Chapter: Life in Four Panels

It’s life… in four panels.

Don’t Call It A Comeback

Comics about making comics is so comics.  In the original run of Life In Four Panels I was trying to keep to a regular posting schedule but I was barely ahead and did miss some days.  The below strip was both a joke but also something I really did post in the archives to fill in a date I missed on the schedule.

The One With the Guest Comic

I posted this comic on the same day that the popular GPF webcomic by Jeffrey T. Darlington ran a guest comic from me that linked to Life In Four Panels.  Needless to say that day is probably the highest number of daily visitors that Life in Four Panels has ever had.  I half-jokingly made fun of myself the next day with this quickly drawn strip: I’m pretty happy with the guest strip I made for GPF — I thought it was a decent joke and fit pretty well within that webcomic’s universe.  You can still read it over there by …

You May Be A Sweepstakes Winner Already

There was a movie called xXx that starred Vin Diesel in 2002.  He said words other than “groot” in it.  I think the title was trying to play off of the X-games which is like the Olympics but with skateboarding.

Crop Mouse

I remember reading stories about various people confessing to perpetrating crop circles.  It seemed like with a few modifications to the standard circle shape it would make a great marketing opportunity!    

Goth Quota

As I re-read the original strips from Life In Four Panels I realized I have a long history of mashing up music.  Mostly listening to it.  I did do some experiments with layering vocal tracks on instrumentals in college – kind of a proto-mashup I guess.  That reminds me of one time a co-host on a show with me cut between the Prince and the Age of Chance versions of Kiss on air.  I still have a recording of that somewhere. I also made a lot of comics about mashups.  The Grey Album was a pretty big deal when it …

Humble Brag

I was a DJ at my college radio station.  It was kind of a cool kids club where I never really felt like I fit in.  But in retrospect I think I imagined a lot of that and I regret that I didn’t spend more time with the people there.  I did really like the people that I somehow managed to befriend in spite of my own issues.  And I still remember the very end of college and the realization that I would probably never get to something like that again.  I’m not sure why I could not imagine working …