Not the Proudest Moment

Amelius on July 17, 2008

This isn't the first page involving toilet humor, after all. Working in the heat is getting pretty miserable, considering what it does to my stupid hand. Yesh indeedy it has been looked at, years ago in fact it's just that they didn't actually find anything up with it. Holy crap I just looked at it, there's a visible swelling or something to it, more so than my left hand anyway…take that, doctor who thought I was just “thinking it hurt” (geez what am I a hypochondriac or something? I submit the answer is “no”) If it's not a cyst like the first doctor I saw presumed, then I don't know what it is but I don't like it, and it certainly doesn't seem like either carpal tunnel or arthritis.
Enough about my stupid hand though, someone might think I'm making “excuses” (I also submit that my hand freaking hurting is a good excuse anyway, so there)

And before I forget, check out the comic Off Hours not only because it's fun and entertaining, but very soon I'll have a page up there too! Now seriously, go check it out it's cool.

Lordlyhour my friend, I have appreciated your comments and all the ones in the archives (I do tend to check in small batches for good questions) but I would like to know exactly why you are annoyed at me for the tshirt store. Where I live, if you don't have money you starve and if you can't pay your bills on time because you're broke, they drive you to the poorhouse with late fees. Why exactly is it shameful to want to continue drawing free comics for people, but still be able to afford living? People have been asking for YEARS for me to make tshirts for this comic. Maybe I haven't made it obvious enough, but I don't have a steady paying job. This comic IS my job. This isn't some hobby that I take care of on a lunch break, I spent far more than 8 hours on this page alone.

We can't afford to pay our bills, for our house, our internet, and food for both me, Nick and my two ferrets, to get Nick's computer fixed so we don't have to share this one, to get a new desk because this old one is about to fall apart, to paint our walls because these neutral colors are driving me NUTS, to get some bookshelves because all our books and crap have nowhere to go and so on, with just Nick's paycheck. And to be honest, the tshirts are hardly going to cover that, I made the store because people asked for the shirts. If you don't believe me, look in my forums.

I'm not trying to yell or anything but I find it deeply hurtful that you are trying to shame me for something as trivial as this. There are far worse things I could do to this comic than sell a few shirts that people asked for(and we're talking about cafepress here, I'm not exactly making a mint)