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Hello everyone. This is my comic strip “Bruno”, which I ran for eleven years, and now am re-running here again for you. Images will be larger (and much cleaner, especially the first year or so), more original artwork will be for sale, and there will be annotations.
The old archive is still available, and the book set is also current available (not sure how many are left).
I will also be using “tags” for all the characters in each strip, so you can more easily follow a specific character’s story or reference them, especially useful since there are literally hundreds of characters.
Bruno’s history?… Back in 1994 I began Bruno for my college newspaper, the Daily Collegian. After a couple years it almost fizzled out, but a friend of mine had a website which needed content, and so in 1996 I restarting the strip from the beginning, re-drawing much of the first half year, and re-lettering even more.
Bruno then ran online from 1996-2007. A hell of a run, but after 11 years, it was time for me to try something new. That “something” was Little Dee, which I am also beginning a re-run of today, so read that too!
And, of course, my current strip Spacetrawler, which runs Monday and Wednesday.
best,
-Christopher
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I think I named cat “Cat” because that was the name I called all cats.
I like that the concerns of cats are not always our concerns.
This was an actual incident someone told me (forgot who at this point). I have no idea if the person who told it to me was the person house-sitting, if they were exaggerating, if it was a huge bathroom, or what. But it was interesting to write this behavior in my protagonist, a behavior which wouldn’t even occur to me.
The first real show of Cat and Cat’s personality.
Cat’s are totally uber awesome, and they’ll be the first to tell you. :)
When you live with someone who has different motives than you, they can definitely undermine your efforts.
But it helps when they can’t communicate with words because they are a cat.
Ah, to be the parents of Bruno is to never get any peace.
Of course, in ways, she’s vaguely a reflection of my thoughts and feelings, so… hm. Sorry, mom and dad!
The driving distance is not quite factual. It’s more about a 20-25 minute drive from Greenfield to UMass, Amherst.
This is actually on campus at UMass, Amherst. I think she’s standing next to Brett dorm with Franklin dining hall in the background.
I found that sometimes working in the single-panel format compromised the dialogue delivery, because I was allowed only one facial expression to sum everything up.
I think this is one of those instances because the conversation between these two is like a roller coaster of tone, volume, and expression… and I don’t think their singular expression contains it.
But god, living in the dorms you can get some real crap living situations. Best I had was the guy who was obsessed with serial killers. A very tense semester.
Umm….. right.
Anyhow.
For the sake of my sanity and for the comfort of those with varying views on the subject, I will not be allowing comments on this week and ask you not to try commenting about it elsewhere. I hope you understand and are okay with that.
That’s my friend Andy’s top hat. I had fun with this idea of Cat in Bruno’s hat, which was fairly ridiculous idea at the time, and in this day and age, is utterly unimaginable.
Sometimes I suspect cats know exactly how gross they’re being.
