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Happy New Year! 8-page Color Comic #2: The Garage Sale
🕑 Added 2024-01-01 13:00:04 +0000 UTCHappy New Year! This is the second of two eight-page color stories I did for MySpace Dark Horse Presents way back in...the files say January 2009. Fourteen years ago. I wanted to put something juicy and colorful in your inbox to hopefully brighten the first day of this gift, this next year on this marvelous and enigmatic orb.
I recently heard astronaut Jim Lovell quoted as saying, "We don't go to heaven when we die; we go to heaven when we're born." It's the most beautiful thing I've heard in a while, a concise summation of a previously unverbalized feeling that's been struggling to take shape in response to all the chaos that the miserable media landscape relentlessly engineers into my mind. I will cede some philosophical authority to a man who got to reevaluate the big picture — conveniently located outside his office window — while wrestling the wounded Apollo 13 capsule back to an Earth he could no longer take for granted. I am grateful for his words.
Back to the actual comic. Before we moved from Silicon Valley to Portland we had a huge garage sale where I actually met all of these people; very little of this strip is fictionalized. The Gilbert character is nearly verbatim; I was so fascinated by his idiolect and way of alternately straining and flowing through stories, like a locomotive over rolling hillsides, that I played his language over in my head for days before writing it down.
There's also a strip also based on this same event.
Love from this side of the screen,
C
Comments
Patrick B
SNIF
Jeff Holt
Very little makes me laugh aloud these days, but “underwear you can hide a pumpkin in” caught me off guard and tickled my brain, resulting in a snorting laugh
Oppido
Pirate hat during the wine-and-Smokey-Robinson preliminaries
Max Kreisky
The crown is for post-lay. The birthday hat is *during*
Oppido
I see Ray moved on from crowns to party hats at some point.
Max Kreisky
The original yard sale is one of my favorites, what a treat to get some more of it
Stavro
I don't know why this one was so burned in my brain, but it felt like seeing an old friend. I must have had these JPEGs stashed somewhere handy back in the day
Tom PM
In the UK we call them car boot sales and they're a hell of a lot of fun.
Nicholas Williams
Beef ends up being right but “it’s free, and instant” is a decent rejoinder.
Shawn Ritchie
i hate always fuckin' hated the rando achewood "paste mouth at 22 degrees off true" extras and this is SUCH a good example of the form.
J Hardy Carroll
Ray sniffing the loofa is gold. Chris, your gift for language is unreal. The whole thing is properly brilliant. Bravo.
Ste & Danni JM
"Punk rock paella" is a good one
Ismini Roller
Got to hurry up and microwave that cash
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
I like the vague smushed faces. People do look like that everywhere.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
It was just *ill* of him to do.
Jared Rutledge
Ray sniffing the loofah elicited quite the chuckle
