Carolyn “Curls Studio” Belefski was one of the amazing artists who performed one of our short, 10-minute Super Art Fights at this past weekend’s Washington, DC Counter Culture Fest 5 shows we did throughout the day. Here’s a vid!

Yes, it’s finally happened. After wanting to bring the Super Art Fight experience to DC for over 2 years, it’s finally going to happen. More than that, it’s being put on by my own students! The American University Graphic Design Department has seen fit to put on a full show of Super Art Fight as a club-sponsored event this Tuesday, November 2nd at 8pm.

The good news? It’s free! Totally free and open to the public, young and old, student or otherwise. If you come to the event you’ll see most of the normal show including myself, Jami “Angry Zen Master” Noguchi, Chris “The Impact” Impink, and Garth “Finders Keepers” Graham* battling it out in a round-robin style 3-match extravaganza. Since it is a student event, the plan is to also leave some time for Q&A with the artists, whom are all graphic designers and will be talking a bit about their trade and careers on the canvas and off.

If you’re planning on attending, here’s a link to the Facebook event that the AU club put up. If you’re going to come, RSVP! It helps out with planning for the show.

This event is put on by myself with lots of my students, so I couldn’t be prouder and more excited about it. I know they are too, though they probably will think differently once Jami starts drawing boobs. Not sure if that will help or hurt, but it can’t help with my chances of keeping this job.

If you have any questions, post them in the comments and I’ll get to them.

*Garth, we need to get you a better nickname.

Today’s comic was inspired by the most recent Nedroid comic, which parodies The New Yorker style of image / caption cartooning. A bit silly, but I thought it had some nice subtlely.

For those who wonder how a joke comes together, here’s the train of thought behind today’s comic:

Hmm, what should this comic be about? I said I’d do a caption style. I guess I should go read some New Yorker cartoons. Okay, there goes an hour. Now what about this comic? Do I have any notes written down? “Pirate juice”, what was that supposed to be? Oh yeah! This could be funny…

*10 minutes of Illustrator time later*

What exactly should the line be? Should it be that the doctor is lecturing the patient or apologizing to him? I think it works better as the doctor apologizing, like he didn’t know any better. I can do that just by writing “sorry” at the front. Nice. Aaaand Marty thinks this is funny. Okay, time to post! I guess I’ll mention how I came up with this in the writeup. Maybe people will read that.

Remember, any print of any comic purchased through the HilariAwesome.com store through the end of the month has all the proceeds go to a cure for breast cancer! Currently we’re at $0. Come on you guys, you’re making me look bad in front of breast cancer.

Remember as I said Saturday, any purchases of original prints / posters through the end of this month will have money donated to breast cancer research! Especially the last comic on breasts and typefaces. Just place any order from http://www.hilariawesome.com/ for any comic print and I’ll do the rest. At the end of the month I’ll post a tally of how it goes.

Speaking of Saturday, I didn’t get to a comic on Friday but did post it on Saturday. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, I recommend it. You should check it out here.

This one ranks up there with “no tit for tat” for me in the bad pun department.

UPDATE: You may have to refresh the page / feed to see the comic. Some uploading trouble caused a slight issue that was resolved after your reader may have loaded the post.

Also, any purchases of original prints / posters through the end of this month will have money donated to breast cancer research! Especially the last comic on breasts and typefaces. Just place any order from http://www.hilariawesome.com/ for any comic print and I’ll do the rest. At the end of the month I’ll post a tally of how it goes.

Sorry for just announcing this, I just had the idea and thought it might help.