Hermit Hill | #137 | 07/03/09

Thou Dost Protest Too Much.

Here's the last one with our new villain friend. I know what you're thinking, who or what is in the sack? That, my friend, is a tale for another day... Or not. Depends on my mood.

Next week ... boxes!

Yay!!

Greetings from Wonderland nods towards the Hill

Yesterday a friend of mine and fellow Dallas area cartoonist, Grant Sutherland, reached 300 strips in his comic strip Greetings From Wonderland. For his 300th he drew into his strip one of my Hermit Hill characters. It shows Francis making a delivery to Wonderland Studios and then bragging to Walter about his experience, which leads perfectly into the mention of his strip I drew a couple weeks ago.

Grant's strip follows the mis-adventures of two guys that work on a Sci-Fi TV show called Dogstar Pirates about dog like aliens, which is really a government operation to acclimate the public to the characters on the show so they can later reveal that they really are aliens. It's a clever concept, so I encourage everyone to go check out Grant's work.

Congrats on 300 strips, man! Here's to 300 more.

Hermit Hill | #136 | 07/01/09

Gut Instinct.

You don't see a lot of the black cape and top hat look any more. Too bad. Wouldn't it be so much easier if the people you're supposed to avoid in life looked this obvious? I guess it's culturally relevant to remember that the villains who looked like this in all those old silent films were bankers and mortgage holders. Did Bernie Madoff ever wear a top hat? Hmm...

Hermit Hill | #135 | 06/29/09

Suspicious Character.

Can you imagine ending up looking like one of those classic villain stereotypes? I mean, there are just certain looks that older Hollywood latched onto as being indicative of "the Bad Guy", but what if you just have an affinity for dark clothing and capes? We just jump to conclusions I guess. He looks innocent enough to me...

Hermit Hill | #134 | 06/26/09

Grateful Critters.

It's been a while since I had these guys make an appearance. Time for some cute! Are they ignorantly innocent and truly wish to show gratitude towards our hapless hero? Or are they sarcastic, nasty little monsters with a vicious mean streak? You be the judge.

Hermit Hill | #133 | 06/24/09

Say What You Mean.

I think that when robots observe humans talking this is what they hear. No wonder they get confused. I was playing around with some language translators on the web and I found the most entertaining thing to do with them is to put in a phrase, translate it to another language, then translate that back again. You'd think you would end up with the same phrase you started with, but you'd be wrong. So very, very wrong.