As you can see, I was tired of drawing cut-up magazine letters at this point, so I just had Harley read it aloud in this strip. It's not laziness, it's efficiency.
Also, hope you have a very spooky Halloween!
I underestimated how annoying it would be to draw cut-up magazine letters. It ended up taking a considerably long time, more time than I would usually spend for a detail like this, but it was kind of essential to the joke in this case.
This is the first strip in yet another fantastic Billy series! Where could Billy be? What could he be doing? Stick around and find out!
All those galaxies in the middle panel took quite a long time to draw. But I think the end result turned out looking rather nice.
Personally, I believe that life of some sort has to exist somewhere else in the universe. Statistically, it would be EXTREMELY unlikely that only one planet in the whole universe could harbor life. Honestly, I don't know which would be cooler: if we're the only ones out there, or if we're just one of millions of alien civilizations.
This strip is a bit less relevant now, as most of the mosquitoes have died (where I live, at least). That's because I drew this back in August, not thinking of how topical it would be at the time I posted it. But the joke still works, at least.
I had fun drawing the little ghouls in the second panel.
We have a way of always finding something to worry about, even if it's nothing.
The timing in this strip is a bit awkward, but I'm pretty proud of how it looks.
Originally, Billy said "modern engineering" in the second panel, but then I realized I used the exact same phrase in the very first colored Billy strip, so I changed it to "automation." No one will know, right?
Happy National Billy Day, everybody! I want to take this time to thank you all for making this little corner of the Internet what it is now. I appreciate your continued support and words of encouragement.
Feel free to leave comments on this website! I'd like to interact with you all more. If you have any criticism, suggestions or questions I'd be happy to respond!
Also, I'm pretty sure the sound "throw" does not occur when you throw things in real life.
This one's very similar to a certain Calvin and Hobbes strip. Often I come up with an idea and don't realize how close it is to a Calvin strip it is until I've finished writing it, at which point I don't want to give up the idea. I did try to make it different from the Calvin strip (for example, in Calvin the story rhymes and is drawn crudely by Calvin, and I made sure not to do either of those things here).
Also, October 12 is coming up! You know what that is, don't you? That's right, it's National Billy Day! Oh, you didn't know that? …Eh, I can't blame you.
That's all for this series-type-thing of phone strips. I hope you enjoyed them. If you didn't, well… I don't know what to tell ya.
Billy fancies himself more deep than he really is.
What if the person calling was actually an alien?? Now there's a thought.
I can't think of anything to say about this one, but if there's anything you want to know, feel free to ask me a question in the comments if you so wish.
Next Comic, Last Comic and Home links are up here!
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