kirabug’s idea files

Well, by the time you read this it’ll be the beginning of National Novel Writer’s Month. And, as I’m planning to give it a shot this year, I set a goal back in early October to have all of November’s comics up by the beginning of NaNoWriMo, so I could concentrate on writing and not panic over comics.

They’re all done and uploaded. Mission accomplished.

That being said, if anyone has any fan art or comics they’d like to chuck my way to cover the beginning of December, I’m willing to post 2-3 reasonable (I define reasonable) comics or art, with a linkback to your website (assuming you have one) as a tradeoff. Just drop me a message with [GOMH] in the subject line if you’re interested. And heck, if I get more than 2-3 posts, I’ll post the others on off-days so you have something nifty to look at!

Wish me luck and patience and fast-paced ideas on the novel!

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Okay, story time!

Back in late January or early February, my cousin was in a car accident which resulted in the airbag deploying. (She was and is fine.) That event was the inspiration for today’s comic, which I finished drawing by oh, roughly the middle of February.

But I really felt that using a joke like this against my characters required some kind of background — what the hell would’ve happened that would have resulted in an airbag going off? Well, longtime readers know that I hit a deer back in November of ‘04, and though the only thing that exploded in my case was the deer’s ass (it shat on my car. the nerve.), a slightly larger deer and a slightly heavier lead foot on my part may have caused an airback deployment… so around June I got enough fragmented pieces of a plan together to actually start this arc… which was somewhat inconvenient considering that I’d started a different arc back in May that still stands unfinished.

We’ll get back to that. I promise. But since it took Marin 140 days of our time to get through just over 12 hours of her time, I think it’s time we give the poor girl a rest.

Besides, I have a Halloween comic to run (a day early, on Monday, at that!), and maybe some Jesus-in-a-box stuff… you know, brain stretch for a bit.

Anyway, this may very well be one of the longest set-up-to-punchline time spans in horrible-amateur comics. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Here’s another hilarious look at the arguments behind Intelligent Design

I also think I might subscribe to / quote the “in my yard” theory for my website.

I’m in Illustrator training today, which is good news for all of you because it means I just might get rid of the jaggies in my line drawing if I can get good at this pen thing.

Found this on Nickd’s site - The Morning News - Lone Star Statements, by Matthew Baldwin - “This book is about dirt!”