In the spring of 2008, I took Zak Sally's Comic Publishing course at MCAD. Our first assignment was to create a diary comic strip a week for ten weeks.
After the first week or so I began to keep an actual comic strip diary, inspired by Chris Ware's example (as seen as his Acme Novelty Datebook sketchbook collections.
Out of total laziness, I stopped doing the assignment and simply scanned and pieced together acceptable (on a personal level, not on an artistic level) strips from the diary. Past the first strip here, I never intended any of this to be seen.
So of course at a certain point in the class, all the strips had to be shared. Kind of a 'duh'. At first I was horrified. After a friend (Toby, who appears in the Oct. 9 entry -- by the way, I'm singing the Silver Jews song to him if it's not clear) pointed out that he liked this better than most of my 'real' work, I began to see it as an interesting experiment. The daily diary fell by the wayside. But these are left as a neurotic document of a short period in my life.
En...joy....?