Getting The Memeo
This is the last comic with “meme” in the title. I promise.
Paul has returned. This means the art is good again. The writing part still needs work, naturally, but at least you can look at the strip without wondering if you left the oven on. You didn’t, but you did leave the light on in that one room you haven’t been back to for over an hour. That’s just wasteful dude.
Since only twenty people read this comic (on a good day) I wasn’t surprised that 100% of the feedback I received on the meme-themed story arc was “I didn’t get it.” I could look at this as another “need to understand the audience before embarking on stuff” lesson. Or I could relax knowing that I am now officially one of those “misunderstood now but considered brilliant in 200 years” kinda artist.
I’m still deciding.
– Ben
Discussion (14) ¬
For some reason I’m sensing she wants the kitchen clean, but I could be wrong.
It’s subtle. You may need to re-read the strip a few times to get the gist.
Ben,
I enjoyed the meme story. It had all the elements one wants, a quest, a characters desire to be more than what the status quo tells him, a dream, and the fulfillment of that dream by propagation. What more could people want.
Thank you sir. You are good people!
…And a woman to crush that man’s dream
Man am I glad Paul’s back. That last week scared the crap out of me. To quote Banksy…
“I used to encourage everyone I met to make art. I used to think everyone should do it. I don’t really do that so much anymore.”
Haha! Thanks and thanks for the great quote!
Will you two please hush.
I enjoyed last week’s foray into meme-dom. Welcome back Paul! Thanks Ben for showing that even if the art is just stick figures, the comics can still be funny. Of course I’m just jealous of Paul because I can’t even draw a good stick figure!
Thanks guys!
Thanks, Ingrid!
Keep re-reading that, I’m sure ‘clean the kitchen’ is a euphemism for something, but I can’t figure out what…
As a man–we expect it to be a euphemism. Unfortunately, I think the ladies just mean it literally.
So true. As men, we can turn ANYTHING into euphemism.