In which Molly, English M.A., reads every piece of literature ever written... and makes fun of it.
Rip Van Winkle is a dude who, I suspect, most of you have heard about. He took a nap and woke up a few decades (and one American Revolution) later, an act that has since seeped into the American consciousness as a metaphor for, well, sleeping through literally any changes, great or small.
If it feels like it’s been fifteen years since I started making this comic strip, it’s probably because it’s been fifteen years since I started making this comic strip. I was almost 27 and now I’m almost 42 and wow does that feel like a dramatic difference in my overall health. But this isn’t about my rapidly deteriorating body, it’s about Rip Van Winkle.
What you have to understand is that The Vengabus in coming, and everybody's jumping, and that its parties are more powerful than Death itself.
There we go, a proper ending. I hate unfinished business. We'll have more Lit Brick later, but for now, 2023's Daily Webcomic Adventure continues over at my new archive for story comics, Troutopia.
Tying up some loose ends, a couple more strips about ol' Ichabod Crane are next up on my Daily Webcomic journey (continuing on from Sporkman. Hopefully these will be just the first of several more Lit Brick strips this year.
Ichabod partied his hardest at this gathering, but look, y'all know this one. Katrina only had eyes for Brom Bone because he was just supremely jacked.
Dang, poor Rod.
I probably don't need to tell you what Sleepy Hollow's whole deal is because it's kinda famous? There are several movies, you should watch them. As the strip implies, New England Horror became a whole genre in the 1800s, with spooks and haints apparently creeping around every corner of the Eastern Seaboard. Literally every town will have a local legend which - despite being local - is the same…
In honor of Public Domain Day 2022, I decided to look at this year's "new" Oz book. Like most of Thompson's Oz writing, it's a mixed bag, though not wholely without merit. I have to admit, I do particularly enjoy the setup of Hungry Tiger stumbling into the one situation in which it might be okay to finally eat fat babies (though of course it isn't). The rest of the story, as you'd expect from…
I'm really taking way too long to draw these, but such is life.