And warm birthday wishes to Art Spiegelman.

OK. Now I guess it’s breakfast (yes, at noon-thirty) then shovel time!

I’ve been waiting soooo long to do this one.

Here’s the story. I got busy with the holidays and didn’t get the New Year’s episode done before the celebration began. I did, however, have access to some napkins, a pen, and a few drunk friends; some of whom were kind enough to help me with the strip.

Here’s a breakdown to help you understand, since these are really a “had to be there” kind of deal.

1. My strip for the evening. Says it all.

2. Jenn did this one first to try to shut me up. She wrapped it up and said “There. Done.”

3. I’m not sure what Jon was going for here. I think it was a conversation going on at the table.

4. This was Anita’s (aka “themistress”) entry. We were bemoaning having to work so hard to buy products with pseudoephedrine because of meth-heads, and the fact we could no-longer buy clove cigarettes because some dolts someplace think it’ll curb teenage smoking.

There. Now you know.

So this explains the missing strip from two weeks ago, what about last week? Well, to be honest, I got a new video game for Christmas, and, well, I’ve been playing the hell out of it. There. I said it. Hopefully we’ll get back on schedule this week. Wish me luck!

Merry Christmas from Life in the Bighouse!

Even if you hate previous LitBs, this one might warm your heart.

I’ve decided to abandon Manga Studio EX for doing this strip. Whereas I really like some of the features, overall it’s just too sluggish and awkward for me, which winds up costing me far more time than this strip is worth. So I set up a nice template in Illustrator and did my best to recreate some of my favorite features/tools from MS EX. Then I decided I’d give it a whirl on a short little episode.

I present to you a nice bonus Blizzard episode. Enjoy.

Oh yeah and this is loosely based on a true story;-)