New Comic Friday

This week’s new comic was recently re-felted with a weather resistant insulating cover.

They come a-runnin’ just as fast as they can…

…for this week’s sharply dressed new comic.

The Old Job / The New Job

Well, I keep saying I’m going to write something about why I haven’t written much here for a while. The basics are simple: nearly a year ago now, I found out that I was being let go from a job that I’d had for over ten years.

The reasons given were brutally financial in nature. The department I was with had split the design group into web, video and print sections, and the print section wasn’t profitable. There are reasons behind reasons of course: pixels are free, but paper costs money. Also, the print section had the people with the highest seniority (and therefore salaries). None of which changed the end result: those of us doing print work were on our way out.

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Ranking high on the “Whatometer”

I’ve added this movie to our Netflix queue for future Smithee viewing…

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One Trick Comic

This week’s new comic dials the wrong number for all the right reasons.

Getting the Basics Right

This week’s new comic is based on a poem by Richard Lovelace.

Monkey Business

This week’s new comic is a barrel of laughs.

Eclipse

A decent shot – standard tripod and built-in zoom on my digital camera didn’t do too badly.

New Comic

This week’s new comic is brought to you by high energy vegetable concentrates and the miracle food of high-energy plankton, gathered from the oceans of the world…

An Haiku

Dress shoes in winter
Interviews proceed apace
Slip but don’t fall down