what is a comb
Hey, look, it’s my first handwriting typeface! That popped up quicker than I expected. It was supplied by a generous reader (i think their screenname was Marcus), who… likely saw the abominable Anime Ace I was using, and was all, please, please, draw me out some letters and I will make you a handwriting typeface.
I used “WalkyFont” until Book 6 of Dumbing of Age, which was… 12 years, I think? Then I finally made an updated version from my handwriting again, WalkyFont 2, which is a little more legible.
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Even after I comb my hair, it still gets messy really fast.
Ditto…thank goodness for hair clippers and being lazy!
I super want to buzz mine and never have to wait for a dry head again
but I’m also lazy and hate cut hair more than long hair
(infuriatingly, my hair is too often at the length where it’s just too short to keep all of it successfully pulled back out of my face and wind-proofed… at least one or two thick clumps manage to work their way out)
watching dina in these strips is just breaking my heart. peopling is hard, and sometimes you just want earnest effort to pay off.
keep at it, you awesome scientist
The more things change the more they stay the same.
If we consider a change of handwriting to be a change of the cartoonist’s “voice”, then that makes this the perfect tipping point where everything crystallizes into my favorite era of It’s Walky. The art, the color, the writing, it’s all coming together now.
And the tone is set by Dina, whose quiet sadness at what her life has become and her doomed battle against it just resonates with me so much. Always has.
Indeed. Late-stage Walky is one of my favorite periods of Willis’s work, and this strip finally starts feeling like it.
12 Years…?
Someone, we need help! Willis is stuck in the time vortex again!
Dina Sarazu personal cloaking effect in the Walkyverse confirmed! Poor Dina!
I’m quite sure Joyce saw her and started fixing Walky’s hair in front of her on purpose, thus marking her property.
Walky probably would have seen her if he wasn’t busy handling a comb.
Originally posted:
April 13, 2003
Ahhh…. that’s better
I feel like you mean book 6 of Shortpacked!
Poor perpetually invisible Dina. Your capricious god will have mercy on you when you get to college and make it an asset.
This comic is so sad. Like, Dina is waiting for people to talk to her as an indication that they like her. So she waits for Walky to say hello and… he doesn’t. In her language, that means he doesn’t like her. So then she tries to take Joe’s advice and say hello to the people *she* likes, so she says hello to Walk, but it doesn’t work and he walks away, totally oblivious. So sad.
Dina, you have to set your personal psychic invisibility cloak to ‘off’ if you want social interaction. You also need to not try it with couples who have a near-obsessive focus on each other.
…Ow. Ow.