Consultations

Artist's Notes:

I drew this during the transit strike in New York this December. Being a consultant I typically either take a car to the airport and am out of town or work from my home so while witnessing the strike first hand I really wasn't impacted to severely as others were. But, living in New York people would constantly ask me how I was affected by the transit strike and I would jokingly respond that a transit strike for me was not being able to find my slippers in the morning. Unfortunately my lack of artistic ability in the case of this comic didn't make that part of the joke apparent so after much criticism of this post I will explain the comic in a few words: Laying in Bed, Alarm Clock, Cold, Only One Slipper, Back to Sleep, and Transit Strike!

posted by M@  # 11:12 AM 0 comments

Artist's Notes:

I apologize to all of you Joe fans for not drawing out the characters for this comic. It just came out too perfect in it's original form. When I first decided to start drawing these out I debated using the sprites instead of actual characters and practiced creating expressions on just a line. This really just involves showing an expression with little more than the use of eyebrows. It's fun, so don't be surprised if you see more of this in the future in this comic.

As for the scenario portrayed I recently ran into this at a client of mine and could not believe it. I was standing in a common area between cubes talking to a bunch of my customers when suddenly at the top of the hour they all ran in a panic to get to meetings they each had. I could then hear them in loud penetrating voices all get on the same conference call together for their meeting. In the cube worlds which I feel like I live these days, it is common for certain people to speak loud enough so that everyone around them can hear what they are saying when they are on the phone. I think they do it so that they can prove to the people around them that they are working. It seems like a subconscious obsessive behavior they have especially when you can hear the same people drop out of earshot when receiving a personal call at work. These people are nuts. But, they pay the bills so who am I to complain :-)

posted by M@  # 9:37 AM 0 comments

Artist's Notes:

This comic is pretty sad. For those of you who travel on a regular basis to get to your projects you will understand what this means. For those of you that don't I hope you can empathize with the how crazy traveling every week can get. You literally forget where you are some days. Each city in this crazy country of ours starts to look the same after a while. I call them the cookie cutter cities. It is as if someone has taken a giant cookie cutter and punched out multiple versions of the same city all over our land. There are a few exceptions to this rule that I hope the chain stores and restaurants are never able to fully conquer and take away their identity. But for the most part I can go to a Maggianos or a Cheesecake factory within fifteen minutes of my client site no matter where it is and never once get the same server who will say, "The usual Mr. M." I sure do miss the good old mom and pops.

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