Monday, 29 December 2008
Hemingway famously wrote a six-word short story that he called his best work. Here it is:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Since then, many have followed. Some of my favorites are in this collection of stories by SF/fantasy/horror authors, collected by Wired. It also inspired SMITH magazine’s six word memoirs. For me, writing six-worders mostly makes for a good warm-up before writing/drawing. Today’s comic is the result of one such session.
Also, I have a holiday guest strip up at The Guest Strip Project today! The GSP is a webcomic composed entirely of guest strips, and affiliated with the Kid’s Book Project, proceeds from which go towards the Make-A-Wish Foundation. My strip makes, uh, a lot more sense if you read the preceding strips (it’s a fairly quick, if kind of disjointed, read), though that doesn’t really excuse the awkward punning…
December 29th, 2008 at 02:46
I like this one. Also, your x-mas guest strip confused me until I read, like, 10 previous ones. Then I decided it was awesome.
December 29th, 2008 at 02:47
haha… “cuckled”
December 29th, 2008 at 04:28
You crammed two puns into that comic? I’m disappointed/impressed. Still way better than most of the other guest strips, at least it didn’t involve donuts.
Also all your biographies are super-depressing. May I suggest something more uplifting like, “Lost will to live, remembered bacon!”
December 31st, 2008 at 03:37
Thankyew
N8: That’s a good one! Also there are donuts in my guest strip
February 24th, 2009 at 02:10
Drew has one too:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/022309/for-sale-hemingway.gif
December 27th, 2009 at 11:01
The Guest Strip Project failed in its mission. Actually this happened quite some time ago, but it’s news to me now. It folded just over a fortnight after you published your comic, so maybe you had something to do with it?