Author: David M Willis

Let’s all bid a bittersweet farewell to Joe’s It’s Walky!-era purple luau shirt.  A college freshman who wants to have intimate relations with multiple females is not going to be wearing that in 2010.  Unfortunately, as, if I recall correctly, […]
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Here’s a video of me drawing Friday’s strip on Ustream.tv, way back on August 5.  Watch me pull up photos of the real-life location as a reference to create the strip’s backgrounds!  Watch me, uh, draw the characters!  Um.  For […]
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This is Danny, who was the main character in Roomies!.  In Dumbing of Age, Joyce takes center stage, pushing Danny into the background a bit, but not so far into the background that he wouldn’t need a change of clothes. […]
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Those of you who are familiar with my older works have been seeing a lot of very familiar faces, but there’s going to be some unfamiliar faces as well.  Which is fine, since this is a new continuity and I’m […]
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The only post that I couldn’t retrieve from Google cache when rebuilding this website was the one about Walky and his change of clothes.  I can’t really remember exactly what I wrote about it in length, but let me summarize […]
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First of all, after today’s strip everyone should probably recognize where the site’s wallpaper comes from.  Yeah, it’s the actual tile pattern from the real-life lobby of Read Hall, which is where the strip’s characters live.  I liked it so […]
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Here’s some stuff I drew up for Billie to wear.  The “97″ on the shirt she wears in her first appearance refers to 1997, the date that Roomies! started.  I really like this shirt, but the others I might tweak […]
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Joyce’s father, Hank Brown, in today’s Dumbing of Age strip articulates some of my feelings upon revisiting my old college dorm online.  They have all these pictures, and it’s all sparkly and they have these awesome-looking loft beds and… oh my god, […]
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