Did anybody ever have an ant farm? I always saw them in catalogs and wondered how they get the ants to you. When I first drew today’s comic, the box of ants was meant to be an absurdity. But the more I think about it, the ants have to get to you somehow right? Would [...]
It’s been a while since I did a video game comic, and while I finished it a while ago, I just couldn’t figure out how to make a comic of it. But then science came along and threw all all sorts of related journal articles and interesting developments my way. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a [...]
Japan has a population problem. Though it isn’t what you think. For the reasons mentioned in the comic, Japan is becoming a nation of the elderly. Low birth rates and higher life expectancy has resulted in more elderly with less younger relatives to take care of them, but the impetus behind the Mimamori Hotline has [...]
Growing up in a small Italian-catholic area, I didn’t know any other Japanese people. Many of you who know me, and the rest that probably deduced why I have a funny name, know that I’m half Japanese. I hated my name because nobody could ever pronounce it right and the cleverest derogatory nickname bullies could come [...]
The 80’s were straight up fugly. I had a sweater with seven colors on it. SEVEN COLORS! And girls, your hair looked really dumb (but for some reason you still look hot at 80’s parties. howtheshit?). Hideousness aside it was also mad boring. I mean really mind-numbingly boring. We had a TV and a landline [...]