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The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 7

2008-08-20T07:30:55Z

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 6

2008-08-15T07:44:51Z

Brain Comics #124

Hand-drawn, as promised.

arjache @ 2008-08-12T23:45:00

2008-08-13T06:55:17Z

Trying out Corel Painter. Still a bit wobbly, but it seems promising:

(Not any particular character or person, just a random sketch.)

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 5

2008-08-11T07:05:06Z

Brain Comics #123

arjache @ 2008-08-09T17:14:00

2008-08-10T00:28:18Z

A day in the life of living with cats, paraphrased:

Bella jumps up into my lap.
Bella: Hi there! Whatcha doin'?
Me: Er, well actually I'm trying to draw. See, look at th-
Bella: What's that?
Me: It's a drawing tablet, and I'd appreciate it if you didn'-
Bella: Ooh, shiny! I'm-a roll around on it now, 'kay?
Me: No, no, that's...you don't have to do that.
Bella: What's this button do?
Me: Well, it..wait, why am I explaining this to you? Look, get off my lap. I'm trying to work.
Bella: You don't look like you're working! You should relax. Look at me relax, I'm a great relaxer. Here, watch me recline all over your laptop and your wrists at the same time.
Me: Bella, NOT NOW.

I pick up Bella and set her down on the floor.
Bella: You're mean!
Bella stomps off to sulk.

I go back to drawing.

Two seconds elapse.

Bella jumps up and perches on the television set.
Bella: Look at me, I'm on TV!

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 4

2008-08-07T04:56:43Z

Brain Comics #122

Whiteboard ramblings.

2008-08-04T22:59:00Z

This is the face of boredom at work:

In other, more disappointing news, I have also had the following up on my whiteboard for 1-2 months and so far nobody has gotten either:

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 3

2008-08-04T07:32:44Z

Brain Comics #121

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 2

2008-08-01T07:01:18Z

Brain Comics #120

The Hamster Wheel of Time - Part 1

2008-07-28T07:30:59Z

Brain Comics #119

But I ramble.

2008-07-27T18:57:14Z

There is something still marvelous about the mornings I wake up to seagull noises outside my window. Maybe I'm too easily amused, having grown up in a land-locked state. Or maybe it's just because I then find myself wondering what the heck those seagulls are doing here when the water's over a mile away. Looking for food scraps at Dick's, I guess.

Brain Comics Outtakes #1

2008-07-20T08:35:32Z

Brain Comics #118

Also, I finally got off my figurative cartoonist butt and added transcriptions for all the comics that were still missing them - comics #2 through #24. It should now be possible to read through the entire comic archive as text. And once Google catches up, it should also be possible to search through the entire comic archive.

A shout-out to all the druggists in the audience!

2008-07-20T01:05:25Z

Friday's comic, late as usual:

Brain Comics #117

Besides, we already did a comic with an exploding pineapple.

2008-07-16T07:04:05Z

Brain Comics #116

Contents may have shifted during SCIENCE

2008-07-14T07:16:20Z

Brain Comics #115

The Travelling Brainleys - Conclusion

2008-07-13T07:01:51Z

Brain Comics #114

arjache @ 2008-07-10T00:56:00

2008-07-10T07:58:54Z

Sometimes, on a rare occasion, I actually feel compelled to sketch out a rough draft of a strip before laying out the vectors. The weird thing is, sometimes I unexpectedly end up with sketchy bits I actually quite like:

The Travelling Brainleys - Part 5

2008-07-07T07:03:51Z

Brain Comics #113

Pudding Hijinx!

2008-07-04T07:41:15Z

So I have had this carton of hazelnut milk sitting unloved in my fridge for a while now. I had originally bought it hoping it'd be richer-tasting than soy or rice milk, but it turned out to taste too much like hazelnut to be any good over cereal.

I also have several packets of chocolate pudding mix I inherited from adularia that were originally bought for her canoe trip.

Perhaps you can see where this is going.

So, in the name of SCIENCE, I decided to mix up a batch of chocolate-and-hazelnut-milk pudding, just to see what would happen. The result: a bit gritty, but tasty!

That's right folks: I think I've invented nutella pudding. Vegan nutella pudding.

(Also, instant pudding is weird. It set thick almost as soon as I started whisking it. Corn starch truly is an amazing thing.)

The Travelling Brainleys - Part 4

2008-07-04T07:09:06Z

Brain Comics #112

Destiny Calls

2008-07-01T20:34:57Z

Today, as I was walking down the sidewalk, I spotted a phone booth. An actual, honest to God phone booth, albeit one sans door. I'd seen it before, but it occurred to me that phone booths were so rare that this one warranted investigating. Perhaps it was a TARDIS! Perhaps it was a doorway to ADVENTURE. I took a step towards the booth and peered in.

The phone rang.

I stared at it in shock. It rang again. Maybe I should answer it. Maybe it was destiny calling me.

I stepped up, squared my shoulders, and answered the call of destiny. "Hello?"

A pause, and then a voice at the other end: "Hi, is <name> there?"

"I believe you have the wrong number; this is a pay phone," I responded.

"Oh. Sorry," the other voice answered, and hung up.

Destiny must have had a wrong number.

Miscellany.

2008-06-29T04:49:57Z

* Marched in the Seattle Dyke March; a small group of good company surrounded by a much larger crowd of...less good company. Feel oddly alienated now. Wondering who my actual peers are.

* Trying to explain my various career ambitions to someone earlier this week, I realized that really, deep down I just want to be Buckaroo Banzai.

* Am shortly going to be attempting to construct a soy version of Chunky Monkey.

* Considering seeing Wall-E tomorrow, because my life needs more robots in it. Anyone else interested?

The Travelling Brainleys - Part 3

2008-06-24T04:20:02Z

Brain Comics #111

The Travelling Brainleys - Part 2

2008-06-20T07:08:57Z

Brain Comics #110

The Travelling Brainleys - Part 1

2008-06-18T07:26:32Z

Brain Comics #109