How to Eliminate Clutter

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Behold, Missy 2.0! This is the second iteration of Missy, and looking back, I think these are some of my best drawings of her.

The item next to Missy in panel 1 is a Christmas Fez she made for me many years ago. It’s red with white fur trim and a white tassel. It’s just the thing to wear to Christmas parties. Of course, I don’t get invited to many Christmas parties, possibly because people know I’ll wear the fez.

Note from Missy: I’m wondering if it’s me 2.0 or me 3.0 that has the blob of hair that looks like a rooster. I’m thinking it’s actually 3.0.

 

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How to Eliminate Clutter

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Behold, Missy 2.0! This is the second iteration of Missy, and looking back, I think these are some of my best drawings of her.

The item next to Missy in panel 1 is a Christmas Fez she made for me many years ago. It’s red with white fur trim and a white tassel. It’s just the thing to wear to Christmas parties. Of course, I don’t get invited to many Christmas parties, possibly because people know I’ll wear the fez.

Note from Missy: I’m wondering if it’s me 2.0 or me 3.0 that has the blob of hair that looks like a rooster. I’m thinking it’s actually 3.0.

 

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How to Calm a Frightened Child

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This is another comic I really like, and I always regretted that I didn’t find other excuses to use the drawing in panel three.

Looking at the drawing now, I probably could have freaked the kid out by just showing him my jacked up right pinky. You may laugh, but I know a guy with a jacked-up pinky, and he does use it to freak people out, so there is precedent.

Note from Missy: the guy with the jacked-up pinky? Plays the role of the Emperor of the Moon’s number-one moon minion. And yeah, his pinky is totes freaky.

 

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How to Calm a Frightened Child

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This is another comic I really like, and I always regretted that I didn’t find other excuses to use the drawing in panel three.

Looking at the drawing now, I probably could have freaked the kid out by just showing him my jacked up right pinky. You may laugh, but I know a guy with a jacked-up pinky, and he does use it to freak people out, so there is precedent.

Note from Missy: the guy with the jacked-up pinky? Plays the role of the Emperor of the Moon’s number-one moon minion. And yeah, his pinky is totes freaky.

 

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How to Pitch a Movie Idea

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I had mentioned Jenkins before this, but I had not shown him. Then I wrote this comic, and wanted a drawing of someone who looked like a famous filmmaker. Missy and I had a friend who looks a bit like George Lucas, so I exaggerated his hair to heighten the effect and used the drawings in this comic.

Later, I needed to show Jenkins. None of the fresh drawing I did looked any good (It may surprise few of you to learn that my art skills are fairly limited, and my drawings tend to be hit and miss). I had always liked these drawings and lamented the fact that I had no reason to ever talk to the film producer character again, so I came up with a half-assed story to explain why the film producer now worked in my office and called it good.

Note from Missy: I don’t think I’m alone here in being anxious to see the half-assed story. Because I totally don’t remember it.

 

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How to Pitch a Movie Idea

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I had mentioned Jenkins before this, but I had not shown him. Then I wrote this comic, and wanted a drawing of someone who looked like a famous filmmaker. Missy and I had a friend who looks a bit like George Lucas, so I exaggerated his hair to heighten the effect and used the drawings in this comic.

Later, I needed to show Jenkins. None of the fresh drawing I did looked any good (It may surprise few of you to learn that my art skills are fairly limited, and my drawings tend to be hit and miss). I had always liked these drawings and lamented the fact that I had no reason to ever talk to the film producer character again, so I came up with a half-assed story to explain why the film producer now worked in my office and called it good.

Note from Missy: I don’t think I’m alone here in being anxious to see the half-assed story. Because I totally don’t remember it.

 

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How to Apologize Without Accepting Any Blame

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A friend of me once told me that their teenaged daughter had actually taken some advice I’d given in my comic and applied it to her life. They seemed amused when I cringed.

I asked what the advice was. They told me that she had taken panel three of this comic and used it to craft an insincere apology to one of her classmates. They seemed confused when I continued to cringe.

 

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How to Apologize Without Accepting Any Blame

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A friend of me once told me that their teenaged daughter had actually taken some advice I’d given in my comic and applied it to her life. They seemed amused when I cringed.

I asked what the advice was. They told me that she had taken panel three of this comic and used it to craft an insincere apology to one of her classmates. They seemed confused when I continued to cringe.

 

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How to Exhibit Good Form

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This comic is one of my favorites, and it’s one of the very few that I can clearly remember writing. That’s probably because instead of writing it sitting at my desk, staring at a blank Word document, chanting to myself, “come up with something, come up with something,” I wrote this sitting in the Orlando airport. We were flying back home to Seattle after Missy’s audition for what was essentially her dream job at Walt Disney World.

I got the idea for the comic, then I sat there at the gate and scratched the whole script out on my Palm Pilot. At that point, my daily site traffic was something like a few hundred unique visitors a day, which felt huge. As for Walt Disney World, we had hopes, but neither of us really expected Missy to get the job.

Less than three months later Basic Instructions was running in Seattle Weekly, we lived in Orlando, Florida, Missy had her dream job, and I was being trained at the Tower of Terror (which was then, and still is, my favorite ride). Three months after that (thanks in no small part to the intervention of Scott Adams), I was getting thousands of uniques a day. Three months after that I had a book deal with Dark Horse Comics.

Life can change pretty fast. This comic reminds me of that, because the guy who wrote it would have been shocked to see who he was nine months later, and both of them would be pretty surprised if they could see where I am now.

 

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How to Exhibit Good Form

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This comic is one of my favorites, and it’s one of the very few that I can clearly remember writing. That’s probably because instead of writing it sitting at my desk, staring at a blank Word document, chanting to myself, “come up with something, come up with something,” I wrote this sitting in the Orlando airport. We were flying back home to Seattle after Missy’s audition for what was essentially her dream job at Walt Disney World.

I got the idea for the comic, then I sat there at the gate and scratched the whole script out on my Palm Pilot. At that point, my daily site traffic was something like a few hundred unique visitors a day, which felt huge. As for Walt Disney World, we had hopes, but neither of us really expected Missy to get the job.

Less than three months later Basic Instructions was running in Seattle Weekly, we lived in Orlando, Florida, Missy had her dream job, and I was being trained at the Tower of Terror (which was then, and still is, my favorite ride). Three months after that (thanks in no small part to the intervention of Scott Adams), I was getting thousands of uniques a day. Three months after that I had a book deal with Dark Horse Comics.

Life can change pretty fast. This comic reminds me of that, because the guy who wrote it would have been shocked to see who he was nine months later, and both of them would be pretty surprised if they could see where I am now.

 

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