Story Archives

December 22, 2006

I’ve been wanting to get Bernard working at the comic shop for YEARS now, but have never found a good opportunity until now. The plus for me, of course, is that I get to not only have Bernard at a job and do all THOSE jokes, but I can also pepper in more fun pop-culture elements.

December 27, 2006

I, like Bernard here, am NOT particularly good at multi-tasking. In my case, I think I need to work a little harder on coming up with funny dialouge AND draw something more interesting than Dandy & Bernard wandering aimlessly.

I miss the log in the wintertime. It’s just silly to have them sitting on the frozen ground at a log talking, unless I plan on a lengthy series of hemorrhoid related gags as a result, and so I often have the “Talking head” strips like todays just be them meandering. I SO envy Bill Watterson’s ability to stage such wonderful activities to accompany Calvin and Hobbes’ various discussions.

December 29, 2006

Man, how I do love the term, “plausible deniability”. It’s not the first time Dandy has used it in such a fashion, and I doubt it’ll be the last. It’s just so wonderfully official and ominous at the same time.

January 3, 2007

Back when I was in High School, I worked for a local Sports Card and Comic book shop in Yonkers, New York called “NeW York Sports Fan”. When I started there, I was pretty much in the position Bernard was in now, with little to do at first EXCEPT clean up.

In the first few days, It certainly seemed that I had somehow generated an invisible layer of window cleaner on my fingers that I coldn’t wash off, because I really DID stop leaving fingerprints on the glass counter. Little did I realize the criminal possibilities and I kept working in the comic shop. What a dope!

January 5, 2007

Really, this shouldn’t come as TOO much of a surprise to anyone who’s been reading this strip long enough to have a halfway decent handle on Bernard. And it IS pretty much what I did with my first paycheck when I worked at a comic store.

Now, starting next week, I’m going to be breaking the fourth wall in a big way that I haven’t done in a while and doing something a little different. I don’t want to give TOO much away, but let’s just say that it concerns the upcoming WebCartoonists’ Choice Awards.