Comic Stip Foibles

Rummaging through a pile of documents on my computer, I found this thing I made over spring break.

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I think that after reading too many online comics, I decided I had to try to make one myself. Or maybe I made this because two of my sisters were drawing funny Paint pictures for the screen saver, and I wanted to join in. Either way, it was a temporary bout of insanity. I mean -- it took me FOUR HOURS to make this stupid stick figure thing. FOUR HOURS of drawing circles and messing around with colors and formatting text in Paint! It cured me of any aspirations to comic-making excellence, at least -- I've got better things to do than stare at a screen and edit pixels for hours.

However, it is a bit of a pity that this thing will never get off the ground. Because I really did have something of a plot planned out, which I think would have highly entertained my sisters when they saw the screensaver again. After a few brief strips poking fun at the Hillsdale in general -- the crazy ID card holders, the political philosophy of the place, the fact that Democrats are as rare as Saga-food-likers -- it was going to get "serious." With a whole convoluted mess about the unique atmosphere of Hillsdale attracting an evil force and allowing it to gain a foothold here. ("It's apparently got something to do with southern Michigan, Tolkien and Lewis fanatics, Libertarians, and eagles. Definitely eagles.")

And Saga-workers are actually undercover good-guy guys. They make the food evil on purpose. To get the evil force to believe they're on its side. (You always wondered about Saga Steve? See how normal YOU are after leading a face-to-face resistance movement against ultimate evil year after year!)

However, as Saga Steve himself will attest, after watching my pathetic attempts to illustrate menu boards, my artistic ability is about -3 on a 1-10 scale. So this award-winning plot shall never see the light of day. Which is probably a good thing.