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33 - You’re On Your Own

While I was drawing Imy for today’s strip Illustrator decided to just go ahead and crash on me. The weird thing is that I habitually hit Ctrl-S every few minutes. But I must have been really sucked into the drawing because when I loaded it back up she was gone! *sob* Completely frustrating, especially when you’re exhausted. Fortunately, I’m so used to drawing her now that I got her back in tangible form fairly quickly- I guess practice does make perfect…

It’s been 12 strips since Jay’s last appearance. I really need to get him in more so I can practice drawing him. But first I may have to catch him…

April 14th, 2008 | Category: babyphobic, comic, family, imy, jay

12 Responses to “33 - You’re On Your Own”

  1. Amanda N. | April 14th, 2008 | 10:19 pm

    I absolutely LOVE the last panel!!

  2. Amanda N. | April 14th, 2008 | 10:20 pm

    Ahh somehow I hit “submit” before I was ready!!

    I also meant to say that it’s awesome to see Jay back again as well. :D

  3. Leslie | April 15th, 2008 | 1:03 am

    I love how you drew him disappearing. They sandwich in mid-air is perfect! Can’t wait to see Mia develop. I bet she is a spit-fire! lol

  4. Luna | April 15th, 2008 | 4:37 am

    LMAO! I have to agree… the floating sandwich is hysterical!!! This one fits more than a few guys that I know!!!

  5. Scott | April 15th, 2008 | 3:25 pm

    Ha, Jay running away is great. I also like the sandwich in mid-air.

    The same thing happened to me with Illustrator years ago. I was working on a drawing for a good 2-3 hours and then Illustrator crashed–and as soon as it did, I thought “Did I even save?” I did, but it was only probably 10 minutes into the drawing. God, that sucked.

  6. tbowl | April 16th, 2008 | 2:12 am

    Nice!

  7. Wit | April 17th, 2008 | 10:53 am

    Great visual gag in the last two panels.

    I learned my lesson with saving too. I was working a full color photoshop image (you know how often color hits pinkerton) and my dog SAT on the surge protector to my computer. I screamed. I cried. I had dog sandwiches. It was lovely.

  8. me! (pd guy) | April 17th, 2008 | 2:18 pm

    So how much of this is based on your “real” life?

    I guess I’m the last to say the visual gags are great. You could have had panel 3 for the final payoff but panel 4 is great and then we would have missed it!

  9. Erika | April 18th, 2008 | 12:45 pm

    I love the first couple of lines. “Did I hear a baby crying?” “No. That was me!” hehe. Hilarious!

  10. me! (pd guy) | April 18th, 2008 | 1:23 pm

    Did you change the dialog? I don’t remember the “no that was me” at the beginning. Hysterical, can’t believe I missed that.

    That word balloon has at least 1 too many “me”s in the last sentence.

  11. Irma | April 18th, 2008 | 1:29 pm

    HOW do you pick that out? But not see the first line in her dialog? LMAO. I swear I did not see that double “me.” And I read it a bajillion times. Those double word mistakes would be there forever if you didn’t see them. I don’t know why I can’t ever see it myself!

  12. Erika | April 19th, 2008 | 1:00 pm

    I didn’t see that either. whoops!

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