Happy New Year! 8-page Color Comic #2: The Garage Sale (Patreon)

Happy New Year! This is the second of two eight-page color stories I did for MySpace Dark Horse Presents way back in...the files say January 2009. Fourteen years ago. I wanted to put something juicy and colorful in your inbox to hopefully brighten the first day of this gift, this next year on this marvelous and enigmatic orb.

I recently heard astronaut Jim Lovell quoted as saying, "We don't go to heaven when we die; we go to heaven when we're born." It's the most beautiful thing I've heard in a while, a concise summation of a previously unverbalized feeling that's been struggling to take shape in response to all the chaos that the miserable media landscape relentlessly engineers into my mind. I will cede some philosophical authority to a man who got to reevaluate the big picture — conveniently located outside his office window — while wrestling the wounded Apollo 13 capsule back to an Earth he could no longer take for granted. I am grateful for his words. 

Back to the actual comic. Before we moved from Silicon Valley to Portland we had a huge garage sale where I actually met all of these people; very little of this strip is fictionalized. The Gilbert character is nearly verbatim; I was so fascinated by his idiolect and way of alternately straining and flowing through stories, like a locomotive over rolling hillsides, that I played his language over in my head for days before writing it down.

There's also a strip also based on this same event.

Love from this side of the screen,

C