a topless version would fly! ;) I had always thought of Beatrice as Asian, so that comic is a revelation to me!

Amy Crook

Aren't all fridges layers from lovely at the front to don't look in the back? XD And I'm envious of whoever got to the cicada, it's neat.

David Neale-Lorello

AAAAUUGH!!! I missed the cicada! I am a hardcore cicada person (ask any of my friends). Whoever bought it, I hope you enjoy it -- it's fabulous, ain't it?? BTW: That must be part of Brood XIV, which is up this year (see https://theconversation.com/billions-of-cicadas-are-emerging-from-cape-cod-to-north-georgia-heres-how-and-why-we-map-them-255461). It's definitely a 17- or 13-year cicada, as they are black with red eyes like that and annuals, usually not out before end of June, are green and brown.

William Cole

"Clam-o-naise" cost me a few SAN points, but otherwise thank you for another delightful batch of dailies.

Andrea

I loved Pearl and the Beard. I saw them live 3 times.

allanfranta

I got a smaller fridge because of that. There is no room for unnecessary/unused/old stuff. Also it's energy efficient!

Michael Steamweed

"You have 100 drawings of my face!" (*At this time, Emily is not running for the hills.) "Oh ha ha yeah oops I swear I'm totally not a stalker!" "Why do you have 100 drawings of my face?" "Oh I'm a webcomic artist." *Emily runs for the hills.

Pete Jordan

Your fridge. Feeling seen. I love your cat vest 🐈‍⬛. I will be ordering stickers, when you've settled the ordering details!

Clinton Johnston

Whar!?! Cool!! I can totally see that essence in Beatrice!

dcorsetto

I definitely thought of She-Hulk when I started hearing that Luke plays Shulk, too!

dcorsetto

I loooooove that you can tell which year that cicada is!! I'm still being introduced to them, after the very noisy infiltration of the 2021 brood in our area. :) We could barely hear each other talk in my backyard that year!

dcorsetto

Ahhh how cool that you knew about them! I'm still kicking myself for not going to their final show.

David Neale-Lorello

I have a fruitless cherry in my front yard and a sugar maple in the back and they were both COVERED in cicadas in '21. My joy was unbounded! My first exposure to 17-year cicadas was in the late '60s, when my North Carolina neighborhood was inundated. I've been fascinated ever since. It doesn't feel like summer to me until the annuals start singing.

Tim Pendergast

I am reminded of a UK TV show I love called "As Time Goes By" with the brilliant Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer: In the show 4 adults live together and all they have in the kitchen is a tiny dorm fridge. I imagine they must go to the store twice a day! Makes me laugh every time I see it.

Pille

Just a little old dane sitting in her livingroom with a big question mark on her face, wondering why your licorice is in your fridge? I'm so curious! I have never seen that before in all of my scandinavian life!

dcorsetto

As a Dane, I would defer to your judgment on this topic!! I put it in there last summer when the temps were high (I keep my house at 82/28 during the summer), specifically for the Lindt bars, but also just in case with the regular licorice candy. I suspect that the Bülow would've done better OUT of the fridge - it's a little stale, even in the centers of the chocolatey coatings! Guess I'll just have to eat them all while they're as fresh as they can be....

Rich

So cool! I saw Kishi Bashi in Bristol late last year (on a boat, it's called Thekla and is one of my all time favourite gig venues) and had a blast - they're so fun live! Did they do a big song and dance for Icarus?

Pille

I think the only thing that happens to the lakrids in the little above room temperature is that it will be a bit more sticky. The chocolate covered ones (gaaawd I love them) I get a bit more, why you put in the fridge, but I think I would just keep them out of the fridge too. I totally gets why you try to let them last as long as possible, but as you say yourself, eat them while they are perfect! Have a lakrids fest (lacorice party)!

dcorsetto

Ah cool! Oohh I'm not sure what the song they did at the end was... but if you're talking about the "suddenly forming a small circle within the crowd and playing a few songs," yes! It was very charming. :)

Rich

Oh, I loved that too!

Naufragous Kat

So I somehow got a year behind on dailies? Because I didn’t want to read THIS week’s until I’d read LAST week’s, and apparently I did that for ~52 fucking weeks? What is time? ANYWAY I am commenting on this one because I swear we have the same fridge down to the abundance of tiny question mark jars and the placement of the fucking eggs and seltzers relative to the fancy cheese drawer in the middle. I swear if we ever hang out IRL it may end up being some sort of singularity event.