Tuesday | February 9th, 2010
Vitals
Herkimer! and Friends #707
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Hey everybody (all 4..5? of you), just wanted to let you know that Tuesday’s and today’s missing comics are due to me taking a couple days off to go meet my brand new baby niece and attend to some other family stuff. The strip will go back to M-F starting on Thursday (tomorrow) while I continue pondering the shift to a three times a week update schedule. In the meantime, go read this and check out something else I did using Mrs. Henderson’s First Grade Class! See you Thursday!
So, any of you readers out there have any feedback about me taking the strip to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule? If you do, I’d love to hear from you. Contact me and let’s talk about it!
Keep Laughing!
-Will
Dear Laughing Boy Comics,
I’m really enjoying your Christmas storyline this year. It’s pretty funny.
Also, you suck.
Sincerely,
A Jewish Girl
I really love Christmas…and not for the religious reasons I’m probably supposed to. I love it for all the secular reasons Ebenezer Scrooge comes to love it in A Christmas Carol; kindness, generosity, friendship, family and most importantly, staying positive. It’s a good concept, whether you celebrate it as a religious holiday or not. (I think Jesus would be cool with it either way as long as you get it.) But another reason I love Christmas is because of reinterpretation. I love seeing new takes on classics with characters I love. Scrooged, A Mickey Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, are all masterpieces in my eyes. So this past week, and for the next couple weeks, I’m taking my own stab at playing with the classic Charles Dickens story. Something I’ve wanted to do since starting this comic strip. It’s not the period piece most people have done, but rather a thematic event, with the characters aware of Dickens’s tale…but you figured that out. ANYWAY… I just wanted to share some of my thoughts on this year’s holiday tale. And whether you’re down with J.C. or not, it’s like the Muppet Ghost of Christmas Present sang, “It is the season of the heart.” And if it takes a 6 foot Muppet to get the point across…so be it.
Social commentary about mustaches. You must read it.