Bill Watterson is a genius..

Originally this week I had a comic with Mort. I mentioned it a couple of times in comments I believe, but unfortunately the comic was a bit complicated background-wise, so I had to shelve it. Really when I drew the thing I drew bushes in the scenery and didn't think much of it when I set it up to appear in the start of December. I always wanted the comic's location to have snow in the winter time, so that was kind of counter to that. The good news is that now I have a half finished comic just needing some color when I eventually come back to it.

Anyway, enough explanations, on to the description for this comic. When I found that I needed to start over for this week (on Monday, really cutting it close), I needed something simple. I had this gag and I thought what fun to test a style. I thought to myself, "Self, why not see if I could do a comic mimicking Calvin and Hobbes. Won't that be fun?" I had a couple of books on hand and looked through them to find some of the weird snowmen and some trees and snow. "I can do this." I thought, "This'll be easy!" Boy how I was wrong. The hardest thing was that tree in the background. Apparently my early Joy of Painting influences still haven't weeded themselves out when painting trees. But what can you do with a deadline? I'll make the next winter stuff a bit more cartoony, I promise.

Oh, and that's Mac under there.

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