VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights:
I was really just tired when making this one. I’d written a script about the history of the swastika, but didn’t want to research it (to make sure all facts were straight). And for some reason i thought i should do a strip where you end up staring into Disky’s eyeball, because it’s such a perfect circle when he stares at you. Added the little white triangle into that last frame to mix the visual ideas of a simple cartoony eye shine and the abstract (inverted?) notion that the words were speaking to you from inside the void of his iris. This is the kind of thing I don’t expect anyone to get, but makes a lot of sense at 4am.

It struck me that I hadn’t seen any web (or print) strips that confronted the reader about why they’re reading a web comic. So it “made sense” to break the fourth wall and confront you with the strange fact that some portion of your brain is being invaded when you peek into the world of a comic strip.

The punchline (?) is an uber-inside joke for my friend Ian Cavalier (the only audience member i’m aware of, so far), since we often speak to each other in this strange (racist?) asian accent, where L’s become R’s. I thought the double entendre of bereaving made it cosimically ok for anyone else who might stuble onto it, and much more interesting than just repeating the tired adage that “seeing is believing.”