I was in a bike accident on Sunday and beyond any physical damage (stitches in my chin and a severe blow to my pride) I’m playing catch-up all this week, so you guys get some guest comics!

Dern is a jackass. Yes, he did a guest comic for me. Here was the email I got from him:

TO: Rosscott
SUBJECT: This came to me in a dream
ATTACHED: Comic

weirdest part about the dream? It was a system comic.

So why, when I’m being provided a guest comic by one of my closer comics friends, do I call him a jackass? He laid out the whole thing in Arial. He knows how I feel about Arial, just like how I know how he feels about people never returning pens. And even so, he lays out the whole thing in Arial. Of course, I couldn’t just let that go. So, in my pain-killered, drug-addled, injured stupor I re-set the type in the appropriate Helvetica, complete with some art touch-ups (this is why you’re seeing something nice above, and a nice straight line across the lower case “t” just like the lord intended).

Dern is the writer behind Hello With Cheese, if you can call that writing. Strange thoughts appear in his head, and he sends them to his slave artist who tries to make sense of it all and then turns it into a comic. I admit, half the joy of this comic is thinking about how that went down sometimes, as most of the ideas range from groans to jokes I’m ashamed at laughing at. Still, at least it’s not a pirate advice column. If you’re looking for a place to dive in, I had a comic come to me in a dream one time, and he made it into a comic. Hell, twice. Check out a HWC comic I helped write HERE.

This is what I thought I saw this morning before I put on my glasses.

Btw, I’m working on the Yermom typeface. Here’s a quick type sample (handwritten-ness and all):

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Thanks to everyone who came to visit my table, check out my panel, or see Super Art Fight at Conencticon! I’ll be doing a write-up tonight, stay tuned. Meanwhile, let’s give it up to this pilot. He’s awesome.

UPDATE: Typo is fixed!

Note that it’s “Getting Up” and not “Getting It Up”. Check back tomorrow, yes a Tuesday, for another fresh comic along with info on how YOU can win one of the new COFFEE SHIRTS that is currently AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. Don’t worry, if you win one and you’ve already placed the preorder, I’ll give you the option of getting your money back on the one you already paid for (or you get two, your call).

Sorry for the delay on this one, Systemics. The creative well has been running a bit dry as of late.

Still, I think we have all been here. Does a good deed really go unnoticed? When it is to be noticed early in the morning in an empty office, I think so. I think there’s a follow-up about coffee somewhere in there.

After coming off of a con weekend, this is about how I feel.  I think I’m zen, like I’ve somehow conquered the ability to sleep, until about 3pm.  Then it all catches up.  Apparently it hits this guy (let’s call him Geoff) a little earlier, or he eats a late lunch.  Your call.

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