It was never natural to me to have a simple emotional reaction to home.
And i only have vague memories of Indianapolis. I hope it was good.
I’ve had several friends who were bothered in their twenties, that they could no longer be considered a prodigy, because that sort of thing happened only to the young. Mozart wrote is first blah blah when he was whatever.
Never seemed to bother me. I just like making things. But it does give one pause to think, what does our society value in accomplishment?
Ha! i still find this to be true. Towards the end of a trip i start withdrawing. Either from lack of privacy, or, hm…. probably a desire to return to my usual routine (which I like very much, thank you).
Humorously, maybe, sometimes it is also simply because I’m hungry. This strip works on so many levels! :)
I find it an interesting phenomenon that some jokes get more lame and then resurge as funnier than ever and then lame again. It’s like the ebb and flow of the ocean.
That is Peter Zale of “Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet” fame. We became friends when the internet was new and we were two of the few people online doing webcomics back in 1996. A great guy, and we still keep in touch.
That’s a funny truth. I did a lot of acting in high school and college, and cartooning is very much like and very much unlike cartooning.