Boring readers since 2007.
Last Update: June 30, 2009
Updates whenever I get around to it.
THIS IS ME is an ongoing strip which has been running since June 2007. The comic updates as often as possibly, hopefully three days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays). Occasional delays are unavoidable.
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 takes him endless hours to write and draw a single strip, yet they still look like a cross-eyed four-year-old drew them with a broom handle.
This actually happened almost as detailed in the strip.
I was pushing my cart along the aisle of the local supermarket when suddenly this child who I've never seen before, three or four years old, gapes at me and tells me I'm evil.
I still have no idea how it came to that bizarre conclusion. I doubt it recognized me from TV.
Yet another strip where the drawings are trying to overreach their goal.
There is one reader (yes, you) who keeps trying to puzzle together the text of the half-hidden signs in the background. Enjoy.
Note: In case you missed it – This Is Me updated last Saturday, off-schedule. It was to be Friday's strip, but I got sidetracked by work.
News: I just finished house-cleaning This Is Me. Since all the ideas for future strips are littered throughout a growing number of sketchbooks, I keep track of my strip ideas using a big spreadsheet. The main idea was to avoid duplicates as well as finding related strips to group into clusters. This approach may seem prosaic, but it's proved rather useful.
When I started doing this a year ago, cataloguing the unused ideas took me a week. For every strip, I list relevant keywords, a possible title, the date of inception, the name of the sketchbook and a brief one-line summary (often the punch line). The spreadsheet currently holds about a hundred and fifty unused strip ideas.
Last fall, the whole cataloguing idea became burdensome and I promptly stopped filing more recent ideas. Two weeks ago, I sat down and spent two days catching up. Then I began to schedule the strips leading up to number 250 (we're at #222 now). It's an odd feeling to see the turns the road is going to take in the upcoming weeks.
Please, dear reader, let me know whether you like THIS IS ME. Criticism is also appreciated. Your feedback keeps me going. Please e-mail me at <me AT thisisme-comic DOT com> (replace AT and DOT with the respective characters, sorry about that hurdle).
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