Try Everything Once

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061: Insecure

Ian Jay

on June 19, 2006

Loyal TEO readers… sorry for getting this to you late. I am not that great yet at budgeting my time. (Don't get me wrong: I try to draw without interruptions, but sooner or later my laptop starts calling me, and next thing I know, I'm frittering away precious no-school summer hours viewing things like this.

As for this page… it came out average. Not great. Just average. And that's all I have to say about it.

BREAKING COMIC NEWS! I have been graciously shanghaied into lettering and coloring a comic written by my friend Katie and drawn by my other friend Margaret (I think I've mentioned her before). It's called "Destination" and it is the story of a lovable panda who, after a near-fatal car accident, is confined to a wheel chair, but attempts to achieve greatness in the high-speed world of professional water polo. Also there's this guy and this girl in it, too, but they're not as important. More news about it to come.

COMING SOON: A revamped TEO archive site, hopefully on a server with less ridiculous pop-ups and viruses than cjb.net. (Do NOT use it. It sucks.) Also, sometime this summer, I'm going to try to redraw the first fifteen pages of TEO, but don't anxiously wait with bated breath or anything. Also also, a little thing for the 2006 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards ceremony. Oh yeah. The best is yet to come, and babe, won't it be fiiiiine.

WHY I WAS MISSING LAST WEEK: I was in Ocean City, surviving almost exclusively on junk food. (You know you're not eating healthy when you consider a jumbo bucket of vinegar-slathered Thrasher's Fries to be a balanced and complete dinner.) I also got change for a twenty dollar bill in nothing but golden Sacajawea dollars from a post office vending machine, and I got what could possibly be the suckiest kite ever from a souvenir store near Fisher's popcorn (where our family shared two funnel cakes and an extra-large Diet Coke. It was all we had for lunch, and afterwards I felt that my stomach was continuously being turned inside out).

And that's about it. …By the by, be sure to check out my sister's Deviant Art site. We have a sort of a bet running between each other. If viewers (you guys, along with everyone on DA) decide that my art is better than hers, she has to take me and my fuzzy-headed friend Mike somewhere extremely boring and nerdy (I think I specified an art gallery opening or something). If they decide that their art is better than mine, then I have to take her and her sped friend Meg to Chuck E. Cheese's. Who will win? It's up to you!

Sincerely,

Ian Jay

PS: Dexy's "way" mentioned on the last page involves running through the front doors and shooting anything that moves. Just in case you were wondering.