RIGHT so here’s what’s going on. It’s simple really, and pretty much goes without saying: there’s just been no time for me to focus on making aLp. Believe me, I’ve been trying to make some time, figuring I could at least crank out a new comic here and there for the sake of updating. That’s why I go so long without even an explanation – cuz I keep thinking I’m gonna update on a given week… but then that week flies by, and then the next, then the next, and suddenly it’s been months without a peep and then some of you guys start spreading rumors that I’ve died.

So it’s weird and backwards but basically I disappear for so long cuz I AM thinking about making new comics, not because I’m not. I just don’t wanna keep giving you empty promises, so I just end up sayin’ zip. The big problem is I’m shit at planning out what I’m gonna be able to accomplish in a given time period; it’s hard for me to give y’all meaningful info when I don’t even have it myself.

Anyway, I know what to say right now. I’m still gonna be too busy for the next few months to do new comics regularly, but I WILL try to do SOME. I’m just not gonna give you any false hope of some crazy renaissance from me in the near future. aLp continues to live on, sporadically. Hook yourself up to my Twitter, Facebook page, RSS, and email list, and you’ll get any new comics and blog updates from me, honest injun! That’s racist.

For what it’s worth, I do have a good reason to stay in the comics game, at the very least. The big (secret, ooh) thing that’s keeping me so flippin busy is indeed comics-related. You’ll hear all about it within the next few months. So, there’s that.

As always, THANK YOU, godammit, THANK YOU for caring. It’s EASY to have loyal fans when you’re Jeph Fuckin’ Jacques and you know, you update every day with awesome comics and live-streamed drawing sessions… but when you post 3 comics a year and disappear for months at a time like me, and still have fans as dedicated as you guys? That’s… that’s weird, you guys should get some help.

I spent my whole life, up until 2008, being allergic to eggs. When I was like 4, I took an egg in my hand, crushed it – obviously just for fun – and got a rash all over my hand. When I was 8, my older brother was into raw egg shakes for some weird reason, and like an idiot he let me have some and I broke into a huge rash all over my torso.

My mom was always super careful about possible allergens because I had skin problems so at various times she wouldn’t let me eat seafood, dairy, peanuts, dogs, cats, you name it. But she would never believe me when I complained that mayonnaise would bother my throat. She just wrote me off like a bratty kid whining about something I didn’t want to eat. It was only much later, after at least a decade of stunted growth, crippling digestive problems and massacred brain cells that I learned that the mayo I kept eating indeed has eggs in it, so ha, Mom, it looks like I got the last laugh.

Fast forward to November 2008… it was the morning after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, I was celebrating with breakfast at IHOP. Instead of my usual pancakes that I always get, I was in the mood for some hope and change, so I just decided to order a big-ass THREE-EGG OMELETTE. It was the most delicious thing I’d ever had, and I didn’t die. Barack Obama cured my allergy to eggs. Praise the Kenyan gods! And so now I’ve got a lifetime of artery-clogging eggy goodness to catch up on. Mmmmmmmm

Yeah I know that pancakes have eggs in them, shut up.

Hope you enjoyed today’s comic, see you next week, egg willing!!

As a reminder, as I said last week: I’ll be cooling it on the big time-traveling storyline for now, and going old school random for a while in order to get back on the comic horse. The storyline was obviously getting a bit too ambitious on both the plotting and art fronts for my own good, and was (not surprisingly) a major reason why I got all messed up and had to take a break again. In retrospect I shouldn’t have tried it in the first place, given my time constraints and my update schedule. But I hope to continue and finish it one day – hope hope – so those of you who were into it, sorry for now, but I’m willing to bet y’all will be happy with whatever has me making comics regularly again.

Hey a comic. A sign of the end times! Ok, that should about do it for rapture jokes.

FYI, I’ll be cooling it on the big time-traveling storyline for now, and going old school random for a while in order to get back on the comic horse. The storyline was obviously getting a bit too ambitious on both the plotting and art fronts for my own good, and was (not surprisingly) a major reason why I got all messed up and had to take a break again. In retrospect I shouldn’t have tried it in the first place, given my time constraints and my update schedule. But I hope to continue and finish it one day – hope hope – so those of you who were into it, sorry for now, but I’m willing to bet y’all will be happy with whatever has me making comics regularly again.

I’ve got the next comic written and you’ll see it next week! Or maybe even sooner if I can churn out some more scripts! What’s going on here??

Oh yeah and the huge New York Movie Map I posted a few weeks ago is available for ordering at Topatoco! Give it a look and get yourself one! They turned out great.

First of all, thanks to everyone who enjoyed the New York Movie Map, spread the cheer around, and especially ordered one! It went gangbusters over the last week and took my site down three times with all the traffic, so, that was fun.

Hey order yours here wooo!

One thing that struck me while I was working on this thing was how often I’d see the World Trade Center pop up. It made sense, since a whopping 71 out of the 91 movies were released before 9/11, and showing the WTC was just a stock way of saying, “hey, we’re in New York now”. You can probably imagine, though, that each time I saw it I raised an eyebrow. Interestingly, there ain’t a lot of notable scenes that happen there (Snake Plisskin lands a glider on top of one of the towers in Escape from New York, and the 1976 King Kong climbs it, but I had fine alternatives for both), so it wasn’t that tough of a decision to leave the WTC off the map.

There was surprisingly little complaining about movies I screwed up or left out, so I’m pretty pleased with myself, but the most common gripe was that I left out the other boroughs and the upper part of Manhattan. Like I either half-assed it, forgot about, or wanted to take a dump on all the fine folks that don’t live in the exact epicenter of the universe. Look, I grew up in Queens, went to school on E. 94th, and lived out in Brooklyn so I know what it’s like to be neglected by pop media. And that’s just it – blame Hollywood, not me. These roughly 12 square miles of Manhattan is where THEY put everything. If I included all of NYC, or even just upper Manhattan, there’d be a ton of wasted space where relatively little’s happening and it’d reduce the impact. I had to make it work as a visual piece and not just as a reference. So it made sense to focus on where most of the action is concentrated. I don’t think anyone really needs to see it go all the way up to Inwood or down to *cough* Staten Island just for the sake.

I’m still going through all the answer submissions I’ve gotten over the last week; if you won you’ll be hearing from me by email within the next 2 days!

And with this, the submission deadline is over… because HEY LOOK THE ANSWERS…

 
THE ANSWERS   (Here’s the numbered map to cross-ref)

Upper West Side

1. Ghostbusters (1984)
Well THERE’S something you don’t see every day…

2. Night at the Museum (2006)
Museum of Natural History, Central Park West & 79th St.

3. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
The Dakota, 1 W. 72nd St. (Central Park West). This image is from the iconic poster

4. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
Kathleen’s (Meg Ryan) bookstore, “The Shop Around the Corner”, is at 106 W. 69th St. Elaine and I saw this movie on the plane home from our honeymoon in Paris; it got us especially excited to move into our tiny, exorbitantly-priced Upper West Side apartment together. So young and stupid

5. Black Swan (2010)
Nina’s (Natalie Portman) production of Swan Lake is at Lincoln Center. If anyone can locate her apartment for me I’ll gladly update the poster with her girly romp with Mila Kunis

6. 3 Men and a Baby (1987)
and their apartment at 50 Central Park West

7. It Should Happen to You (1954)
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) pays to get her name on a huge billboard in Columbus Circle

Central Park

8. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Mel’s out of focus! He’s soft

9. Godspell (1973)
John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in Bethesda Fountain, in Central Park

10. Hair (1979)
This is the daaawwning of the aaaage of Aquaaarius (Central Park)

11. Serendipity (2001)
SPOILER! Sara (Kate Beckinsale) reunites with Jon (John Cusack) at Wollman Rink, in Central Park, at the end of the movie, and then they suck some face

12. Antz (1998)
Central Park

13. Madagascar (2005)
Central Park Zoo, Central Park

14. Cruel Intentions (1999)
Southeast corner of Central Park, across from the Plaza Hotel. You’re welcome

Upper East Side

15. BUtterfield 8 (1960) (sic)
Gloria (Liz Taylor) wakes up in a dude’s apartment, finds $250 he left her, and writes “No Sale” in lipstick on his mirror. In the movie the address is stated as 1036 5th Ave., but it’s shot at 1050 5th Ave. (86th St.)

16. Sex and the City (2008)
SPOILER! This movie was painful even to fast forward through. 1010 5th Ave. (82nd St.)

17. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think! Campbell’s Funeral Parlor, 1076 Madison Ave. (81st St.)

18. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Linda’s (Mira Sorvino) apartment is at 333 W. 75th St. (1st Ave.)

19. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
SPOILER! Thomas (Pierce Brosnan) stages the climactic heist with the help of some friends, at the Museum of Modern Art. One of the few scenes Rene Russo isn’t naked in

20. Annie Hall (1977)
Annie (Diane Keaton) takes Alvy (Woody Allen) to her apartment at 68th St. & Madison Ave. Aside note: when I first saw this scene on her balcony it was without the subtitles and I thought, huh, what a crappy scene

21. Big (1988)
The floor piano scene at FAO Schwarz (767 5th Ave.). Bonus: Whoa, Robert Loggia!

22. Cocktail (1988)
Oooh the hippy hippy shaaake (TGIFriday’s – now the Baker St. Pub – 1st Ave. & 63rd St.)

23. Spiderman (2002)
The Green Goblin drops a tram full of kids and Gwen Sta– I mean Mary Jane Watson from the 59th St. Bridge

24. Manhattan (1979)
The 59th St. Bridge

Theater District / Times Square

25. Citizen Kane (1941)
Kane (Orson Welles) gives his campaign speech at the original Madison Square Garden: 8th Ave. b/w 49th & 50th St.

26. The Jazz Singer (1927)
The first film ever to have synchronized speech… at the end of the movie Jack (Al Jolson) is starring in a show at the Winter Garden Theatre: 1634 Broadway (b/w 50th & 51st St.)

27. The Producers (1968)
Max (Zero Mostel) and Leo (Gene Wilder) put on “Springtime for Hitler” at the Playhouse Theatre: 37 W. 48th St. (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.)

28. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Kermit and the gang put on “Manhattan Melodies” at the Biltmore Theatre: 261 W. 47th St. (b/w Broadway & 8th Ave.). My 5-year-old daughter Rachel had no problem with Rowlf the dog playing the piano until the “muppet baby” version of him showed up jamming; then she wasn’t havin’ it

29. Phone Booth (2002)
I actually bought into this movie and loved it. The phone booth was set at 53rd St. & 8th Ave.

30. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
David’s (John Cusack) play “God of Our Fathers” is at the Belasco Theatre: 111 W. 44th St. (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.)

31. Daredevil (2003)
Set in Hell’s Kitchen. This movie exceeded my incredibly low expectations

32. Tootsie (1982)
Michael’s (Dustin Hoffman) soap opera “Southwest General” is taped at the National Video Center, 460 W. 42nd St. (10th Ave.)

33. All About Eve (1950)
Margo (Bette Davis) is starring in “Aged in Wood”, playing at the John Golden Theatre (252 W. 45th St. (b/w 7th & 8th Ave.)) when she first meets Eve (Anne Baxter)

34. Zoolander (2001)
Hansel, he’s so hot right now. A billboard in Times Square

35. Death to Smoochy (2002)
A billboard in Times Square

36. Being John Malkovich (1999)
Craig (John Cusack) works at Lester Corp, on the 7 1/2 floor of the (fictitious) Mertin Flemmer building at 610 11th Ave. (45th St.)

37. Last Action Hero (1993)
The premiere of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) latest flick, Jack Slater IV, is at a theater in Times Square

38. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
John and Jane Smith (Brangelina) tango it out at a restaurant shot in LA, but set in Times Square

39. Enchanted (2007)
Giselle (Amy Adams) falls through a wormhole and emerges from a manhole in the middle of Times Square. SPOILER! Amy Adams is adorable

Midtown / Rockefeller Center

40. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
HEY, I’M WAWKIN HERE – 58th St. & 6th Ave.

41. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Snoopy gets his skate on at the Rockefeller Center skating rink, when the little bastard should be helping to look for Linus’s blanket

42. Private Parts (1997)
Howard Stern (Howard Stern) and Robin Quivers (Robin Quivers) on the air at NBC Studios

43. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
The opening scene where Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) noms on a danish in front of Tiffany’s (727 5th Ave.). The music playing, Henry Mancini’s Moon River, is to die for. The song Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something makes me want to kill people

44. Quiz Show (1994)
The show 21 was filmed at NBC Studios (30 Rockefeller Center)

45. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Marilyn Monroe gets her rocks off over a subway grate at 52nd St. & Lexington Ave. This was considered risqué back then

46. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Schatze (Lauren Bacall), Loco (Betty Grable), and Pola (Marilyn Monroe) rent a fancy pad at 36 Sutton Place

Chelsea

47. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Hey, pull my beard (Macy’s: 151 W. 34th St. (7th Ave.))

48. The Godfather (1972)
Ok, my bad… afaik this is my only mistake on the map. This is Moe Greene getting whacked while getting a massage. According to this it was at 215 W. 23rd St., but I got careless and it didn’t register that it was only shot there, while being set in Vegas. DUUUuuuhhh

49. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)
This was a tricky one (for me). In the movie – SPOILER! – they finally get the tip that Where’s Fluffy will be playing their secret gig at 5th Ave. & 68th St… but where they end up is clearly no more than a few blocks away from the Empire State Building (which they’re shown looking up at)… AND we see them running past the Bally’s Fitness at 139 W 32nd St. – on this street (Google Street View), which is consistent. Nothing gets past ME, baby! Except for #48

Empire State Building

50. King Kong (1933)
‘Twas booty killed the beast

51. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Annie (Meg Ryan) meets Sam (Tom Hanks) and his son at the top of the Empire State Building

52. On the Town (1949)
Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) meet up with the three girls they all conveniently met and hooked up with on their one-day shore leave, at the top of the Empire State Building

53. An Affair to Remember (1957)
Nickie (Cary Grant) waits for Terry (Deborah Kerr) at top of the Empire State Building but… godammit what’s taking her so long, she could at least send a text

Murray Hill / Gramercy

54. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
1 and 2 are already represented elsewhere, so this qualifies as 3. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave.) is home to the Daily Bugle

55. Elf (2003)
Buddy (Will Ferrell) gets a job at Gimbels, at 295 5th Ave. (30th St.)

Grand Central Station / Midtown East

56. The Fisher King (1991)
Parry (Robin Williams) sees his main squeeze Lydia (Amanda Plummer) at Grand Central Station and then the crowd goes all Dancing with the Stars

57. Carlito’s Way (1993)
Carlito (Al Pacino) somehow hides from a bunch of thugs on an unending Grand Central Station escalator apparently designed by M.C. Escher

58. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
“It’s [sic] name is Quetzalcoatl… just call it “Q”… that’s all you’ll have time to say before it tears you apart!” The final showdown at the Chrysler Building

59. North by Northwest (1959)
Roger (Cary Grant) has a brain freeze and is caught holding the knife that just killed a U.N. diplomat

60. Escape from New York (1981)
Snake (Kurt Russell) tangles with Ox Baker at the Duke’s (Isaac Hayes) compound at Grand Central Station.

Greenwich Village

61. Shaft (1971)
John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) lives at 55 Jane St.

62. Rear Window (1954)
L.B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) invades the privacy of all his neighbors at 125 W. 9th St. (which doesn’t exist, but it would be somewhere around where I put it)

63. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Max (Josh Waitzkin) plays some speed chess against Vinnie (Laurence Fishburne) in Washington Square Park and somehow keeps from telling him to stop yapping

64. Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Corie (Jane Fonda) finds Paul (Robert Redford) wasted and – OMG – barefoot in Washington Square Park

65. I Am Legend (2007)
Robert (Will Smith) lives with his dog (dog) on Washington Square Park North

66. The Warriors (1979)
The climactic brawl at the Union Square subway station. The Warriors tangle with a gang called “The Punks”… whose members all wear overalls… and their leader rides around “menacingly” on roller skates… this movie is awesome

East Village

67. Taxi Driver (1976)
I would’ve included the “You talkin’ to me?” scene but I couldn’t confirm where he lives exactly. But this, the wacky final shootout at 226 E. 13th St. (b/w 2nd & 3rd Ave.), does nicely

68. Coyote Ugly (2000)
The real-life Coyote Ugly is at 153 1st Ave. (b/w 9th & 10th St.)

Lower Manhattan

69. At First Sight (1999)
Amy’s (Mira Sorvino) apartment is at 458 Greenwich St.

70. Big Daddy (1999)
Sonny (Adam Sandler) and his son commit a misdemeanor at Felix restaurant, 340 West Broadway

71. Ghost (1990)
Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) dabble in claymation (102 Prince St.)

72. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
They say this is fake but I dunno… seems pretty convincing to me (Katz’s Deli, 205 E. Houston St.)

73. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
John McClane (Bruce Willis) and Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) try to measure 4 gallons of water using a 3-gallon jug and a 5-gallon jug, at Tompkins Square Park. Fun problem, but I’m not sure what it’s doing in a movie

74. Cloverfield (2008)
“this is where things in Cloverfield happen okay”

75. Gangs of New York (2002)
The “Five Points”, where the opening gang fight and most of the movie takes place, was what is currently the intersection of Baxter St. & Worth St. in Chinatown

76. Spiderman 2 (2004)
Doc Ock’s (Alfred Molina) lab is at 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.)

77. Pi (1998)
Max (Sean Gullette) lives on the Lower East Side and – SPOILER! – this is where he self-trepans at the very end of the movie

78. Boomerang (1992)
This was a tough one. It’s Strangé (Grace Jones) making her grand entrance at this party at 200 Liberty Place

79. Crocodile Dundee (1986)
THAT’S not a knife (1 Centre St.)

80. Wall Street (1987)
Gordon Gekko’s (Michael Douglas) company is headquartered at the real-life Merrill Lynch building: 222 Broadway

81. Men in Black (1997)
MiB HQ is at the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority: 2 Broadway

82. Dressed to Kill (1980)
Kate (Angie Dickinson) gets brutally slashed up in the elevator at 160 Front St. after sleeping with a dude she just met, and finding out that she probably got VD from him, so you know they didn’t use any protection, so… yeah, she had it coming. Great scene, actually

Statue of Liberty

83. X-Men (2000)
Magneto (Ian McKellan) builds a machine in the Statue of Liberty’s torch that he needs Rogue (Anna Paquin) to power, but OH LOOK HERE COMES WOLVERINE (HUGH JACKMAN)

84. Saboteur (1942)
Frank Fry (Norman Lloyd), trying to escape from the law, finds himself cornered atop the Statue of Liberty torch (way to go, dude), and falls over the side. Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who’d been chasing him, tries to save him but – SPOILER! – fails

85. Splash (1984)
BOCCE, BALLS!!

86. An American Tail (1986)
Fievel arrives at Liberty Island in a bottle

87. Funny Girl (1968)
She’s on a boat

Brooklyn Bridge / Williamsburg Bridge

88. Godzilla (1998)
Godzilla is lured onto the Brooklyn Bridge to his – SPOILER! – doom

89. The Naked City (1948)
Willie Garzah (Ted de Corsia) gets surrounded on the Williamsburg Bridge, climbs a tower, gets shot and falls to his – SPOILER! – death

90. Hudson Hawk (1991)
How am I driving?! 1-800- I’m gonna fuckin’ die!

91. Fantastic 4 (2005)
The FF’s coming out party on the Brooklyn Bridge

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Edit, Thu. 5/12/11: Last chance to puzzle through the map yourself! Cuz here’s the answers. Also: aLp returns next week. Gonna make this happen.

If it seems like all the movies you’ve ever seen take place somewhere in New York City, that’s because they do. New York is where the aliens must attack, where landmarks are destroyed, where the world ends, and where good-looking people go to find other good-looking people. It’s practically a law.

This is an illustrated 18″x24″ map of the history of films set in New York – more specifically, all the movies I could cram into a tiny 12-square-mile chunk of Manhattan. There’s exactly 91 movies on here. Can you name them all?

(Edit: Deadline’s over!) I’ll be giving away a FREE copy of this poster to the first person who sends me the names of all the movies, numbered 1-91. AND also winning free posters will be 3 randomly selected people from the rest of the correct lists sent to me within this first week, before next Wednesday, May 11. Here’s a high-res version of the map with each movie numbered from 1-91.

After a week I’ll release the full list here; follow me on Twitter to make sure you catch it.

This took about 5 months of researching and watching a ton of old movies, and about 3 weeks of drawing. The best movies I watched included The Warriors (on the map), Escape from New York (on), and an old one called A Thousand Clowns (not on). The worst movie I watched was Sex and the City, holy goddamn. A big thanks to the sites On the Set of New York, The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, TV Tropes, and Scouting New York for their awesome info, and to my buddies Dean, Stu and Noah for their advice.

I’LL BE AT TCAF IN TORONTO THIS WEEKEND! Sitting with the rest of the Topatoco crew. Hopefully I’ll have copies of the poster on hand for you! See you there, ok yes?!

So yeah, this is one of the things I’ve been doing since November instead of working on aLp. It hasn’t kept me from doing comics per se, but it sure didn’t help. I got this idea back in December and just felt like I needed to do it. Now that it’s out of the way I think I can get back on the comics horse, but yeah we’ll just see about that, won’t we. In any case the best ways for me to keep you updated are if you follow me on that Twitter, join that aLp Facebook page, or get up on that RSS feed.

Edit, Mar. 21: Whuzzup peoples! Totally sorry for being M.I.A. for so long! There’ll be comics soon! And a bit of an explanation. Whuzzuuuuup

Edit, Jan. 24: STILL ALIVE BTW… I’ve been planning out the rest of this story line. There will be comics.

Edit, Dec. 22: HEY GUYS, yeah so obviously I’ve been MIA for a while, sorry about that… ’tis the season. I’m still around tho, and will pick up the comic-makin’ in the new year – promise! Until then…

MERRRRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPPPY NEW YEAR!!

This is officially the longest I’ve ever spent on the artwork for a single episode, ever in the history of ever.

For the record, it’s Abe that enjoys videos of skateboarders crashing groin-first into poles – not me. Here are two of his favorites: OUCH, NNGGHH

You might have noticed I finally added links below to the comic to the merchandise I have for sale on Topatoco… please consider buying; I could use the support! I also have this special offer where if you order a shirt and send me your receipt, I’ll send you a free fridge magnet! WOTTA DEAL! Keep in mind, if you’re gonna be ordering for holiday gifts, Topatoco has these ordering deadlines.

Thanks and HAPPY TURKEYSGIVING!!

Speed Dating break! I’m off to Webcomics Weekend so gotta keep this short.

First of all, obviously, you’ll notice something different about this Speed Dating strip… that’s Erin, who was the first to answer this general casting call I put up a few months ago. Erin stars in this YouTube film “Jedi Girl”, directed by her friend and aLp fan, Charley Brown. Check it out (disclaimer: I haven’t watched it myself yet but it looks fun)!

After you get over the initial shock over the change, let me know in the comments if you like the idea of human Speed Dating dates for Abe, or not. KEEP IN MIND that for Erin and all other humans I may use in aLp, BE NICE.

p.s. In terms of the casting call, I’m only accepting females for Speed Dating at this time – other casting would be too much of a hassle right now. If you think it’d be cool to see yourself or your friend or your sister in a Speed Dating strip, drop me a line! Thanks!

Holy hell this one took years off of my life to do. Sorry about the delay; I got the next one written actually so hopefully you’ll be seeing it next week. Fingers crossed

Did Al Gore claim that he “invented the internet”?

Reminder! I’m gonna be at Webcomics Weekend in Easthampton, MA, on November 6-7, along with every one of your favorite webcomic artists. Literally. Get your tickets fast before it’s too late, and I’ll see you there, all right!

Edit: If you’re completely lost at the last panel, here. I just LOOOOOVE explaining jokes!

Hey guys! Another comic that took me forever to do! I dunno if you’ve ever tried rendering a happy, believable squirrel in high-res, but it’s pretty time-consuming.

Quick reminder to please consider ordering my latest print, Abe at the Dentist. As nice as it looks on the screen, it looks TOTALLY BEAUTIFUL as a huge 17″x11″ print. Thanks!!

Lastly I’m gonna be at Webcomics Weekend in Easthampton, MA, on November 6-7, along with every one of your favorite webcomic artists. Literally. Get your tickets fast before it’s too late, and I’ll see you there, all right!

Interlude!

Buy this as a gorgeous 17×11″ print!

Now available at TopatoCo!

THANKS!!

Here’s a new print I made that’s now available at TopatoCo! I’ll also have it at SPX next weekend.

That’s right, remember, I’ll be lounging around at the TopatoCo table at SPX in Bethesda, MD, next weekend (Sep. 11 & 12). I’ll have the new print, the If You See Something print, and some t-shirts for sale. Hope to see you there!

AND also, again, the weekend after that (Sep. 18 & 19) I’ll be at Wild Pig Con in Springfield, NJ… this one’s hosted by a local shop that’s having a huge 50%-off sale on their comic books, so if you’re a comic book fan you won’t wanna miss it.

I know it seems this site’s come off the rails a bit but I’m still here and more new comics are coming real soon. Promise!

Oh yeah, and I know I owe you that “alternate punchline” for the last comic. That’s coming too. Blurg