Max Riffner

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Long Surly Week

The Long Surly Week is finally coming to a close. I kept thinking today that I’ve done webcomics all wrong so far. Mine are too big, too introverted. They probably make better books anyway (thanks again, Markosia). If I were to start over, I would do a strip format with nearly static art. That way I could update daily. And it would be the most existential strip in existence. There would be midget demons on vacation trying to get into coffee shop waitresses’ panties or something weird like that; insert whatever metaphor you like “here.” You could be in on the joke, or you could just take it for what it is on the surface (My Demon Lover meets A Night at the Roxbury). Genius.

T-shirts would follow. The office would be littered with books, t-shirts, coffee cups, bourbon glasses, bourbon, and cigar butts, along with broken laptops sort of running Fedora Core and my poor old Mac 1ghz tower, loudly buzzing along as I break the Internet. Somewhere along the way I become a cartoonist stereotype.

Or maybe I just get a good strong drink to take the edge off of this week…

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