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by David M Willis on January 28, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – See You in the Funny Page
└ Tags: joyce, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 28, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    and then like, Sydney wins it

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 28, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

      Nah.

      It’d probably be Mary.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 28, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

        Oh god, I can just see it, Mallard Fillmore but everyone’s an anime character.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 28, 2021 at 7:35 am | #

          The worst thing i learned in the world of comics last year was that Mallard Fillmorehad enough brand recognition that when the hack who created it (Tinsley? I’m trying to forget) stopped drawing it, or was forced out, a new person was hired to take over the strip.

          • Circeus
            Circeus
            January 28, 2021 at 7:45 am | #

            Isn’t that somewhat standard operative procedure?

            • Daibhid C
              Daibhid C
              January 28, 2021 at 8:22 am | #

              Usually, although some end because they’re a personal project of the author. The only one I can think of which was work-for-hire and actually ended was Apartment 3-G, and that had turned into such a mess that the syndicate just wanted to burn it.

              (Disclaimer: Everything I know about American newspaper comic strips was learned from The Comics Curmugeon.)

              • Daibhid C
                Daibhid C
                January 28, 2021 at 8:25 am | #

                (And, thinking about it, I guess “personal project of the author” is something you’d expect to apply to Right-Wing Duck Comics.)

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                January 28, 2021 at 10:53 am | #

                Some also likely end because they’re not profitable enough to go through the hassle.

                • Blindness
                  Blindness
                  January 28, 2021 at 11:03 am | #

                  or too specialized and the content becomes repetitive.

                  One syndicate runs on a five-year contract, so a lot are built around that timeframe if the cartoonist is smart enough to see that his/her work is borderline

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              January 29, 2021 at 5:27 pm | #

              Yes, for popular strips which people love, or enjoy, or at least don’t actively hate*. Ergo, Mallard Fecking Fillmore?

              *That “don’t actively hate” drives newsprint comics is pretty sad, actually.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 28, 2021 at 8:47 am | #

            I think he was arrested or got one too many DUIs or something. Unfortunately, Incredulous Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck will be with us forever. At least they got a competent artist who can kind-of ape Tinsley’s style and not somebody like the Dilbert guy.

            (Now there’s a story of somebody getting high off their own supply. I used to read that strip before learning about the creator, now I just can’t. In retrospect, it shows in his work so we should’ve seen it coming…)

            • Blindness
              Blindness
              January 28, 2021 at 11:00 am | #

              His DUIs were over a decade ago. It’s more likely that it’s him being told to back away because of the election and what how nasty it was going to turn out to be. He’s back doing them, and likely was doing storyboarding and oversight but not actually working on it. Either that or he was sick and couldn’t do the work.

              But it had nothing to do with the DUIs

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              January 29, 2021 at 5:31 pm | #

              Mallard Fillmore owes its entire existence to being the best right-wing cartoon out there. That’s a sad title to claim.

        • triplrrr
          triplrrr
          January 28, 2021 at 6:40 pm | #

          What happened to Bo?

    • Dara
      Dara
      January 28, 2021 at 1:21 am | #

      oh god you reminded us of Ninja Rick xD

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 28, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Joyce: “This’ll be easy! Like Chick Tracts, but hilarious on purpose!”

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      January 28, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

      https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/339029/Darkest-Dice

  3. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 28, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Of course you do, sweetie. Of course you do.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 28, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      I had a feeling this would happen, but like an idiot I didn’t make that prediction public, and now I’m robbed of gloating about having ‘told you so’ because I never actually told anyone so

      • Rex Vivat
        Rex Vivat
        January 28, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

        It’s fine, we believe you.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        January 28, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

        Someone called it less than a week(ish) ago. Something about Joyce making a comic in twenty years. I did a fake math check (comic timeline of a couple of semesters => 2 decades). It turns out they were right(ish) in that it’s happening within 20 years. Ha!/Oi vey.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          January 28, 2021 at 1:30 am | #

          DoA is ten years old as a comic, so we seem to be one decade per (half- with a timeskip) semester.

          Joyce’s inevitable descent into webcomics and eventually internet pornlordom has been a running gag since… well, at latest, sometime after Willis started describing himself as an Internet Pornlord because it’s a funny phrase and Joyce is incredibly repressed. I just don’t think any of us thought it might come true.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            January 28, 2021 at 9:22 am | #

            Phallady. Joyce identifies as female.

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              January 29, 2021 at 3:54 am | #

              One of the hovertexts during the Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit arc described Joyce as a “future pornlord”, so the title seems to be gender-neutral.

              • Rex Vivat
                Rex Vivat
                January 31, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

                Yup, this one https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/cleaning/

      • Icalasari
        Icalasari
        January 28, 2021 at 12:49 am | #

        Isn’t Joyce also based on Willis to a degree?

        Guess a comic arc was inevitable due to that

        • RacingTurtle
          RacingTurtle
          January 28, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

          She’s autobiographical, but she isn’t a self-insert. Other characters are allowed to embody the author’s real-life thoughts and experiences. Someone was probably gonna do a comic in-universe, but it didn’t necessarily have to be Joyce. (That said, having it be Joyce is a fun idea, especially after the Whiteboard Ding-Dong incident.)

        • Lars
          Lars
          January 28, 2021 at 2:39 am | #

          So is Walky … and Danny and Ethan and Dina and probably most of the other characters to a degree.
          And if Joyce, Walky, Ethan and Dina team up to draw the newspaper comic, the end result is Beast Wars fanfic with anatomical correct dinosaurs.

  4. Suet
    Suet
    January 28, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    This. Means. WARRRRR

    Or, yanno, make Walky the artist and Joyce the writer, whatever works.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      January 28, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      Something like that. At least the making out part.

    • MacareuxMoine
      MacareuxMoine
      January 28, 2021 at 9:54 am | #

      sounds reasonable:

      we know Walky can draw stuff (Dinosaurs at least) – but we’ve never seen him write anything (besides parts of the Dexter&Monkeymaster-Wiki)
      we know Joyce can write stuff (Julia Gray por.. eh.. stories) – but we’ve never seen her draw anything (besides increasingly accurate dingdongs)

  5. KSClaw
    KSClaw
    January 28, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    If you wanna beat the competition, don’t tell about the competition

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      January 28, 2021 at 3:02 am | #

      I thought that was the second rule of Comix-Klub?

  6. ian livs
    ian livs
    January 28, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Aw, yay, the smile’s back!

    • Azhrei Vep
      Azhrei Vep
      January 28, 2021 at 4:17 am | #

      Oh no, Sara’s joy!

      • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        January 28, 2021 at 3:59 pm | #

        As long as Sarah is elsewhere, she can be blissfully ignorant of Joyce’s happiness

      • jothki
        jothki
        January 28, 2021 at 4:50 pm | #

        Sara’s joy is safe, Joyce is draining it from Walky instead.

  7. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    January 28, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Yes, I’m happy with this turn of events.

    I suspect the winner will be more determined by whoever appeals to Daisy’s particular editorial biases more.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 28, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

      “This Julia Gray character…can she have a chest window?”

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        January 28, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

        Yes.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 28, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

        “What, no? That would be silly.

        President Kleener on the other hand…”

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 28, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

        “Is the Leather Jacket, Aviators, and unintentional homoerotic subtext between her and Doris Kenner not enough?”

  8. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    January 28, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    Okay, but neither one of them needs the whole stack if they are being conscientious about the environment. Joyce can still let him have a few pages lol

    • I am Nothing
      I am Nothing
      January 28, 2021 at 7:59 am | #

      Carla’s #1 Fan is Carla herself, right?

      • Carla's #2 Fan
        Carla's #2 Fan
        January 28, 2021 at 12:30 pm | #

        Yes! I’m glad someone caught that 😀

  9. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 28, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    Julia Gray – the comic

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      January 28, 2021 at 10:33 am | #

      Ace pilot Julia Gray takes off on another excellent adventure!
      No paper for you, nachito boy!

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      January 30, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      Daisy will demand that Julia’s romantic interest is a woman.

      And then demand that Joyce draws their honeymoon.

      In every. Single. Detail.

  10. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 28, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    *plays ABBA’s “The Name of the Game” on the hacked Muzak*

  11. carl320
    carl320
    January 28, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    What a twist!

  12. Some1
    Some1
    January 28, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    Meanwhile in Dina’s room:

    Sarah: I want to kick a puppy now.

  13. Yup
    Yup
    January 28, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    I hope this ends up with them working together, getting to know each other even better and accidentally ending up together.

  14. Nono
    Nono
    January 28, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Okay, so Dinosaurs with Bow ties (maybe two can be a Lady Dinosaur with Bow ties, just for Daisy) vs Julia Gray.

  15. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    January 28, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Unfortunately for Joyce it will be rejected because of its name, Croomies.

  16. Moon
    Moon
    January 28, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

    🙂

  17. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 28, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

    Rookie mistake Walkman. You never reveal your insider knowledge before you’ve secured the deal.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      January 28, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

      Also at five dollars a strip the supplies for drawing on paper cuts dangerously into your profit margins. Your cheap college student income ass is already outsourcing for supplies.You’ll propably be submitting this digitally anyway so just download a free art app (I recommend Krita) and draw the thing on your laptop with your mouse, or hell even your smartphone. I don’t think you’re actually ready for the independent comic business Walks.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        January 28, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

        Take a page from dinosaur comics. Draw it /once/ in MS Paint and then it’s only text bubbles forever more.

        • bcb
          bcb
          January 28, 2021 at 1:38 pm | #

          Yea, but that requires Ryan North to write a lot of text, which Walky might view as too much work.

          • The Chosen One
            The Chosen One
            January 28, 2021 at 2:43 pm | #

            Getting Ryan North to write a lot of text is probably still easier than doing it himself, though!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 28, 2021 at 8:38 am | #

        He should’ve just swiped paper out of a printer or Xerox machine in the library. (You gotta do what you gotta do when a ream of copy paper costs an entire day’s pay.)

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 28, 2021 at 12:46 am | #

      First rule of exploiting an advantage: don’t blab!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 28, 2021 at 9:50 am | #

      Our chances of success are 100% as long as we don’t have to compete in the free marketplace!

  18. Regalli
    Regalli
    January 28, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

    And with that, Joyce has well and truly taken the autobiographical character title from Walky, once and for all.

    (Plot twist: She mentions it to both Ethan and Danny, who ALSO decide to throw their hats into the ring.)

    • Jon
      Jon
      January 28, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

      Was going to say the same thing, it’s all come full circle!

      Though I guess she’s had the anti-fundamentalist epiphany BEFORE the comic strip gig, so a little bit cart-before-the-horse but whatever.

  19. emeraldbeacon
    emeraldbeacon
    January 28, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

    Just watch the two of them end up collaborating on a comic about everyday freshman college life. They could call the strip…

    …Walky & Joyce?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      January 28, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

      Calloborate? And split the already insulting wage of 5 bucks a strip in half?!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 28, 2021 at 8:35 am | #

        Walky’s gonna have to settle on store brand Nachitos.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      January 28, 2021 at 5:19 am | #

      I guess the collaboration will go more in the direction of “Nightguy vs. Julia Gray: Dawn of Something or Other”

  20. Callid13
    Callid13
    January 28, 2021 at 12:39 am | #

    Now I wonder, is this event auto-biographical? And if so, who is Willis? Joyce or Walky?

    • Newllend(henryvolt)
      Newllend(henryvolt)
      January 28, 2021 at 5:16 am | #

      Chances are probably just two different aspects of Willis battling for Supremacy.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 28, 2021 at 6:21 am | #

      Roomies was done while Willis was in school, I think, so sorta?

  21. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    January 28, 2021 at 12:40 am | #

    A CHALLENGER APPEARS
    PLAYER 2 HAS ENTERED THE GAME

  22. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 28, 2021 at 12:53 am | #

    Walky vs. Joyce: Who Will Be The Most Autobiographical Today?

  23. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    January 28, 2021 at 12:53 am | #

    Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 28, 2021 at 9:25 am | #

      So, G(arfield)s?

  24. MrSmith
    MrSmith
    January 28, 2021 at 1:03 am | #

    Well Walky you’ve learnt a valuble lesson, if you take it on board that it. If you stumble on an opportunity you really want then keep it to yourself.

    Interestingly I learnt this lesson at around the same time. I heard of a job down at the wool store on the wharf and I told a mate who came along, long story short one of us got the job and quit less than two weeks later

    Surprise surprise it wasn’t me…

  25. cmasta1992
    cmasta1992
    January 28, 2021 at 1:12 am | #

    Sarah just tripped on a brick.

    The energies are shifting and she doesn’t know why

  26. Nenja
    Nenja
    January 28, 2021 at 1:41 am | #

    Joyce becomes more and more auto-biographical.

    • MrSmith
      MrSmith
      January 28, 2021 at 1:48 am | #

      I’m just glad its Joyce and not Walky

  27. BenRG
    BenRG
    January 28, 2021 at 2:06 am | #

    Destiny is a funny thing. I’m wondering if we’re about to see the birth of a strip comic that will last far beyond their college years into an unexpected adult career?

    The Adventures of Julia Grey – Space Ace
    Art by David Walkerton. Scripts by Joyce Brown

  28. foducool
    foducool
    January 28, 2021 at 2:23 am | #

    I bet they both suck at this lmao

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 28, 2021 at 9:26 am | #

      So did Willis, at first

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        January 28, 2021 at 2:36 pm | #

        So does everyone when they try something new. It’s part of the artistic process. 🙂

        I deeply admire my 3rd Grade students, who are willing to throw themselves headfirst into new skills, getting things wrong over and over, brushing off their mistakes, and trying yet again…

        If grownups would face failure that bravely, the whole world might be different.

  29. Jane
    Jane
    January 28, 2021 at 2:41 am | #

    I’m rooting for you to win the gig, Joyce!

  30. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 28, 2021 at 2:46 am | #

    “and now I can see what I draw”

    • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
      LiterallyJustSomeGuy
      January 28, 2021 at 4:10 pm | #

      This made me laugh!

  31. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 28, 2021 at 2:46 am | #

    Fine, I’m calling it.

    Mary will do the comic

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      January 28, 2021 at 3:08 am | #

      That’s the most evil thing I’ve heard since Jan. 20th.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 28, 2021 at 3:12 am | #

      “Mary, we have to drop you. We’re getting complaints that all the characters look the same to the point they’re completely indistinguishable.”

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 28, 2021 at 8:33 am | #

        “And why are all your characters generic anime guys weeping before the anime crucifixion?”

  32. Corneel
    Corneel
    January 28, 2021 at 3:18 am | #

    “The New Adventures of the Dingdong Bandit. Episode 1: One night in Bangkok.”

    • Dean
      Dean
      January 28, 2021 at 5:36 am | #

      One night in Bangdingdong.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 28, 2021 at 7:46 am | #

      “Episode 2: I don’t know him so well.”

      (Any other members of the Chess cult here?)

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        January 28, 2021 at 9:30 am | #

        Ep3: Creme De La Creme Of The Chess World In A Show With Everything But Some Old Actor I Don’t Know

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        January 28, 2021 at 11:11 am | #

        The London version or the Broadway version? Choose wisely. There is only one correct answer.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 28, 2021 at 3:06 pm | #

          London, of course.
          Though I do like Someone Else’s Story from the Broadway version.

  33. poofdepoof
    poofdepoof
    January 28, 2021 at 4:59 am | #

    Both author inserts* are competing to draw a comic strip? Wonder which side will win!

    *Don’t mean this in a negative connotation-y way, just a little too sleepy to figure out if that’s the proper phrase

  34. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    January 28, 2021 at 5:13 am | #

    He tucked up not going to Amber first. The other two would have also most likely try to steal his job in addition to an unpleasant conversation.

  35. RowenMorland
    RowenMorland
    January 28, 2021 at 6:05 am | #

    They could team up to draw ‘Joyce & Walky’.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 28, 2021 at 8:28 am | #

      Plot twist: he can’t write, she can’t draw, but together they’re unstoppable.

      At least until Walky realizes splitting the check means he can only afford half as many vending machine Nachitos. (Joyce just goes to the grocery store instead.)

  36. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 28, 2021 at 6:22 am | #

    I am not sure if I want a rivalry more or them deciding to team up.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 28, 2021 at 8:28 am | #

      Maybe some pairings are inevitably? In this universe, Walky and Joyce being a husband-and-wife team with Joyce doing the scrips and Walky the art?

      • zee
        zee
        January 28, 2021 at 11:25 am | #

        Willis ain’t treading over husband and wife Walky and Joyce again

  37. JBento
    JBento
    January 28, 2021 at 7:41 am | #

    Walky channelling hedge funders in that last panel there.

    • Bobcat2022
      Bobcat2022
      January 28, 2021 at 3:17 pm | #

      Can’t believe I had to scroll so far down to find someone saying this

  38. :0
    :0
    January 28, 2021 at 8:22 am | #

    And so it begins.
    (Is this a DoA origin story?)

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 28, 2021 at 8:26 am | #

      It’s a heavily-fictionalised version of Willis’s life-story, yes.

  39. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 28, 2021 at 9:05 am | #

    Interesting contest.

  40. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    January 28, 2021 at 9:32 am | #

    Walky, to ensure your success, you need do only one thing – NOT TELL ANYONE!!

    Yeah, it was doomed to failure.

  41. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    January 28, 2021 at 9:35 am | #

    *autobiographing intensifies*

  42. thumb
    thumb
    January 28, 2021 at 10:26 am | #

    I hope they’re both terrible at it.

  43. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    January 28, 2021 at 11:18 am | #

    Joyce is going to make 9 chickweed lane, isn’t she?

    • Diane
      Diane
      January 28, 2021 at 12:18 pm | #

      But instead of legs, it’s chests everywhere.

  44. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    January 28, 2021 at 11:59 am | #

    They should team up, and work on it together.

  45. bcb
    bcb
    January 28, 2021 at 1:36 pm | #

    Ooh, Joyce should write a comic strip for the school newspaper about college students! It could have a pair of roommates where one of them is a sex-obsessed womanizer who also invents hoverboards, and the other one has a girlfriend in high school who is a year younger. And also they know another girl who’s always over-the-top happy and likes The Sound of Music and thinks she’s going to marry a guy who isn’t actually interested in her. Oh, and of course this over-the-top hyper happy girl has a roommate who is always bitter and miserable. And maybe throw a car crash in there somewhere?

    Not sure what to call a comic like that. Maybe something like Roommates?

    • Alaric
      Alaric
      January 28, 2021 at 2:22 pm | #

      And it could morph over time into a more science-fiction-y, superhero-y series. Or would that be too much of a stretch?

  46. Edwin I Callahan
    Edwin I Callahan
    January 28, 2021 at 1:55 pm | #

    Maybe it will be about a bunch of college students who find themselves in an actual “Dexter and Monkey Master.” But with dinosaurs so Dina doesn’t feel left out.

  47. ischemgeek
    ischemgeek
    January 28, 2021 at 5:09 pm | #

    Joyce writes a comic that gets spun off in a comic so you have a comic that’s a comic in another comic

    (I don’t know why but it’s funny to me)

  48. Mancuso
    Mancuso
    January 28, 2021 at 5:49 pm | #

    I’m loving everybody’s new hair but especially Walky’s, Sarah’s, and Becky’s. Oh and Bil- whatever, everybody’s new hair.

  49. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    January 28, 2021 at 6:20 pm | #

    Walky doesn’t stand a chance. If there’s any force more powerful than Sweatervest Joyce, it’s Denimvest Joyce.

  50. Tony McGurk
    Tony McGurk
    January 28, 2021 at 6:48 pm | #

    Yep, that would be me. I’d need zero competition too.

  51. Hielario
    Hielario
    January 28, 2021 at 8:06 pm | #

    I wish the university newspapers I used to read had comic strips…

  52. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    January 29, 2021 at 1:47 am | #

    Newspaper is probably dying for filler, so tecnically both could

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