Happy FriDailiesDay! Included: DIY phone sleep sack instructions; eye update (kind of) (barely). (Patreon)

Good Friday to you all! I hope your days have been warming up (assuming you're in the northern hemisphere and you want that). It's supposed to be nigh-60° tomorrow before snowflakes reappear in my weather app (la la la not paying attention to anything after Saturday).

A few weeks ago, I started a couple of comics with Black History Month on my mind (I'm still working on a follow-up to this one). I'm curious how many of my white readers grew up in extremely white areas in the States in the 80s, and if they also had this experience, or if it was unique to Kemptown, Maryland...

I checked my yearbook before writing in Pip's part. TWO black kids!! It wasn't even that small of a school! (Panel three is a bit of a non-sequitur, but the point is meant to be that talking about BHM in class made me realize just how white my school was, for the first time.)

Here's the original art for this one! As always, scroll down for your 50% off coupon before ya buy any original art from the store this week!

Apologies to anyone here who has a loud vroom-vroom car, but...

Every person who revs their engine in my tiny quiet little town, I dream of following them home and just mildly annoying them while they're trying to sleep.

Here's the original art for this one!

Maybe it's because we're still in Hibernation Season, but I've been looking at my phone way more than usual lately. So...

Admission: I have NOT started my taxes. But I've spent less time on my phone! It works!

And it's very cute. And satisfying to wrap up. (Very important: it MUST be cute & satisfying. That's the magic ingredient.)

Here's the original art for this one!

If I was on a dating app I would use this next comic to describe myself.

And here are links to all of the things that that make up yours truly:

that excellent Beetle Bailey cartoon...

and the blog post below it, about punctuation (fun read, especially if you wanna know why a question mark is shaped like that!)

and the book I bought: A B C et Cetera: the Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet

and Laurie Spiegel (yes, you should look up her actual music if that kind of thing interests you, but her wikipedia page is just as interesting)

And here's the original art for the comic, if that flavor of nerdery suits you!

And to wrap this all up, a comic about the ongoing mystery of Danielle's Eye Problem...

WELP! I guess I paid for a second opinion? (My insurance doesn't cover eye stuff, except injuries.)

It's frustrating... both the optometrist and the ophthalmologist just seemed to blow off the whole reason I came in (if you need a refresher, it's in the third comic here). On the plus side, the ophthalmologist said I had the healthiest-looking retinas she'd seen in a long time! But: that does not help me, obviously. I got no answers and I still have this recurring fuzzy spot in the center of my right eye, and two professionals just think that's normal, I guess.

BONUS PANEL: the ophthalmologist was less than a mile from the best art store in the area, Howard's Art, so I treated myself to a visit. My old pal & classmate Robert Farmer works there.

I was excited to actually see what I had bought, several hours later when my eyeballs shrunk!

Pretty mild haul, but that titanium white gouache came in super handy later in the day! (You'll see why soon - I owe my Art Nerd members some pet portrait process pics!)

Before I forget, here's the original art for that last one! If you want me to include the bonus panel, mention it to me - I'll cut it out of the scrap paper I drew it on for ya. :)

Remember to use DAILYSMILE50 at checkout for your Patreon-exclusive 50% off, for any art in the original comics art section!

This'll be the last week that I price these comics at $50 (which is just $25 + shipping for you, my beloved patrons, with that coupon code) - I'll be raising the prices from now on starting next week, so if you want any of my original daily comics art, grab it before March!

Til then, may your weekend be the perfect temperature, and may you be blessed by a cat's butthole.

Edit: Patreon's being wonky, so if you saw this Butthole Buddies photo scattered randomly somewhere in the Beetle Bailey section of this post, that's why! #️⃣💲⚡️❉💣⍰!!