April 26th, 2020

Thus the strip returns to some sort of normalcy. I'm glad the gang is nearing the West Coast,  because it means I get to draw the kind of great desert landscapes you can see in the southwest U.S.

I hope you are all faring as well as possible during this pandemic. I was hoping that, being stuck at home, I would have more time to draw these comics, but schoolwork is still taking up a lot of my time. Perhaps that's not too bad though, because there aren't very many strips left for me to draw, and I don't want to end the strip during the middle of a worldwide crisis; how depressing would that be? Maybe it's better that I only post every so often, so that by the time the strip ends, we'll be in a more optimistic situation. Then again, judging by the projections, things won't be going back to normal anytime soon... ah whatever, I'll just draw at the pace that works for me.

April 15th, 2020

In case you missed the April Fool's strip, or you fell for the trick, please go back to the last post and scroll down until you see the comic. I think it's a pretty important one for everyone to see.

So, back to the storyline. As I said in the last post, this will be the last "week" of six strips for this story, so only five to go after this one. This will (hopefully) be the last strip with so much dialogue crammed into it; I know it's not quite as fun to read a strip that's mostly words like this. But there was a lot of important resolution that needed to happen here, and a simple quippy cartoon exchange wouldn't have done it properly.

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April Fools!

I always look forward to the annual Billy the Pop April Fool's prank. Did I getcha? I hope I didn't get too many of you, because I worked really hard on today's strip and I'd like as many people to see it as possible:

Here is a quick break before the final "week" (6 strips) of the road trip storyline! Because the strip is close to ending, I wanted to do an ode to all the summertime shenanigans Billy and Pete have done over the years. 

I found it a really interesting method to (almost) completely abandon panels and just let this montage of fun sprawl across the paper. It also made the coloring process interesting, because without panels sectioning off and containing the colors, they were free to bleed into each other from scene to scene. I'm not sure if the result was a total success, but what do you guys think? Is it too visually overwhelming? Can you make out what's happening well enough?