Dumbing of Age Book Fourteen

Joyce cameo in Something*Positive.

by David M Willis on September 29, 2011 at 10:17 pm
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So you know it’s gonna be pretty wild.  Go check it out.

The great thing about Randy is that he always makes sure to first get permission from other artists to do these things.  Me?  I’m usually in the “better to ask forgiveness” camp, and like to surprise other creators with my theft of their intellectual property.  He’s an angel.  A gentleman.  And yet, his webcomic’s way meaner than mine.

I’ll be seeing Randy and several of my other most favorite webcomic people December 10 and 11 in Austin, Texas, for Webcomic Rampage.  If you’re in that quadrant of Texas, you totally need to come.  Hopefully I won’t get stuck with half a blender this time.

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We’re one year old today!

by David M Willis on September 9, 2011 at 9:24 pm
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Let’s party!

We should gather and remember our favorite moments from Dumbing of Age past.  Remember Sunday?  And Monday?  How about Tuesday?  And can you believe Wednesday?  Wow.  And let’s not even get into Thursday.  And, jeez, Friday is still going?

What a roller coaster ride.  Those were some good times.

May we all live to see Saturday.

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Joe was asked permission

by David M Willis on September 2, 2011 at 1:13 am
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Hey, remember when I had to do that “Ethan is gay” post?  This is another of those.

Roz asked Joe if she could tape them having sex and if she could put it up on the Internet.  She did.  She did she did she did.  Now everyone can stop claiming she didn’t.  Which is being claimed at an alarming rate, I gotta tell you.  I am seriously baffled.

For the record, Joe’s in-canon response to being used as a political pawn?  “I got to touch boobies, so we’re even.”  Same comic, even!  It’s a good’un!

(I feel weird categorizing a post as “news” when it’s just repeating the contents verbatim of a six-month-old strip.)

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Random convention busiwork

by David M Willis on September 1, 2011 at 3:17 pm
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Wizard World Chicago (an amazing convention) drained me of freebie Dumbing of Age bookmarks, so it’s time to stock up before the next convention.  (Mid-Ohio-Con in my hometown of Columbus from October 22 through 23!)  But rather than go with the old bookmarks, I decided to experiment with double-sided postcards for freebies.  This way I can get more comics on there.  This is good, because I don’t have many stand-alone comics anyway.  Choosing two consecutive or similarly-themed comics is much easier than trying to find a solitary strip that would appeal to a random stranger.

I’ve ordered about 500 of them.  Let’s see how they perform at Mid-Ohio-Con…

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A wild Robin appears!

by David M Willis on August 26, 2011 at 12:48 pm
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This required some digging, but here’s my first drawing of both Dumbing of Age Robin and Leslie, which I believe I drew while at Animefest in Dallas last year, the week or so before Dumbing of Age premiered.  So this drawing’s almost exactly one year old!

I finally get to, you know, show it, now that somebody’s out of the bag.

Congresswoman Robin DeSanto in today’s strip is drawn from my memory of this sketch, and so I’d forgotten that I’d drawn her with her hair down and had given her a dress shirt and tie.  Eh, no big.  I like what I ended up with.

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