So... This is How I Spend Most Days (sorry mom)
New comic material can come to me
in two forms and from a couple of different
sources:
*
The first kind is the full multi-scene comic. (example: the "
Who Are the Birds Behind Bars?"
comic)
* The second
kind shows funny captions on a single panel, short comic scene.
(example:
the "Sleeping Dog" one here)
So, a full comic is basically a story, and is almost always based on
little things I notice that are happening on the margins of life. The
things going on there can be pretty hilarious and I've made it a hobby
of mine to look sideways to find them.
Life's cast of extras and
the parts they play in the scenes of a day,
most often provide the material for a full comic.
- It might be the kid sticking his
finger into the wedding cake icing, glancing side to side, while
everyone else is focused on the party.
- Or it could be the squirrel
and pidgeon in a staring contest because both have noticed the
same unclaimed french fry on the sidewalk.
You know,
just strap a
couple of holsters on both of them and draw them
into a dusty pioneer
town, and that scene (and that french fry) become pretty funny.
Single panel comics with funny captions most often enter my mind when I
am talking to someone - because it is language and the strange and
surprisingly grotesque act of speaking that offer up unexpected, funny
sounding sequences of words - or even a single word I've mis-heard -
that to me, are moments just begging to be captured, committed and
ushered onto this site.
The fact that I allow myself to be mentally elsewhere while people are
decent enough to share their
conversation with me means in some ways I'm probably a bit of a dick.
The images below are today's most shared funny captions
comics
