birthday for shutout boy
Yep. As of… well, three days ago I have been drawing this comic for a year. One hundred and sixty weird broad black little cartoons. I believe that as of now I have achieved “celebration time,” commerically known as “Miller Time,” or in Jane Doe’s circles as “Jager, cheesecake, and trampoline time” or in mine as “Clash of the Titans time.”
This means I am taking a break from Nobody Scores! for a week. That’s a crap celebration, you say, and you are totally right. But fear not! I will not leave you without sweet habit-forming content. Not a guest comic. I don’t believe in guest comics. Reading comic artists draw and not get the work of their peers is really depressing reading, if you ask me. Guest comics are insignia pointing directly to the endless Lacanian void our efforts hurl themselves into, a vacuum where no authorial intent can escape. It’s real sad. So: I will be sating your appetites with my own content.
Later this evening (Wed. the 20th) I am going to put up a page that will link to selections from another webcomic I did, abortively, five years ago. I’ll do a writeup when I put up the post, but for now, you can have a peek at what it was like here.
There is a second note I wish to add, which is that chaange is in the air. Scary change! Fun change. I like to shake things up a bit, and since I am not beholden to any outside forces for my efforts here, I’ve decided I’d like to do that each year on the annniversary. Since I am doing this to bring fun I’ll be damned if I let it lapse into a job. So when Nobody Scores returns, something will be different.
Spookily, I don’t know what will be different, exactly, or how it will change, but current thought points to changes in format, art, and storytelling structure, leaving characters intact except for the possible inclusion of new side characters, like Genghis Khan, who will keep things lively.