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If I was still doing the long pages I would have held that beat for a whole panel. I stopped doing those pages quite some time ago because I was getting enough requests for more volumes in print I was afraid it would be a big problem in the future. Then I never was able to do anything with the books. That’s a whole other thing.
It is completely adorable how mad Carol is at being forced to admit how much she actually pays attention to Thomas. This is one of those things that came to me after not being able to get where I was going with this right. I had gotten in my head too much about other things going on and let myself briefly forget to let the characters be themselves. Generally it’s very easy for me to slip into and out of each character but when I’m really disrupted or distracted I can get blocked off from them. I’m sure every writer approaches these things in their own way and to some of you it will sound strange, but I had to stop myself for a minute and listen to them. I took a step back from myself and let them live in the scene. When my head was cleared out Carol offered up the through line that I couldn’t see. The previous page, this page and the next one all got set down mostly in one session, which is not usually how I do things. Usually I just keep several pages in my head in a general way, then only set the most current page in stone as I get ready to draw it. That’s not how I’ve always done it but it’s been that way generally for years. I hadn’t been able to relax properly and the lack of rest was starting to affect my memory so I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to remember where I wanted to go. Usually I just make a note of dialog in my phone, but since I couldn’t sleep I did most of it in one go. Recently I’ve been just getting up and working when I can’t sleep, or my sleep is disrupted in some way. Rather than trying to force rest I find it’s better to just work until my brain is too tired to fight.

Anyway, enough about that. I’ll leave you to your oncoming weekend. I hope it is a pleasant one. I’ll see you on Monday, I hope. Until then, enjoy an authentic blend of 23 flavors.

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I was gonna say Carol is adorable, but you already said that in your blurb, so now I feel like I’m posing drunk from nearly a thousand miles from home.

-sent from my “so called smart” phone, drunk, about 1000 miles from home.

Good thing they intend to leave the store. The way Jackie has been sending all the characters there in the last couple of pages I honestly expected, that in page #3000 the whole thing will burn to the ground with everyone inside. The End. Roll Credits. Now I expect everyone will catch T&C having sex in the park behind a bush.

On the topic of books, have you considered doing digital volume PDFs for specific arcs, by any chance? I’d happily buy those to keep my catalogue complete~!

I would absolutely throw down for that…. after seeing how many webcomics disappear from the internet, I would definitely pay for a digital back up. I was on reddit the other day (r/millennials ) and people were talking about their favorite webcomics from back in the day. Some aren’t even on the internet archive. How many hours to make art, under the promise “the internet is forever” and now just vanished into the ether, only existing in a few people’s fading memories? I worry that with our dear creator’s health issues, this one could vanish as well

I’ve given a free copy away on the patreon before but I’ve never sold one. I can’t recall where or if you can download it anymore. Not even sure what all it has in it.

I agree with Jeskalicious. As a librarian I have seen or read about media “that will last forever” becoming unreadable in 50-75 years. 75 years seems like a long time before you remember that Homer’s work is thousands of years old. And you consider that there were equally talented folks like Homer whose work is lost to us. In the end, print (if it’s disseminated widely enough) should last a long time. Jackie, I think your output is worth preserving. And there now should be some publishing software that automatically will take a bunch of jpegs (or whatever your comic is set in) and convert it to a print/digital PDF. I volunteer to help with this, but I think you will find many, more knowledgeable, readers who would gladly put the work in, making your time and effort minimal. I also think you will see plenty of buyers, making this a new revenue stream.

Carol is right. Your brief of smugness is nigh-limitless, Thomas, but it can still be exceeded, and you’re not going to like what happens if you do!
(Or who knows? Maybe you are. Who am I to assume?)

1st. Don’t be anonymous. Put your name on it.

2nd. This is just me wanting to see the wedding and these characters in other stages in their lives

As, Aladdin [of disney], might say:

“Sadly, yes.
Kindly just roll with it, Thomas.
As they say in Fiddler on The Roof, it’s…”Tradition!, Tradition!”

If your girlfriend or wife says that you are wrong, even if you don’t think it is not so…just accept it, + declare that you’re wrong. That’s that.
Really, it’s a losing battle, Jar Jar Binks. XD

Out in the Western world, + maybe inside all the other countries as well, the tradition is- when your wife or girlfriend says that you’re wrong, just go along with it. That is it-you are now wrong.
As Aristotle says: “It is the way of things”.

It must be done. :)

The rain falls on the just, and the unjust, and on all of us, Tom Tom!
XD

It’s easier to just go along with it.

:D

Let it go, Elsa, Let it go…

…enjoy an authentic blend of 23 flavors?

I’m a, 31 flavors from Baskin-Robbins kind of guy, myself.
:D

Unlike some Irish singers, please don’t put a keg of whisky at the foot of my grave.

Put a selection of: Baskin-Robbins’ ice creams, + happy meals, + happy meals toys, by the foot of my grave site…that will let my spirit rest in peace.

OK,…OK. I know…squirrels would run in and eat everything, but that’s OK.
The squirrels can have a good day, too.
:D

“It’s all happy squirrels, and happy trees.”- Bob Ross.

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