In My Life, I’ve Been Them All
As I finished up my bachelors’ degree in art school – What you Americans call “undergrad,” I think? – I started to keep a comic diary; this was when I was (a) very into the self-mythologizing, and (b) also feeling very disconnected from everything that was happening in my life apart from school, so it seemed like a good idea at the time. I scanned some in, years ago, thinking I could put them online but never got around to it… Until now. Here’re three of them, to celebrate the mundanity and hair I had in my life back then.
Looking at them now, what’s funny isn’t how much they remind me of that time in my life, but how obvious the Eddie Campbell and Dave McKean influences are to me. The first one, in particular, makes me kind of ashamed, it’s so blatant.
(Strange but true: The “Ring, fucker.” panel from the third one? That was the image on the business cards I gave out at my BA degree show.)
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Why’s it called a quid, anyway?
“Quid pro quo,” presumably. “Something for something.”
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Ah, that makes sense. I figured it had a similar etymology to “bucks,” which is from sawbucks, which is from the numeral X on ten dollar bills.
G-Unit, you are like the comics equivalent of a sould diva that only ever sings in the shower.
DON’T YOU HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR YOUR INNER SHIRLEY BASSEY??!!?
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