Finished my last final for the year last night. All of this week's comics are done.

This means that I made it through my first year of grad school while working full time, and not missing one god damn five-day-a-week strip.

On a scale relative to webcomics, this makes me responsible enough to get elected president.

I was having trouble figuring out what to write after Friday's strip. I'd gotten out everything I wanted in the chapter, and couldn't think of an ending. So then I thought, "Hey, Dan! How about just slapping 'End of Chapter 6' on a strip and calling it a day?"

True story!Tomorrow is the start of a crazy sweet interlude that I've had plotted for a ( Read more... )

So as you've probably noticed, End Times Fever is runnin' wild in the United States. The Good Lord is apparently callin' the flock home tomorrow, or tonight I guess, depending on what time zone you live in. And since, let's be honest, I'm going to be Left Behind,* I'd just like to say in advance: I get to be Warlord of Logan Square ( Read more... )

I like drawing Mercury Novus. He's a weird little lump of a Bart/Milhouse love-child with physically impossible facial features. He has no discernible personality, motivation, or nose.* And I don't feel the affection for him as a villain that I do for Ursa Master or the Sleeping Dragon. But he's fun to draw ( Read more... )

So when I first put the website together for Stick Figure Hamlet, I was just stumbling my way through HTML and CSS for the first time. It took all my skill, and some additional research besides, to put the site together. And I was extraordinarily proud of it.

Several years later, it got kind of embarrassing.

Therefore, I give you the new Stick ( Read more... )

So the most fascinating thing about bin Laden's death* to me: an NPR report this morning said that the majority of people celebrating outside the White House last night were young. Like, late teens/early twenties young. This seemed mystifying to me, so I spent a goodish amount of the morning thinking about it. Then realized: oh, right. 9/11 was ( Read more... )

Aw, hecks! Did you guys know that in addition to being Shakespeare's (observed) birthday, April 23rd is, by staggering coincidence, also the birthday of President James Buchanan?!?

Fuck it, artistically speaking, I own this day. So I'm officially declaring April 23rd Dan's Comics Day ( Read more... )

So this guy won a Pulitzer Prize today ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, I still have this livejournal, don't I? Well then. Let's talk about The Political Machine.

Today is the 400th strip. It's also the strip that I came up with before plotting this chapter; in fact, this entire chapter was written as an excuse to get this scene (start here and read forward through today) out of my head, because it made me ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that I love doing this kind of drawing? If I had the time, I would totally bring back a Popstar Ninjaish blog comic in that style.

I don't.

At all.

Maybe after Political Machine is done?