Paint my day

Hey, sorry for posting this late folks. Life got really busy for awhile.

 

So yeah, Obama’s the nominee. Yes, Clinton’s still in the race, and there are a few primaries left (can’t wait for West Virginia!), but it’s been all but decided by now. It’s almost over folks.

 

Thank God.

 

Today’s cartoon is a cartoon that was produced during a political no-man’s land. I wrote and drew this, along with this Tuesday’s strip, right before the results of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, so there really wasn’t much topical to talk about.

 

I find it interesting rereading old strips and remembering what frame of mind I was in when I wrote them. This cartoon was written while I was studying for an Art History midterm and frantically painting something for my painting class -- and I’d say it’s fairly evident.

 

Picasso is my favorite painter, by the way, which is why I included his work, Guernica. The phrase “ahead of his time” is used a lot, but Picasso definitely epitomizes it. Some of his paintings look like they were produced today by animation artists.

 

I didn’t use any of that new-fangled computer nonsense to put that Guernica paining in my strip. I printed out the painting, pasted on the strip, and scanned it in. Looking at it now, the painting’s a little too dark, but I think it works.

 

Fun Fact #44: This is actually the second time the strip has shown Jillian painting; though it’s the first to explicitly show her work (she was holding a canvas in the first appearance). I would prefer this to be a more obvious trait, but the fact that the strip only runs two times a week, and I need to be politically relevant in each strip, makes it very hard to include character subtleties.

 

So, yes, during the infamous “Jim and Jillian make a strip” arch, Jillian was the one who was doing the artwork, and Jim was the writer. This is a remnant from the original conception of the series, where it was more a direct parody of webcomics (“Penny Arcade,” one of the first webcomics, had a writer and an artist so every “Penny-Arcade” ripoff has a writer and an artist).

 

Boy, aren’t you glad you know this?

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