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Contest Winners!

May 16th, 2008

daily distress masthead

Hey! The winners of the Daily Distress tabloid contest are just in! Congratulations to these clever people, and massive waves of gratitude to everyone who contributed ads and articles. Read the rest of this entry »

out of wedlock

May 16th, 2008

wedding detail

With all this fuss about the California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage, I can’t help but reminisce about my own marriage in San Francisco four years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Wait!

May 15th, 2008

wait

DTWOF is going into hibernation. Or estivation, at any rate. But this blog, as long as you’ll have it, is wide awake. So don’t go anywhere else Read the rest of this entry »

DTWOF episode #527

May 13th, 2008

527 detail

Okay, here it is. The last episode for who knows how long. Nuthin’ fancy. No loose ends tied up. Just another strip.
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hey

May 13th, 2008

Thanks, everyone, for your very sweet support for my decision to suspend DTWOF for a while. Well, that seems to be the preponderance of opinion so far—I haven’t read all the comments closely because I’m working hard to Read the rest of this entry »

winds of change

May 10th, 2008

In amidst the recent strands about Bob Dylan’s and Joan Baez’s relationship, knitting and drinking, the etymology of “shambolic,” and self-inflicted haircuts, there’s been an insistent thread about fan-fic. As well as actual submissions of it–another one just in, see below. Read the rest of this entry »

well I’ll be damned

May 8th, 2008

mothersdayDTWOF closeup

People took the substitute cartoonist thing very seriously! Here’s an amazing submission by Iara. She revived Raffi’s old daycare provider, who appeared once, in 1997, and aged her perfectly! Read the rest of this entry »

he’s not heavy, he’s my brother

May 5th, 2008

me&john on bus

Actually, he’s very heavy. Heavy industrial metal. This is me with my little brother John Saturday in Montreal, Read the rest of this entry »

another subsitute cartoonist and a substitute barber

May 3rd, 2008

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Yesterday my hair was getting really long, so my friend the moose thought perhaps she could cut it. Read the rest of this entry »

substitute cartoonists

May 1st, 2008

On the last post, A Lurker suggested having guest artists this week, like when the little kid Billy draws The Family Circus for the dad. People seem to be spontaneously doing this. Look! Read the rest of this entry »