I used to work for the World’s Fair. Maybe one day I will talk about it. It has ceased publication in the real world, but like the ITV Chart Show, runs on forever in my cartoon universe.
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Telex was like a cross between a typewriter and a fax machine, I think fax machines did for telex just as email, eventually, did for the fax machine.
They were cumbersome.
I’ve always been wary of naming a character “John”. But, I mean, this is so clearly author insertion that it would be disingenuous not to call him John.
There’s a lot going on in this comic, you might as well just drink it in. File your takeaways below and always bus your table if in doubt.
I think this is the most sophisticated page I can make, with my limited toolbox. To get any better than this, I have to get help in.
Down the meat toilet
Nighthawks at the diner. For Tackleford historians, Efe’s Kebab Shop (which previously appeared in Giant Days #49) was once Dorado’s restaurant (see Bobbins Dot Horse, early 2020), above which Ryan Beckwith lived until well into Scary Go Round. It has now been bisected into a shawarma spot and a minicab office. I know because I put the dividing wall in there myself in Sketchup.
Fairground airbrushing is a real art. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been the iron horse of these artisan images for decades, usually in his role as the Terminator, but I feel that Statham may be the up-and-comer best positioned to decorate waltzers, dodgems and other violently shaking machinery into the middle third of the 21st century.