Uh, whoops! Cartooninating.

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I know that my long-awaited return to drawing was supposed to happen today, but unfortunately, I lacked some foresight on this - I have no pencils! Therefore, because I don't want to compromise my high, high concept art, the strip will be delayed until next week. Try to still your rapidly beating hearts.

I will give a few hints though, and say that the dinosaur from last week's entry - the Largeasaurus - will feature prominently into the strip. Like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, I believe there is always room for a dinosaur in everything. Even if some of them, like Cracked.com points out, had big manes of feathers. (Note: Be careful with that site. Like Wikipedia, I can go on sickening reading binges on Cracked. You've been warned.)

To hold you over until I get my act together, have y'all been reading Pearls Before Swine? It's probably my favorite actual comic, narrowly edging Get Fuzzy, although I have to read it online since my local paper doesn't carry it. I normally peek at this LiveJournal community, which posts the comics almost every day.

Also, because I don't waste my time on the Internet enough, I still check out Homestar Runner from time to time. Sure, most of my friends stopped visiting after the few months it was popular for us in college. But I'm still a fan. One of the better skits was Strong Bad's take on techno music, which you can watch on YouTube here. If that piques your interest, the site itself is accessed by its snazzy name here.

On drawing and art.

I'm not much of an artist - For a sample of my work, see the illustration I made of a dinosaur for a co-worker's college newspaper story in 2007. In fact, even using the word "artist" for me is generous, since it looks more like the scribblings of a 7-year-old.

However, in college, I did draw a weekly comic for about the last two months or so of school. I'm a firm believer that to be funny, something has to be supremely good, or supremely bad but everyone playing it completely serious.

I always treated the comic, which is appropriately titled The Greatest Comic Ever Ever, in this manner. I never introduced it, and I just printed it as if it was a real comic. This was partly because I was hoping someone would write in and offer to do their own comic, because mine was so bad, but that never happened. Instead, it got a decent response, since bad, horrifically drawn characters can be as amusing as really awesome art.

All of this is a bit of a rambling entry for this announcement - Starting next Saturday, at the usual update time of 8 p.m., I'll be restarting The Greatest Comic Ever Ever. If you're looking for some people with some actual drawing talent, then I recommend some of the blogs I follow, like Nostomanic by Amber or Red Means Go by Annah, or some professional web comics like Savage Chickens and Penny Arcade.