This evening, I took my laptop over to my brother’s house. We turned on the Olympics and I started to draw a strip with my Wacom tablet while Brian watched. Our conversation went like this:

Brian: Why do you sometimes draw your bubbles like that?
Scott: Like how?
Brian: Open at the tails.
Scott: I like it.
Brian: But, why are some open and some closed?
Scott: I dunno. Sometimes it looks better open.
Brian: How do you decide which to go with?
Scott: I don’t have a system. I just do whatever strikes me at the moment.

There was a short pause and Brian sat back in his chair. Then he looked at me and said “What gives you the right?” The comment was so out of left field, that I just dropped my head into my arms and snorted. Then we both started laughing uncontrollably.

It was a well needed positive ending to a dreary day. Today is the one year anniversary of a horrible moment. My thoughts today have been fixated on a very sad time. It’s not a day I had marked in my calendar or made note of. It snuck up on me and caught me unawares. I’m glad my brother and I have spent so much time together this year, and today made me suddenly realize that I probably came home from that wake a year ago and latched on to him a bit tighter than before.

We raise our glasses to you, Mike. We miss you!

For some reason, Jakprints took forever getting the LOLBAT shirt out the door to me. Their turn around was almost twice what it is normally. Which figures because it’s a shirt I took preorders for.

But they arrived today. I have them here in the studio. Tomorrow morning we’ll get in bright and early and ship them all out. Expect them next week.

Thanks for your patience and support!