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TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY IT'S TUESDAY

I was looking through some older comic strips of mine yesterday. Some of them were about 5 years old and only six panels. I'd completely forgotten them even as I was reading them. Generally they were funny, one of them made me laugh harder than I've laughed in a while, all of them were super bizarre and a handful of them had me debating if I ought to repurpose them in a new series; a second, looser comic (as if I need another project on my hands).

I haven't fully made my mind up of what to do. It's interesting having a bunch of disconnect ideas that don't belong anywhere. There are a couple of characters I've flirted around with for a while that still have no purpose, so I immediately thought of them as a vessel for these old ideas.

But while some the strips were just sketches, some where fully coloured and finished and actually had pretty good artwork as is. Maybe I'll compile it all into a book of its own some day. Just as a collection of random disconnected gag strips. Or maybe when the day comes that I do a patreon they'll be shared as a perk. I dunno.

But what it really highlighted...going back I mean...was how this is the first time I've really done anything with this much of a story. I don't know that I anything in this project is as funny as the funniest of my older stuff, but it definitely has the most pronounced world and characters of anything I've ever made before. It's odd, because I think it marks a shift in my personality and my style. I don't think I ever cared about stories and world building before. Even my drawing style back then was more ren and stimpy-ish. Like the drawings themselves were actually funnier.

On one hand it's planted a little seed of doubt. Like maybe I'm not being funny enough these days. But on some level I can also appreciate that it shows growth. People are actually growing attached to some of these characters and that's maybe better than just getting a big laugh and then being forgotten about. Also, humour is subjective. Just because I think something's funnier than something else doesn't mean it is.

Final note: I was saying about how I had some unfinished characters and ideas floating around, that didnt't really fit with this or any other project I'm currently working on...well that's basically how this whole comic started anyway. For years and years Tuft Luck was just a bunch of specific ideas and morbid jokes that I eventually had enough of to build a semi-cohesive world out of. Do I sound like a dork? I just wrote the term semi-cohesive and thought to myself I sound like a dork. Not that anyone even uses that word anymore. Why do I even care about this? How old am I?

Alright, that's enough of this.

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The stuff I've written that isn't English I need to get checked. I tried very hard to get an accurate translation, but I'm still not confident.

Anyway since this website is for all the hot insider knowledge, I'll just tell you what it's SUPPOSED say.

Although it's not that interesting. But just in case I never get a proper translation, at least what's actually said exists somewhere. But again, it's not that interesting or important to the story.

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"Hi"

(I told you it wasn't interesting)

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"It was cute but also very annoying"

"I had to, just to get her to stop calling us all the time! Your brothers and sisters practically begged me"

"It makes me happy to see you. Your video was very funny"

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"You look just like your mother! Black!"

The cultural significance of why they speak another language though, that's for YOU to figure out. I'm not your baby sitter.

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bbbrrrrr it's freeeezin. I feel like when I was younger the weather just didn't effect me. Is there some kind of scientific reason for that? Like more energy makes you...immune to the temperature? lol I dunno. They do say old people struggle with the cold more I think. When I say 'they say' I just mean I saw a joke about it on the Simpsons or something. And so I take it as fact. So the theory currently adds up, the older you get the colder you get. Double meaning there too, so I'm right whatever the weather. Ba dum tss.

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Happy Tuesday.

I've been happily ahead of myself with these pages for a while, but today I needed to actually scan in all the pages and it's a surprisingly tedious process. I have a deskjet scanner so it's just not the most straightforward thing...you have to like...slide it through the top bit rather than just facing it down on some glass and there's a lot more errors and having to do multiple attempts.

Annoyingly, I had a proper scanner when I started, but after a few weeks I only went and stepped on it (I was hungover). I thought it was fine but when I went to scan again I realised the glass was completely shattered. Still works as a printer actually but I scan a lot more than I print. Anyway yeah...annoying. I got this current scanner off gumtree and didn't really realise it wasn't a normal one. So yeah, scanning sucks. Is the point here.

Printing it will be an even bigger pain in the ass probably...into a book. It'll be expensive. I've also made this comic landscape for some reason? I have no real idea why...I think I was just being different for the sake of being different...but surely being different is going to make printing it more complicated. Why do I do these things to myself? I have no concept of reigning it in or making my future self's life easier. When this book comes out, you better all praise how great it is that it's landscape not portrait.

And if a single person complains about it I'm cancelling the whole series.