It’s gonna be an unusual month here on Dimfuture.
First of all, I hereby declare it Godzilla Month ‘round here. To state it directly, I have some things to say on the topic of the original Godzilla, and a few related topics, and say them I shall! Look for daily updates, then, for the next four weeks. We’ll take breaks from the Godzilla on Wednesdays, to rest and relax and look at Vincent Macropod cartoons. Like this one!
Secondly, our man Swensen is going to be up in his eyes in National Novel Writing Month. Does this mean he’ll be around less? Err, maybe. It would seem so, but then, there’s nothing more satisfying when working on a creative project than working on some other creative project. And he has also promised to share with us his musings on the novel-writing process. And some of these will take the form of a new, November-only cartoon series, written by Dan and drawn by me! W00t!
So enjoy the cartoon, enjoy Godzilla / Dan-Writes-a-Novel month, and dig those crazy cartoon annotations, below.
This cartoon is dedicated to Elizabeth Conway, as they all are, in some ways.
- Have you ever seen Day of the Triffids? The Triffids are only just barely in it. It’s more of a Day Marginally Including Triffids. Hence, the cartoon.
- Most of the details of my day are, of course, wholly fictitious. Excepting the following:
- I do have a lovely wife, who was my girlfriend when I drew this. Isabelle Thylacine is based on her in the same way that Vincent Macropod is based on me (meaning: sorta).
- I also have a dog, albeit a single-headed one. I don’t walk her as much as I ought.
- I do watch “Seventh Heaven,” actually. It lets me know how the other half lives. Especially important, since the other half runs America. Plus, it’s funnier than hell.
- I did run a role-playing game, with Dungeon Master’s Screen and all, until recently. My players’ reaction to my work is depicted fairly accurately. The game was not “Gamma World,” though.