This one went down in history as the notorious ‘thong one,’ and thus earned a certain level of infamy on campus. For a whole year after this strip ran, the new head editor would always make a point of asking […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh boy. What to say about this one? This strip was one of the ‘summertime’ strips that appeared in the infrequent monthly summer issues of the Silhouette. (I always tried to keep the strips vaguely seasonal, and I thought there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This particular strip actually wasn’t published in the Silhouette, but appeared in a small campus humanities magazine. I did it as a favour for my friend, who sat on the board of the mag. Not much to say about it: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was based on an anecdote from a friend of mine who lived in residence. I actually stayed off-campus during my university years, so I only lived the crazy ‘res’ life vicariously through other people. One day, this friend […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another ‘manipulative Daphne’ joke. It works, I think. The thing that really keeps this dynamic betwixt Puck and Daphne going is the fact that they are both ultimately cynical characters who scoff at the concept of affection yet also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip is #23 in a series dating from my university days. Puck ran for three full years in the Silhouette, McMaster University’s student newspaper. This one is another example of academic humour; many people on campus thought this particular […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was borrowed from real life. There really was a very sociable, very nice hotdog guy on McMaster campus. He was sort of a legend, and I wanted to include him in my strip. I made him Puck’s unofficial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a riff on Puck and Phoebe. No splainin’ required here, I think. “Aroint thee,” by the way, is a Shakespearean version of ‘go away’ that I swiped from Macbeth. “‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed runion cried.” Man, what a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a little bit of comedy based on Colin’s immaturity and Puck’s mercenary ways. They were made for each other.
Just a little bit of social commentary in this one. I always find it funny how even the most educated and empowered women often force themselves into restrictive concepts of femininity when they feel that society demands it. And what […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
