Author: David M Willis

Hey, dudes!  Maggie and I are on the road to Easthampton, Massachusetts, for New England Webcomics Weekend.  Why?  Because NEWW is friggin’ awesome. We’ll be there for the Pub Crawl on Friday night, plus both “real” days, Saturday and Sunday. […]
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Brian Daniel brings us this art of Joyce dressed up like Joy and Joy dressed up like Joyce.  (Joy is from the best anime ever, Superbook.)  I bet Brian thinks he’s being clever or something! Well, he is.
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I dare you to find me a more accurate depiction of Ruth than this piece by Mark P. Tjan, which I stole from his DeviantArt gallery.  Man, someone call me the Ghostbusters or something.
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It’s the return of fanart!  OMFG!  Here’s Billie, uncharacteristically happy, as portrayed by Pembroke of Femmegasm.  See, she’s got beers!  And Uggs!  What more could a girl want?
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New England Webcomics Weekend, the best thing ever in the whole damn world, is this Saturday and Sunday in Easthampton, Massachusetts!  I am serious, it is like eating chocolate while having sex on top of an airplane that Indiana Jones […]
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Sweet, my first Dumbing of Age fanfic!  And it’s SLASHfic!  (Of the PG-13 variety.)  That’s the best kind of fic!  It’s by Reblaw and you should totally read it here on the forums. I also still have a huge backlog […]
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Sal was the third character I redesigned for Dumbing of Age.   Joyce and Sarah were pretty easy.  They were both college students 13 years ago, so reworking them was just a menial wardrobe update.  But Sal, in her other life, […]
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So sometimes I spend a whole lotta time drawing backgrounds, only for them to get covered up almost entirely by characters.  I mean, I know what parts are gonna get covered up, since I blue-pencil everything down before starting to […]
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Like clockwork, here’s Mike’s fashion closet.  Some readers have commented that it’s kind of weird to think of Mike wearing things that aren’t either his original black t-shirt or the Shortpacked! uniform.  I agree!  Well, I agreed more about a […]
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Indiana University denizens should recognize today’s strip’s setting as the northern sidewalk of Third Street.  Here’s an image of the first panel as I’m starting to put characters onto the background. Man, Google Maps Street View is a lifesaver.
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