There’s three weeks until the end of the year, and two weeks until Christmas!
Time is Running Away
Tag: comic
Zombie School
A comic for the students (and teachers) facing down the end of the semester.
Comic from 2013.
Happy 18th Birthday! Please read, sign, and date…
Lab Mice turned 18 this fall!
(Oh, did you think it was my 18th birthday? Nope–been there, done that, have the filing cabinet to prove it).
Perhaps it’s just because I’m annoyed about sorting through the piles of paperwork that I have neglected since 2018, but adulthood seems to be one endless ream of paperwork–virtual or otherwise. If you’re stuck on what to get for that newly-minted 18-year-old in you life, may I suggest a filing cabinet and some hanging file folders? Unless they happen to be an office supplies aficionado, they won’t actually appreciate it until they’re 35, but then they will be truly grateful when they unwrap a box of manila folders to complete the set.
A shredder and dedicated recycling bin would also be thoughtful gifts.
Now, I’m off to have a good cry over some pre-pandemic grocery receipts. I might have my favorites custom-framed.
I Hate Apples
Actually, I love apples.
But when you’ve been peeling and chopping a small mountain of them for a week, it becomes a case of too much of a good thing.
Why don’t I have an apple corer-peeler-slicer, you ask? Our apples were home-grown from unmaintained/unknown variety trees, so they were funky shapes with lots of bits that needed to be cut out. They tasted amazing, though. Once we got over temporarily hating them.
Comic from 2017.
Inktober 2022: Crossing the Finish Line
Inktober artists: we did it!
This challenge was so much fun, I’m glad I finally went for it. It was the highlight of my day to see the unique responses to each prompt, and I found some great artists to follow on Instagram. I plan to do Inktober again next year–this time with more advance planning (like, the entire month of September…).
Between pushing to finish up Q is for Quarantine in September, and spending all month on Inktober…I am tired. I’ll be posting a comic weekly on Fridays during November and December, both brand-new and from the last few years (along with nicely edited versions of three Inktober comic strips), and evaluate how that’s working for me going into the New Year. I want to create and post comics regularly, so I need to find a way sustainably pace myself. Behind the scenes, I’ll be working on publishing Q is for Quarantine, and setting up a Lab Mice Etsy shop.
…Anyone else ready for a long post-Inktober nap?
.
.
.
Wait–what do you mean, the holidays are coming???
Inktober 2022: Week 4
The final week of Inktober 2022. I made it through, and posted every day!
Not even a crumb was left.
Had to get the white-out for this one, but it was fun anyways! And snuck in a little tribute to Angela Lansbury.
I don’t know what inflation has done to the going rate for teeth these days, but as a kid, I got a quarter per tooth from the tooth fairy. Though I’m sure a $5 bill is much easier to airlift.
Da-dum…
Da-dum…
Danger lurks below the serving counter at Amity Island’s bakery.
Sigmund Freud at breakfast, c. 1929.
My time at college was bookended by reading “Civilization and Its Discontents” by Sigmund Freud, in two different history classes. It’s the only one of his works I’ve read, but I came away both times with the impression that Freud was perhaps among the chronically annoyed.
Me making popcorn.
We are just ghosts.
Harley got devoured by the undead
Lurking down in some old wizard’s tomb
You can say you don’t believe in zombies
But that’s how Harley Warren met his doom.
This comic is the brainchild of my husband, who is an H.P. Lovecraft fan. He’s slowly turning me into one, too, by reading me Lovecraft’s short stories, but so far most of my familiarity comes from listening to Solstice Carols (parody Christmas carols) by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (you can look the carols up on youtube).
This comic is drawn from Lovecraft’s short story “The Statement of Randolph Carter,” published in 1920.
This idea came about when my husband was reminiscing about his time in the army. When he had all of his gear on, it weighed more than he did (though he did not actually fall over). It reminded me of the old myth that medieval knights needed to be hoisted into the saddle with a crane.
Also, I have no idea how the modern military functions without pockets.
How to make instant applesauce….
Something a little different for the (bonus) final day of Inktober. This one will have its own blog post.
Inktober 2022: Week 3
The third week of Inktober 2022. Almost there!
A post for Dysautonomia Awareness Month! Last year I was diagnosed with POTS, a blood circulation disorder and a form of dysautonomia. POTS patients are often encouraged to include lots of salt in their diets, in addition to drinking lots of water. This helps regulate our heart rate and blood pressure by increasing circulating blood volume.
I suppose this would be one way to eat more salt….
…Or the lack of one.
Remember the hang-gliding mouse from #3 Bat? Well, please wish him luck.
Perhaps not so much “bad,” as “extra-extra-well done.” Please pass all the ketchup.
On to the final week!
Inktober 2022: Week 2
The second week of Inktober 2022.
…But he was really a soft-shelled crab, and later apologized.
Based on a moment from a few years ago, when I was in the thick of long covid brain fog.
“What can one person do? One person can prove false the notion that nobody cares.” ~Robert Brault
I’m afraid my husband is often the victim of my faith that there is a little more toothpaste left in the squeezed-out tube.
Inktober 2022: Week 1
Here’s the first week of Inktober! I am having so much fun with the prompts, and am discovering lots of great artists on Instagram.
You can follow my Inktober posts daily on Instagram or Facebook.
This is a re-draw of a parody from 2008, based on “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” by John Wright of Derby, 1768. My original parody from 2008 is below.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~Albert Camus
October
October starts tomorrow, which means that it is also the beginning of:
1) Inktober
2) Dysautonomia Awareness Month
I’ve wanted to participate in Inktober with Lab Mice for years, and finally decided to go for it. I have a goal to complete all 31 prompts, one each day. Doing this on the heels of finishing Q is for Quarantine probably means that I will be very tired by November 1 (so, probably not doing NaNoWriMo this year).
I will be posting photos of each day’s drawings on Lab Mice’s Facebook and Instagram pages, and will do a weekly post here on the blog.
It’s also Dysautonomia Awareness Month, which will be inspiring a few of my cartoons for the Inktober prompts (like #17, “salty”). I was diagnosed with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome–a form of dysautonomia) a year-and-a-half ago, and cartooning has helped me keep my spirits up and see the funny side of things while I learn to manage it.
It’s going to be a very busy month!
Lab Mice 