This is another one from the previous vein. I shot the photos myself, tried to shop in the backgrounds, with a bit less success. You can even tell that's Patrick in the driver's seat instead of me. He didn't want to be featured as a kid, so I made him be my stand-in and part-time photographer... He did pretty good on the photos. Missed a couple, but did a solid job. Good kid.

I spent way, way too many hours on this one. I was going to manually artist it up, but after the hours I spent, I figured filters were good enough.

This one always bothered me. Why do wealthy republicans care who's picking the corn, cotton or beets? They're literally stealing jobs from absolutely no one, so what's it about? Is it about racism?

Art is still recycled, but in a normal sort of rotation, as you'll find on Glossy News, you'll see these things aren't too repetitive.

I should say that the image this batch is based on was a paid Stock Image, though I had to modify it quite a bit, and then cartoonize it that much more to make it work.

The art is recyled from yesterday, but the theme is recycled from time untold in the history of man.

Come on guys, we've all been there. Don't be shy. Maybe you had the wisdom or exhaustion to keep your mouth shut, but if they could really read your mind (as those damn sirens swear they can,) you'd be doomed.

Based in fact, wholly. Saw this sign while driving with my best friend and tech dawg J-Drizzle. We shared a laugh about it. That was over a decade ago, but I still keep seeing the same signs... um, what?

The runaway (tacitly racist) patriotism sickens me. They don't care about people, they care about whiteness. States that have driven out minorities have suffered, and well they should; to hell with them.

Yeah, just more cat stuff. Nothing really to say about it. I regret putting an orange patch by the left cat's nose, I regret not removing fur lines from the insides of the mouths.

This is my second attempt with backgrounds other than the standard, and it was a ton of work to come out with something I still think is so-so at best.

My first attempt at using a background other than a gradient or solid color... not great. Not bad, but not as good as it looked in my head.

Just trying to channel the inner monologue of cats. Maybe it's not so sinister, but probably it is.

Laser hair removal? Yeah, for your cat, just shine the pointer right there and they'll chew the hell out of it.

So then I took it a bit further. What are cats really like? They're not human but they can still have human characteristics.

I wanted to do something special for the 4th of July and I figured dogs hate it, so cats must love that.

This was actually the first dog cartoon I wrote from the new batch, though the last I made. The shifting font size was a cramp in my ass, so I put it off as long as I could.

Same recycled art. New colors, new eyebrows, new mouths, blah blah blah.

This time I added some facial expression to the yellow dog, though to almost zero effect. Tried to make my dogs political, but without much success.

Same art from before, but now it dawns on me that they look more like humans in ill-fitting suits.

Same art, better execution. All new eyebrows, but 100% custom mouths on the gray dog, and what a difference it makes.

Same situation, all new dogs. Once again the gray one looks great, the other one not quite as much.

Basically I have this huge master-document of potential ideas, and they fall into categories. I finally had enough dog stories to make it happen, so there you go.

Yep, same art again. New eyebrows and background colors, but that's about it. Pretty sad about that.

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FAQ

How do you make your comics?
Badly, if at all. I do layer upon layer in PhotoShop Elements, which I got free with a pen tablet. I'll get Adobe Illustrator soon enough, just don't have the budget for it just yet, or the capacity to figger it out.

Where did you learn your mad skillz?
Mostly nowhere, but I lean pretty heavily on photographs, then try to replicate them... badly. I've learned a lot from a decade of using Photoshop at various jobs, which helps streamline the process. I like to look at existing art and photos and sketch it out from there, though it doesn't always work the way I'd like.

Where do you draw your inspiration?
Only from the best. The Far Side, xkcd, explosm, the Atheist Pig and too many more to mention.

Come on, who actually asks these questions?
Nobody yet. Just trying to stay ahead of the curve.

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