alternate 4th panel

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there could be a whole "wind outta sails" series, i suppose.

primitive art.

was just thinking---from having an orange T-shirt on, actually---of the old strip i did in the early days of learning "brush," "fill," "swatch," "jpg"....




a girl has options, that's all. not that they come easy. but

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Those are cute! And the fourth panel in each version is substantially cheerier than any I think I'd come up with. (Most likely the final two panels would just feature a frowning skeleton in place of anyone with any sort of can-do pluck or "make lemonade" resourcefulness.)

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Yeah, Freud said every dream is a wish, but if he'd lived in the era of comic strips, he mighta said every 4th panel.

(Nightmares, my theory is, going with the premise, are trying on ideas you're a-scared of awake.)

Speaking of 4th panels, do you know "The Angriest Dog in the World"?

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From now on, I am totally going to view the final panel of every Beetle Bailey as some sort of wish fulfillment. I imagine it will sadden me.

I like The Angriest Dog in the World!

I once read an interview with the creator of Dinosaur Comics, who said he was a little disappointed when he found out David Lynch had come up with the idea for a comic strip whose artwork never changes before he did. So he wound up writing The Angriest Dog Into the World as a character in Dinosaur Comics, so it's all part of the same canon. (I think he's also done the same thing, at various points, with Batman, Shakespeare, and the whole of Star Trek.)

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The (free weekly) City Paper in Baltimore printed many a letter complaining about The Angriest Dog. It really pissed some people off. Perhaps not so much they could not move, they could not eat, they could not sleep, they could just barely growl, so that they were bound so tightly with tension and anger, they approached a state of rigor mortis.

I just looked up The Angriest Dog (character)'s first mention in Dinosaur Comics. "Good listener, though!" -- ha!