Celebrating tedium since 2007.
Last Update: April 26, 2011
May update once in a blue moon.
THIS IS ME is an ongoing strip which ran from June 2007 to November 2009. The comic was updated as often as possibly, two or three times a week. Occasional delays were unavoidable. There may be new stuff occasionally.
Before you get any odd ideas: THIS IS ME is not meant to be taken literally.
The author and artist of THIS IS ME is a talentless hack and an old fart. It took him endless hours to write and draw every single strip, yet they still look like a cross-eyed four-year-old drew them with a broom handle.
It's true: There appears to be one (1) remaining reader out there and he e-mailed to ask whether I feeling better. Honestly – you should know better than to ask.
But it made me think that perhaps I should add another strip to establish that I'm still alive.
Drawn into my sketchbook with a pen and markers, on a lark. Note the crooked lines, the shading crossing the panel borders, the badly-drawn hands ...
Scanning the whole thing in and lettering it took approximately as much as the actual drawing process.
When I concluded the strip in November 2009, the plan was to keep updating the site with occasional comics to celebrate special occasions (such as holidays), sketches, best-of compilations...
Then tedium set in. Then the holidays kept me busy. And then I had an accident.
In early January, on the first day of work, on the way home, I broke my thumb. The left hand's thumb. Big deal, I thought at first. But then, the first operation failed. Towards the end of January, the second operation went bad. The surgeon put my entire left hand in a cast for five and a half weeks.
Over this time, the thumb pain had became chronic. One of the loose screws inside my thumb threatened to puncture the skin from within. They put me in the hospital for two weeks for pain therapy, then added another week to remove the titanium surplus. I was the least damaged person in the four bed sick room and I'd felt like a complete poser if it hadn't been for the pain.
I have been out of the hospital for one week now. At some point, I sketched and drew a couple of comic strips just to keep my sanity. On Friday, the stitches were removed; now all that's left is to recover a decent range of movement. The whole thing has cost me more than three and a half months of my life. Enjoy the new strip.
My heart-felt advice to you all: Don't break a thumb.
Please, dear reader, let me know whether you like THIS IS ME. Criticism is also appreciated. It's feedback keeps me going. Feel free to e-mail me at <me AT thisisme-comic DOT com> (please replace AT and DOT with the corresponding characters, sorry about that hurdle).
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