Well, I guess it’s possible to be a little too subtle with a punchline. Most people didn’t get this one without an explanation, and any joke that needs to be explained is doomed to failure. Oh well. You can’t win ’em all, I guess.
That being said, this comic was inspired by the dentist office next door to my college coop. Every fall, they send us a bunch of cookies. Perhaps you see where this is going.
This one comes from experience. My first roommate in college, the main inspiration behind the character Jay, loved to drive fast. I rode with him a few times. It was quite like a rollercoaster, only it felt much more dangerous. We swerved around corners and jettisoned in and out of parking spaces. He would laugh and make light conversation while I tightly gripped the seat cushion for stability.
Interestingly enough, he had never been in an auto accident. He had plenty of speeding tickets, but he was at least safe.
I sometimes wonder if professors feel the same way about reading our papers as we do about reading our textbooks.
For this comic, I wanted to avoid using standard panel borders. I used background colors instead to indicate that Bob and Professor Jones are not in the same room. It worked out pretty well, I think.
This comic was supposed to be part of a storyline I had developed a while back. I may return to it when I get the opportunity to do a daily strip. For now, I can only manage one per week with my workload at school.
For this comic, I thought it might be funny to have Punjee go to the wrong class and have it be in a different language. Looking at it now, I don’t think that the punchline was that great, but I hope people at least get the joke — that is, that Punjee actually went to a Spanish language class instead of his math class.
It’s the start of a new academic year and I’m excited to be posting comics again. This year, I want to experiment with unorthodox panel layouts and color effects. Also, I want the content of my cartoons to have more substance. To me, there’s no real point in drawing a strip if it doesn’t say something meaningful. That’s my vision for Funchy, Punjee, and Bob.
This strip was colored on a separate sheet of paper using watercolor pencils. It creates an interesting effect, but I think it came out a but too light.
This is the last comic for the 2009-10 academic year. It’ll start up again next Fall.
Just about everyone I’ve ever met has had a dream like this. Perhaps it stems out of a general fear of looking stupid in front of our peers. Whatever the cause, it’s funny that so many people share this particular irrational fear. Seriously, you’d have to be pretty out of it to walk or drive all the way to school without pants on. It’s far more likely that, like Bob, you’d wake up from a vivid dream to the sudden realization that you’re late for something terribly important.
The idea that generated this strip came from a newspaper article I read about a month ago. It was about how yawning heightens the senses by cooling the brain. This means that it really has little to do with how tired or bored you are. The same article went on to postulate why yawning is contagious only among humans. One theory is that yawning was a way for a pack of hunters to heighten their senses all at once. While contagious yawning is seemingly unique to humans, domesticated dogs will also yawn if they see a human yawn. Interesting, no?
This comic was inspired by stories I heard from friends who had gone to another college coop for dinner (I won’t say which one). The drawings in this comic are less refined than in previous ones. It’s probably because I’ve been so hard-pressed for time recently. For instance, Jay’s yawn in the first panel looks more like a scream. The drawings of the cabinet are also a wee bit muddled. My goal for the next school year is to further refine my drawing.
This is the first comic I’ve done in color. It was painted in Photoshop for speed’s sake. I’d like to color these by hand in the future.
The idea for this comic came from one of my friends, whose name shall remain anonymous. Admittedly, this comic may not be easily understood by people outside my own circle of friends. However, I couldn’t help myself. Bob’s mom was brought into this comic to tie it in with Mom’s Weekend at OSU.
