Time to call it a day, I'm thinking. It's been two-and-a-bit years and two-and-a-bit hundred comics and I'm just plain out of Funny. My, what times we've had, what with the japery and the wit and the horse-fucking and what have you. Memories I'll cherish and so on and so forth.
Thanks for reading, and for the comments -- I'll be back with another thing another time, as is my wont.
So that just leaves one thing:
And now you know.
Today, it should be noted, corresponds directly with Monkey Fluids' second birthday. Let's celebrate with a splash of colour:
I've been thinking that perhaps I should apologise for one of my recent comics, so here goes:
Parasol Stars was a great game; it's just the more recent attempts to revive the Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Islands franchise that have sucked. Sorry, Parasol Stars.
An extra one for Saturday. Why were people like that 70 years ago? This might have something to do with it:
Um, yeah. Wow. I'm... I'm just going to stop with the vintage racism now.
Let's instead lighten the mood by pointing out that this image (the first panel of a comic strip entitled "Sambo, Sue and Jolly Golly", by the way) and the two before it all came from the following 1940 children's annual:
Uncle Jack's Joy-Book? Enough of the unsavoury old-time prejudice -- let's get back to some good, clean paedophile references!
From offensive Asian stereotypes to offensive African stereotypes:
I should mention that this one is from the same book as yesterday's -- you didn't have to look far for your racism in the 40s.
Something different this week: time to offload a pile of images that best serve as a reminder that the past is indeed another country. A country where this sort of thing is par for the course:
It gets worse.
Well, the first one has received more attention than any other comic I've done -- I figure it deserved a sequel.
Andrij at The Daily Top Ten pointed out that the link to the site feed over on the right there doesn't work. God knows how long that's been like that. Fixed now - thanks, Andrij! Everyone else: Go visit his site.
I don't know about you, but I spent New Year's eve on a plane. I entered 2008, not by counting down to midnight, but by entering a time zone where it had already happened. But I'm home now, so I guess I don't have an excuse for getting back into things. Things like this:
