Free Ride, Seaside

I make comics on the internet so it should be assumed I have a poor self-image and low self-confidence. I also have an overwhelming desire to "keep it real," to stay the way I am and reject the lures of "selling out." But despite all that here I am, about to go to the Hollywood World Premiere of Snakes on a Plane and do interviews with the DVD crew at a fancy hotel (I signed papers that permits myself and my comics to appear on the DVD bonus features of the movie). Weird how it all turned out.

I know deep down this isn't gonna change anything and when I get back Sunday life will be regular again and I'll go back to being the same dude you know who runs around a mansion half naked and hangs out with a drug addict and a hysterical bimbo. But it's kind of a big thing for me deep down, a boy from Locust Grove, Oklahoma somehow endin' up in this spot. If it does change a little, it'll change for the best. And for me, the best is being able to make more and better comics for you all!

So anyway, thanks everybody for being with me through all this -- the friends I have and have had, the people who emailed and posted, and the majority whose silent presences emanate from all points in between. I know a lot of you have been reading my comics since way back in the "When I Grow Up" days and extra thanks to y'all. Up to this point it's been a life I consider exceptionally less ordinary, and I expect it to get a lot weirder. I hope you continue to hang around!

Guest comics will be running here Thursday and Friday from some surprise interwub artists. Nas ne dogonyat!