Monday Dailies! (Patreon)

My Tales of the Drive guest comic is finally done!! (Unless Dave finds typos!) Luke always reminds me that I'm not THAT slow, actually. Comics just take a long time to make.

My Friday-Sunday was so packed I didn't have time to scan these in until this morning. Thanks for your patience!

This isn't an actual conversation I had with Kris, I just like to think about what his reaction would be when I tell him how [cats plants etc] is just like parenting.

(Spoiler alert, the peas sprouted in THREE DAYS!)

Luke's actual birthday was yesterday but I couldn't resist getting him tickets to see these guys a week earlier!

I went back to obsessing over ceramics the next day. Shoutout to Chris Driggers, who frequents this Patreon! 

My lofty plans right now are to start with a West Virginia travel book. Living here for more than half my life, I feel like I'm doing the state a disservice by only being familiar with a few of its towns.

I still try it twice a year, with the same stupid consequences every time! My baby body just isn't strong enough for the lettuce of the devil. Works great when I need extra sleep, though.

Throw all your trash-food in the yard, it'll get eaten I promise.

You can spend your entire morning reading Aimee Mann's daily comics right here.

The lyrics in the third panel are actually from a John K. Samson song of the same name. He's incredible at creating a whole bizarre story in one song (and sometime treating his fans to a continuation of the story in other songs, like with Virtute the Cat).

I was originally going to write about comparing the fame aspect of comics vs. music, because Aimee's comics have SO many comments below them, you can tell people really want to connect with her. I'd have such a hard time if I was her, wanting to reply to all the heartfelt and carefully-crafted comments. But nobody has the time for that. She probably doesn't even have time to read them all. I bet that kinda sucks for her. 

Comics fandom is a little more low-key, if you're comparing most-famous cartoonists to most-famous musicians. I like to think I'm as comics-famous as John K. Samson is music-famous. Like most people haven't heard of him, but he definitely has fans and he's still small enough that he can welcome listeners to come meet him after his shows (I was too nervous to go meet him, wondering if he'd see that I had his lyrics tattooed on my arm; I kinda regret not just going up anyway).

I didn't write about fandom in the comic after all, because it all sounded too humble-braggy and maybe a little pathetic of me to compare my own "fandom" with more-famous musicians. But, well, I'm writing it here now. That's what you pay the big bucks for. ;)

I'm still pushing my next Elephant Town update back, and may push it back farther, but I'll write about that later so you know what's up. Until then, have a good week!