May 29, 2008: "The Curse of Long Hair"
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May 29, 2008: "The Curse of Long Hair"
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May 28, 2008: "Blue Man Encounter"
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May 27, 2008: "Men Of Few Words"
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In fairness, I guess I wasn't all that talkative when I was 15 either.
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May 24, 2008: "Birthday Business Lessons"
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Still really busy with rehearsals, which is why you haven't heard from me. But I do have new for you!
Frank & Erin and I saw an advanced screening of Hancock last night. Will Smith turned in another great performance. The rest of the movie was terrible. The tone was wildly uneven, the plot was jumbled and full of gaping holes, and nobody seems to have ever told the director about the SteadiCam. I realize that Paul Greengrass made Shaky-Cam the new big thing in cinematography, but even the most serene scenes of this film looked like were shot hand-held by a guy with Parkinsons. It gave me a headache and made me sick. Thus concludes my review.
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May 20, 2008: "War As Usual"
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These strips have been kicking around my sketchbook for awhile, so here they finally are. My rehearsal/performance/audition schedule has been prohibitively dense recently, which is why I haven't been on top of the comics. People tell me this is an enviable predicament, but I do so love sleeping time. Cheers! :)
Labels: dumbstruck, war
May 19, 2008: "Appeasement"
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May 14, 2008: "Dating Myself"
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May 10, 2008: "Confidence Men"
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Also, check out Les McClaine's site immediately. He has a link that will let you download the first episode of his comic-turned-tv series, The Middleman, for the low low price of free!
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May 9, 2008: "Hindsight"
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If you have the chance, you should definitely see this show. Check out the show's website and this article all about it.
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May 8, 2008: "Oh, Fickle Inspiration!"
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May 6, 2008: "Tow & Sweep"
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May 1, 2008: "One Person's Emergency..."
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Today is my birthday. Rejoice!
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May 2, 2008: "Parentheses"
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I graduated undergrad with a certain comic genius who goes by the name of Les McClaine. His most recent comic book has now been turned into a tv series! Check out the promo.
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April 30, 2008: "Cincinnati's Revenge"
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April 24, 2008: "Antagonism"
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April 21, 2008: "Feeling Used"
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April 17, 2008: "Frank Advice"
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A little off-color perhaps, but it was too funny a premise for a comic to pass up!
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April 14, 2008: "Running On Empty"
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April 10, 2008: "Musical Misdirection"
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April 9, 2008: "The Name Game"
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April 4, 2008: "You Betta!"
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I'm officially one month behind on these strips. Woohoo! But this is the very last "Girls Will Be Girls" strip, so no more adventures in drag for y'all. Sorry, I know how much you loved it. :)
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April 7, 2008: "SciFi"
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April 8, 2008: "Souvenir"
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April 5, 2008: "Rock Band"
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March 31, 2008: "Simple Life Skills"
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March 27, 2008: "Forging Our New Iraq"
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March 24, 2008: "Easter Date"
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March 20, 2008: "New Tactic"
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March 19, 2008: "Phone Voice"
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March 17, 2008: "Meet Julie"
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Man, this strip took forever to finish. I should only do single-panel gag strips from now on!
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March 13, 2008: "Recession Blues"
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March 12, 2008: "Wheel Watchers: The Main Event"
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March 12, 2008: "Wheel Watchers: Pickup Lines"
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March 11, 2008: "Wheel Watchers: Prologue & RoboDiva"
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This is actually two strips I kinda combined into one because the "prologue" strip just didn't have enough content to justify its existence by itself. The story will continue tomorrow...
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March 10, 2008: "Coco Adlibs"
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March 8, 2008: "Girl Troubles"
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This past week has been pretty crazy for me- heck, these last FEW weeks have been crammed full of doin' stuff. And the comics have been at the bottom of the to-do list. But hopefully I'll be churning out more over the next few days...
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March 7, 2008: "No-Win Situation"
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I guess I'll just get my food from a tube from now on!
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March 5, 2008: "On The Job Training"
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March 3, 2008: "Breaking Things For Luck"
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Happy St. Pats, people. I suspect everyone is all hungover from the St. Pats weekend celebrations which, in Chicago, start on March 1st.
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February 27, 2008: "The Classics"
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Coming to see the show this weekend? You should. You should also get a drink or two ahead of time. It makes everything funnier. :)
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February 25, 2008: "Do As I Say, Not As I Do"
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February 22, 2008: "Eclipse"
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February 20, 2008: "A Presidential Tradition"
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I was listening to the radio the other day, and this guy I heard had some very interesting points. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, how DO we sleep when our earth is turning? And similarly, how DO we sleep while our beds are burning? It's really got me thinking. Then, prophetically, he told me it was time to pay the rent. He was spot on!
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February 19, 2008: "Ladies Night"
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February 18, 2008: "Two Weeks In February"
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Girls Will Be Girls opens tonight folks. Come check it out. And a word of caution: this is NOT an all-ages show. :)
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February 11, 2008: "Not Going Crazy"
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February 8, 2008: "Piling On The Ladies"
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February 6, 2008: "Voting Pride"
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February 5, 2008: "Tallying Lies"
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I've just learned that my home town is celebrating it's 150th birthday this summer. The big events on the 4th of July will be the "Ladies' Hoot 'n' Holler Contest" and the "Beard Growing Contest" (apparently not gender specific). Now you understand just what a small town I come from. "Hoot 'n' Holler"... Geez...
Labels: dumbstruck, war
January 31, 2008: "Don't Go"
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There's a lot more to this story (as anyone who's going through something like this can attest), but I've decided not to publish it at this time. However the comics will continue, as there is still more than enough crazy in my life to draw about.
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January 30, 2008: "Making Inroads"
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January 28, 2008: "The Reverend James"
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January 25, 2008: "Cheating The System"
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January 23, 2008: "War, Schmor!"
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January 22, 2008: "Hitchhiking"
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January 21, 2008: "The Fragrance of Italy"
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January 18, 2008: "Experimental Theatre"
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January 15, 2008: "Who's Defining Success?"
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January 9, 2008: "More Blood"
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January 8, 2008: "Blood and Guts"
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Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, when a whole bunch of states vote in their primaries, not just for presidential candidates but for a whole slew of local candidates as well. I hope you plan to vote. Kazu Kibuishi made a great observation about Clinton & Obama's recent speeches (with video links). Hillary seems to me to be a great politician, but Barack seems more like a leader. As for you Republicans out there so eager to elect McCain, did you hear what he did to Romney just before the Florida primary election? He told everyone that Romney was eager for pullout timetable for Iraq like the Democrats are, which was blatantly not true (I read Romney's comments and I agree with them: timetables and milestones contingent upon benchmarks and success are a part of war planning, but they should be a military secret with the Iraqi government). Such underhanded behavior seems a lot like our current president and his "architect," and is that really what we need more of?
Whoever you support, make your voice heard tomorrow!
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January 7, 2008: "Accurate Sizing"
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January 4, 2008: "Video Game Nerds"
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I have archived all the strips from 2007 into their own directory, but since Blogger has no Search & Replace feature (despite the demand for one), I can't change the links to all the strips without manually rewriting each one. So posts on this main page that are older than September 2007 will have broken links for the pictures. Your best bet is to access strips through the archives anyway.
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December 28, 2007: "Family Politics"
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This is the final strip of 07. Time to move into the new year (finally)...
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December 27, 2007: "My Brother the Father"
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December 24, 2007: "Family Time"
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December 22, 2007: "Good Old Amtrak"
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This weekend, the Grab Bag site might go wonky cuz my hosting company is changing server configurations. They asked that I not make any changes to site from Jan 19 through the 25th, but I've obviously broken that rule to bring you this week's fine strips! See the things I do for you? In any event, after they change over this weekend, this week's worth of updates might disappear. Fear not, I'll upload them again as soon as I can.
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December 21, 2007: "Foreign Military"
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December 15, 2007: "Christmas Money"
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December 8, 2007: "Hubris"
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December 5, 2007: "In Over My Head"
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December 2, 2007: "Deja Vu"
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At first I thought "I should just forget about this one. It's old news." But then I read the news and realize it's not. Sad.
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November 27, 2007: "Kitty vs The Bubbles"
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This should've been posted yesterday, but my server was having issues. Also, the Dumbstruck archive is currently empty because my HTML editor likes to screw things up and save empty files instead of the files I'd been working on. That'll be fixed later today.
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November 23, 2007: "Thanksgiving Exposition"
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I'm actually not very fond of this strip in that I'm not thrilled with the drawing and it's not funny. But it's a necessary set up for future strips, so there you go. I'll have something more amusing tomorrow.
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December 4, 2007: "Christmas Wishes"
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So here ya go, folks. I worked late into the night to squeeze these three strips out. I'm still nowhere near caught up, but I'm ok with that. I'm going to go catch a train in about 12 hours and go spend a week at home with my crazy family. Hope you have a Merry Christmas. Talk to you again on the flip side of the holiday!
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