Life’s A Cakewalk Comics #2
It’s been a sketchbook-o-rama for the last couple of weeks here, and this one continues that trend. This is taken from more or less daily drawings from 3/1/05 to 4/2/05, with a couple of extra (and hilarious) pages thrown in at the end. Hilarious to me mostly because I can relate to having a cat that tears everything up and is still too crazy to relax comfortably. It’s typical sketchbook stuff, which is a good thing in my book, and the page I sampled about why she does comics and the long list of whiny bitches who have done comics over the years is a wonderful, wondeful thing. Introspection is a requirement for these things, she gets that fact and is still able to pull off an entertaining comic without coming across as too self-obsessed. It doesn’t hurt anything that she actually has interesting things to say, ranging from strips about childhood memories, copying the comic, neutering her cat, sitting in urine on the bus, rock shows, working, the actual logistics of being a woman (and the fact that parts of their appearance are inevitably based on lies), and crappy landlords, among other things.? It sounds like she’s not going to keep up the sketchbook stuff, opting instead to focus more on “regular” comics, which I’d love to see. I liked her piece in the Marvel parody book done by Ed Piskor quite a bit, anyway. Oh yeah, and it’s a hefty read for only $1.50.
