Lucky

This is from Anthony Vukojevich’s blog Repaneled.

Here is the last of my showable work from ten years ago.  This was the year 2000 in San Francisco, at the end of the of the “dot com boom.”  There was also a “housing bubble”, and a lot of people I knew were getting evicted or priced out.  As I had no interest in computers and lived in a rent-stabilized apartment, I was mostly unaffected by these things, and so had a lot of time to draw comics about all the incidental details of my life.

Oh, and comics were not the respected literary-artform then that they are now.  So when people asked me what I meant to do with my life, this didn’t count.  These comics were a secret I was both ashamed and proud of, which is pretty much how I feel about them still.

Next week I’ll be returning to my regular semi-real-time-semi-autobiographical-comics.

Just click on the image twice to make it readable.

I didn’t have the wherewithal to complete a comic this week, and as penance I am publishing this unpublished excerpt from my private comic diary from ten years ago.  This is proto-Lucky, my secret project which I worked at obsessively, albeit on and off, at the same time I was working on my fictional and (more or less) more polished autobiographical comics. Most of it is just too terrible or too personal to ever be read by anyone else, but there are a few moments like this one that you might enjoy.  At the least, it might be interesting to see how my work has and hasn’t changed. This piece is centered around a former teacher of mine who is, among other things, a professional liar.

ps: If you haven’t figured it out already, you can click on the image twice to make it as legible as it’ll ever be.