Posts Tagged ‘Bruno’
1911 items.
This strip was just me wanting to use the word “scuttle,” although I perhaps could have thought of a less graphic way of doing so.
It’s also a nod to when I decided to hitchhike cross country in high-school and had little more than a couple of sandwiches in my bag. it was a very short trip.
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I really don’t hate Robert Frost as much as that, it’s just that i felt his work to be a bit too merchandised and beloved in New England. I felt rebellious I guess. Hm.
Bruno, a moral tale. Beware those who wish to protect you from people like you.
But indeed, back then Northampton and the liberal 5-college area sometimes seemed somewhat looked down upon by the small towns around it.
Even back then, when I first wrote this, I was well aware how crazy and how lops-within-loops my thought processes would get when I would walk for more than 4 or 5 hours. often it was conversations like this.
Thank goodness I stopped doing it. I find walks healthy, and deeply thinking to be healthy, but once it starts getting into loops and conversations like this, it’s time to distract yourself with a movie or a friend’s company.
I was ready for a transition in the strip, and so before she came out of the pit, she had to walk in. Today’s strip is her walking in.
Ah Stanley, welcome back to existence.
My friend Anya helped me design both the appearance and personality of him. His original appearance, I admit, was a good amount influenced by Tom Waits.
Someone later pointed out that he looked like Gustav Mahler. I looked up his picture, and wow, he totally does. Weird (I had no idea before that who Mahler was, let alone what he looked like).
I think my grandpa used to sit on my head. Maybe I am confusing things.
I’m like Stanley, I always like to think that maybe today it’ll be different.
I love how people so quickly feel like they have a say in a situation where they don’t even belong. I’m with Stanley here. But….. awful food is awful food.
I always found this true that I knew writers who didn’t write (or didn’t finish). Which is fine. But I’ve really enjoyed meeting other authors who DO write/finish projects. Both because it makes me feel less alone, and also because we have plenty to talk about.
Also, I like that line, “the trouble with mismanaged time is that there’s never enough of it.” Makes me feel all like H. L. Mencken or something. ;-)
