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Dark Times Comics #3: Recalibrate Everything

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A Few Quick Notes

 1) Starting with Dark Times Comics #3, I should be using fonts from Blambot , which will make my comics look that much better going forward. I wanted to mention this because Blambot is awesome and if you have any need for cool fonts, especially for comic creation, you should consider their offerings. 2) I'm sort of vacillating on whether it makes sense to add commentary along with my new comics. On the one hand, additional perspective is fun, right? On the other hand, maybe the work should stand entirely on its own. I'll probably add commentary occasionally, but I doubt I'll make it my usual practice. This is still new, however, so I'm unwilling to commit to a strategy. 3) I've been playing with the formatting of the site. I hope I'm making improvements. I made some adjustments earlier, which did something good, but in doing so I also unintentionally broke something. When I found what I broke, I fixed it. There may be times when I break something and don't ...

Dark Times Comics #2: The Office Pool

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Dark Times Comics #1: The Monologue

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A New Endeavor

My son (age 8) told me recently that he thinks I should be a cartoonist. More recently, unprompted and out of the blue, he told me once again that he thinks I should be a cartoonist. Here goes. Inspired by Ann Telnaes and feeling the ways I've been feeling about things recently (my standard response this week to "how are you?" is "there's a fascist in the White House and I'm in mourning for my country"), I got the idea of starting a political cartoon. Yesterday, Dark Times Comics was officially born with the release of " The Monologue ". I can't guarantee that Dark Times Comics will be good. I can't guarantee that it will be witty or incisive or clever or brilliant or influential or funny. It will, however, be emotionally honest and it will be my own work product (unless at some point I decide to invite additional contributors). I won't be using AI.* I have no intention of being a willing tool of fascism. I have principles and I k...