This isn’t the sort of thing I’d normally post, but since the site just turned one year old, I’m feeling a little self-indulgent. Now, I regularly view other webcomics and subscribe to far more than could be considered healthy. Almost daily I see a comic that, whilst making me howl with laughter, also depresses me slightly, as I see how far my own work has to go before regularly attaining such standards. Depending on my mood, it either spurs me on to try and create my funniest cartoon yet or it makes me want to just throw my pen away in despair and scuttle under the nearest convenient rock. I realise that these comics are coming from all over the world and are created by very talented people who have dedicated their lives to the artform (rather than being an enthusiastic hobbyist like myself), so I shouldn’t be too hard on myself. However, I didn’t expect there to be competition coming from within my own household. This is a cartoon that my six year old daughter drew.
It may not be immediately obvious what’s going on in the picture, so let me explain. A bunch of little men are having a party on her head whilst she is shouting at them to “Get Off!” I particularly like the little man on her nose who has got lost on the way to the party. Of course, I might be a little biased, but this makes me guffaw and in a way that I guffaw at the work of people like Nedroid and Buttersafe. I don’t know why I find it so funny, I just do. I think I could learn a thing or two from her.
Goddamn kids and their fertile imaginations unfettered by adult ephemera. I hope you pointed out that off has two F’s in it.