Mark: i have a business proposition for ya. three words:
Mark: gerbils
Mark: riding
Mark: pterodactyls.
Mark: whaddya think??
Mark: stage one: gerbils.
Mark: stage two: pterodactyls.
Mark: phase three: profit.
et, voilà:
My workload is insane right now, as it has been for months. BUT, part of my job for the past week or two involved listening in on phone interviews for message research, and I discovered I focus much better if I’m doodling (it stops me from getting distracted by the internet). Thanks to this totally legitimate and not at all questionable fact, I had a chance to catch up on some backlogged projects. Including this one:
Mark got a new laptop. I surreptitiously baptized the desktop background:
just doodling:
When I first moved here, I had a hell of a time making friends. Chloe was my the only person I knew, and I really didn’t have a handle on the rhythm of the city at all.
Found this in an old journal and re-drew. My first few months here, I couldn’t quite make my brain understand how big the city really was.
Here’s the last few comics from this time period. By this stage they were painfully and inescapably meta, as it had become a “thing” that, whenever something of note (or something notably un-noteworthy) occurred, I would immediately draw it out and then pass the cartoon around for group approval.
The comics started to get weirder and more self-referential as time went on; also, we apparently fought a lot.
Found some more of the College Spring Break comics. Apparently all I did on this trip was draw cartoons about the trip? Anyway, here’s two that seem to go together:
I dunno, is anyone sick of these yet? I’m just hoping that if I make fun of my brain enough, eventually it’ll stop being so ridiculous.
