0146b — Starring the “Characters” as the “Author” (Patreon)

(From the strip, for those who prefer the text this way) No word of it a lie. The day after I found the little comic booklet which inspired this week’s installment, the text you read in the strip began feeding out of the hemispheric cleft in my brain – the trench of the corpus callosum, if you are medical — on a tickertape so pleasantly measured that I trod upstairs, opened Mecklintosh, and typed it onto the empty page in exactly the spots you see it. A barometric thunder blanket of confessional calm settled about me; nothing needed to be invented, only explored and shared. There was no great squabbling crest and unprecedented dénouement to engineer. The point made itself somewhere toward the end, the art was easy, and I was satisfied. It was so effortless, in fact, I didn’t notice until much afterward that I had written a diary comic just like the one which inspired it.

Here are the very few bits of the vapor trail this thing left as it punctured the Oort of Adobe, gathered in one place and minimally fiddled-with.